Tuesday, August 5, 2008: 1:30 PM-5:00 PM
102 D, Midwest Airlines Center
COS 32 - Arctic, Alpine, Antarctic, and Boreal Systems
1:30 PMCOS 32-1Seasonal variation in nitrogen uptake and turnover in two high-elevation soils
Amy E. Miller, National Park Service, Joshua P. Schimel, University of California, Santa Barbara, James O. Sickman, University of California Riverside, Tom Meixner, University of Arizona, Kevin Skeen, University of California, Santa Barbara, John Melack, University of California, Santa Barbara
1:50 PMCOS 32-2Investigating the relationship between snow accumulation by deciduous shrubs and nitrogen availability in the arctic of Alaska
Jennie DeMarco, University of Florida, Michelle C Mack, University of Florida, M. Syndonia Bret-Harte, University of Alaska Fairbanks
2:10 PMCOS 32-3Photosynthetic responses to temperature along altitudinal gradients in leaf nitrogen in sub-Antarctic vegetation
Danielle E. Medek, The Australian National University, John J G Egerton, The Australian National University, Marcus Schortemeyer, The Australian National University, Marilyn C Ball, The Australian National University
2:30 PMCOS 32-4Phosphorus and gradient of slope were the main ecological factors controlling plant diversity in Spanish, high mountain grasslands - CANCELLED
Gonzalo Garcia-Baquero, Open University
2:50 PMCOS 32-5Nitrogen uptake by Carex aquatilis during spring thaw in a sub-Arctic wet sedge meadow
Kate A. Edwards, University of Toronto, Robert L. Jefferies, University of Toronto
3:10 PM Break
3:20 PMCOS 32-6Experimental warming reduces soil nematode populations in the McMurdo Dry Valleys, Antarctica
Breana L. Simmons, Colorado State University, Diana H. Wall, Colorado State University, Byron J. Adams, Brigham Young University, Edward Ayres, Colorado State University, J. E. Barrett, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, Ross A. Virginia, Dartmouth College
3:40 PMCOS 32-7Red-backed vole microhabitat associations within boreal mixedwood stands
M. C. Vanderwel, University of Toronto, J. R. Malcolm, University of Toronto, J. C. Caspersen, University of Toronto, M. Newman, University of Toronto
4:00 PMCOS 32-8Linking canopy gap dynamics to habitat use by snowshoe hare in boreal forests
James K. Hodson, Laval University, Daniel Fortin, Laval University, Louis Bélanger, Laval University
4:20 PMCOS 32-9Photosynthetic responses to simulated climate warming on Macquarie Island in the sub-Antarctic
John J. G. Egerton, The Australian National University, Marcus Schortemeyer, The Australian National University, Danielle E Medek, The Australian National University, Marilyn C Ball, The Australian National University
4:40 PMCOS 32-10Predicting aquatic insect growth rates and voltinism as a function of temperature and body mass
Malcolm G. Butler, North Dakota State University, Daniel C McEwen, North Dakota State University

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