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

COS 113 - Environmental Gradients

Friday, August 8, 2008: 8:00 AM-11:30 AM

104 D, Midwest Airlines Center

8:00 AM

COS 113-1

Ecohydrological trends in land-surface microclimate along a grassland forest continuum: Near ground solar radiation and soil temperature in piñyon-juniper ecosystem
Patrick D. Royer, University of Arizona; David D. Breshears, The University of Arizona; Chris B. Zou, Oklahoma State University; Neil Cobb, Northern Arizona University

8:20 AM

COS 113-2

Species turnover at community level ecotones: How disturbance regime affects patterns of diversity
Amanda R. Senft, University of North Carolina; Robert K. Peet, University of North Carolina

8:40 AM

COS 113-3

No space-for-time substitution: Mediterranean and semi-arid plant communities prove highly resistant to climate change simulations
Johannes Metz, University of Tuebingen, Germany; Katja Tielboerger, Tuebingen University

9:00 AM

COS 113-4

Environmental stressors and the mechanisms that determine the distribution of plant species along a tropical rainfall gradient
Tania Brenes-Arguedas, Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute; Phyllis D. Coley, University of Utah; Thomas A. Kursar, University of Utah

9:20 AM

COS 113-5

Demography of a metal-hyperaccumulating plant on contaminated and non-contaminated sites
Judy P. Che-Castaldo, National Socio-Environmental Synthesis Center (SESYNC); David W. Inouye, University of Maryland

9:40 AM

COS 113-

Break

9:50 AM

COS 113-6

Ecotype-specific differences in the survivorship and growth of Arabidopsis thaliana under extreme diurnal temprature variation
Kathleen Engelmann, University of Bridgeport; Melissa A. Perez, University of Bridgeport; Jasmine Martiche, University of Bridgeport; Melanie Trinidad, University of Bridgeport

10:10 AM

COS 113-7

Distribution and species richness patterns of bird communities in high elevation forests of Virginia
Heather Lessig, North Carolina State University; William J. McShea, Smithsonian Conservation Biology Institute at the National Zoological Park; Jeffrey R. Walters, Virginia Tech

10:30 AM

COS 113-8

Variation in reproductive traits as a function of soil environment in two species of Ipomopsis
Steven E. Travers, North Dakota State University; Diane R. Campbell, University of California, Irvine

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