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

1:30 PM

The use of anthropology holdings to reconstruct historical apex predator communities
Joshua A. Drew, Field Museum of Natural History

1:50 PM

COS 167-2

A methodological step forward to quantify past population size of large herbivores and the impact of their disturbance regime
Ambroise G. Baker, University of Oxford; Perry Cornelissen, Ministry of Infrastructure and the Environment; Shonil A. Bhagwat, University of Oxford; Katherine J. Willis, University of Oxford

2:10 PM

COS 167-3

Long-term stasis in mammalian community structure: The fossil record as a tool for conservation planning
M. Allison Stegner, University of California, Berkeley; Michael Holmes, University of California, Berkeley

2:30 PM

COS 167-4

How many lake-sediment cores do we need to characterize regional fire-regime changes using macro-charcoal records?
Carolyn M. Barrett, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign; Feng Sheng Hu, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

2:50 PM

COS 167-5

Retrospective analysis of the role of Gloeotrichia echinulata in mediating early lake eutrophication
Holly Ewing, Bates College; Kathryn L. Cottingham, Dartmouth; Kathleen C. Weathers, Cary Institute of Ecosystem Studies; Peter R. Leavitt, University of Regina; Alyeska U. Fiorillo, Bates College; John E. MacKenzie, Bates College; Brian P. Quarrier, Bates College; Cayelan Carey, Virginia Tech; Emil Rydin, Uppsala University

3:10 PM

COS 167-

Break

3:20 PM Cancelled

COS 167-6

Automating tropical pollen analysis using layered machine learning (widthdrawn)
Surangi W. Punyasena, University of Illinois; David K. Tcheng, University of Illinois/National Center for Supercomputing Applications; Derek S. Haselhorst, University of Illinois

3:40 PM

COS 167-7

Bison grazing intensity predicts the abundance of the dung fungus proxy Sporormiella at Konza Prairie: Implications for the Holocene paleoecology of the Great Plains
Jacquelyn Gill, University of Maine; Kendra K. McLauchlan, Kansas State University; John W. (Jack) Williams, University of Wisconsin, Madison

4:00 PM

COS 167-8

Body size in the fourth dimension: A paleoecological test of Bergmann's Rule
John D. Orcutt, University of Oregon; Samantha S.B. Hopkins, University of Oregon

4:20 PM

COS 167-9

Before the Younger Dryas and after Columbus: Further studies of Sporormiella records from New York and New Jersey
Guy S. Robinson, Fordham University; Mary G. Egan, Fordham College at Lincoln Center

4:40 PM

COS 167-10

Colder springs and warmer, wetter summers during the late glacial climate of central North America: inferences from stable isotopes δD and δ¹³C and wood anatomy of sub-fossil oak wood
Steven L. Voelker, Southern Oregon University; Frederick C. Meinzer, USDA Forest Service; Barbara Lachenbruch, Department of Forest Ecosystems & Society; J. Renee Brooks, US EPA, Western Ecology Division, NHEERL; Michael C. Stambaugh, University of Missouri; Richard P. Guyette, University of Missouri

COS 167 - Paleoecology