Session: Climate Change: Plants II (2017 ESA Annual Meeting (August 6 -- 11))

8:00 AM

COS 30-1

Belowground productivity responses to extreme drought are influenced by legacies of past precipitation regimes
Ingrid Slette, Colorado State University; John Blair, Kansas State University; David L. Hoover, USDA-ARS; Melinda Smith, Colorado State University; Alan Knapp, Colorado State University

8:20 AM

COS 30-2

Physiological responses of white ash trees to one of the driest and warmest years in U.S. history
Jacob Carter, Union of Concernced Scientists; Joy K. Ward, University of Kansas

8:40 AM

COS 30-3

How do functional and physiological traits organize communities and influence biogeographic climate distributions? Tests across California communities
Camila Dias Barros Medeiros, University of California, Los Angeles, CNPq; Grace P. John, University of Texas, Austin; Alexandria Pivovaroff, UCLA; Christian Henry, University of California Los Angeles; Lawren Sack, UCLA

9:00 AM

COS 30-4

Climate drivers of population dynamics and niche patterns in the forests of the Rocky Mountains
Arne Buechling, Colorado State University; Patrick H. Martin, Colorado State University; Charles D. Canham, Cary Institute of Ecosystem Studies

9:20 AM

COS 30-5

Long-term consequences of increased monsoon rainfall variability and nitrogen deposition on net primary production in a semi-arid grassland
Renée Brown, University of New Mexico; Scott Collins, University of New Mexico

9:40 AM

COS 30-

Break

9:50 AM

COS 30-6

Response to salinity in invasive cordgrass hybrids and their parental species (Spartina) in a scenario of global warming and sea level rise
Jesus M. Castillo, University of Seville; Blanca Gallego-Tevar, University of Seville; Brenda Grewell, Dept. of Plant Sciences MS-4, University of California Davis

10:10 AM

COS 30-7

Warming experiment tests for the effect of soil-borne pathogens on maintaining tree species diversity
Yu Liu, Sun Yat-sen University; Fangliang He, East China Normal University

10:30 AM

COS 30-8

Effects of nutrient enrichment on salt marsh production: A field reciprocal transplant experiment with Spartina alterniflora
Torrance Hanley, Northeastern University; Jennifer L. Bowen, Northeastern University; Patrick J. Kearns, Michigan State University; A. Randall Hughes, Northeastern University

10:50 AM

COS 30-9

Long term persistence of aspen in snowpack-dependent ecosystems
Alec M. Kretchun, Portland State University; Douglas Shinneman, U.S. Geological Survey; Robert M. Scheller, Portland State University; Ben Soderquist, University of Idaho; Timothy E. Link, University of Idaho; Alan L. Flint, USGS California Water Science Center

11:10 AM Cancelled

COS 30-10

Herbivory among the mosses: Does species specific effects matter? (widthdrawn)
Timea Deakova, Portland State University; Sarah M. Eppley, Portland State University; Todd N. Rosenstiel, Portland State University

COS 30 - Climate Change: Plants II