Wednesday, August 4, 2010: 1:30 PM-5:00 PM
329, David L Lawrence Convention Center
COS 62 - Climate Change: Plants III
1:30 PMExperimentally altered climate conditions cause changes in photosynthesis and transpiration rates of an old field community
Vikki Rodgers, Babson College, Michael Daley, Lasell College, Susanne S. Hoeppner, Purdue University, Jeffrey S. Dukes, Purdue University
1:50 PMAnatomical and physiological traits as indicators of drought tolerance in tallgrass prairie plants
Sally S. Tucker, Kansas State University, Jesse Nippert, Kansas State University, Joseph M. Craine, Kansas State University
2:10 PMCount based PVA, role of snow on population size, and comparison of projected population size under different emission scenarios for a federal endangered plant
Timothy J. Bell, Chicago State University, Brenda Molano-Flores, Illinois Natural History Survey
2:30 PMClimate-induced changes in abundance of high-elevation conifers in the central Sierra Nevada, CA
Christopher R. Dolanc, University of California, Davis
2:50 PMHow will obligate seeders in chaparral survive climate change: Persistent seed banks, immaturity risk, and rodent-caching in Arctostaphylos
V. Thomas Parker, San Francisco State University
3:10 PMBreak
3:20 PMFamily Feud: How native and introduced conspecifics of Phragmites australis respond to global change
Thomas J. Mozdzer, Smithsonian Environmental Research Center, J. Patrick Megonigal, Smithsonian Environmental Research Center
3:40 PMResponses of two invasive thistles to projected climate change
Rui Zhang, The Pennsylvania State University, Katriona Shea, The Pennsylvania State University
4:00 PMTree surface temperature in a primary tropical rain forest
Song Qinghai, xishuangbanna tropical botanical garden, Chinese Academy of Sciences
4:20 PMPatterns of demographic response of American ginseng (Panax quinquefolius L.) populations to climatic variation
Sara Souther, West Virginia University, James B. McGraw, West Virginia University
4:40 PMJapanese beetle herbivory and Soybean (Glycine max) defenses under future climatic conditions
Olivia K. Niziolek, University of Illinois Urbana Champaign, Clare L. Casteel, University of Illinois, Evan DeLucia, University of Illinois

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