94th ESA Annual Meeting (August 2 -- 7, 2009)

COS 36 - Biodiversity: Effects of Global Change

Tuesday, August 4, 2009: 1:30 PM-5:00 PM
Pecos, Albuquerque Convention Center
Presider:
Tatiana V. Loboda
1:30 PM
Soil ammonia-oxidizing bacteria and archaea respond differently to global change
Kathryn M. Docherty, NEON Inc.; William L. Truce, University of Oregon; Christopher Field, Stanford University; Brendan J. M. Bohannan, University of Oregon
1:50 PM
Plant community responses of Alaskan arctic tundra after 14 years of experimental warming and snow manipulation
Joel A. Mercado-Díaz, International Institute of Tropical Forestry; William A. Gould, International Institute of Tropical Forestry
2:10 PM
Experimental warming causes rapid loss of plant biodiversity in New England salt marshes
Keryn B. Gedan, Brown University; Mark D. Bertness, Brown University
2:30 PM
Gaps provide opportunities for migrating forest trees to establish in a broad forest transition zone
Mark D. Leithead, University of Guelph; Madhur Anand, University of Guelph; Lucas C.R. Silva, University of California, Davis
2:50 PM
The effect of drought and subsequent precipitation pulse on productivity, species composition, and carbon fluxes of the herbaceous understorey in a cork oak woodland
Marjan Jongen, Instituto Superior de Agronomia, Universidade Técnica de Lisboa; Maria C. Caldeira, Technical University of Lisbon; João S. Pereira, Instituto Superior de Agronomia, Universidade de Lisboa
3:10 PM
3:20 PM
Habitat fragmentation and altered fire regime create trade-offs for an obligate seeding shrub
Helen M. Regan, University of California Riverside; John Crookston, San Diego State University; Rebecca Swab, University of California; Janet Franklin, Arizona State University; Dawn Lawson, San Diego State University
3:40 PM
Loss of functional diversity, and ecosystem resilience under land use intensification across multiple taxa
Fabrice DeClerck, Bioversity International; Dan Flynn, University of Zurich; Etienne Laliberte, The University of Western Australia; Jessie Wells, University of Queensland; Melanie Gogol-Prokurat, California Department of Fish and Wildlife; Theresa Nogeire, University of Washington; Nicole Molinari, University of California Santa Barbara; Margaret M. Mayfield, The University of Queensland
4:00 PM
Predicting community response to N-enrichment with SLA: A multisystem test
Marko J. Spasojevic, Washington University in St. Louis; Steven Pennings, University of Houston; Scott L. Collins, University of New Mexico; Chris Clark, AAAS; Elsa Cleland, University of California San Diego; Laura Gough, University of Texas at Arlington; Katherine L. Gross, Michigan State University; Katharine N. Suding, University of California at Berkeley
4:40 PM
Urban biogeography of ants, global to the local scale
Sean B. Menke, Lake Forest College; Robert Dunn, NCSU; Jules Silverman, NCSU