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

8:00 AM

COS 127-1

Poised to prosper: Do demographic outcomes favor non-native species in a changing climate?
Cascade J. B. Sorte, University of Massachusetts - Boston; Dana Blumenthal, Rangeland Resources Research Unit; Ines Ibanez, University of Michigan; Carla D'Antonio, University of California Santa Barbara; Jeffrey M. Diez, University of California, Riverside; Jeffrey S. Dukes, Purdue University; Edwin D. Grosholz, University of California; Sierra J. Jones, University of South Carolina; Luke P. Miller, Stanford University; Nicole Molinari, University of California Santa Barbara; Julian Olden, University of Washington

8:20 AM

COS 127-2

Foraging behavior and seed dispersal mutualisms in a warmed world: The effects of experimental warming on ant assemblages and the processes they mediate
Katharine L. Stuble, University of Tennessee; Courtney Patterson, University of Tennessee; Shannon L. Pelini, Harvard University; Mariano A. Rodriguez-Cabal, University of British Columbia; Robert Dunn, NCSU; Nathan J. Sanders, The University of Copenhagen

8:40 AM

COS 127-3

Soil nutrient legacies surpass the effects of CO₂ and O₃ concentration on mycorrhizal fungal communities
Carrie J. Andrew, Northeastern Illinois University; Erik A. Lilleskov, US Forest Service, Northern Research Station

9:00 AM

COS 127-4

Site-dependent versus regionally consistent effects of increased temperature and precipitation on plant community composition, productivity, and soil nutrient availability in restored Pacific Northwest prairies
Timothy Tomaszewski, University of Oregon; Bart R. Johnson, University of Oregon; Laurel Pfeifer-Meister, University of Oregon; Maya E. Goklany, University of Oregon; Lorien L. Reynolds, Oregon State University; Hannah E. Wilson, University of Oregon; Scott D. Bridgham, University of Oregon

9:20 AM

COS 127-5

Climate change, sea level rise, and potential impacts on rocky intertidal populations
Aaron S. Kandur, University of Chicago

9:40 AM

COS 127-

Break

9:50 AM

COS 127-6

Experimental warming disrupts an ant-aphid mutualism
Brandon T. Barton, University of Wisconsin-Madison; Anthony R. Ives, University of Wisconsin-Madison

10:10 AM

COS 127-7

Testing the temperature dependence of stocks and fluxes in an aquatic food web
Mary I. O'Connor, University of British Columbia; James C. Stegen, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory

10:30 AM

COS 127-8

Patterns of soil community structure differ by scale and ecosystem type along a large-scale precipitation gradient
Zachary A. Sylvain, Colorado State University; Diana H. Wall, Colorado State University; Karie L. Cherwin, Colorado State University; Debra P.C. Peters, USDA Agricultural Research Service; Osvaldo E. Sala, Arizona State University; Lara G. Reichmann, USDA, Agricultural Research Service

10:50 AM

COS 127-9

Pushing the limits of the boreal-forest fire regime: Recent changes in a 10,000 year context
Ryan Kelly, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign; Melissa Chipman, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign; Philip E. Higuera, University of Idaho; Linda B. Brubaker, University of Washington; Feng Sheng Hu, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

11:10 AM

COS 127-10

Butterfly community dynamics in California over 30 years
Lucas Avery, Denison University; Andrew C. McCall, Denison University; Matthew Forister, University of Nevada, Reno; Arthur Shapiro, University of California, Davis

COS 127 - Climate Change: Communities II