ESA/SER Joint Meeting (August 5 -- August 10, 2007)

COS 81 - Climate change: community response

Wednesday, August 8, 2007: 1:30 PM-5:00 PM
Blrm Salon IV, San Jose Marriott
1:30 PM
Reorganization of phytoplankton communities linked to physical forcing
Monika Winder, Department of Ecology, Environment and Plant Sciences, Stockholm University
1:50 PM
Global change and algal diversity - a laboratory long-term experiment
Tanja Burgmer, University of Cologne; Helmut Hillebrand, Carl von Ossietzky University of Oldenburg
2:10 PM
Migration models for coastal transition communities subject to sea level rise
Loretta L. Battaglia, Southern Illinois University; William J. Platt, Louisiana State University
2:30 PM
Hurricanes, fire, and coastal pine forests in a rising sea: The Florida Keys
Michael S. Ross, Florida International University; K. Zhang, Florida International University; J P Sah, Florida International University; R. Glenn Ford, University of California, Santa Cruz; Joseph J. O'Brien, USDA Forest Service
2:50 PM
Towards understanding sea-level rise: Interactions between precipitation, ocean water intrusion, and coastal dune vegetation
Tara L. Greaver, US Environmental Protection Agency; Leonel Sternberg, University of Miami
3:10 PM
3:20 PM
Vegetation and soil-snow interactions in themokarst slumps in the western Arctic
Trevor C. Lantz, University of British Columbia; Steven V. Kokelj, Indian and Northern Affairs Canada; Sarah E. Gergel, University of British Columbia; Greg H. Henry, University of British Columbia
3:40 PM
Vegetation types differ in their response to recurrent soil freeze-thaw cycles
Juergen Kreyling, University of Bayreuth; Carl Beierkuhnlein, University of Bayreuth; Anke Jentsch, University of Bayreuth
4:00 PM
Windows of opportunity for woody plant encroachment in a Sonoran Desert grassland
Víctor Resco de Dios, Hawkesbury Institute for the Environment, University of Western Sydney, Richmond NSW; Jake Weltzin, US Geological Survey; Travis E. Huxman, University of California, Irvine; Nathan Pierce, University of Arizona; Wei Sun, University of Wyoming; David Williams, University of Wyoming
4:20 PM
Rapid plant community responses to nighttime warming in a desert grassland
Joseph E. Fargione, The Nature Conservancy; Scott L. Collins, University of New Mexico; William T. Pockman, University of New Mexico; James R. Elliott, University of New Mexico; Chelsea L. Crenshaw, University of New Mexico; Etsuko Nonaka, Umea University
4:40 PM
A 70-year review of landscape change across the Sierra Nevada
James H. Thorne, University of California, Davis; Solomon Dobrowski, University of Montana; Hugh D. Safford, Regional Ecologist, USDA Forest Service