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

Tuesday, August 3, 2010: 8:00 AM-11:30 AM

330, David L Lawrence Convention Center

Presider:

Junyan Zhang, Zhejiang University

8:00 AM

COS 18-1

Data-model comparison reveals unprecedented recent burning of Alaskan boreal forests since CE 1860
Ryan Kelly, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign; Mark Olson, University of Alaska, Fairbanks; Philip E. Higuera, University of Idaho; T. Scott Rupp, University of Alaska, Fairbanks; Feng Sheng Hu, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

8:20 AM

COS 18-2

3000 years of fire history in the Western U.S
Jennifer R. Marlon, University of Oregon; Patrick J. Bartlein, University of Oregon

8:40 AM

COS 18-3

Regional-scale agricultural shifts in southern Peru (Cuzco)
Nicole A. Sublette, Florida Institute of Technology; Bryan G. Valencia, Florida Institute of Technology; Alexander Correa-Metrio, Florida Institute of Technology; Alex Chepstow-Lusty, Institut Francais d'Etudes Andines; Mark B. Bush, Florida Institute of Technology

9:00 AM

COS 18-4

Evidence for historical anadromy in dam-obstructed watersheds of the Pacific Northwest
Jesse Ford, Oregon State University; Bruce Finney, Idaho State University; Gina Clarke, University College; Hedy Kling, Algal Taxonomy and Ecology, Inc; Robert Heinith, Columbia River Intertribal Fish Commission

9:20 AM

COS 18-5

Synergy of fossil and molecular data for understanding the late Quaternary history of Douglas-fir
Paul F. Gugger, University of California, Los Angeles

9:40 AM

COS 18-

Break

9:50 AM

COS 18-6

The use of modern pollen traps and paleorecords to predict the effect of climate change on the highland zone vegetation communities of the Galápagos Islands
Aaron F. Collins, Florida Institute of Technology; Mark B. Bush, Florida Institute of Technology

10:10 AM

COS 18-7

Ecological responses to rapid paleoclimatic change in eastern North America
Jessica L. Blois, University of California - Merced; Jack W. Williams, University of Wisconsin-Madison; Eric C. Grimm, Illinois State Museum; Stephen T. Jackson, U.S. Geological Survey; Russ Graham, Pennsylvania State University

10:30 AM

COS 18-8

Impacts of Climatic Change on Boreal-Forest Fire Regimes over the Past 2000 Years
Carolyn M. Barrett, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign; Feng Sheng Hu, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

10:50 AM

COS 18-9

Abrupt climate change and the vegetation of lowland Central America during the Last Glacial
Alexander Correa-Metrio, Florida Institute of Technology; Shannon Sully, University of Florida; David A. Hodell, University of Cambridge; Mark B. Bush, Florida Institute of Technology

11:10 AM

COS 18-10

Scales of pre-Columbian disturbance around western Amazonian lakes
Crystal N. McMichael, Florida Institute of Technology; Mark B. Bush, Florida Institute of Technology; Dolores Piperno, Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History and Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute

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