95th ESA Annual Meeting (August 1 -- 6, 2010)

COS 18 - Paleoecology

Tuesday, August 3, 2010: 8:00 AM-11:30 AM
330, David L Lawrence Convention Center
Presider:
Junyan Zhang
8:00 AM
Data-model comparison reveals unprecedented recent burning of Alaskan boreal forests since CE 1860
Ryan Kelly, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign; Mark Olson, University of Alaska, Fairbanks; Philip E. Higuera, University of Idaho; T. Scott Rupp, University of Alaska, Fairbanks; Feng Sheng Hu, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
8:20 AM
3000 years of fire history in the Western U.S
Jennifer R. Marlon, University of Oregon; Patrick J. Bartlein, University of Oregon
8:40 AM
Regional-scale agricultural shifts in southern Peru (Cuzco)
Nicole A. Sublette, Florida Institute of Technology; Bryan G. Valencia, Florida Institute of Technology; Alexander Correa-Metrio, Florida Institute of Technology; Alex Chepstow-Lusty, Institut Francais d'Etudes Andines; Mark B. Bush, Florida Institute of Technology
9:00 AM
Evidence for historical anadromy in dam-obstructed watersheds of the Pacific Northwest
Jesse Ford, Oregon State University; Bruce Finney, Idaho State University; Gina Clarke, University College; Hedy Kling, Algal Taxonomy and Ecology, Inc; Robert Heinith, Columbia River Intertribal Fish Commission
9:40 AM
10:10 AM
Ecological responses to rapid paleoclimatic change in eastern North America
Jessica L. Blois, University of California - Merced; Jack W. Williams, University of Wisconsin-Madison; Eric C. Grimm, Illinois State Museum; Stephen T. Jackson, U.S. Geological Survey; Russ Graham, Pennsylvania State University
10:30 AM
Impacts of Climatic Change on Boreal-Forest Fire Regimes over the Past 2000 Years
Carolyn M. Barrett, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign; Feng Sheng Hu, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
10:50 AM
Abrupt climate change and the vegetation of lowland Central America during the Last Glacial
Alexander Correa-Metrio, Florida Institute of Technology; Shannon Sully, University of Florida; David A. Hodell, University of Cambridge; Mark B. Bush, Florida Institute of Technology
11:10 AM
Scales of pre-Columbian disturbance around western Amazonian lakes
Crystal N. McMichael, Florida Institute of Technology; Mark B. Bush, Florida Institute of Technology; Dolores Piperno, Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History and Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute