PS 6
Climate Change: Communities

Monday, August 11, 2014: 4:30 PM-6:30 PM
Exhibit Hall, Sacramento Convention Center
 Differential responses of two ecologically similar species to variation in temperature and resources
Maria Y. Chavez, New Mexico State University; John I. Hammond, University of New Mexico; Shannon McCauley, University of Toronto Mississauga; Karen E. Mabry, New Mexico State University
 Biomass shifts in treeline vegetation after nine years of CO2 enrichment and six years of soil warming
Melissa A. Dawes, WSL Institute for Snow and Avalanche Research, SLF; Christopher D. Philipson, WSL Institute for Snow and Avalanche Research, SLF; Frank Hagedorn, Swiss Federal Institute for Forest, Snow and Landscape Research (WSL); Patrick Fonti, WSL; Peter Bebi, WSL Institute for Snow and Avalanche Research, SLF; Stephan Haettenschwiler, Centre of Functional Ecology and Evolution; Christian Rixen, WSL Institute for Snow and Avalanche Research, SLF
 Developmental plasticity and the role of biotic interactions in shaping amphibian response to climate change
Lindsey L. Thurman, Oregon State University; Tiffany S. Garcia, Oregon State University
 Holocene arthropod remains from woodrat (Neotoma spp.) middens used to aid the study of prehistoric climate in the Great Basin
Kirk C. Tonkel, USDA-ARS Great Basin Rangelands Research Unit; Robin J. Tausch, USDA-Forest Service, Reno Great Basin Ecology Laboratory; Cheryl L. Nowak, Mountain View Montessori School; Brian G. Rector, USDA-ARS Great Basin Rangelands Research Unit
 Impacts of snow and rain change on native vs. invasive species and fire fuel properties in a sagebrush steppe ecosystem
Catherine E. Wade, University of California; Michael E. Loik, University of California
 The response of photosynthetic biomass production to experimental rainfall manipulations differs between native shrubs and exotic herbaceous species in a coastal sage scrub ecosystem
Jennifer Shih, University of California – San Diego; Melissa Sanchez, University of California – San Diego; Ellen Esch, University of California - San Diego; David Lipson, San Diego State University; John Kim, USDA Forest Service Pacific Northwest Research Station; Elsa Cleland, University of California - San Diego
 Semiarid soil microbial associations with dominant plants across a shrub-grassland transition
Laura M. Ladwig, University of Wisconsin - Madison; Scott L. Collins, University of New Mexico; Robert L. Sinsabaugh, University of New Mexico; D. Lee Taylor, University of New Mexico; Donald O. Natvig, University of New Mexico
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