COS 68 - Environmental Gradients

Wednesday, August 4, 2010: 1:30 PM-5:00 PM
408, David L Lawrence Convention Center
Presider:
Kimberly A. Franklin, University of Arizona
1:30 PM
 Physiology and responses to salinity of the coastal legume Strophostyles umbellata
Spencer N. Bissett, Virginia Commonwealth University; Donald R. Young, Alaska Department of Fish and Game
1:50 PM
 Dominant plant species determine ecosystem response to multiple resource additions across a precipitation gradient
Kimberly J. La Pierre, UC Berkeley; Dana M. Blumenthal, USDA-ARS; Cynthia Brown, Colorado State University; Julia A. Klein, Colorado State University; Melinda D. Smith, Colorado State University
2:10 PM
 Spatial patterns of diversity of the ungulate community in Serengeti National Park, East Africa
Smriti Bhotika, University of Florida; Robert D. Holt, University of Florida
2:30 PM
 An adaptive cline in life history, developmental timing and allocation in Arabidopsis thaliana associated with altitude
Alicia Montesinos Navarro, University of Pittsburgh; Jennifer Wig, University of Pittsburgh; Stephen J. Tonsor, Carnegie Museum of Natural History
2:50 PM
 CANCELLED - Topographical controls on wildland fire radiative energy: Two case studies from southeastern Ohio
Loredana G. Suciu, Ohio University; Matthew B. Dickinson, US Forest Service; James M. Dyer, Ohio University; Robert L. Kremens, Rochester Institution of Technology; Valerie L. Young, Ohio University; Anthony S. Bova, US Forest Service
3:10 PM
3:20 PM
 Phytoplankton temperature-response traits determine biogeography and seasonal succession patterns
Mridul K. Thomas, Michigan State University; Elena Litchman, Michigan State University; Christopher A. Klausmeier, Michigan State University
3:40 PM
 Quantifying the effects of topography, substrate, and land-use history on aboveground biomass in a California ecosystem
Kyla M. Dahlin, National Center for Atmospheric Research; Gregory Asner, Carnegie Institution for Science; Chris Field, Carnegie Institution for Science
4:20 PM
 Trends in species richness for the genus Passiflora and its lepidopteran herbivores along an elevational gradient in the Eastern Ecuadorean Andes
Mattias Lanas, Stanford University (SEEDS student); Lee A. Dyer, University of Nevada; Rodolfo Dirzo, Stanford University
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