Session: Climate Change: Communities (96th ESA Annual Meeting (August 7 -- 12, 2011))

PS 17-25

Tropical lianas and trees under elevated CO₂: Growth and physiological response
David C. Marvin, Carnegie Institution for Science; Klaus Winter, Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute; Stefan A. Schnitzer, University of Wisconsin - Milwaukee; Robyn J. Burnham, University of Michigan

PS 17-26

Responses of a soil microbial community to reduced daily soil temperature variability: A field study in the Chihuahuan Desert
Nirmala Dhungana, Texas Tech University; Natasja vanGestel, Texas Tech University; Jennifer Moore-Kucera, Texas Tech University; V. Acosta-Martinez, USDA-ARS; John C. Zak, Texas Tech University

PS 17-27

Experimental warming of entire assemblages alters foraging behavior in ants
Katharine L. Stuble, University of Tennessee; David A. Fowler, University of Tennessee; Robert Dunn, NCSU; Nathan J. Sanders, The University of Copenhagen

PS 17-28

Multi-decadal climate cycles and the dynamics of a Chihuahuan Desert ecosystem
S.K. Morgan Ernest, Utah State University; Thomas J. Valone, Saint Louis University; James H. Brown, University of New Mexico

PS 17-29

Global climate change and small mammal populations in north-central Chile
Douglas A. Kelt, University of California; Peter L. Meserve, University of Idaho; M. Andrea Previtali, Universidad Nacional del Litoral; W. Bryan Milstead, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency; Julio R. Gutiérrez, Universidad de La Serena

PS 17-30

Alpine plant community response to increased moisture and nitrogen accumulation along an elevational gradient, Niwot Ridge, CO
Eve I. Gasarch, University of Colorado; Timothy R. Seastedt, University of Colorado at Boulder

PS 17-31

Shifting trait composition of chaparral communities in response to altered rainfall regimes
Angelita C. Ashbacher, University of California Santa Cruz

PS 17-32

Extent and timing of conifer encroachment into subalpine meadows in the central Sierra Nevada, California
Kaitlin C. Lubetkin, Univeristy of California at Merced; Eric L. Berlow, University of California at Merced; Anthony Westerling, University of California, Merced; Lara M. Kueppers, University of California, Merced

PS 17-33

Higher larval mortality and delayed development of the mosquitoes Aedes albopictus and A triseriatus in container habitats with leaf litter grown in elevated atmospheric CO₂
Cassandra D. Smith, University of Maryland; Andrew H. Baldwin, University of Maryland; Joe H. Sullivan, University of Maryland; Paul T. Leisnham, University of Maryland

PS 17-34

Direct and indirect impacts of environmental conditions on leaf consumers of boreal shrubs in interior Alaska, and implications for climate change
Christa Mulder, University of Alaska Fairbanks; Bitty A. Roy, University of Oregon

PS 17 - Climate Change: Communities