COS 4
Climate Change: Plants I

Monday, August 11, 2014: 1:30 PM-5:00 PM
309/310, Sacramento Convention Center
1:30 PM
Effects of expected climatic conditions on performance of native and invasive prairie grasses
Eric Duell, Oklahoma State University; Gail Wilson, Oklahoma State University; Karen R. Hickman, Oklahoma State University; Mitchell J. Greer, Oklahoma State University
1:50 PM
Climate and ecology interactively influence foliar concentrations of salicylic acid in Glycine max and Arabidopsis thaliana
Linus Gog, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign; May R. Berenbaum, University of Illinois; Evan H. DeLucia, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
2:10 PM
Fire severity effects on larch forest regrowth and permafrost thaw in northeastern Siberia
Heather D. Alexander, University of Texas at Brownsville; Michelle C. Mack, University of Florida; Sergey Davydov, Pacific Geographical Institute, Far East Branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences; Nikita Zimov, Pacific Geographical Institute, Far East Branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences; Michael M. Loranty, Colgate University; Susan M. Natali, Woods Hole Research Center
2:30 PM
Exposure and simulated sensitivities of major vegetation types of California to climate change
John B. Kim, USDA Forest Service Pacific Northwest Research Station; G. Stephen Pitts, Oregon State University; James H. Thorne, University of California, Davis
2:50 PM
Effects of nighttime temperature on growth and physiology of tropical trees: The importance of ontogeny
Martijn Slot, Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute; Klaus Winter, Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute
3:10 PM
3:20 PM
Climate change induced shifts in abiotic resources may alter pollination success: A test with Mertensia ciliata (Boraginaceae)
M. Kate Gallagher, Tel Aviv University; Diane R. Campbell, University of California, Irvine
3:40 PM
Environmental controls of seedling growth under experimental warming
Matthew C. Kwit, Duke University; James Clark, Duke University
4:00 PM
Climatic stresses alter the type, localization, and remobilization of tannins in Quercus sp
Sara Top, Clemson University; Baoshan Xing, University of Massachusetts, Amherst; Jeffrey S. Dukes, Purdue University; Nishanth Tharayil, Clemson University
4:40 PM
Elevated atmospheric CO2 mitigates water shortage in Pinus only under severe drought stress
Christoph Bachofen, Swiss Federal Institute for Forest, Snow and Landscape Research WSL; Barbara Moser, Swiss Federal Research Institute for Forest, Snow and Landscape Research WSL; Thomas Wohlgemuth, Swiss Federal Research Institute for Forest, Snow and Landscape Research WSL; Jaboury Ghazoul, ETH Zurich
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