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

1:30 PM

COS 93-1

Quantifying local factors in medium-frequency trends of tree ring records: Case study from Canadian boreal forests
Takeshi Ise, Japan Agency for Marine-Earth Science and Technology; Paul R. Moorcroft, Harvard University

1:50 PM

COS 93-2

Precipitation alteration in a hardwood forest affects ground-dwelling carabid beetle community composition
Ray S. Williams, Appalachian State University; Bryan S. Marbert, Kentucky Division of Water; Paul J. Hanson, Oak Ridge National Laboratory

2:10 PM

COS 93-3

Warming an old-field plant community alters insect community structure in a multi-factor climate change experiment
Shawn N. Villalpando, GEI Consultants, Inc.; Ray S. Williams, Appalachian State University; Richard J. Norby, Oak Ridge National Laboratory

2:30 PM

COS 93-4

The impact of climate and land-use change on assemblages of winter avifauna
Frank A. La Sorte, Yale University; Tien Ming Lee, University of California, San Diego; Hamish Wilman, University of California, San Diego; Walter Jetz, Yale University

2:50 PM

COS 93-5

Environmental change alters the ecological role of Pacific salmon in southeast Alaska rivers
Dominic Chaloner, University of Notre Dame; M. Eric Benbow, University of Dayton; Scott D. Bridgham, University of Oregon; Emily Y. Campbell, Michigan State University (currently at: Oregon State University); David V. D'Amore, Forest Service; Richard T. Edwards, Pacific Northwest Research Station; John P. Hudson, Aquatics Alaska; Gary A. Lamberti, University of Notre Dame; Peter S. Levi, University of Notre Dame; Richard W. Merritt, Michigan State University; Alexander J. Reisinger, University of Notre Dame; Janine Rüegg, University of Notre Dame; Jennifer L. Tank, University of Notre Dame; Scott D. Tiegs, Oakland University

3:10 PM

COS 93-

Break

3:20 PM

COS 93-6

The impact of variable precipitation on vernal ponds: Community structure, population size, and density dependence
Edmund M. Hart, University of British Columbia; Nicholas J. Gotelli, University of Vermont

3:40 PM

COS 93-7

Climate change and species interactions: Predicting indirect effects in a snail-barnacle system
S. E. Gilman, The Claremont Colleges

4:00 PM

COS 93-8

Effects of global warming on ancient mammalian communities and their environments
Larisa R. G. DeSantis, Vanderbilt University; Robert S. Feranec, New York State Museum; Bruce J. MacFadden, Florida Museum of Natural History

4:20 PM

COS 93-9

Dynamical modeling of climate change effects on biodiversity and food-web dynamics in Rocky Mountain streams
Marjorie L. Brooks, Southern Illinois University; Robert E. Zuellig, U.S. Geological Survey; Donna R. Kashien, Great Lakes Environmental Research Laboratory; William H. Clements, Colorado State University

4:40 PM

COS 93-10

Globosystem science: The next level of ecosystem research and public awareness
R. Cary Tuckfield, ECOSTATys LLC

COS 93 - Climate Change: Communities