Session: Climate Change: Communities I (97th ESA Annual Meeting (August 5 -- 10, 2012))

1:30 PM

Type conversions in response to precipitation and nitrogen manipulations in Southern California grassland and Coastal Sage Scrub systems
Sarah Kimball, UC Irvine; Scot Parker, University of California, Irvine; Gregory C. Winston, University of California, Irvine; Aaron Fellows, University of California, Irvine; Michael Goulden, University of California, Irvine

1:50 PM

COS 102-2

Microbial community, fungal hyphae, and plant productivity responses to altered rainfall in Western US grasslands
Erika A. Sudderth, Brown University; Emma Dixon, Brown University; Kerry M. Byrne, Oregon Institute of Technology; Laureano A. Gherardi, Arizona State University; Lara G. Reichmann, USDA, Agricultural Research Service; Peter Adler, Utah State University; Eoin L. Brodie, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory; Osvaldo E. Sala, Arizona State University

2:10 PM

COS 102-3

Disentangling climate change effects on species interactions: Body size mediates interaction of temperature and phenological shifts
Volker H.W. Rudolf, Rice University; Manasvini Singh, Rice University

2:30 PM

COS 102-4

Search for generality in grassland responses to climate change: replicated experiment in three prairie sites
Shannon R. White, University of Alberta; Edward W. Bork, University of Alberta; James F. Cahill Jr., University of Alberta

2:50 PM

COS 102-5

Linking the functional diversity of ectomycorrhizal fungal species to soil carbon dynamics and the genetics of a foundational tree species
Nicole M. Hergott, University of Mississippi; Colin R. Jackson, University of Mississippi; Jason D. Hoeksema, University of Mississippi

3:10 PM

COS 102-

Break

3:20 PM

COS 102-6

Climate change and inertia: A long-term perspective from pine and oak-dominated communities in northwestern Wisconsin
Elizabeth Lynch, Luther College; Sara Hotchkiss, University of Wisconsin; Randy Calcote, University of Minnesota; Michael A. Tweiten, University of Wisconsin - Madison

3:40 PM

COS 102-7

Carbon allocation to soil microbes and storage differs in a winner and loser species during nitrogen deposition
Emily C. Farrer, UC Berkeley; Katharine N. Suding, University of California at Berkeley

4:00 PM

COS 102-8

Changes in flowering phenology in response to warming are constrained by community interactions
Caroline M. Tucker, University of Colorado, Boulder; Susana Wadgymar, University of Georgia; Kelly Carscadden, University of Toronto; Marc Cadotte, University of Toronto - Scarborough

4:20 PM Cancelled

COS 102-9

Compositional trends in the primary floodplain forest of Manu National Park, Peru (widthdrawn)
Noah M. Yavit, Wake Forest University

4:40 PM

COS 102-10

Long term study of shifts in ant community composition over a naturally occuring climate gradient and experimental heating manipulation
Sean B. Menke, Lake Forest College; John Harte, University of California; Robert R. Dunn, North Carolina State University

COS 102 - Climate Change: Communities I