Friday, August 7, 2009: 8:00 AM-11:30 AM
Taos, Albuquerque Convention Center
COS 115 - Climate Change: Communities
8:00 AMCOS 115-1Projecting responses of aquatic food webs to climate change: Synthesizing ecological data and models with a new paleoproductivity indicator
John B. Sculley, University of California, Berkeley, Charles Nittrouer, University of Washington, Rex L. Lowe, Bowling Green State University, Tina M. Drexler, University of Washington, P.C. Furey, University of California, Berkeley, Mary E. Power, University of California, Berkeley
8:20 AMCOS 115-2Incorporating traditional ecological knowledge into wild rice research, education and management efforts in the Great Lakes region
Scott M. Herron, Ferris State University, Patrick Robinson, University of Wisconsin-Extension, Roger LaBine, Lac Vieux Desert Band of Lake Superior Chippewa
8:40 AMCOS 115-3Putting the heat on lizards: Cimate, physiology and climate impacts across latitude
Joshua J. Tewksbury, University of Washington, Raymond B. Huey, University of Washington, Curtis A. Deutsch, University of California, Los Angeles, Laurie J. Vitt, University of Oklahoma, Paul E. Hertz, Barnard College, Héctor J. Álvarez Pérez, University of Puerto Rico, Theodore Garland Jr., University of California, Riverside
9:00 AMCOS 115-4Changes in snowfall alter freeze-thaw dynamics, bacteria community composition, and soil CO2 fluxes in a deciduous forest
Zachary T. Aanderud, Michigan State University, Stuart E. Jones, W.K. Kellogg Biological Station, Noah Fierer, University of Colorado, Jay T. Lennon, Michigan State University
9:20 AMCOS 115-5CO2 effects on aboveground biomass and species composition in an understory community
Lara Souza, University of Tennessee, R. Travis Belote, U.S. Geological Survey, Paul Kardol, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Richard Norby, Oak Ridge National Laboratory
9:40 AM Break
9:50 AMCOS 115-6Initial responses of an old-field community with tree seedlings to warming and precipitation change
Susanne S. Hoeppner, Purdue University, Jeffrey S. Dukes, Purdue University
10:10 AMCOS 115-7Interactive effects of past land use history and climate change on plant community diversity
Ellen I. Damschen, Washington University, Susan Harrison, University of California - Davis, James B. Grace, USGS National Wetlands Research Center
10:30 AMCOS 115-8Pyrosequecing reveals the effects of simulated warming on microbial abundances and diversities in a tall grass prairie
Cody Sheik, University of Oklahoma, Mostafa Elshahed, Oklahoma State University, Yiqi Luo, University of Oklahoma, Graham Wiley, University of Oklahoma, Simone Macmil, University of Oklahoma, Chunmei Qu, University of Oklahoma, Ping Wang, University of Oklahoma, Bruce A. Roe, University of Oklahoma, Lee Krumholz, University of Oklahoma
10:50 AMCOS 115-9Storms and droughts: Ecological consequences of climate change and fluctuating hydrological cycles in an estuarine ecosystem
Andrew L. Chang, University of California, Davis, Christopher W. Brown, Smithsonian Environmental Research Center, Jeffrey A. Crooks, Tijuana River National Estuarine Research Reserve, Gregory M. Ruiz, Smithsonian Environmental Research Center
11:10 AMCOS 115-10Hurricane-generated wrack deposition drives community dynamics of a northern Gulf of Mexico coastal ecosystem
Loretta L. Battaglia, Southern Illinois University, Carbondale, Bill Platt, Lousiana State University, Laura Shirley, The University of Melbourne, Scott Phipps, Weeks Bay National Estuarine Research Reserve

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