Thursday, August 5, 2010: 8:00 AM-11:30 AM
407, David L Lawrence Convention Center
COS 77 - Climate Change: Communities I
8:00 AMCOS 77-1Top-down effects of the terretrial salamander, Plethodon cinereus, alters forest-floor community responses to temperature
B. Michael Walton, Cleveland State University
8:20 AMCOS 77-2Are hurricane-generated storm surge and wrack deposition stepping stones for community reassembly
Anthony S. Tate, Southern Illinois University - Carbondale, Loretta L. Battaglia, Southern Illinois University - Carbondale
8:40 AMCOS 77-3Implications of climate change for the salt marshes of Massachusetts Bays: Vulnerability assessments in support of management adaptation planning
Jordan M. West, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, Amanda L. Babson, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, Jason Baker, Massachusetts Bays National Estuary Program, Christian Krahforst, Massachusetts Bays National Estuary Program
9:00 AMCOS 77-4Low latitude and high elevation plant communities more sensitive to changes in climate during the late Holocene
Mark D. Leithead, University of Guelph, Madhur Anand, University of Guelph
9:20 AMCOS 77-5Non-linear terrestrial ecosystem responses to meteorological variability
Paul R. Moorcroft, Harvard University, David M. Medvigy, Princeton University, J. William Munger, Harvard University, Steven C. Wofsy, Harvard University
9:40 AM Break
9:50 AMCOS 77-6CANCELLED - Climate-related freshwater co-extirpations: A paradox between host redundancy and species endemism?
Daniel E. Spooner, Trent University, Marguerite A. Xenopoulos, Trent University, Christof Schneider, University of Kassel, Daelyn Woolnough, Central Michigan University
10:10 AMCOS 77-7The effects of global warming on food web dynamics of an invasive system
John M. Landosky, Western Michigan University, Jennifer A. Lau, Michigan State University, Doug A. Landis, Michigan State University
10:30 AMCOS 77-8Effects of storm surge disturbance on plant communities across a coastal transition ecosystem in northwestern Florida, USA
Loretta L. Battaglia, Southern Illinois University, Jerrod A. Looft, Southern Illinois University Carbondale
10:50 AMCOS 77-9Understanding functional responses of soil microbial communities to climate change
Christine V. Hawkes, University of Texas at Austin, Bonnie G. Waring, University of Texas at Austin, Jennifer D. Rocca, University of Texas at Austin
11:10 AMCOS 77-10Assessing effects of climate change on mammals and their environments through time: utilizing stable isotopes from fossil mammal teeth to clarify seasonal dietary resource partitioning
Larisa R. G. DeSantis, Vanderbilt University

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