COS 47 - Climate Change: Plants II

Wednesday, August 4, 2010: 8:00 AM-11:30 AM
329, David L Lawrence Convention Center
Presider:
Adelaide C. Johnson, USDA Forest Service
8:00 AM
 Do plants remember droughts? Evidence for a drought-memory over a whole vegetation period in grasses
Julia Walter, University of Bayreuth; Carl Beierkuhnlein, University of Bayreuth; Roman Hein, Bayreuth University; Laura Nagy, University of Bayreuth; Anke Jentsch, University of Bayreuth
8:20 AM
 Dispersal in a changing climate: The effect of climate change on an invasive thistle
Brittany J. Teller, Pennsylvania State University; Rui Zhang, Harvard University; Katriona Shea, The Pennsylvania State University
8:40 AM
9:00 AM
 The effect of an increase in air temperature and [CO2] on northern red oak biomass accumulation
Timothy M. Wertin, University of Illinois; Mary Anne McGuire, University of Georgia; Robert O. Teskey, University of Georgia
9:20 AM
 Plant species of coastal salt grassland will be negatively affected by temperature increase and soil drought  
Jasmin Mantilla Contreras, University of Greifswald; Stefan Zerbe, Free University of Bozen
9:40 AM
9:50 AM
 Effects of elevated CO2 and O3 on Aspen carbon and nitrogen metabolism in aspen at the aspen FACE (Free-Air Carbon Dioxide Enrichment) study site
Rakesh Minocha, USDA Forest Service, NRS; Stephanie Long, USDA Forest Service, NRS; Subhash Minocha, University of New Hampshire; Paula Marquardt, US Forest Service; Neil D. Nelson, USDA Forest Service; Mark E. Kubiske, Northern Research Station, USDA Forest Service
10:10 AM
 Climate change may reduce fecundity of monoecious crops through altered investment in male and female flowers
Jing Luo, The Ohio State University; Lesley G. Campbell, Rice University; Kristin L. Mercer, The Ohio State University
10:30 AM
 Seedling growth and establishment across an elevational ecotone in the Green Mountains, Vermont
Carolyn A. Pucko, University of Vermont; Brian Beckage, The University of Vermont
10:50 AM
 Response of semi-arid grasslands to severe multi-year drought
Karie L. Cherwin, Colorado State University
11:10 AM
 Quantifying the precipitation "memory" of plant photosynthesis in deserts
Lisa Patrick Bentley, University of Arizona; Kiona Ogle, Arizona State University; Jessica M. Cable, University of Alaska; Greg A. Barron-Gafford, University of Arizona; Travis E. Huxman, University of California, Irvine; Michael E. Loik, University of California; Stanley D. Smith, University of Nevada, Las Vegas; David T. Tissue, Hawkesbury Institute for the Environment, University of Western Sydney, Richmond NSW
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