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

Friday, August 12, 2011: 8:00 AM-11:30 AM

12B, Austin Convention Center

8:00 AM

Climatic refugia, landscape physiography, and species distributions
Solomon Dobrowski, University of Montana

8:20 AM

Large-scale biodiversity patterns in freshwater phytoplankton
Maayke Stomp, University of Amsterdam; Elena Litchman, Michigan State University; Gary G. Mittelbach, Michigan State University; Jef Huisman, Universiteit van Amsterdam; Christopher A. Klausmeier, Michigan State University

8:40 AM

Seasonal, not annual precipitation drives community productivity across ecosystems
Todd M.P. Robinson, Michigan State University; Kimberly J. La Pierre, UC Berkeley; Matthew A. Vadeboncoeur, University of New Hampshire; Kerry M. Byrne, Oregon Institute of Technology; Samantha Colby, Oregon State University; Michell L. Thomey, University of New Mexico

9:00 AM

Stronger tests of mid-domain effects on biodiversity gradients of New World bats
Richard D. Stevens, Louisiana State University; J. Sebastian Tello, Missouri Botanical Garden; Maria Mercedes Gavilanez, Louisiana State University

9:20 AM

Assessing clinal variation and elevational range limits in Ipomopsis aggregata
Jessica D. Pratt, University of California, Irvine; Kailen A. Mooney, University of California, Irvine; Diane R. Campbell, University of California - Irvine

9:40 AM

Break

9:50 AM

Adapting to variable thermal environments: A trait-based, eco-evolutionary approach
Colin T. Kremer, Yale University; Mridul K. Thomas, Michigan State University; Elena Litchman, Michigan State University; Christopher A. Klausmeier, Michigan State University

10:10 AM

Ocean warming drives productivity changes and range shifts in the fundamental niches of marine phytoplankton
Mridul K. Thomas, Michigan State University; Colin T. Kremer, Yale University; Christopher A. Klausmeier, Michigan State University; Elena Litchman, Michigan State University

10:30 AM

Converse Bergmann’s Rule in the red-legged grasshopper (Melanoplus femurrubrum): Body size and performance variation along a latitudinal gradient
Sheena M. A. Parsons, Kansas State University; Anthony Joern, Kansas State University

10:50 AM

Allometric relationships of Betula populifolia in a naturally assembled urban woodlot
Gregory Dahle, West Virginia University; Frank J. Gallagher, Rutgers University; Karina VR Schafer, Rutgers University Newark; Jason Grabosky, Rutgers University

11:10 AM

Classification and environmental relationships of plant communities in the southern Appalachian Mountains of North and South Carolina
Thomas R. Wentworth, NC State University; Michael T. Lee, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill; M. Forbes Boyle, University of North Carolina - Chapel Hill; Robert K. Peet, University of North Carolina

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