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COS 28 - Arid And Semi-Arid Systems

Tuesday, August 13, 2019: 1:30 PM-5:00 PM
L007/008, Kentucky International Convention Center
Presider:
Jennifer Wilkening
1:30 PM
COS 28-1
Elevated CO2 coupled with water stress affects overall growth
Taoufik S. Ksiksi, UAEU; Shaijal Thruppoyil, UAE UNIVERSITY
1:50 PM
COS 28-2
How to “preserve unimpaired” vegetation at desert springs: a new long-term protocol to monitor plant community trends in six National Park Service units in the Mojave Desert
Nicole R. Hupp, National Park Service; Mark Lehman, National Park Service; Sarah Wright, National Park Service
2:10 PM Cancelled
COS 28-3
Induction, engineering, and hijacking of defensive strategies of the host by a gall-inducing weevil (widthdrawn)
Geraldo Fernandes, Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais
2:30 PM
COS 28-4
Dominance and diversity in desert grasslands
Timothy J. Ohlert, Department of Biology, University of New Mexico; Scott Collins, University of New Mexico; Jennifer Rudgers, University of New Mexico
2:50 PM
COS 28-5
Rodent seedling folivory and fire in the Great Basin and Mojave Deserts
Rebekah Stanton, Brigham Young University; Sam St.Clair, Brigham Young University
3:10 PM
COS 28-
Break
3:20 PM
COS 28-6
The effects of woody vegetation remnants on insect herbivore distribution: Testing bottom-up and top-down effects
Douglas Lawton, Arizona State University; Cathy Waters, NSW Department of Primary Industries, Arizona State University; Marion Le Gall, Arizona State University; Arianne Cease, Arizona State University
3:40 PM
COS 28-7
Testing the fungal loop hypothesis for nitrogen movement from biocrusts to plants in dryland ecosystems
Anthony Darrouzet-Nardi, University of Texas at El Paso; Eva Stricker, University of New Mexico; Catherine Cort, University of Texas at El Paso; Kristina E. Young, University of Texas at El Paso; Grace M. Crain, University of Texas at El Paso; Laura Green, University of New Mexico; Robert L. Sinsabaugh, University of New Mexico; Jayne Belnap, U.S. Geological Survey; Jennifer Rudgers, University of New Mexico
4:00 PM
COS 28-8
Severe drought negatively impacts juvenile survival, but not nest survival, in a desert songbird
Silas E. Fischer, University of Toledo; Kathy Granillo, Sevilleta National Wildlife Refuge, USFWS; Henry M. Streby, University of Toledo
4:20 PM
COS 28-9
Herbivory and soil resources impact the maintenance of landscape gap patterning and the spatial arrangement of grasses during pattern collapse
Andrew J. Sieben, University of Wyoming; Nichole N. Barger, University of Colorado Boulder; Michael D. Cramer, University of Cape Town; Walter R. Tschinkel, Florida State University; Thorsten Wiegand, Helmholtz Center for Environmental Research - UFZ; Lauren G. Shoemaker, University of Wyoming
4:40 PM
COS 28-10
Assessing the current status and projected future of an iconic desert species, the Joshua tree
Jennifer Wilkening, US Fish and Wildlife Service
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