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

COS 72 - Modeling ecosystem dynamics and climate change

Wednesday, August 8, 2007: 8:00 AM-11:30 AM
San Carlos I, San Jose Hilton
8:00 AM
Modeling late-glacial no-analog climates with expanded response surfaces
Leila M. Zajac, University of Wisconsin-Madison; Jack W. Williams, University of Wisconsin-Madison; Rick Nordheim, University of Wisconsin-Madison
8:20 AM
Contextual interactions can increase unexplained random variability in ecosystem-level studies
Corrie A. Blodgett, University of Vermont; Deane Wang, University of Vermont; Carl E Waite, University of Vermont; Gary J. Hawley, University of Vermont; Donald D DeHayes, University of Vermont; Jeffrey W Hughes, University of Vermont
8:40 AM
Selection of water quality variables for nutrient criteria using structural equation modeling
Melissa A. Kenney, University of Maryland; Kenneth H. Reckhow, Duke University
9:00 AM
Data assimilation of eddy flux measurements coupled with an ecosystem process model to generate optimized predictions of carbon and water exchange in a high elevation coniferous forest
David J.P. Moore, University of Arizona; Jia Hu, Montana State University; Russell K. Monson, University of Arizona; David S. Schimel, Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology
9:20 AM
The role of landscape-scale edaphic variation in forecasting regional-scale forest ecosystem dynamics
Michael C. Dietze, University of Illinois; Paul Moorcroft, Harvard University
9:40 AM
10:10 AM
Potential impacts of climate change on European mammals
Irina Levinsky, Institute of Biology, University of Copenhagen; Flemming Skov, National Environmental Research Institute, University of Aarhus; Jens-Christian Svenning, Aarhus University; Carsten Rahbek, University of Copenhagen