COS 64
		Climate Change: Plants I
	 
					
	
	
  Wednesday, August 12, 2015: 8:00 AM-11:30 AM
	322, Baltimore Convention Center
	
	
	
	
	
		
	
		
	
	
	
	
	
	
	
	8:40 AM 
	
	
	
	
	
		 Water use traits within Australian alpine plants
		
			
				Sonya R. Geange, Australian National University; 
			
				Veronica. F Briceno, Australian National University; 
			
				Nicola Aitken, Australian National University; 
			
				Jose A. Ramirez-Valiente, University of Minnesota; 
			
				Adrienne B. Nicotra, Australian National University
			
		
		
			
		
		
	 
 
	
	
	
	
	
	
	10:30 AM 
	
	
	
	
	
		 sPlot and TRY: Characterizing the trait composition of plant communities across the world’s biomes
		
			
				Jens Kattge, Max Planck Institute for Biogeochemistry; 
			
				Jürgen Dengler, University of Bayreuth; 
			
				Oliver Purschke, German Centre for Integrative Biodiversity Research (iDiv) Halle-Jena-Leipzig; 
			
				Gerhard Bönisch, Max Planck Institute for Biogeochemistry; 
			
				Helge Bruelheide, Martin Luther University Halle-Wittenberg; 
			
				Milan Chytrý, Masaryk University; 
			
				Valério D. Pillar, Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul; 
			
				Brody Sandel, Aarhus University; 
			
				Sandra Díaz, Instituto Multidisciplinario de Biología Vegetal; 
			
				Sandra Lavorel, Université Joseph Fourier; 
			
				I. Colin Prentice, Imperial College; 
			
				Paul W. Leadley, Université Paris Sud; 
			
				Peter B. Reich, University of Minnesota; 
			
				Arindam Banerjee, University of Minnesota; 
			
				Farideh Fazayeli, University of Minnesota; 
			
				Hanhuai Shan, University of Minnesota; 
			
				Franziska Schrodt, Max Planck Institute for Biogeochemistry; 
			
				Julia Joswig, Max Planck Institute for Biogeochemistry; 
			
				Christian Wirth, University of Leipzig; 
			
				TRY and sPlot Consortium, hosted at iDiv and the Max Planck Institute for Biogeochemistry