Wednesday, August 4, 2010: 1:30 PM-5:00 PM
329, David L Lawrence Convention Center
COS 62 - Climate Change: Plants III
1:30 PMCOS 62-1Experimentally 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 PMCOS 62-2Anatomical 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 PMCOS 62-3Count 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 PMCOS 62-4Climate-induced changes in abundance of high-elevation conifers in the central Sierra Nevada, CA
Christopher R. Dolanc, University of California, Davis
2:50 PMCOS 62-5How 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 PM Break
3:20 PMCOS 62-6Family 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 PMCOS 62-7Responses of two invasive thistles to projected climate change
Rui Zhang, The Pennsylvania State University, Katriona Shea, The Pennsylvania State University
4:00 PMCOS 62-8Tree surface temperature in a primary tropical rain forest
Song Qinghai, xishuangbanna tropical botanical garden, Chinese Academy of Sciences
4:20 PMCOS 62-9Patterns 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 PMCOS 62-10Japanese 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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