Session: Climate Change I (2018 ESA Annual Meeting (August 5 -- 10))

1:30 PM

COS 3-1

Body size ’shrinkage’ due to warming reflects reduced survival and scales up to intensify the effects of food abundance on population growth rate
Gustavo S. Betini, University of Guelph; Xueqi Wang, University of Guelph; Tal Avgar, University of Guelph; John M. Fryxell, University of Guelph

1:50 PM

COS 3-2

Reforestation potential in the United States
Trisha Gopalakrishna, The Nature Conservancy; Susan C. Cook-Patton, The Nature Conservancy; Peter W. Ellis, The Nature Conservancy; Joseph E. Fargione, The Nature Conservancy

2:10 PM

COS 3-3

Low conspecific density accelerates development but reduces post-metamorphic performance and survival in a temperate pond-breeding amphibian
Michel E.B. Ohmer, University of Pittsburgh; Laura A. Brannelly, University of Pittsburgh; Corinne L. Richards-Zawacki, University of Pittsburgh

2:30 PM

COS 3-4

Leaf optical properties reveal variation of plant responses across a temperature gradient in the world's hottest tropical rainforest
Sandra M. Duran, University of Arizona; Brian Enquist, University of Arizona; Scott R. Saleska, University of Arizona; Joost van Haren, University of Arizona; Peter A. Troch, University of Arizona; Neill Prohaska, University of Arizona; Vanessa R. Buzzard, University of Arizona; Megan Gaitan, Sonoma State University; Shuli Chen, University of Arizona; Daniel J. Wieczynski, University of California, Los Angeles; Sean Michaletz, University of Arizona

2:50 PM

COS 3-5

Mechanisms of Amazon forest drought responses: Canopy structure versus photosynthetic physiology
Shuli Chen, University of Arizona; Natalia restrepo-Coupe, University of Arizona; Scott C. Stark, Michigan State University; Loren P. Albert, Brown University; Marielle Smith, Michigan State University; Scott R. Saleska, University of Arizona

3:10 PM

COS 3-

Break

3:20 PM

COS 3-6

Resilience of nematode food webs under temperature stress associated with climate change
Satyendra Kumar Pothula, University of Tennessee; Parwinder S. Grewal, University of Texas Rio Grande Valley; Sean M. Schaeffer, University of Tennessee; Mark A. Radosevich, University of Tennessee; Wesley C. Wright, University of Tennessee; Gary Phillips, University of Tennessee; Ernest C. Bernard, University of Tennessee

3:40 PM

COS 3-7

Ecosystem controls on seasonal thaw depths, snowpack characteristics, and the soil thermal regime in boreal biome permafrost of interior Alaska
Thomas Douglas, Cold Regions Research and Engineering Laboratory

4:00 PM

COS 3-8

An interagency partnership and scientific assessments of the carbon cycle: Celebrating 20 years and a new North American report
Nancy Cavallaro, USDA; Gyami Shrestha, Carbon Cycle Interagency Working Group (CCIWG); Zhiliang Zhu, U. S. Geological Survey; Richard Birdsey, Forest Service

4:20 PM

COS 3-9

Using herbarium specimens to select indicator species for climate change monitoring
Rebecca Hufft, Denver Botanic Gardens; Michelle E. DePrenger-Levin, Denver Botanic Gardens; Richard A. Levy, Denver Botanic Gardens; Melissa B. Islam, Denver Botanic Gardens

4:40 PM Cancelled

COS 3-10

Identifying phenotypic response in populations of native eelgrass Zostera marina to specific environmental conditions to inform restoration of nearshore habitat in Washington State (widthdrawn)
Cinde R Donoghue, WA State

COS 3 - Climate Change I