93rd ESA Annual Meeting (August 3 -- August 8, 2008)

COS 57 - Paleoecology

Wednesday, August 6, 2008: 8:00 AM-11:30 AM
201 B, Midwest Airlines Center
8:20 AM
8:40 AM
Vegetation and fire dynamics in a Hawaiian tropical cloud forest over the early Holocene
Shelley D. Crausbay, University of Wisconsin; Sara Hotchkiss, University of Wisconsin
9:00 AM
Long-term fire regime variability in the eastern Canadian boreal forest: Climate versus local factors influences
Adam A. Ali, Universite Montpellier II; Bergeron Yves, Université du Québec en Abitibi-Témiscamingue, 445 boul. d; Christopher Carcaillet, Université de Montpellier 2
9:20 AM
9:40 AM
9:50 AM
Assessing the roles of climatic and edaphic changes in the Holocene development of boreal forests in Alaska
Benjamin Clegg, University of Illinois; Feng Sheng Hu, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
10:10 AM
Reconstructing terrestrial nitrogen cycling on century to millennial timescales in temperate forested ecosystems
Kendra K. McLauchlan, Kansas State University; Peter R. Leavitt, University of Regina
10:50 AM
Can soil development limit upslope migration of tree species in a warming climate? Implications from paleoecology and dynamic modeling
Paul D. Henne, University of Bern; Björn Reineking, IRSTEA; Karsten Jasper, ETH Zurich; Willy Tinner, University of Bern
11:10 AM
Assessing the impact of changes in climate and megaherbivory on late-glacial vegetation communities in northern Indiana
Jacquelyn Gill, University of Maine; John W. (Jack) Williams, University of Wisconsin, Madison; Katherine Lininger, UW Madison