COS 92 - Climate Change: Communities II

Thursday, August 5, 2010: 1:30 PM-5:00 PM
329, David L Lawrence Convention Center
Presider:
Hilary Thorpe, University of British Columbia
1:30 PM
 Impacts of climate variation on a rocky intertidal ecosystem are buffered by differential responses to larval transport and species interactions
Bruce A. Menge, Oregon State University; Francis Chan, Oregon State University; Karina J. Nielsen, Sonoma State University; Tess L. Freidenburg, California State University, East Bay
1:50 PM
 Early season rainfall and temperature variation impacts on community composition of annual plant communities
Todd M.P. Robinson, Michigan State University; Katherine L. Gross, Michigan State University
2:10 PM
 Seed banks as components of ecosystem resilience in coastal ecosystems exposed to hurricane storm surge
Hannah J. Kalk, Southern Illinois University Carbondale; Loretta L. Battaglia, Southern Illinois University
2:30 PM
 Climate changes alters plant-soil feedbacks in Populus tremuloides
Alison E. Bennett, The James Hutton Institute; Richard L. Lindroth, University of Wisconsin
2:50 PM
 Simulated climate change alters post-clear cut forest vegetation communities
Christine R. Rollinson, The Pennsylvania State University; Margot W. Kaye, Pennsylvania State University
3:10 PM
3:20 PM
 Rodent and mollusc herbivory bias estimates of plant biomass responses to warming and N addition
Eric R. D. Moise, University of Western Ontario; Hugh A. L. Henry, University of Western Ontario
4:00 PM
 Ecological effects of snow avalanches at Glacier National Park, Montana
Erich H. Peitzsch, Glacier National Park; Daniel B. Fagre, Northern Rocky Mountain Science Center
4:20 PM
 Long-term trends in tree mortality rates in the boreal forest
Hilary Thorpe, University of British Columbia; Lori D. Daniels, University of British Columbia
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