COS 63
Climate Change: Communities II

Wednesday, August 12, 2015: 8:00 AM-11:30 AM
321, Baltimore Convention Center
8:00 AM
Predator contributions to belowground responses to warming
Audrey M. Maran, Bowling Green State University; Shannon L. Pelini, Bowling Green State University
8:20 AM
Species traits as filters of climate-induced range expansion
Diane M. Debinski, Iowa State University; Jeremy Kerr, University of Ottawa; Maxim Larrivee, Insectarium de Montréal
8:40 AM
Seasonal effects of climate warming on forest-floor arthropod communities
Jacquelyn Lee Fitzgerald, North Carolina State University; Thomas R. Wentworth, NC State University; Clint A. Penick, North Carolina State University; Katharine L. Stuble, University of California; Robert R. Dunn, North Carolina State University
9:00 AM
Increased rainfall variability and N addition promote woody encroachment and extend phenology in a restored prairie
Michael J. Schuster, Purdue University; Jeffrey S. Dukes, Purdue University
9:20 AM
Multiple resource limitation interacts with plant functional traits to drive productivity and diversity responses to climate
Anu Eskelinen, University of Oulu, University of California, Davis; Susan Harrison, University of California
9:40 AM
9:50 AM
Theoretical predictions for consumer-resource dynamics in variable thermal environments
Samuel B. Fey, Yale University; David A. Vasseur, Yale University
10:10 AM
Forecasting the persistence of native fish in the face of drought in the American Southwest
Albert Ruhí, Arizona State University; Julian D. Olden, University of Washington; John L. Sabo, Arizona State University
10:30 AM
Competition shapes amphibian response to rapid environmental change
Lindsey L. Thurman, Oregon State University; Tiffany Garcia, Oregon State University
10:50 AM
Small mammal metacommunity responses to a century of climate change revealed by multispecies occupancy models
Sean P. Maher, Missouri State University; Steven R. Beissinger, University of California at Berkeley
11:10 AM
Changes in precipitation, more than increasing temperatures, may shift plant productivity and diversity in Mongolia steppe
Jane M Cowles, University of Pennsylvania; Bazartseren Boldgiv, National University of Mongolia; Pierre Liancourt, Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic; Laura A. Spence, Sterling College; Peter S. Petraitis, University of Pennsylvania; Brenda Casper, University of Pennsylvania
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