Session: Climate Change: Range and Phenology (93rd ESA Annual Meeting (August 3 -- August 8, 2008))

1:30 PM

COS 4-1

The role of adaptation and differentiation in geographic range shifts under climate change
Shannon L. Pelini, Harvard University; Jessica J. Hellmann, University of Notre Dame

1:50 PM

COS 4-2

Implications of local adaptation in tree physiology and phenology in a common garden
Kala L. Peebles, University of Minnesota; Rebecca A. Montgomery, University of Minnesota

2:10 PM

COS 4-3

Abrupt but non-synchronous vegetation responses to early Holocene mid-continental drying in North America
John W. (Jack) Williams, University of Wisconsin, Madison; Bryan N. Shuman, University of Wyoming; Patrick J. Bartlein, University of Oregon; Noah S. Diffenbaugh, Purdue University

2:30 PM

COS 4-4

Pathways of forest landscape response to global climatic change: Competition or colonization?
Chonggang Xu, Los Alamos National Laboratory; George Gertner, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign; Robert M. Scheller, Portland State University

2:50 PM

COS 4-5

Snow thresholds and projected boreal forest shifts show vulnerability of Lynx canadensis (Canada Lynx) to climate change
Patrick Gonzalez, National Park Service; Kevin S. McKelvey, USDA Forest Service; Ronald P. Neilson, Oregon State University (Courtesy); James M. Lenihan, USDA Forest Service; Raymond J. Drapek, USDA Forest Service

3:10 PM

COS 4-

Break

3:20 PM

COS 4-6

Phenology of spring bat emergence from a major hibernaculum
Gretchen A. Meyer, University of Wisconsin- Milwaukee; James A. Reinartz, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee; Joseph A. Senulis, Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources; Will Zarwell, Madison, WI

3:40 PM

COS 4-7

The effects of weather on alpine bumble bee community structure
Gretchen LeBuhn, San Francisco State University; Brendan Colloran, San Francisco State University

4:00 PM

COS 4-8

Impact of recent environmental change on Great Basin small mammals: An 80-year resurvey of the Ruby Mountains, Nevada
Rebecca J. Rowe, University of New Hampshire; Eric A. Rickart, University of Utah

4:20 PM

COS 4-9

Is climate change leading to increased interannual variability in lake ice breakup dates?
Barbara J. Benson, University of Wisconsin-Madison; Olaf P. Jensen, Rutgers University; John J. Magnuson, University of Wisconsin-Madison

4:40 PM

COS 4-10

Genetic evidence for multiple refugia in Alaska during the last glacial maximum
Lynn L. Anderson, University of Notre Dame; Feng Sheng Hu, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign; Ken N. Paige, University of Illinois - Urbana Champaign

COS 4 - Climate Change: Range and Phenology