Friday, August 6, 2010: 8:00 AM-11:30 AM
407, David L Lawrence Convention Center
COS 109 - Biodiversity: Effects of Global Change
8:00 AMCOS 109-1The Mediterranean fishes facing global change: The spatial congruence between predicted species turnover, marine protected areas and human pressures
Camille Albouy, Université Montpellier 2, Frida Ben rais lasram, Institut National Agronomique de Tunisie, François Guilhaumon, Université Montpellier 2, Laure Velez, Université Montpellier 2, Samuel Somot, Météo-France, Wilfried Thuiller, Université Joseph Fourier, David Mouillot, Université Montpellier 2
8:20 AMCOS 109-2CANCELLED - The effect of farming system on invasibility: A study using Amaranthus retroflexus in maize crops
F. Xavier Sans, University of Barcelona, Paul Mäder, Research Institute of Organic Agriculture (FiBL)
8:40 AMCOS 109-3Genetic diversity increases the population success of an invasive annual grass through complementarity not sampling effects
Heather G. McGray, University of California, Irvine, Katharine N. Suding, University of California at Berkeley
9:00 AMCOS 109-4Montane vertebrates in a warming climate: Changes in precipitation amplify extinction risks
Christy M. McCain, University of Colorado at Boulder, Robert K. Colwell, University of Connecticut
9:20 AMCOS 109-5Global changes in savanna woody cover and bird communities in southern Africa
Clélia Sirami, South African National Biodiversity Institute
9:40 AM Break
9:50 AMCOS 109-6Forest management changes microclimate and bryophyte communities in the Cascade Mountains of western Washington
Martin Dovciak, State University of New York, Charles B. Halpern, University of Washington, Shelley A. Evans, University of Washington, Troy D. Heithecker, USFS Forest Mgmt. Service Center
10:10 AMCOS 109-7Plant biodiversity in an anthropogenic biosphere
Erle C. Ellis, University of Maryland Baltimore County, Erica Antill, University of Maryland Baltimore County, Holger Kreft, University of Bonn
10:30 AMCOS 109-8Biodiversity of biological soil crusts in response to grazing induced land degradation in semiarid grasslands of Mexico
Laura Concostrina-Zubiri, Instituto de Investigación de Zonas Desérticas, Universidad Autónoma de San Luis Potosí, José L. Flores-Flores, Instituto de Investigación de Zonas Desérticas, Universidad Autónoma de San Luis Potosí, Elisabeth Huber-Sannwald, Instituto Potosino de Investigación Científica y Tecnológica, Juan A. Reyes-Agüero, Instituto de Investigación de Zonas Desérticas, Universidad Autónoma de San Luis Potosí, Isabel Martínez, Universidad Rey Juan Carlos
10:50 AMCOS 109-9Carbon sequestration of deciduous trees in monocultures and mixed species stands
Mascha Jacob, Albrecht von Haller Institute of Plant Sciences, Frank M. Thomas, Geobotany, Christoph Leuschner, University of Göttingen
11:10 AMCOS 109-10CANCELLED - The effects of land use change on biodiversity: Lessons from the Biodiversity Exploratories
Oliver Bossdorf, University of Bern, Markus Fischer, University of Bern

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