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

Thursday, August 6, 2009: 1:30 PM-5:00 PM

La Cienega, Albuquerque Convention Center

Presider:

Nicole M. DeCrappeo, U.S. Geological Survey, DOI Northwest Climate Science Center

1:30 PM

COS 101-1

Climate and CO₂ as drivers of 20th century growth increase in Sequoia sempervirens
Stephen C. Sillett, Humboldt State University; Robert Van Pelt, Humboldt State University; George W. Koch, Northern Arizona University

1:50 PM

COS 101-2

Infrared warming of open-field plots from scales of 1 to 100 m
Bruce A. Kimball, The Greenleaf Group; Matthew M. Conley, U.S. Arid-Land Agricultural Research Center; Keith F. Lewin, Brookhaven National Laboratory

2:10 PM

COS 101-3

Seedlings and snow: The impacts of climate change on Pacific Northwestern Forests
Janneke Hille Ris Lambers, University of Washington; Ailene K. Ettinger, Tufts University; Kevin Ford, University of Washington; Gerald Lisi, University of Washington; Jonathan Deschamps, University of Washington; Jessica D. Lundquist, University of Washington

2:30 PM

COS 101-4

Climate effects on temporal patterns of tree mortality in subalpine permanent forest plots
Jeremy M. Smith, University of Colorado; Juan Paritsis, University of Colorado; Thomas T Veblen, University of Colorado

2:50 PM

COS 101-5

Altered precipitation patterns increase the genetic diversity of a dominant species
Meghan L. Avolio, University of Utah; Jeremy M. Beaulieu, Yale University; Melinda D. Smith, Colorado State University

3:10 PM

COS 101-

Break

3:20 PM

COS 101-6

Changes in bird arrival times and cohort sizes in eastern Massachusetts (1970-2008)
Libby Ellwood, Florida State University; Richard Primack, Boston University

3:40 PM

COS 101-7

Catastrophic avian mortality during heat waves and drought: the role of climate change and extreme events
Blair O. Wolf, University of New Mexico; Andrew E. Mckechnie, University of Pretoria

4:00 PM

COS 101-8

Top predator control of atmospheric carbon levels: Lessons from sea otters in North America
Chris Wilmers, University of California, Santa Cruz; James A. Estes, University of California; Kristin Laidre, University of Washington; Mathew Edwards, San Diego State University

4:20 PM

COS 101-9

Assessing the impact of changing climate and geomorphology on lake thermal regimes in a sockeye salmon watershed
Jennifer R. Grififths, University of Washington; Daniel E. Schindler, University of Washington; Laurie S. Balistrieri, University of Washington

4:40 PM

COS 101-10

A comparison of weather data in a mechanistic model of organism body temperature
K. Allison Smith, University of South Carolina; David S. Wethey, University of South Carolina; Brian Helmuth, University of South Carolina

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