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8:30 am-10:30 am
Research Service, (2)USDA Agricultural Research Service.
Grabach and M Martinez-Ramos, Universidad Nacional
Comparing phenology of Chihuahuan desert perennial
Autónoma de México. Assessing different agricultural land
grasses and shrubs between normal and below-average
uses and ecological disturbances on tropical rainforest
precipitation years.
regeneration.
PS 92-60 Pires, APF1, VF Farjalla1 and DS Srivastava2, (1)University PS 93-80 Halpern, CB1, J Halaj2, SA Evans1 and M Dovciak3, (1)
Federal of Rio de Janeiro, (2)University of British Columbia.
University of Washington, (2)Allevia Health, Inc., (3)State
Detritus diversity increases decomposition rates under
University of New York. Level and pattern of overstory
several precipitation scenarios.
retention interact to shape long-term responses of
PS 92-61 Wilson, EA, UCSB. Anuran tadpole tolerance to stream
understories to timber harvest.
velocity.
PS 93-81 Urgenson, LS1, CB Halpern1 and PD Anderson2, (1)
PS 92-62 Finch, JH and J Bellemare, Smith College. Range
disequilibrium in an ant-dispersed forest herb: An
experimental test of abiotic, biotic, and dispersal limits on
the distribution of Jeffersonia diphylla (Berberidaceae).
University of Washington, (2)USDA Forest Service, Pacific
Northwest Research Station. Responses of planted and
naturally regenerating conifers in a variable-retention
experiment in the Pacific Northwest.
PS 92-63 Hesselink, RM and JS McLachlan, University of Notre Dame.
Pre-industrial CO2 levels cause variation in growth response
of Schoenoplectus americanus.
PS 93-82 Nagendra, UJ and CJ Peterson, University of Georgia.
Potential alteration of plant-soil feedbacks following severe
tornado damage in southern Appalachian forests.
PS 92-64 White, KM and JA Pontius, University of Vermont. Remote
sensing of spring phenology: Method development and
temporal trends for northeastern forests.
PS 93-83 Barrett, ME, JB Cannon, SI Khan and CJ Peterson, University
of Georgia. Windfirmness of Southeastern Piedmont oak
and pine trees, tested by static winching.
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Riordan, EC and PW Rundel, University of California, Los
Angeles. An uncertain future for California sage scrub:
Implications of land use and climate change for a threatened
plant community.
Wilczek, A1, MD Cooper2, T Korves2 and J Schmitt2, (1)Deep
Springs College, (2)Brown University. Lagging adaptation to
warming climate in Arabidopsis thaliana.
Vazquez, S, University of Texas Pan-American. Future
distribution of the prickly pear cacti Opuntia ficus-indica in
the United States and Mexico.
Dickman, LT1, SA Sevanto1, NG McDowell1 and WT
Pockman2, (1)Los Alamos National Laboratory, (2)University
of New Mexico. The role of non-structural carbohydrates in
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Elzein, TM1, D Arseneault1, L Sirois1 and Y Boucher2,
(1)Université du Québec à Rimouski, (2)Ministère des
Ressources naturelles et de la Faune du Québec. Impact
of logging on the structure of preindustrial forests in southeastern
Canada.
Nytch, CJ1, JK Zimmerman1, J Thompson2 and M Uriarte3,
(1)University of Puerto Rico, (2)Centre for Ecology and
Hydrology (Edinburgh), (3)Columbia University. Twenty years
of change in the Luquillo Forest Dynamics Plot, Puerto Rico.
Gressard, SC1, CJ Rochester2 and E Cleland3, (1)UCSD, (2)
US Geological Survey - BRD, (3)University of California – San
Diego. Performance of native and exotic species following
fire in San Diegan coastal sage scrub communities.
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tree mortality.
Komatsu, N1, H Kobori1, W Kitamura2 and RB Primack3, (1)
Tokyo City University, (2)Central Research Institute of Electric
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Power Industry, (3)Boston University. Traditional calendar Exhibit Hall DE, Oregon Convention Center
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reveals the effects of climate change on phenology in the
last 300 years in Japan.
Freedman, ZB and DR Zak, University of Michigan.
Suppression of N cycle functional genes in response to
chronic atmospheric N deposition.
Barcelo, C1, RD Brodeur2 and L Ciannelli1, (1)Oregon State
University, (2)National Marine Fisheries Service. Changes in
pelagic nekton diversity, ranges and community composition
in the Northern California Current from 1998-2011.
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Silva, FR1 and DC Rossa-Feres2, (1)Universidade Federal
de São Carlos, (2)State University of São Paulo. Multitaxa
distribution patterns in a fragmented landscape of
Semideciduous Atlantic forest.
Chappell, JC1, SL Whitmire1, GA Martinez1, D Sotomayor2
and C Santos1, (1)University of Puerto Rico, Mayaguez, (2)
Univeristy of Puerto Rico, Mayaguez. Identification of the
environmental variables which determine phytoplankton
community structure in two distinct reservoirs.
PS 92-72 Feria, TP1 and C Hong-Wa2, (1)The University of Texas-
Pan American, (2)University of Missouri–St. Louis,. Future
distributions of Madagascar’s endemic plant species.
PS 94-89 Arnold, SG1, TM Anderson2 and RM Holdo1, (1)University
of Missouri, (2)Wake Forest University. Grazing lawns in the
African landscape: A comparison between South African
PS 92-73 McLaughlin, BC, University of California at Santa Cruz.
and Tanzanian systems.
Microrefugia, life-stage analysis, climate change and new
distribution of an endemic California oak.
PS 94-90 Mahoney, B, University of California, Santa Cruz. Temporal
and spatial variability in algal-invertebrate associations in
PS 92-74 Wong, VL1, C Schwebach1, AE Arnold2, JM U’Ren2, RA
benthic red algal communities, Monterey Bay, CA.
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Montgomery1, PB Reich1, SE Hobbie1, A Stefanski1, R
Rich1 and G May1, (1)University of Minnesota, (2)University
of Arizona. Effects of climate warming on the occurrence of
endophytic fungi in boreal Picea and Populus.
Maier, CA, USDA Forest Service. Foliar elemental
composition of loblolly pine (Pinus taeda, L.) forest after longterm
exposure to elevated CO2 and nitrogen fertilization.
Collins, AC1, NG McDowell1 and MG Ryan2, (1)Los Alamos
National Laboratory, (2)USDA Forest Service. The response
of pinon pine leaf respiration to different dark acclimation
pre-treatments.
Carter, JM and JK Ward, University of Kansas. Patterns of
Fraxinus phenology are unique in the abnormally warm year
of 2012.
Walker, SM II, University of Kansas. CO2 and temperature
interactions buffer flowering time changes over the last
century.
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Pastore, AI, Florida State University. Changes in community
phylogenetic structure across an old field-deciduous forest
chronosequence.
Strigul, N1 and I Florescu2, (1)Washington State University
Vancouver, (2)Stevens Institute of Technology. Statistical
characteristics of forest succession.
Souza, CD, VDS Batista and NN Fabre, Universidade Federal
de Alagoas. Seasonal dynamics and yield in a tropical
coastal fishery in northeast Brazil.
Lauck, M, D Owen and EM Frazier, Florida Atlantic University.
An analysis of the vegetation within the FAU Preserve as
a basis for management of scrub habitat for Gopherus
polyphemus .
Driver, LJ and DJ Hoeinghaus, University of North Texas.
Local and regional dynamics of fish metacommunities in
intermittent, drought prone streams.
Grupe, BM1, LA Levin1, VJ Orphan2, GW Rouse1, GF
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Mendoza1 and AR Thurber3, (1)Scripps Institution of
Oceanography, (2)California Institute of Technology, (3)
Oregon State University. Colonization, diversity, and
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PS 93-79 Zermeño-Hernández, IE, J Benitez-Malvido, CD Siebetrophic
patterns of macrofauna on hard substrates reflect
environmental heterogeneity in deep-sea Pacific methane
seep communities.
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