97th ESA Annual Meeting (August 5 -- 10, 2012)

1:30 PM

COS 5-1

Range shifts in marine species: Testing ecological hypotheses against four decades of observations
Malin L. Pinsky, Rutgers University; Michael J. Fogarty, NOAA NMFS Northeast Fisheries Science Center; Boris Worm, Dalhousie University; Jorge L. Sarmiento, Princeton University; Simon A. Levin, Princeton University

1:50 PM

COS 5-2

How low can you go? Soil depth gradients contribute to the elevational creosotebush-to-blackbrush transition in the Mojave Desert
Lisa C. Jones, Texas State University; Susan Schwinning, Texas State University; Todd C. Esque, US Geological Survey, Westen Ecological Science Center

2:10 PM

COS 5-3

Beyond the mean: The importance of variability in predicting ecological impacts of stream thermal regimes
E. Ashley Steel, USFS PNW Research Station; Abby Tillotson, Northwest Fisheries Science Center; Donald A. Larsen, Northwest Fisheries Science Center; Aimee H. Fullerton, Northwest Fisheries Science Center; Keith P. Denton, Northwest Fisheries Science Center; Brian R. Beckman, Northwest Fisheries Science Center

2:30 PM

COS 5-4

Recurring weather extremes alter the flowering phenology of two common temperate shrubs
Laura Nagy, University of Bayreuth

2:50 PM

COS 5-5

Warming up to changing trait frequencies: Rapid, climate change-induced shifts in population sex ratios along an elevation gradient
William K. Petry, Rocky Mountain Biological Laboratory; Amy M. McKinney, University of Maryland; David W. Inouye, Rocky Mountain Biological Laboratory; Kailen A. Mooney, University of California, Irvine; Judith D. Soule, Rocky Mountain Biological Laboratory

3:10 PM

COS 5-

Break

3:20 PM

COS 5-6

Modeling budburst in Coast Douglas-fir based on winter temperature and genotype
Peter J. Gould, USDA Forest Service, Pacific Northwest Research Station; Constance A. Harrington, USDA Forest Service

3:40 PM

COS 5-7

Lesser Celandine (Ranunculus ficaria) flowering phenology shifts since introduction to the United States
Angela R. Post, Virginia Tech

4:00 PM

COS 5-8

Citizen scientist data suggest widespread climate driven changes in North American butterfly communities
Greg A. Breed, Harvard University; Sharon Stichter, Massachusetts Butterfly Club; Elizabeth E. Crone, Tufts University

4:20 PM

COS 5-9

Asynchronous changes in phenology of migrating Broad-tailed Hummingbirds and their early-season nectar resources
Paul J. CaraDonna, University of Arizona; Amy M. McKinney, University of Maryland; David W. Inouye, Rocky Mountain Biological Laboratory; Billy Barr, Rocky Mtn. Biological Laboratory; C. David Bertelsen, University of Arizona; Nickolas M. Waser, University of California, Riverside

4:40 PM

COS 5-10

Pushing limits: Altered temperature and precipitation differentially affect plant species inside and beyond their current ranges
Laurel Pfeifer-Meister, University of Oregon; Scott D. Bridgham, University of Oregon; Timothy Tomaszewski, University of Oregon; Maya E. Goklany, University of Oregon; Lorien L. Reynolds, Oregon State University; Chelsea J. Little, Eawag: Swiss Federal Institute of Aquatic Science and Technology; Bart R. Johnson, University of Oregon

COS 5 - Climate Change: Ranges And Phenology I