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

COS 142 - Climate change: Physiological and population response

Friday, August 10, 2007: 8:00 AM-11:30 AM
J1, San Jose McEnery Convention Center
8:00 AM
Testing the climate-envelope hypothesis in conifers: Sapling response to early snowmelt along an elevational gradient
Alex Perkins, University of California; Tracy Valentovich, California State University; Erica Staaterman, Duke University; John Harte, University of California
8:20 AM
Acclimation of respiration is the main cause of positive carbon balance in black spruce grown at high temperatures
Danielle A. Way, University of Western Ontario; Rowan F. Sage, University of Toronto
8:40 AM
Responses of tree seedlings to atmospheric change: Increasing nitrogen dioxide, carbon dioxide, and soil nitrate
Allyson S.D. Eller, Cornell University; Jed P. Sparks, Cornell University
9:00 AM
Elevated atmospheric CO2: A nurse plant substitute for oak seedlings establishing in old fields
Mark A. Davis, Macalester College; Peter B. Reich, University of Minnesota
9:40 AM
9:50 AM
The influence of cumulative and temporal variation in soil moisture on California grassland plant processes
Samuel B. St.Clair, UC Berkeley; Cristina Castanha, Berkeley Lab; Erika Suddereth, University of California Berkeley; Margaret S. Torn, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory; Mary K. Firestone, University of California, Berkeley; David Ackerly, University of California, Berkeley
10:10 AM
Apparent climatically induced increase of tree mortality rates in a temperate forest
Phillip J. Van Mantgem, United States Geological Survey; Nathan L. Stephenson, United States Geological Survey
10:30 AM
Response of a community dominant to climate patterns in rocky intertidal ecosystems
Bruce A. Menge, Oregon State University; Francis Chan, Oregon State University; Jane Lubchenco, Oregon State University
10:50 AM
Rapid evolution of a desert plant invader (Bromus rubens) in response to elevated atmospheric CO2
Judah D. Grossman, University of California Davis; Kevin J. Rice, University of California Davis
11:10 AM
Predicted effects of global warming on gene diversity in rainforest specialists
Jason B. MacKenzie, Museum of Vertebrate Zoology, UC Berkeley; Stephen E. Williams, James Cook University; Craig Moritz, Australia National University