96th ESA Annual Meeting (August 7 -- 12, 2011)

Monday, August 8, 2011: 1:30 PM-5:00 PM

6B, Austin Convention Center

1:30 PM

Continental scaling of bacterial, archaeal and fungal communities: Preliminary results from the NEON soil microbe prototype
Kathryn Docherty, Western Michigan University; Rachel Gallery, University of Arizona; Kali Blevins, National Ecological Observatory Network (NEON); Patrick Travers, National Ecological Observatory Network (NEON); Rebecca Hufft Kao, National Ecological Observatory Network (NEON, Inc.)

1:50 PM

The role of fire in the vegetation response to Little Ice Age climate change in the Big Woods of Minnesota
W. John Calder, University of Wyoming; April Rog, University of Minnesota; Aaron Knoll, University of Minnesota; Bryan N. Shuman, University of Wyoming

2:10 PM

On a collision course: Competition and climate change generate non-analogue communities and extinction
Mark C. Urban, University of Connecticut

2:30 PM

Demographic controls of tree species distributions along climate gradients in eastern North America
Charles D. Canham, Cary Institute of Ecosystem Studies

2:50 PM

Inclusion of plant-soil feedbacks in assessing Great Lakes tree expansion in response to global warming
Sarah M. Neumann, Michigan State University; Ines Ibanez, University of Michigan

3:10 PM

Break

3:20 PM

Toward understanding the community consequences of species-specific phenological shifts under climate change
Takefumi Nakazawa, Kyoto University; Hideyuki Doi, University Oldenburg

3:40 PM

Species performance in a warming climate relates to phenological tracking
Elsa Cleland, University of California - San Diego; Jenica M. Allen, University of Connecticut; Theresa M. Crimmins, USA National Phenology Network; Stephanie Pau, Florida State University; Steven E. Travers, North Dakota State University; Elizabeth M. Wolkovich, Harvard University

4:00 PM

The potential effects of changing climate on biocrusts
Timothy M. Wertin, University of Illinois; Jayne Belnap, U.S. Geological Survey; Susan L. Phillips, USGS; Sasha C. Reed, U.S. Geological Survey

4:20 PM

The temperature dependence of consumer-resource interactions
Van M. Savage, UCLA; Anthony I. Dell, University of Gottingen; Samraat Pawar, University of Chicago

4:40 PM

Climate change and context-dependent competitive outcomes drive alterations in community composition
Cascade J. B. Sorte, University of Massachusetts - Boston; J. Wilson White, University of North Carolina, Wilmington

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