Thursday, August 6, 2009: 1:30 PM-5:00 PM
Sendero Blrm III, Hyatt
COS 108 - Environmental Gradients
1:30 PMCOS 108-1Diameter growth across an altitudinal gradient in the cloud forest tree genus Weinmannia
Joshua M. Rapp, Wake Forest University, Miles R. Silman, Wake Forest University, James S. Clark, Duke University
1:50 PMCOS 108-2Local adaptation and geographic range within a polyploid plant complex
Patrick J. McIntyre, University of California Davis
2:10 PMCOS 108-3The effects of landscape-scale environmental heterogeneity on forest community and ecosystem dynamics in central New England
Michael Dietze, University of Illinois, Paul R. Moorcroft, Harvard University, Andrew D. Richardson, University of New Hampshire
2:30 PMCOS 108-4Simulating random species-environment relationships at broad geographic extents
J. Sebastian Tello, Louisiana State University, Richard D. Stevens, Louisiana State University
2:50 PMCOS 108-5The ecological distribution of C3 and C4 grasses in the Hawaiian Islands
Christopher J. Still, University of California, Santa Barbara, Erika J. Edwards, Brown University
3:10 PM Break
3:20 PMCOS 108-6Ant colony size along a productivity gradient: Is competition important?
Udi Segev, Hebrew University, Jaime Kigel, Hebrew University, Yael Lubin, Ben-Gurion University, Katja Tielbörger, University of Tuebingen
3:40 PMCOS 108-7CANCELLED - The tortoise and the hare: How seasonality in temperature impacts the altitudinal range of ecotherms and endotherms
Kimberly S. Sheldon, University of Washington, Janneke Hille Ris Lambers, University of Washington, Joshua J. Tewksbury, University of Washington
4:00 PMCOS 108-8Eco-evolutionary consequences of road adjacency and road salt on the wood frog, Rana sylvatica
Steven Patrick Brady, Yale University
4:20 PMCOS 108-9How deciduous woody-plant-cover affects seasonally-dependent ecohydrological limitationson soil evaporation: Energy and wind effects at patch and vegetation-mosaic scales
Darin J. Law, University of Arizona, Juan Camilo Villegas, University of Arizona / Universidad de Antioquia, David D. Breshears, The University of Arizona, Chris B. Zou, Oklahoma State University
4:40 PMCOS 108-10Estuarine gradients in marine-derived nutrients shape seagrass-macroalgae interactions
Margot Hessing-Lewis, Oregon State University, Sally D. Hacker, Oregon State University, Bruce A. Menge, Oregon State University, Steve Rumrill, South Slough National Estuarine Research Reserve

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