93rd ESA Annual Meeting (August 3 -- August 8, 2008)

Tuesday, August 5, 2008: 8:00 AM-11:30 AM

103 AB, Midwest Airlines Center

8:00 AM

COS 18-1

Response of the mean global vegetation distribution to interannual climate variability
Michael Notaro, University of Wisconsin-Madison

8:20 AM

COS 18-2

Long-term changes in a range margin steppic plant community: The role of climate and the response of community composition and spatial pattern
Rob W. Brooker, The Macaulay Institute; Silvia Matesanz, C.C.M.A.-C.S.I.C.; Fernando Valladares, Museo Nacional de Ciencias Naturales, CSIC; Colin Beale, The Macaulay Institute; Stefan Klotz, Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research – UFZ

8:40 AM

COS 18-3

Assessing recent climatic changes within the contiguous United States
Evan H. Girvetz, University of Washington; Peter Kareiva, The Nature Conservancy; Joshua J. Lawler, University of Washington

9:00 AM

COS 18-4

Have 55 years of climate change affected serpentine and non-serpentine plant communities differently?
Ellen I. Damschen, University of Wisconsin-Madison; Susan P. Harrison, University of California, Davis

9:20 AM

COS 18-5

Where will all the flowers go? Climate change and the global distribution of plant diversity
Jan Henning Sommer, University of Bonn; Gerold Kier, University of Bonn; Holger Kreft, Georg-August University; Jens Mutke, University of Bonn; Walter Jetz, Yale University; Wilhelm Barthlott, University of Bonn

9:40 AM

COS 18-

Break

9:50 AM

COS 18-6

Multifactor climate change: Divergence in plant community composition drives changes in soil ecosystem functioning
Paul Kardol, Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences; Aimée T. Classen, Oak Ridge National Laboratory

10:10 AM

COS 18-7

Changes of growing season length and soil thermal regimes in Alaskan boreal forests
Jinyun Tang, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory; Qian Lai Zhuang, Purdue University

10:30 AM

COS 18-8

Influence of climate change factors on emergence, growth, and survivorship of woody seedling establishment in a constructed old-field community
Courtney E. Campany, University of Idaho; Richard J. Norby, Oak Ridge National Laboratory; Aimee T. Classen, University of Tennessee, Knoxville

10:50 AM

COS 18-9

Impacts of changing climate on pinyon pine (P. edulis) growth in southeastern Utah - CANCELLED
Nichole N. Barger, University of Colorado Boulder; Connie Woodhouse, University of Arizona

11:10 AM

COS 18-10

The effect of long-tem exposure to elevated CO₂ on NO and NH₃ efflux from Mojave Desert soils
Carmody K. McCalley, Cornell University; Jed P. Sparks, Cornell University

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