2018 ESA Annual Meeting (August 5 -- 10)

COS 114 - Communities: Paleoecology And Long-Term Dynamics

Thursday, August 9, 2018: 1:30 PM-5:00 PM
333-334, New Orleans Ernest N. Morial Convention Center
1:30 PM
Predicting extinction risk of living amphibian species with the fossil record
Melanie Tietje, Leibniz Institute for Evolution and Biodiversity Science, Museum für Naturkunde Berlin; Mark-Oliver Rödel, Museum für Naturkunde Berlin
1:50 PM
Using data from modern fish sampling and deep-time archaeological collections to explore evidence of the anthropocene: The challenge of making apples look like oranges
John Chick, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign; Carol Colaninno-Meeks, Southern Illinois University Edwardsville; Julia M. Breed, University of Massachusetts Dartmouth; Taylor C. A. Erickson, California State University San Marcos; Taesoo E. Jung, University of Georgia; Ayush Kumar, Concordia University; Laura Martinez, University of Miami; Daniel Morales, Southern Illinois University Carbondale; Thomas Q. H. Nguyen, University of Texas Austin; Robert C. Rice, Southeast Missouri State University; Ethan S. Troyer, Boston University; Colby J. Williams, University of South Florida; M. Christine Draghetti, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign; Quinten D. Voss, Southern Illinois University Edwardsville
2:10 PM
Moving from detecting past regime shifts to diagnosing critical transitions
M. Allison Stegner, University of Wisconsin, Madison; Zak Ratajczak, University of Wisconsin, Madison; Jack Williams, University of Wisconsin-Madison; Stephen R. Carpenter, University of Wisconsin - Madison
2:30 PM
Connecting pattern and process: Climate-driven shifts in composition facilitate biomass stability over the past millennium
Christine R Rollinson, The Morton Arboretum; Andria Dawson, Mount Royal University; Ann Raiho, University of Notre Dame; Jack Williams, University of Wisconsin-Madison
3:10 PM
3:20 PM
Abrupt deglacial temperature and vegetation changes reconstructed from brGDGT and pollen at Bonnet Lake, OH
David Fastovich, University of Wisconsin-Madison; James Russell, Brown University; Stephen T. Jackson, U.S. Geological Survey; Thomas Lowell, University of Cincinnati; John W. Williams, University of Wisconsin-Madison
3:40 PM
A comparison of climatic mechanisms and plant community novelty in North America and Europe from the last glacial maximum to present
Kevin D. Burke, University of Wisconsin-Madison; Simon Brewer, University of Utah; Walter Finsinger, University Montpellier; Thomas Giesecke, University of Göttingen; Alejandro Ordonez, Aarhus University; Jack Williams, University of Wisconsin-Madison
4:00 PM Cancelled
COS 114-9
Species and community distribution shifts under climate change: Novel integration of dynamic vegetation models and niche models (widthdrawn)
Stephen J. Mayor, Ontario Ministry of Natural Resources and Forestry, University of Florida; Hiromitsu Sato, University of Toronto; Sharon A. Cowling, University of Toronto; Fabián Michelangeli, The New York Botanical Garden; Douglas I. Kelley, Reading University
4:20 PM
Long-term biomass trends in a North Carolina Piedmont forest
Christopher J. Payne, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
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