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

COS 112 - Global Change Biology

Wednesday, August 8, 2012: 1:30 PM-5:00 PM
E145, Oregon Convention Center
1:30 PM
Urbanization interacts with annual temperature to predict butterfly phenology in a long-term survey of Ohio
Tyson M. Wepprich, North Carolina State University; Sarah E. Diamond, North Carolina State University; Nick M. Haddad, North Carolina State University; Clinton N. Jenkins, North Carolina State University; Heather Lessig, North Carolina State University; Leslie Ries, University of Maryland
1:50 PM
Importance of soil texture in pollen-based climate reconstructions
Randy Calcote, University of Minnesota; Sara Hotchkiss, University of Wisconsin; Elizabeth Lynch, Luther College
2:10 PM
Are all species moving poleward?  Distributional shifts in Ohio’s breeding birds and potential drivers of change
Katharine E. Batdorf, The Ohio State University; Paul G. Rodewald, The Ohio State University; Stephen N. Matthews, The Ohio State University; Matthew B. Shumar, The Ohio State University
2:30 PM
Predicting the upper bounds of aboveground forest biomass across climatic gradients
Shengbin Chen, Nanjing Institute of Environmental Sciences, Ministry of Environmental Protection; Zhiyun Ouyang, Chinese Academy of Sciences
3:10 PM
3:20 PM
Tidal marsh tolerance for sea-level rise in response to elevated CO2 and nitrogen pollution
J. Adam Langley, Villanova University; Katherine A. Shepard, Cary Institute of Ecosystem Studies; Thomas J. Mozdzer, Smithsonian Environmental Research Center; J. Patrick Megonigal, Smithsonian Environmental Research Center
3:40 PM
Effects of expected climate change on the endangered butterfly Erebia medusa in Central Europe
Roman Hein, Bayreuth University; Gregor Stuhldreher, Institute of Landscape Ecology; Julia Walter, University of Bayreuth; Juergen Kreyling, University of Bayreuth; Carl Beierkuhnlein, University of Bayreuth; Anke Jentsch, University of Bayreuth
4:00 PM
Ecological responses to an extreme climatic event in the tallgrass prairie ecosystem
David L. Hoover, U.S. Geological Survey; Alan Knapp, Colorado State University; Melinda Smith, Colorado State University
4:40 PM
Assessing the potential effects of climate change on bird functional diversity at global scale
Morgane Barbet-Massin, Yale University; Chia-Ying Ko, Yale University; Walter Jetz, Yale University