98th ESA Annual Meeting (August 4 -- 9, 2013)
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COS 91 - Environmental Gradients

Thursday, August 8, 2013: 8:00 AM-11:30 AM
L100G, Minneapolis Convention Center
8:00 AM
COS 91-1
Environmental tolerances, latitudinal gradients and the potential for speciation in mammals and birds
Carlos A. Botero, North Carolina State University; Roi Dor, University of Colorado at Boulder; Christy M. McCain, University of Colorado Boulder; Rebecca J. Saffran, University of Colorado at Boulder
8:20 AM
COS 91-2
Bioengineer effects on understory species richness, diversity, and composition change along an environmental stress gradient
Cortney A. Watt, Saint Francis Xavier University; Ricardo A. Scrosati, St. Francis Xavier University
8:40 AM
COS 91-3
Absent growth rings are rare in Northern Hemisphere forests outside the American Southwest
Scott St. George, University of Minnesota; Toby R. Ault, University Corporation for Climate Research; Max C.A. Torbenson, University of Minnesota
9:00 AM
COS 91-4
Biome boundaries across gradients: the sagebrush steppe-temperate forest ecotone
Daniel R. Schlaepfer, University of Basel; William K. Lauenroth, University of Wyoming; John B. Bradford, U.S. Geological Survey
9:20 AM
COS 91-5
Adaptation of red and white fir to elevation across an ecotone
John N. Church, California Geological Survey
9:40 AM
COS 91-
Break
10:10 AM Cancelled
COS 91-6
The relative influence of upwelling-driven ocean acidification on growth of the California mussel, Mytilus californianus, along the California Current Large Marine Ecosystem (widthdrawn)
Jeremy M. Rose, Oregon State University; Carol A. Blanchette, University of California, Santa Barbara; Eric Sanford, University of California, Davis; Rachael C. Williams, University of California, Santa Cruz; Peter T. Raimondi, University of California, Santa Cruz; Bruce A. Menge, Oregon State University
9:50 AM
COS 91-7
Influence of drought on canopy cover and plant dieback on an elevational gradient at Big Bend National Park
Elizabeth F. Waring, Texas Tech University; Dylan W. Schwilk, Texas Tech University
10:30 AM
COS 91-8
Forest dynamics along the elevation gradient in the Great Smoky Mountains
R. Busing, NC Botanical Garden
10:50 AM
COS 91-9
Contrasting diversity-temperature relationships between the three domains of life along extreme thermal gradients
Jordan Okie, Arizona State University; Daniel R. Colman, University of New Mexico; Xiaoben Jiang, University of New Mexico; Everett Shock, Arizona State University; Jizhong Zhou, University of Oklahoma; Cristina Takacs-Vesbach, University of New Mexico
11:10 AM
COS 91-10
An abiotic gradient in tidal influence and biotic interactions, competition and herbivory, work in concert and in conflict to set the distributional boundaries of an ecotonal salt marsh community sensitive to climate change
Carla C. Fresquez, University of California, Santa Cruz
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