COS 79
Climate Change: Plants II

Wednesday, August 12, 2015: 1:30 PM-5:00 PM
318, Baltimore Convention Center
1:30 PM
Climate warming accelerates the musk thistle (Carduus nutans) lifecycle
Joseph A. Keller, The Pennsylvania State University; Katriona Shea, The Pennsylvania State University
1:50 PM
New composition patterns of dominant tree species in high elevation forest gaps of JuiZhaiGou National Park, China in a changing environment
Carla C. Bossard, St. Mary's College of California; Tang Ya, Sichuan University; Jiayuan Wang, Sichuan University; Ashley Rose, St. Mary's College of California
2:10 PM
Ambient conditions influence drought effects in climate change manipulation experiments: Effect sizes, rain-out shelter artifacts, and ways forward
Mohammed Abu Sayed Arfin Khan, University of Bayreuth, Shahjalal University of Science and Technology; Juergen Kreyling, Greifswald University; Fahmida Sultana, Shahjalal University of Science and Technology; Wolfgang Babel, University of Bayreuth; Carl Beierkuhnlein, University of Bayreuth; Foken Foken, University of Bayreuth; Julia Walter, University of Bayreuth; Anke Jentsch, University of Bayreuth
2:30 PM
Salt marsh as a coastal filter: Marsh plant uptake of nitrogen at the scale of the estuary indicates saturated capacity
Joanna L. Nelson, Stanford University; Erika S. Zavaleta, University of California, Santa Cruz
3:10 PM
3:40 PM
Nuclear genome size variation in Phragmites at multiple spatial scales
Melissa Burger, University of Rhode Island; Carla Lambertini, Aarhus University; Jan Suda, Charles University; Petr Pyšek, Charles University; Rose Martin, University of Rhode Island; Laura A. Meyerson, University of Rhode Island
4:00 PM
Managed grassland resiliency to climate change: Shifting species composition buffers climate change effects on plant production and forage quality
Rebecca L. McCulley, University of Kentucky; A. Elizabeth Carlisle, University of Kentucky; Allison L. Cooke, University of Cincinnati; Matthew M. Conley, U.S. Arid-Land Agricultural Research Center; Bruce A. Kimball, USDA-ARS; Jim A. Nelson, University of Kentucky
4:20 PM
Warming disrupts fitness trade-offs in Oenothera biennis caused by herbivory
Nathan P. Lemoine, Colorado State University; Dejeanne Doublet, Boston University; Deron E. Burkepile, Florida International University; John Parker, Smithsonian Environmental Research Center
4:40 PM
Intra-annual growth, gas exchange and foliar phenology response to drought in Quercus pyrenaica and Pinus sylvestris
Laura Fernández de Uña, INIA-CIFOR; Sergio Rossi, Université du Québec à Chicoutimi; Ismael Aranda, INIA-CIFOR; Patrick Fonti, Swiss Federal Research Institute for Forest, Snow and Landscape Research (WSL); Fernando Montes, INIA-CIFOR; Isabel Cañellas, INIA-CIFOR; Guillermo Gea Izquierdo, CEREGE UMR 7330, CNRS/ Université Aix-Marseille, INIA-CIFOR
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