COS 98 - Paleoecology

Friday, August 12, 2016: 8:00 AM-11:30 AM
Palm A, Ft Lauderdale Convention Center
8:00 AM
COS 98-1
Wildfires size impact long-term vegetation trajectories in northeastern coniferous boreal forest of Canada
Cécile C. Remy, Université en Abitibi-Témiscamingue, Université de Montpellier; Yves Bergeron, University of Quebec in Abitibi-Temiscamingue; Christelle Hély, Institut des sciences de l'évolution de Montpellier, École Pratique des Hautes Études; Adam A. Ali, Universite Montpellier II; Martin Lavoie, Laval University
8:20 AM
COS 98-2
Megafauna collapse and vegetation changes in Lagoa Santa region, southeastern Brazil
Marco Raczka, Florida Institute of Technology; Mark B. Bush, Florida Institute of Technology; Paulo Eduardo De Oliveira, Universidade de São Paulo
8:40 AM
COS 98-3
A millennial scale perspective on changes to benthic communities: Changes in clam abundance and growth rates in Sydney Harbour (Australia)
Juan Gabriel Dominguez Sarmiento, Macquarie University; Matthew A. Kosnik, Macquarie University; Dorrit E. Jacob, Macquarie University
9:00 AM
COS 98-4
Timing and drivers of woolly mammoth extinction on St. Paul Island in the late Quaternary
Yue Wang, University of Wisconsin-Madison; Pete Heintzman, University of California, Santa Cruz; Soumaya Belmecheri, Pennsylvania State University; Brendan J. Culleton, Pennsylvania State University; Lee Newsom, Pennsylvania State University, Penn State University; Warren P. Porter, University of Wisconsin - Madison; Beth Shapiro, University of California, Santa Cruz; John W. (Jack) Williams, University of Wisconsin-Madison; Matthew Wooller, University of Alaska Fairbanks; Russ Graham, Pennsylvania State University
9:20 AM
COS 98-5
Andean microrefugia: Testing the Holocene to predict the Anthropocene
Frazer Matthews-Bird, Florida Institue of Technology; Bryan G. Valencia, Florida Institute of Technology; William Gosling, University of Amsterdam; Dunia H. Urrego, University of Exeter; Joseph J. Williams, Aberystwyth; Mark B. Bush, Florida Institute of Technology
9:40 AM
COS 98-
Break
9:50 AM
COS 98-6
Ecological baselines and restoration in the high Andes: A long-term perspective
Bryan Valencia, Florida Institute of Technology; Mark B. Bush, Florida Institute of Technology; William Gosling, University of Amsterdam; Angela L. Coe, The Open University
10:10 AM
COS 98-7
Human alteration of iconic Galápagos Islands ecosystems: A paleoecological perspective
Aaron F. Collins, Florida Institute of Technology; Mark B. Bush, Florida Institute of Technology; Alejandra Restrepo, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign; Honey D. Whitney, Florida Institute of Technology
10:30 AM
COS 98-8
Searching for a pre-fire drought signal in the wood anatomy of a fire-scarred fossil tree
Bruce A. Byers, Bruce Byers Consulting; Lucia DeSoto, University of Coimbra; Markus Stoffel, University of Berne; Dan Chaney, National Museum of Natural History; Sidney R. Ash, University of New Mexico; Anya Byers, The Nature Conservancy; Jonathan Byers, Alpine of the Americas Project
10:50 AM
COS 98-9
How novel are 21st century climates? A global assessment of future climates and their analogs back to the last interglacial, 125,000 years ago
Kevin D. Burke, University of Wisconsin-Madison; Jack Williams, University of Wisconsin-Madison; Stephen T. Jackson, U.S. Geological Survey
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