95th ESA Annual Meeting (August 1 -- 6, 2010)

COS 77 - Climate Change: Communities I

Thursday, August 5, 2010: 8:00 AM-11:30 AM

407, David L Lawrence Convention Center

Presider:

Julia A. Cherry, University of Alabama

8:00 AM

COS 77-1

Top-down effects of the terretrial salamander, Plethodon cinereus, alters forest-floor community responses to temperature
B. Michael Walton, Cleveland State University

8:20 AM

COS 77-2

Are 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

8:40 AM

COS 77-3

Implications 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 AM

COS 77-4

Low 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 AM

COS 77-5

Non-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

COS 77-

Break

9:50 AM

COS 77-6

CANCELLED - Climate-related freshwater co-extirpations: A paradox between host redundancy and species endemism?
Daniel E. Spooner, University of Massachussetts; Marguerite A. Xenopoulos, Trent University; Christof Schneider, University of Kassel; Daelyn Woolnough, Central Michigan University

10:10 AM

COS 77-7

The 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 AM

COS 77-8

Effects 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 AM

COS 77-9

Understanding functional responses of soil microbial communities to climate change
Christine V. Hawkes, University of Texas at Austin; Bonnie G. Waring, University of Minnesota; Jennifer D. Rocca, Duke University

11:10 AM

COS 77-10

Assessing 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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