COS 56
Climate Change: Communities II

Wednesday, August 13, 2014: 8:00 AM-11:30 AM
308, Sacramento Convention Center
8:00 AM
Soil bacterial communities are resistant to rising mean annual temperature in Hawaiian tropical montane wet forests
Paul C. Selmants, University of Hawaii at Manoa; Karen L. Adair, University of Canterbury; Creighton M. Litton, University of Hawaii at Manoa; Christian P. Giardina, USDA Forest Service; Egbert Schwartz, Northern Arizona University
8:20 AM
Effects of climate variability on tree growth of Picea glauca across latitudinal and forest productivity gradients in southwest Alaska
Rosemary L. Sherriff, Humboldt State University; Amy E. Miller, National Park Service; Kelly Muth, Humboldt State University; Madelinn Schriver, Humboldt State University; Rebecca Batzel, Humboldt State University
8:40 AM
Dispersal limitation and environmental filtering of bacterial communities along a long-term glacial chronosequence
Zachary B. Freedman, University of Michigan; Donald R. Zak, University of Michigan
9:40 AM
9:50 AM
Unwinding the indirect effects of climate change on ecological communities
Sarah Dryhurst, Imperial College London; K. Blake Suttle, Imperial College London
10:10 AM
Consequences of changing environmental variability on rocky shores: Effects of thermal variation on growth rates and energy flow
Luke P. Miller, Stanford University; Bengt J. Allen, California State University, Long Beach; Mark W. Denny, Stanford University
10:30 AM
Stoichiometric homeostasis underlies species dominance, stability and responses to global change
Qiang Yu, Colorado State University; Kevin Wilcox, University of Wyoming; Kimberly La Pierre, University of California; Xingguo Han, Instituted of Applied Ecology, Chinese Academy of Sciences; Alan Knapp, Colorado State University; Melinda Smith, Colorado State University
10:50 AM
Glacial meltwater influence on estuarine groundfish communities
Carolyn A. Bergstrom, University of Alaska Southeast
11:10 AM
Factors affecting spruce establishment and survival near western treeline, Alaska
Amy E. Miller, National Park Service; Rosemary L. Sherriff, Humboldt State University; Kelly Muth, Humboldt State University; Madelinn Schriver, Humboldt State University; Rebecca Batzel, Humboldt State University
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