COS 33 - Climate Change: Plants I

Tuesday, August 3, 2010: 1:30 PM-5:00 PM
407, David L Lawrence Convention Center
Presider:
Eric E. Elton, The Bryn Mawr School
1:50 PM
 Wild leek (Allium tricoccum) populations in the Southern Appalachians: 1999-2009
Joan L. Walker, USDA Forest Service; Benjamin O. Knapp, Clemson University
2:10 PM
 Forest responses to increasing drought in the Montane southwestern United States: Adapting to change
A. Park Williams, Los Alamos National Laboratory; Craig D. Allen, Fort Collins Science Center, Jemez Mountains Field Station; Constance I. Millar, USDA Forest Service, Pacific Southwest Research Station; Thomas W. Swetnam, University of Arizona; Christopher J. Still, Oregon State University; Joel Michaelsen, University of California; Steven Leavitt, University of Arizona
2:30 PM
 Are deserts different? Perennial plant responses to ten years of elevated CO2 in the Mojave Desert
Beth A. Newingham, University of Idaho; Cheryl H. Vanier, University of Nevada, Las Vegas; Therese N. Charlet, University of Nevada, Las Vegas; Stephen F. Zitzer, desert research Institute; Stanley D. Smith, University of Nevada, Las Vegas
3:10 PM
3:20 PM
 Interannual physiological responses of glacial trees to changes in atmospheric [CO2] since the Last Glacial Maximum
Laci M. Gerhart, University of Kansas; John. M. Harris, Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County; Joy K. Ward, University of Kansas
4:00 PM
 Response of native phreatophytes to changing hydroclimate in the San Luis Valley, Colorado
Julie A. Kray, USDA-ARS; David J. Cooper, Colorado State University; Alan K. Knapp, Colorado State University; John S. Sanderson, Colorado State University
4:20 PM
 What a Hawaiian montane rainforest plant community tells us about designing ecological systems in a changing world
Michael A. Tweiten, University of Wisconsin - Madison; Sara C. Hotchkiss, University of Wisconsin
4:40 PM
 Climate influences on biomass yields of switchgrass, a model bioenergy species
Mirela G. Tulbure, South Dakota State University; Michael C. Wimberly, South Dakota State University
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