94th ESA Annual Meeting (August 2 -- 7, 2009)

Tuesday, August 4, 2009: 1:30 PM-5:00 PM

Pecos, Albuquerque Convention Center

Presider:

Tatiana V. Loboda, University of Maryland

1:30 PM

COS 36-1

Soil ammonia-oxidizing bacteria and archaea respond differently to global change
Kathryn M. Docherty, NEON Inc.; William L. Truce, University of Oregon; Christopher B. Field, Carnegie Institution of Washington; Brendan J. M. Bohannan, University of Oregon

1:50 PM

COS 36-2

Plant community responses of Alaskan arctic tundra after 14 years of experimental warming and snow manipulation
Joel A. Mercado-Díaz, International Institute of Tropical Forestry; William A. Gould, International Institute of Tropical Forestry

2:10 PM

COS 36-3

Experimental warming causes rapid loss of plant biodiversity in New England salt marshes
Keryn B. Gedan, Brown University; Mark D. Bertness, Brown University

2:30 PM

COS 36-4

Gaps provide opportunities for migrating forest trees to establish in a broad forest transition zone
Mark D. Leithead, University of Guelph; Madhur Anand, University of Guelph; Lucas C.R. Silva, University of California, Davis

2:50 PM

COS 36-5

The effect of drought and subsequent precipitation pulse on productivity, species composition, and carbon fluxes of the herbaceous understorey in a cork oak woodland
Marjan Jongen, Instituto Superior de Agronomia, Universidade Técnica de Lisboa; Maria C. Caldeira, Technical University of Lisbon; João S. Pereira, Instituto Superior de Agronomia, Universidade de Lisboa

3:10 PM

COS 36-

Break

3:20 PM

COS 36-6

Habitat fragmentation and altered fire regime create trade-offs for an obligate seeding shrub
Helen M. Regan, University of California Riverside; John Crookston, San Diego State University; Rebecca Swab, the Wilds; Janet Franklin, Arizona State University; Dawn Lawson, San Diego State University

3:40 PM

COS 36-7

Loss of functional diversity, and ecosystem resilience under land use intensiﬁcation across multiple taxa
Fabrice DeClerck, Bioversity International; Dan Flynn, University of Zurich; Etienne Laliberte, The University of Western Australia; Jessie Wells, University of Queensland; Melanie Gogol-Prokurat, California Department of Fish and Wildlife; Theresa Nogeire, University of Washington; Nicole Molinari, University of California Santa Barbara; Margaret M. Mayfield, The University of Queensland

4:00 PM

COS 36-8

Predicting community response to N-enrichment with SLA: A multisystem test
Marko J. Spasojevic, Washington University in St. Louis; Steven C. Pennings, University of Houston; Scott L. Collins, University of New Mexico; Chris Clark, AAAS; Elsa Cleland, University of California - San Diego; Laura Gough, University of Texas at Arlington; Katherine L. Gross, Michigan State University; Katharine N. Suding, University of California at Berkeley

4:20 PM

COS 36-9

Wildland fire threat to the Amur tiger: Current levels and future scenarios under the influence of climate change
Tatiana V. Loboda, University of Maryland

4:40 PM

COS 36-10

Urban biogeography of ants, global to the local scale
Sean B. Menke, Lake Forest College; Robert Dunn, NCSU; Jules Silverman, NCSU

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