Session: Climate Change: Plants I (98th ESA Annual Meeting (August 4 -- 9, 2013))

8:00 AM

COS 53-1

Fog water use in coastal California shrublands
Nathan C. Emery, University of California Santa Barbara; Carla D'Antonio, University of California Santa Barbara

8:20 AM

COS 53-2

A natural experiment to measure the effect of multiple drivers on survival of tree seedlings in the alpine treeline ecotone
Sebastien M. Renard, Laval University; Eliot J.B. McIntire, Natural Resources Canada & Laval University; Alex Fajardo, Centro de Investigacion en Ecosistemas de la Patagonia

8:40 AM

COS 53-3

The complexity of temporal distribution of rainfall, plant allocation, and carbon sinks
Caroline E. Farrior, Princeton University; Ignacio Rodriguez-Iturbe, Princeton University; Stephen W. Pacala, Princeton University

9:00 AM

COS 53-4

Spatial and temporal patterns of conifer encroachment into subalpine meadows in the central Sierra Nevada, California
Kaitlin C. Lubetkin, Univeristy of California at Merced; Anthony Westerling, University of California, Merced; Lara Kueppers, University of California Merced

9:20 AM

COS 53-5

Warming interacts with environmental conditions to alter seedling carbon assimilation
Matthew Kwit, Duke University; James Clark, Duke University; Jerry M. Melillo, Marine Biological Laboratory; Jacqueline E. Mohan, University of Georgia

9:40 AM

COS 53-

Break

9:50 AM

COS 53-6

Do the indirect effects of climate change decrease with species abundance?
Aldo Compagnoni, Rice University; Peter Adler, Utah State University

10:10 AM

COS 53-7

Back to the Future: Ancestral plants test assumptions in future growth trajectories
Rachel M. Gentile, University of Notre Dame; Marilia B.M. Figueiredo, University of Notre Dame; Jason McLachlan, University of Notre Dame

10:30 AM

COS 53-8

Seasonal and spatial carbon assimilation patterns in black spruce; assessing temperature impacts at canopy level
Anna M. Jensen, Oak Ridge National Laboratory; Jeffrey M. Warren, Oak Ridge National Laboratory; Paul J. Hanson, Oak Ridge National Laboratory; Joanne Childs, Oak Ridge National Laboratory; Carla Gunderson, Oak Ridge National Laboratory; David Weston, Oak Ridge National Laboratory; Stan D. Wullschleger, Oak Ridge National Laboratory

10:50 AM

COS 53-9

Predicting climate change impacts on urban plant’s present probability using Bayesian model
Yoonjung KIM, Seoul National University; Dongkun Lee, Seoul National University; Chan Park, National Institute of Environmental Research

11:10 AM

COS 53-10

Variation in city tree ecophysiological characteristics under changing temperatures
Lauren M. Velasco, University of California, Riverside; Jennifer Hooper, U.S. Forest Service; G. Darrel Jenerette, University of California

COS 53 - Climate Change: Plants I