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

8:00 AM

Xylem vulnerability to cavitation can be accurately characterized in species with long vessels: A case study with Quercus wislizeni A.DC. (Fagaceae)
R. Brandon Pratt, California State University, Bakersfield; Michael F. Tobin, University of Houston-Downtown; Anna L. Jacobsen, California State University, Bakersfield

8:20 AM

Xylem vessel length and centrifuge measures of xylem cavitation resistance
Anna L. Jacobsen, California State University, Bakersfield; R. Brandon Pratt, California State University, Bakersfield; Michael F. Tobin, University of Houston-Downtown

8:40 AM

Seasonal drivers of Rhododendron maximum transpiration in forest understories in the southern Appalachians
Steven Brantley, USDA Forest Service Southern Research Station; Chelcy Ford, USDA Forest Service

9:00 AM

Xylem vulnerability and hydraulic architecture as determinants of plant drought resistance on a desert-shrubland gradient
Louis S. Santiago, University of California-Riverside; Karrin Alstad, University of California; Sarah C. Pasquini, University of California; Alexandria Pivovaroff, UC Riverside; Jeffrey Ambriz, University of California; Jenessa Stemke, University of California

9:20 AM

Xylem vessel structure is linked to functional shifts between post-fire resprouting and unburned chaparral shrubs
Raeanne M. Quaresma, California State University, Bakersfield; Anna L. Jacobsen, California State University, Bakersfield; R. Brandon Pratt, California State University, Bakersfield; Michael F. Tobin, University of Houston-Downtown

9:40 AM

Break

9:50 AM

A new mechanism of tree stem mortality in forest fires: Heat-induced xylem cavitation
Sean T. Michaletz, University of Arizona; Edward A. Johnson, University of Calgary

10:10 AM

Relationships among water transport, biomechanics, and storage for stem xylem of 32 shrub species of the chaparral community
Michael F. Tobin, University of Houston-Downtown; Courtney A. Traugh, California State University, Bakersfield; Anna L. Jacobsen, California State University, Bakersfield; Christine C. Whitelock, California State University, Bakersfield; Sergio Barrera, California State University, Bakersfield; Mark E. De Guzman, University of California-Riverside; Samuel R. Del Rio, California State University, Bakersfield; R. Brandon Pratt, California State University, Bakersfield

10:30 AM

Linking leaf venation networks to the worldwide leaf economics spectrum and paleoclimate
Benjamin Blonder, University of Arizona; Cyrille Violle, CNRS; Lisa D. Patrick, University of Arizona; Brian J. Enquist, University of Arizona

10:50 AM

Evolution of C₄ photosynthesis in grasses linked to reduction in the anatomical capacity for stomatal conductance
Samuel H. Taylor, University of Sheffield; Peter J. Franks, University of Sheffield; Stephen P. Hulme, University of Sheffield; Elizabeth Spriggs, Brown University; Pascal-Antoine Christin, University of Sheffield; Erika J. Edwards, Brown University; F. Ian Woodward, University of Sheffield; Colin P. Osborne, University of Sheffield

COS 28 - Physiological Ecology I