COS 37
Biodiversity: Effects Of Global Change

Tuesday, August 12, 2014: 1:30 PM-5:00 PM
302/303, Sacramento Convention Center
1:30 PM
COS 37-1
Hitting the ‘grass ceiling’: Recruitment limitation inhibits climate change shifts of tropical treelines
Evan Rehm, University of California, Santa Barbara; Kenneth J. Feeley, Florida International University
1:50 PM
COS 37-2
Response to nitrogen deposition in a savanna by oak understory and open grassland plant communities: Crossing thresholds or resilience?
Elise M. Tulloss, University of California, Davis; Mary L. Cadenasso, University of California, Davis
2:10 PM
COS 37-3
Distributions of stable and non-analogous climate areas in the past and in the future in the world’s major continents
Xiaojun Kou, Beijing Normal University; Qin Li, University of British Columbia
2:30 PM
COS 37-4
Impact of ecological light pollution on nocturnal Lepidoptera
Kylee Grenis, University of Denver; Shannon M. Murphy, University of Denver
2:50 PM
COS 37-5
Responses of plant and pollinator biodiversity to wildfires across a productivity gradient in the Northern Rockies
Laura Burkle, Montana State University; R. Travis Belote, The Wilderness Society; Jonathan A. Myers, Washington University in St. Louis
3:10 PM
COS 37-
Break
3:20 PM
COS 37-6
Does resource alteration alter the effects of biodiversity on ecosystem productivity?
Dylan James Craven, Universidad Mayor; Forest Isbell, University of Georgia; Anne Ebeling, University Jena; Pete Manning, University of Bern; Christiane Roscher, Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research; Alexandra Weigelt, University of Leipzig; Brian J. Wilsey, Iowa State University; Nico Eisenhauer, Friedrich-Schiller-University Jena
3:40 PM
COS 37-7
A national synthesis of atmospheric nitrogen deposition relationships with herbaceous plant diversity
Samuel M. Simkin, University of Colorado; Edith B. Allen, University of California, Riverside; Jayne Belnap, U.S. Geological Survey; William D. Bowman, University of Colorado; Matthew L. Brooks, U.S. Geological Survey; Christopher M. Clark, US Environmental Protection Agency; USGS Powell Center Working Group on Diversity and N Deposition, Multiple Institutions
4:00 PM
COS 37-8
Latitudinal effects of species interactions and genetic diversity on climate-change resilience of experimental bog plant-communities
Christian Schwarzer, University of Potsdam; Jasmin Joshi, University of Potsdam
4:20 PM
COS 37-9
Using functional traits to predict the vulnerability to drought of 40 species in diverse Mediterranean-type shrubland communities of South Africa
Robert P. Skelton, University of Cape Town; Adam G. West, University of Cape Town; Todd Dawson, University of California Berkeley
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