COS 151 - Climate Change: Communities III

Thursday, August 9, 2012: 1:30 PM-5:00 PM
F150, Oregon Convention Center
1:30 PM
 Alteration of riparian plant community structure UNDER climate change scenarios: The effects of temperature and hydroperiod
Neal Flanagan, Duke University; Curtis Richardson, Duke University; Mengchi Ho, Duke University
1:50 PM
 Dispersal limitations determine range expansion of interacting species
Alexander Singer, Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research—UFZ; Oliver Schweiger, Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research—UFZ; Ingolf Kühn, Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research—UFZ; Karin Johst, Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research—UFZ
2:10 PM
 Shifting strengths of species interactions with ocean acidification in a guild of coralline algae
Sophie J. McCoy, The University of Chicago; Robert Paine, University of Washington
2:30 PM
 Widespread geographic and phylogenetic diversity of drought tolerance in grasses
Joseph M. Craine, Kansas State University; Troy W. Ocheltree, University of Minnesota; Jesse Nippert, Kansas State University
2:50 PM
 Alteration in microbial functionality due to reduced daily temperature variability in the Chihuahuan desert
Nirmala Dhungana, Texas Tech University; Heath Grizzle, Texas Tech University; John C. Zak, Texas Tech University
3:10 PM
3:20 PM
 Coevolution mediates the effects of climate change on interacting species
Tobin D. Northfield, University of Wisconsin; Anthony R. Ives, University of Wisconsin-Madison
3:40 PM
 Drought mortality in spruce-fir vegetation of the eastern Jemez Mountains, New Mexico
Randy G. Balice, Los Alamos National Laboratory; Sean Casey Dugan, Stephen F. Austin State University; Brian P. Oswald, Stephen F. Austin State University
4:00 PM
 Climate and oceanic driver effects on primary production of Spartina alterniflora saltmarshes of the coast of Georgia
Kazimierz Wieski, University of Houston; Steven C. Pennings, University of Houston
4:20 PM
 Temperature and trophic structure are more important than species sorting for ecosystem functioning
Dominique Gravel, Université du Québec à Rimouski; Eric Harvey, University of Zürich; Timothée Poisot, Université du Québec à Rimouski; Thomas E. Miller, Florida State University; Nicolas Mouquet, Université Montpellier 2, CNRS; Sarah M. Gray, University of Fribourg
4:40 PM
 Tropical lianas and trees under elevated CO2: Seasonal drought results in differing growth and physiological responses
David C. Marvin, Carnegie Institution for Science; Klaus Winter, Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute; Stefan A. Schnitzer, University of Wisconsin - Milwaukee; Robyn J. Burnham, University of Michigan