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

COS 83 - Physiological Ecology

Thursday, August 5, 2010: 8:00 AM-11:30 AM
408, David L Lawrence Convention Center
Presider:
Howard S. Neufeld
8:00 AM
Allometry has strong effects on colony growth rate in a bloom-forming phytoplankter under disparate environments
Alan E. Wilson, Auburn University; Kristin M. Adamson, Auburn University
8:20 AM
Mechanisms of cadmium toxicity and tolerance in Populus
Brahma Reddy Induri, West Virginia University; Steve DiFazio, West Virginia University; Danielle Ellis, West Virginia University; Gancho Slavov, West Virginia University; Tong-Ming Yin, Nanjing Forestry University; Gerald Tuskan, Oak Ridge National Laboratory
8:40 AM
Seasonal reproduction in a fluctuating energy environment: Insolation-driven synchronized broadcast spawning in corals
Bharath Ananthasubramaniam, University of California, Santa Barbara; Roger M. Nisbet, University of California, Santa Barbara; Daniel E. Morse, University of California, Santa Barbara; Francis J. Doyle III, University of California, Santa Barbara
9:20 AM
Comparative corticular photosynthetic characteristics in N-fixing vs. non-N-fixing woody species
Jaclyn K. Vick, Virginia Commonwealth University; Donald R. Young, Alaska Department of Fish and Game
9:40 AM
9:50 AM
Using the single-vessel method to investigate vulnerability of oak vessels to cavitation by air-seeding
Mairgareth A. Christman, Institute for Ecohydrology Research; Duncan D. Smith, University of Wisconsin-Madison; John S. Sperry, University of Utah; Taylor Workman, University of Utah
10:10 AM
Atypical chlorophyll responses to stress in a high light coastal environment
Julie Naumann, US Army Corps of Engineers -ERDC; Jaclyn K. Vick, Virginia Commonwealth University; Jean Nelson, US Army Corps of Engineers -ERDC; Donald Young, Virginia Commonwealth University
10:30 AM
Dry season foliar fog uptake and reverse sapflow in the tropical montane cloud forests of Mexico
Sybil G. Gotsch, Franklin and Marshall College; Gregory Goldsmith, Chapman University; Todd Dawson, University of California Berkeley; Heidi Asbjornsen, University of New Hampshire
10:50 AM
Testing two leaf form and function models along a small-scale abiotic gradient on a barrier island
Heather M. Joesting, Wake Forest University; William K. Smith, University of Montana
11:10 AM
Growth and survival of young Quercus alba seedlings in varying light environments – what is the influence of soil nutrients
Joanne Rebbeck, US Forest Service Northern Research Station; Kurt W. Gottschalk, USDA Forest Service Northern Research Station