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

1:30 PM

The establishment and success of Sierra Nevada conifer seedlings under prolonged, climate-induced stress
Emily O'Dean, California Polytechnic State University; Sarah Bisbing, California Polytechnic State University; Eric E. Knapp, USDA Forest Service

1:50 PM

COS 101-2

Multi-scale responses to warming in an experimental metacommunity
Tess N. Grainger, University of Toronto; Benjamin Gilbert, University of Toronto

2:10 PM

COS 101-3

Disentangling the impacts of changing competitive interactions during climate-driven range shifts
Jacob Usinowicz, ETH Zurich; Jonathan M. Levine, ETH Zurich

2:30 PM

COS 101-4

Effects of global warming on plant diversity-soil carbon relationships and implications for microbial community structure and functional potential
Sarah Castle, University of Minnesota; Zewei Song, Beijing Genomics Institute; A. Stuart Grandy, University of New Hampshire; Linda L. Kinkel, University of Minnesota

2:50 PM

COS 101-5

Non-native predators alter novel-community dynamics
Natalie Jones, University of California San Diego, UCSD; Jonathan Shurin, University of California- San Diego

3:10 PM

COS 101-

Break

3:20 PM

COS 101-6

The vulnerability of Amazonian plant biodiversity to climate change
Claire Baldeck, Instituto de Pesquisa Ambiental da Amazônia; Paulo M. Brando, Woods Hole Research Center; Julia Shimbo, Instituto de Pesquisa Ambiental da Amazônia; Ane Alencar, Instituto de Pesquisa Ambiental da Amazônia

3:40 PM

COS 101-7

Effects of warming on predator–prey interactions: A resource-based approach and a theoretical synthesis
Wojciech Uszko, Umeå University; Sebastian Diehl, Umeå University

4:00 PM

COS 101-8

Assessing ecosystem sensitivity to differences in drought intensity in four central US grasslands
Alan Knapp, Colorado State University; Ingrid Slette, Colorado State University; Robert Griffin-Nolan, Colorado State University; Melinda Smith, Colorado State University

4:20 PM

COS 101-9

Predator evolutionary responses exacerbate community ecological responses to warming
David C. Fryxell, University of Auckland; Eric P. Palkovacs, University of California, Santa Cruz

4:40 PM

COS 101-10

Effects of prescribed fire on assisted migration of coastal plant species
Loretta Battaglia, Southern Illinois University; Julia Cherry, University of Alabama; Mark S. Woodrey, Grand Bay National Estuarine Research Reserve; Coastal Research and Extension Center, Mississippi State University

COS 101 - Climate Change: Communities II