97th ESA Annual Meeting (August 5 -- 10, 2012)

COS 5 - Climate Change: Ranges And Phenology I

Monday, August 6, 2012: 1:30 PM-5:00 PM
F149, Oregon Convention Center
1:30 PM
Range shifts in marine species: Testing ecological hypotheses against four decades of observations
Malin Pinsky, Rutgers University; Michael J. Fogarty, NOAA NMFS Northeast Fisheries Science Center; Boris Worm, Dalhousie University; Jorge L. Sarmiento, Princeton University; Simon A. Levin, Princeton University
1:50 PM
How low can you go? Soil depth gradients contribute to the elevational creosotebush-to-blackbrush transition in the Mojave Desert
Lisa C. Jones, Texas State University; Susan Schwinning, Texas State University; Todd C. Esque, US Geological Survey, Westen Ecological Science Center
2:10 PM
Beyond the mean: The importance of variability in predicting ecological impacts of stream thermal regimes
E. Ashley Steel, USFS PNW Research Station; Abby Tillotson, Northwest Fisheries Science Center; Donald A. Larsen, Northwest Fisheries Science Center; Aimee H. Fullerton, Northwest Fisheries Science Center; Keith P. Denton, Northwest Fisheries Science Center; Brian R. Beckman, Northwest Fisheries Science Center
2:50 PM
Warming up to changing trait frequencies: Rapid, climate change-induced shifts in population sex ratios along an elevation gradient
William K. Petry, University of California at Irvine; Amy M. McKinney, University of Maryland; David W. Inouye, University of Maryland; Kailen A. Mooney, University of California, Ivine; Judith D. Soule, Rocky Mountain Biological Laboratory
3:10 PM
3:20 PM
Modeling budburst in Coast Douglas-fir based on winter temperature and genotype
Peter J. Gould, USDA Forest Service; Constance A. Harrington, USDA Forest Service
4:00 PM
Citizen scientist data suggest widespread climate driven changes in North American butterfly communities
Greg A. Breed, Harvard University; Sharon Stichter, Massachusetts Butterfly Club; Elizabeth Crone, Tufts University
4:20 PM
Asynchronous changes in phenology of migrating Broad-tailed Hummingbirds and their early-season nectar resources
Paul J. CaraDonna, University of Arizona; Amy M. McKinney, University of Maryland; David W. Inouye, University of Maryland; Billy Barr, Rocky Mtn. Biological Laboratory; C. David Bertelsen, University of Arizona; Nickolas M. Waser, University of California, Riverside
4:40 PM
Pushing limits: Altered temperature and precipitation differentially affect plant species inside and beyond their current ranges
Laurel Pfeifer-Meister, University of Oregon; Scott D. Bridgham, University of Oregon; Timothy Tomaszewski, University of Oregon; Maya E. Goklany, University of Oregon; Lorien L. Reynolds, University of Oregon; Chelsea J. Little, Eawag: Swiss Federal Institute of Aquatic Science and Technology; Bart R. Johnson, University of Oregon