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

8:00 AM

COS 56-1

Three-dimensional soil heterogeneity modulates the response of plant communities to an experimentally imposed drought event
Yongjie Liu, University of Antwerp; Michiel F. Bortier, University of Antwerp; Maya Verlinden, University of Antwerp; Hans J De Boeck, University of Antwerp; Ivan Nijs, University of Antwerp

8:20 AM

COS 56-2

Using transfer experiments with a foundation tree species to test how climate change will affect community assembly and "If you build it will they come?"
Art R. Keith, Northern Arizona University; Thomas G. Whitham, Northern Arizona University; Joseph K. Bailey, University of Tennessee

8:40 AM

COS 56-3

Long-stable vegetation communities in North America since the last glaciation
Yue Wang, Georgia Institute of Technology; Jenny L. McGuire, Georgia Tech

9:00 AM

COS 56-4

Elevated temperature disrupts an ant-aphid mutualism
James H. Den Uyl, University of Colorado at Colorado Springs; Maria Mullins, University of Colorado at Colorado Springs; Emily H. Mooney, University of Colorado at Colorado Springs

9:20 AM

COS 56-5

Nutrient addition affects coastal grassland productivity and species dominance
Joseph Brown, Virginia Commonwealth University; Julie Zinnert, Virginia Commonwealth University

9:40 AM

COS 56-

Break

9:50 AM

COS 56-6

Herbivores on the edge: Effects of elevated CO₂ and temperature on a tropical vine and its herbivorous beetle
Robert Srygley, USDA-Agricultural Research Service; Fredric V. Vencl, Stonybrook University; Klaus Winter, Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute

10:10 AM

COS 56-7

Low predictability in plant community responses to climate change over the last 21K years
Pierre Gaüzère, Arizona State University; Jens-Christian Svenning, Aarhus University; Jean-Yves Barnagaud, EPHE-CEFE, UMR5175; Jessica L. Blois, University of California - Merced; Benjamin Blonder, Arizona State University

10:30 AM

COS 56-8

Predator-prey interactions in a warming world will depend on predator foraging strategy and thermal performance
Laura Twardochleb, Michigan State University; Tyler Treakle, College of William & Mary; Phoebe Zarnetske, Michigan State University

10:50 AM

COS 56-9

Effects of changes in rainfall seasonality and amount on community composition and structure in two semi-arid grasslands
Scott Collins, University of New Mexico; Lauren E. Baur, University of New Mexico; Renée Brown, University of New Mexico; Nathan Gehres, University of New Mexico; Jennifer Rudgers, University of New Mexico; William T. Pockman, University of New Mexico

11:10 AM

COS 56-10

Nitrogen deposition decreases grassland plant diversity via weakening top-down effects of herbivores
Zhiwei Zhong, School of Life Sciences, School of Environment, Northeast Normal University; Xiaofei Li, School of Life Sciences, School of Environment, Northeast Normal University; Deli Wang, School of Life Sciences, School of Environment, Northeast Normal University

COS 56 - Climate Change: Communities II