COS 14
Paleoecology

Monday, August 10, 2015: 1:30 PM-5:00 PM
337, Baltimore Convention Center
1:30 PM
COS 14-1
 Climatic and nonclimatic controls shaping early postglacial conifer history in the Greater Yellowstone Ecosystem, USA
Teresa R. Krause, US Geological Survey; Virginia Iglesias, Université de Franche-Comté; Cathy Whitlock, Montana State University
1:50 PM
COS 14-2
 Identifying and evaluating the role of paleogeography of marine mammal dispersal across ocean regions using beta diversity metrics
Carlos Mauricio Peredo, George Mason University; Mark D. Uhen, Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History
2:10 PM
COS 14-3
 Calibration of charcoal measurements for fire history reconstruction in grassland ecosystem
Berangere A Leys, Kansas State University; Simon Brewer, University of Utah; Josh R Muller, University of Utah; Scott McConaghy, Kansas State University; Kendra K. McLauchlan, Kansas State University
2:30 PM
COS 14-4
 Quaternary extinction-colonization dynamics in insular lizards reveal patterns of selectivity and increasing community heterogeneity
Melissa Kemp, Stanford University
2:50 PM
COS 14-5
 The effects of landcover change on pollen-vegetation relationships in the Upper Midwest
Ellen R. Kujawa, University of Wisconsin-Madison; Simon J. Goring, University of Wisconsin-Madison; John W. Williams, University of Wisconsin-Madison
3:10 PM
COS 14-
 Break
3:20 PM
COS 14-6
 Impacts of climate and fire on thermoerosion in the Alaskan tundra over the late Holocene
Melissa Chipman, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign; Feng Sheng Hu, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
3:40 PM
COS 14-7
 Improving estimates of regional vegetation: Using pre-settlement vegetation data and variable wind speed to quantify pollen dispersal and source area
Kevin D. Burke, University of Wisconsin-Madison; Simon Goring, University of Wisconsin-Madison; John W. Williams, University of Wisconsin-Madison; Tracey Holloway, University of Wisconsin-Madison
4:00 PM
COS 14-8
 The relative roles of climate and historic moisture availability on the survival of Pinus albicaulis populations in Grand Teton National Park, WY, U.S.A
Kyleen E. Kelly, Kansas State University; Kendra K. McLauchlan, Kansas State University
4:20 PM
COS 14-9
 Vegetation response to climate change depends on the abundance, type, and distribution of firebreaks
Randy Calcote, University of Minnesota; Elizabeth A. Lynch, Luther College; Sara C. Hotchkiss, University of Wisconsin; Chris Nevala-Plagemann, Luther College
4:40 PM Cancelled
COS 14-10
 Adaptive significance of indirect predatory effects in Middle Paleozoic crinoids
V. J. P. Syverson, University of Michigan
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