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

COS 40 - Climate change: Effects on ecosystem function and biogeochemistry

Tuesday, August 7, 2007: 1:30 PM-5:00 PM
J2, San Jose McEnery Convention Center
1:30 PM
Future increases in atmospheric CO2 concentration and forest isoprene emissions: Test of a theory explaining general responses
Nicole A. Trahan, University of Wyoming; Russell K. Monson, University of Arizona
1:50 PM
Climate change in the Great Plains: More extreme precipitation patterns impact ecosystem function differentially across the central US
Jana L. Heisler, University of Wyoming; Alan Knapp, Colorado State University; Gene M. Kelly, Colorado State University; John Blair, Kansas State University
2:10 PM
Response of evapotranspiration from tallgrass prairie vegetation to CO2 at subambient to elevated concentrations
H. Wayne Polley, USDA, Agricultural Research Service; Hyrum B. Johnson, USDA, Agricultural Research Service; Philip A. Fay, USDA, Agricultural Research Service
2:30 PM
Impact of climate change on prairie soil water dynamics
Jesse E. Bell, The University of Oklahoma; Yiqi Luo, University of Oklahoma; Ensheng Weng, Princeton University
2:50 PM
Do changes in CO2, temperature, and precipitation interact to affect net ecosystem exchange in an old-field ecosystem?
Orla C. Dermody, University Of Tennessee; Jake Weltzin, US Geological Survey; Aimee T. Classen, University of Tennessee, Knoxville; Richard J. Norby, Oak Ridge National Laboratory
3:10 PM
3:20 PM
Linking changing climate, productivity, and fire in the Cape Floristic Region: A spatio-temporal Bayesian analysis of fire frequency
Andrew M. Latimer, University of California Davis; Adam M. Wilson, Yale University; John A. Silander, University of Connecticut
3:40 PM
Recovering climatic components and aerosol effects in Nepalese and Russian tree ring width
Lionel Humbert, Université du Québec à Montréal; Frank Berninger, Centre of Forest Research, University of Quebec in Montreal
4:00 PM
The impact of elevated CO2 on metal nutrient interactions and nitrogen fixation
Benjamin Duval, Global Change Solutions; Michael E. Ketterer, Northern Arizona University; Paul Dijkstra, Northern Arizona University; Bruce A. Hungate, Northern Arizona University
4:20 PM
Arrhythmias in the coastal ocean off the west coast of the US
Jane Lubchenco, Oregon State University; Francis Chan, Oregon State University; John A. Barth, Oregon State University; Bruce A. Menge, Oregon State University; John M. Bane, University of North Carolina; Dave Fox, Oregon Department of Fish and Wildlife; Anthony R. Kirincich, Oregon State University; Margaret McManus, University of Hawaii at Manoa; Karina J. Nielsen, San Francisco State University; William Peterson, NOAA Northwest Fisheries Science Center; Stephen D. Pierce, Oregon State University; Liebe Washburn, University of California Santa Barbara; Hal Weeks, Oregon Department of Fish and Wildlife
4:40 PM
Main versus interactive effects of global change on a constructed old-field ecosystem
Jake Weltzin, US Geological Survey; Courtney E. Campany, University of Idaho; Orla Dermody, University Of Tennessee; Aimée T. Classen, Oak Ridge National Laboratory; Richard J. Norby, Oak Ridge National Laboratory