COS 102 - Climate Change: Communities I

Wednesday, August 8, 2012: 1:30 PM-5:00 PM
F150, Oregon Convention Center
1:30 PM
 Type conversions in response to precipitation and nitrogen manipulations in Southern California grassland and Coastal Sage Scrub systems
Sarah Kimball, UC Irvine; Scot Parker, University of California, Irvine; Gregory C. Winston, University of California, Irvine; Aaron Fellows, USDA Agricultural Research Service; Michael Goulden, University of California, Irvine
1:50 PM
 Microbial community, fungal hyphae, and plant productivity responses to altered rainfall in Western US grasslands
Erika A. Sudderth, Brown University; Emma Dixon, Brown University; Kerry M. Byrne, Oregon Institute of Technology; Laureano A. Gherardi, Arizona State University; Lara G. Reichmann, USDA, Agricultural Research Service; Peter B. Adler, Utah State University; Eoin L. Brodie, University of California, Berkeley; Osvaldo E. Sala, Arizona State University
2:30 PM
 Search for generality in grassland responses to climate change: replicated experiment in three prairie sites
Shannon R. White, University of Alberta; Edward W. Bork, University of Alberta; James F. Cahill Jr., University of Alberta
2:50 PM
 Linking the functional diversity of ectomycorrhizal fungal species to soil carbon dynamics and the genetics of a foundational tree species
Nicole M. Hergott, University of Mississippi; Colin R. Jackson, University of Mississippi; Jason D. Hoeksema, University of Mississippi
3:10 PM
3:20 PM
 Climate change and inertia: A long-term perspective from pine and oak-dominated communities in northwestern Wisconsin
Elizabeth A. Lynch, Luther College; Sara C. Hotchkiss, University of Wisconsin; Randy Calcote, University of Minnesota; Michael A. Tweiten, University of Wisconsin - Madison
3:40 PM
 Carbon allocation to soil microbes and storage differs in a winner and loser species during nitrogen deposition
Emily C. Farrer, UC Berkeley; Katharine N. Suding, University of California at Berkeley
4:00 PM
 Changes in flowering phenology in response to warming are constrained by community interactions
Caroline M. Tucker, University of Colorado, Boulder; Susana Wadgymar, University of Toronto; Kelly Carscadden, University of Toronto; Marc W. Cadotte, University of Toronto
4:40 PM
 Long term study of shifts in ant community composition over a naturally occuring climate gradient and experimental heating manipulation
Sean B. Menke, Lake Forest College; John Harte, University of California; Robert R. Dunn, North Carolina State University