Session: Arctic, Alpine, Antarctic, and Boreal Systems (93rd ESA Annual Meeting (August 3 -- August 8, 2008))

1:30 PM

COS 32-1

Seasonal variation in nitrogen uptake and turnover in two high-elevation soils
Amy E. Miller, National Park Service; Joshua P. Schimel, University of California, Santa Barbara; James O. Sickman, UC Riverside; Tom Meixner, University of Arizona; Kevin Skeen, University of California, Santa Barbara; John Melack, University of California, Santa Barbara

1:50 PM

COS 32-2

Investigating the relationship between snow accumulation by deciduous shrubs and nitrogen availability in the arctic of Alaska
Jennie DeMarco, New Mexico State University; Michelle C. Mack, University of Florida; M. Syndonia Bret-Harte, University of Alaska Fairbanks

2:10 PM

COS 32-3

Photosynthetic responses to temperature along altitudinal gradients in leaf nitrogen in sub-Antarctic vegetation
Danielle E. Medek, The Australian National University; John J G Egerton, The Australian National University; Marcus Schortemeyer, The Australian National University; Marilyn C Ball, The Australian National University

2:30 PM

COS 32-4

Phosphorus and gradient of slope were the main ecological factors controlling plant diversity in Spanish, high mountain grasslands - CANCELLED
Gonzalo García-Baquero, University of the Basque Country

2:50 PM

COS 32-5

Nitrogen uptake by Carex aquatilis during spring thaw in a sub-Arctic wet sedge meadow
Kate A. Edwards, Canadian Forest Service - Natural Resources Canada; Robert L. Jefferies, University of Toronto

3:10 PM

COS 32-

Break

3:20 PM

COS 32-6

Experimental warming reduces soil nematode populations in the McMurdo Dry Valleys, Antarctica
Breana L. Simmons, Colorado State University; Diana H. Wall, Colorado State University; Byron J. Adams, Brigham Young University; Edward Ayres, National Ecological Observatory Network (NEON); John E. Barrett, Virginia Polytechnic and State University; Ross A. Virginia, Dartmouth College

3:40 PM

COS 32-7

Red-backed vole microhabitat associations within boreal mixedwood stands
Mark C. Vanderwel, University of Florida; J. R. Malcolm, University of Toronto; J. C. Caspersen, University of Toronto; M. Newman, University of Toronto

4:00 PM

COS 32-8

Linking canopy gap dynamics to habitat use by snowshoe hare in boreal forests
James K. Hodson, Laval University; Daniel Fortin, Université Laval; Louis Bélanger, Laval University

4:20 PM

COS 32-9

Photosynthetic responses to simulated climate warming on Macquarie Island in the sub-Antarctic
John J. G. Egerton, The Australian National University; Marcus Schortemeyer, The Australian National University; Danielle E Medek, The Australian National University; Marilyn C. Ball, The Australian National University

4:40 PM

COS 32-10

Predicting aquatic insect growth rates and voltinism as a function of temperature and body mass
Malcolm G. Butler, North Dakota State University; Daniel C. McEwen, Minnesota State University Moorhead

COS 32 - Arctic, Alpine, Antarctic, and Boreal Systems