Session: Climate Change: Plants (94th ESA Annual Meeting (August 2 -- 7, 2009))

PS 6-51

Monitoring vegetation phenology along an elevation gradient to delineate regional vegetation-climate trends
Kim Votta, Margret & H.A. Rey Center; Christopher J. Hilke, Margret and H.A. Rey Center; Michele L. Pruyn, Plymouth State University

PS 6-52

Design and performance of an experimental infrastructure for ecosystem rainfall manipulation in a semiarid piñon-juniper woodland
Judson P. Hill, University of New Mexico; Jennifer A. Plaut, University of New Mexico; Enrico A. Yepez, University of New Mexico; James R. Elliot, University of New Mexico; William T. Pockman, University of New Mexico; Nathan G. McDowell, Los Alamos National Laboratory

PS 6-53

Shifts in plant gas exchange rates in response to experimentally altered climate regimes at the Boston Area Climate Experiment (BACE)
Vikki Rodgers, Babson College; Michael Daley, Lasell College; Jeffrey Dukes, Purdue University

PS 6-54

Grazing alters grassland sensitivity to more extreme precipitation regimes in tallgrass prairie
Sally E. Koerner, Colorado State University; Scott L. Collins, University of New Mexico; Alan Knapp, Colorado State University; John Blair, Kansas State University; Melinda Smith, Colorado State University

PS 6-55

Management impacts on forest carbon balance
Daniel P. Bebber, Earthwatch Institute; Terhi Riutta, University of Oxford; Nancy Khan, Smithsonian Environmental Research Center; Jeffrey Lombardo, Smithsonian Environmental Research Center; Robson Capretz, Sociedade de Pesquisa em Vida Selvagem e Educação Ambiental; Indu Murthy, Indian Institute of Sciences

PS 6-56

Effect of temperature mediated increases in VPD on tree seedling gas exchange and survival
Rodney Will, Oklahoma State University; Thomas Hennessey, Oklahoma State University; Edward Lorenzi, Oklahoma State University

PS 6-57

Greater seed production in elevated CO₂ is not accompanied by reduced seed quality in loblolly pine
Danielle A. Way, University of Western Ontario; Shannon L. LaDeau, Cary Insitute of Ecosystem Studies; Heather McCarthy, University of Oklahoma; James Clark, Duke University; Ram Oren, Duke University; Adrien C. Finzi, Boston University; Rob Jackson, Stanford and Duke universities

PS 6-58

Divergent responses to recent climate warming in Siberian Picea and Larix
Andrea H. Lloyd, Middlebury College; Andy Bunn, Western Washington University; Logan Berner, Western Washington University

PS 6-59

Determination of changes in biogenic volatile organic compound emissions from Pinus strobus exposed to soil pH and nitrogen differences
Daniel J. Krofcheck, University of New Mexico; Laurel J. Anderson, Ohio Wesleyan University

PS 6-60

Impacts of the interaction between viral pathogens and mutualistic fungi on plant performance under elevated CO₂
Megan A. Rúa, University of Mississippi; Jeff Barton, USDA - Agricultural Research Service; Charles E. Mitchell, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill; James Umbanhowar, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill; Shuijin Hu, North Carolina State University

PS 6-61

Using dendrochronological techniques to investigate the effects of global warming on Larix laricina
Morgan Lucke, Michigan State University; Kelly Hickman, Michigan State University; Timothy Hose, Michigan State University; Katie Oleski, Michigan State University; Kathleen Peshek, Michigan State University; Elizabeth Ratzloff, Michigan State University; Taiquitha Robins, Michigan State University; Nathan W. Siegert, Michigan State University; Jennifer A. Lau, Michigan State University

PS 6-62

Influence of changing air chemistry on plant growth and reproduction: Effects of rising carbon dioxide, nitrogen dioxide, and ozone on a model species
Allyson S.D. Eller, Cornell University; Jed P. Sparks, Cornell University

PS 6-63

Spectral assessment of Mojave global change treatment effects
Lynn F. Fenstermaker, Desert Research Institute; Beth A. Newingham, University of Idaho; Stanley D. Smith, University of Nevada, Las Vegas; Therese N. Charlet, University of Nevada, Las Vegas

PS 6-64

Climate effects on tree seedling establishment at alpine timberline: experimental evidence for effects of temperature and winter and summer precipitation
Matthew J. Germino, US Geological Survey; Sheel Bansal, USDA Forest Service; Tristan Kelley, Idaho State University; Keith Reinhardt, Idaho State University

PS 6-65

Climate change effects on Lepanthes rupestris subpopulation dynamics
Paola Olaya, University of Puerto Rico, Rio Piedras and Center for Applied Tropical Ecology and Conservation (CREST-CATEC); Elvia Melendez-Ackerman, University of Puerto Rico, Rio Piedras; Raymond L. Tremblay, University of Puerto Rico at Humacao; Maria Eglee Perez, University of Puerto Rico, Rio Piedras and Center for Applied Tropical Ecology and Conservation (CREST-CATEC)

PS 6-66

Plants as drivers of ecohydrological processes: a vegetation perspective on global change
Ronald J. Ryel, Utah State University; A. Joshua Leffler, USDA-ARS; Kevin R. Hultine, Desert Botanical Garden

PS 6-67

The affects of increased low temperature and cover on Engelmann Spruce (Picea Engelmannii) seedlings: A growth chamber experiment
Kimberly Hamblin-Hart, Washington State University

PS 6 - Climate Change: Plants