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

8:00 AM

COS 31-1

Responses of leaf characteristics to experimentally altered climate conditions: Differences among six species of tree seedlings
Vikki Rodgers, Babson College; Tanya Lancaster, Babson College; Susanne S. Hoeppner, Purdue University; Jeffrey Dukes, Purdue University

8:20 AM

COS 31-2

Lichens, wildfires, and climate change in Alaska: Ecosystem impacts from assessing caribou habitat
Thomas A. Grant III, University of Alaska Fairbanks; Glenn P. Juday, University of Alaska Fairbanks; Jim D. Herriges, Bureau of Land Management

8:40 AM

COS 31-3

Realized growing seasons: Patterns and implications of intra-annual tree growth in temperate forests
Sean McMahon, Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute

9:00 AM

COS 31-4

Competition modulates climate sensitivity of Pseudotsuga menziesii
Gunnar C. Carnwath, University of Montana; Cara R. Nelson, University of Montana

9:20 AM

COS 31-5

Contrasting effects of precipitation manipulations on species composition and community structure at two sites within the central grassland region, USA
Kerry M. Byrne, Oregon Institute of Technology; William K. Lauenroth, University of Wyoming

9:40 AM

COS 31-

Break

9:50 AM

COS 31-6

Tropical tree seedling responses and acclimation potential to elevated temperatures
Alexander W. Cheesman, Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute; Klaus Winter, Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute

10:10 AM

COS 31-7

Evaluation of climate warming effects on tundra plant composition
Sarah Elmendorf, National Ecological Observatory Network (NEON); Greg H. R. Henry, University of British Columbia

10:30 AM

COS 31-8

Impact of heat waves, drought stress and elevated CO₂on northern red oak seedlings
Robert Teskey, University of Georgia; Ingvar Bauweraerts, Ghent University; Timothy M. Wertin, University of Illinois; Maarten Ameye, Ghent University; Mary Anne McGuire, University of Georgia; Kathy Steppe, Ghent University

10:50 AM

COS 31-9

Representing root system architecture in Dynamic Vegetation Models: Results of a combined model of root system growth and soil water uptake
Martin Bouda, Yale University; James E. Saiers, Yale University

11:10 AM

COS 31-10

The climate sensitivity of shrub growth: A synthesis of 20 arctic and alpine sites
Isla H. Myers-Smith, Université de Sherbrooke; Mark Vellend, Université de Sherbrooke; Esther Lévesque, Université du Québec à Trois-Rivières; David Hik, University of Alberta; The Shrub Hub Data Synthesis Group, Shrub Hub Research Network

COS 31 - Climate Change: Plants I