COS 62 - Climate Change: Plants III

Wednesday, August 4, 2010: 1:30 PM-5:00 PM
329, David L Lawrence Convention Center
Presider:
Becky Kerns, Pacific Northwest Research Station, Western Wildland Environmental Threat Assessment Center
1:30 PM
 Experimentally 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 PM
 Anatomical and physiological traits as indicators of drought tolerance in tallgrass prairie plants
Sally S. Kittrell, Oklahoma State University; Jesse Nippert, Kansas State University; Joseph M. Craine, Kansas State University
3:10 PM
3:20 PM
 Family 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 PM
 Responses of two invasive thistles to projected climate change
Rui Zhang, Harvard University; Katriona Shea, The Pennsylvania State University
4:00 PM
 Tree surface temperature in a primary tropical rain forest
Song Qinghai, xishuangbanna tropical botanical garden, Chinese Academy of Sciences
4:20 PM
 Patterns of demographic response of American ginseng (Panax quinquefolius L.) populations to climatic variation
Sara Souther, University of Wisconsin; James B. McGraw, West Virginia University
4:40 PM
 Japanese 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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