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litter along the Ecological Staircase.
10:50 AM COS 74-9 Hernandez, DL 1 , E Esch 1 , C Alster 1 , MJ
McKone 1 and P Camill 2 , (1)Carleton College, (2)
Bowdoin College. Rapid accumulation of soil carbon
and nitrogen in restored prairie is not predicted using a
chronosequence approach.
11:10 AM COS 74-10 Schellenberg, DL, JM Jenkins, CA Almanza,
P Wong, LN Lawless, CA Buckingham, SA Mansfield,
CM Stockert, MM Alsina and DR Smart, University of
California Davis. Gross nitrogen transformations and 15 N
assimilation after arid land fertilization at the tree scale.
COS 75 - Biogeochemistry: C And N Cycling In
Response To Global Change I
B115, Oregon Convention Center
8:00 AM COS 75-1 Gundale, M, Swedish University of
Agricultural Sciences. The effect of climate change
factors on biological N-fixation by bryophytecyanobacteria
associations in Boreal forests.
8:20 AM COS 75-2 Gill, RA 1 and CS Campbell 2 , (1)Brigham
Young University, (2)Decagon Devices. Impacts of altered
precipitation frequency and amount on ecosystem
processes in the subalpine.
8:40 AM COS 75-3 Giling, DP, M Grace, RM Thompson and
R Mac Nally, Monash University. Restoring stream
processes in a degraded landscape: The case of instream
carbon.
9:00 AM COS 75-4 Feng, W 1 , AF Plante 1 , M Xu 2 and J Six 3 ,
(1)University of Pennsylvania, (2)Chinese Academy of
Agricultural Sciences, (3)University of California-Davis.
Changes in biological and thermal stability of soil organic
matter after long-term carbon amendments.
9:20 AM COS 75-5 Warnock, DD, ME Litvak and RL Sinsabaugh,
University of New Mexico. Piñon mortality and summer
monsoon rains affect extra cellular enzyme activity of soil
microbial communities living beneath tree canopies in a
Piñon-Juniper woodland.
9:40 AM Break
9:50 AM COS 75-6 Harms, TK 1 and JB Jones 2 , (1)University
of Alaska, (2)University of Alaska Fairbanks. Transport
and transformation of nitrogen in permafrost-influenced
catchments.
10:10 AM COS 75-7 Mueller, KE, SE Hobbie and PB Reich,
University of Minnesota. Effects of plant diversity on
grassland soil N cycling are greater and more temporally
dynamic than effects of elevated carbon dioxide.
10:30 AM COS 75-8 Qi, X and Y Luo, University of Oklahoma.
Effect of elevated CO 2 on ecosystem nitrogen fluxes and
pools: Meta-analysis.
10:50 AM COS 75-9 Lucash, MS 1 , RM Scheller 1 , AM Kretchun 1 ,
KL Clark 2 , J Hom 2 and SK Chapman 3 , (1)Portland
State University, (2)USDA Forest Service, (3)Villanova
University. Nitrogen cycling in the New Jersey Pine
Barrens as a consequence of insect outbreaks and
wildfire.
11:10 AM COS 75-10 Franklin, RB 1 , DJ Berrier 1 and SC Neubauer 2 ,
(1)Virginia Commonwealth University, (2)Baruch Marine
Field Laboratory - University of South Carolina. Impact of
saltwater intrusion on microbial community function and
organic matter breakdown in tidal freshwater wetlands.
COS 76 - Climate Change II
D135, Oregon Convention Center
8:00 AM COS 76-1 King, DH1 , J Wasley2 , JD Turnbull1 , E Ryan-
Colton1 , K Mullany1 and SA Robinson1 , (1)University of
Life on Earth: Preserving, Utilizing, and Sustaining our Ecosystems
8 am-11:30 am
Wollongong, (2)Australian Antarctic Division. Monitoring
impacts of a changing climate on plant communities of
Continental Antarctica.
8:20 AM COS 76-2 Cooper, CB 1 , W Hochochka 1 and AT
Degaetano 2 , (1)Cornell Lab of Ornithology, (2)Cornell
University. Expanded geographic extent of seasonal
increases in partial hatching failure in Eastern Bluebirds
over five decades.
8:40 AM COS 76-3 Lee, H II 1 , D Reusser 2 and E Saarinen 3 , (1)
U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, (2)USGS, (3)
University of Michigan-Dearborn. Predicting the relative
vulnerability of near-coastal species to climate change
using a rule-based ecoinformatics approach.
9:00 AM COS 76-4 Earnest, C and M Kummel, Colorado
College. Treeline dynamics on Pikes Peak, Colorado: Is
the treeline moving and what is controlling the rate of
movement.
9:20 AM COS 76-5 Robinson, EA, ML Scott, RH Hallett and JA
Newman, University of Guelph. Temperature effects on
the overwintering survival and date of emergence of the
bean leaf beetle (Cerotoma trifurcata).
9:40 AM Break
9:50 AM COS 76-6 Guéry, LC 1 , S Jenouvrier 2 , K Delord 3 , C
Barbraud 4 and H Weimerskirch 4 , (1)Université du Québec
à Rimouski (UQAR), (2)Woods Hole Oceanographic
Institution- Centre d’étude biologiques de Chizé, (3)
Centre d’Etudes Biologiques de Chizé, (4)Centre d’Etude
Biologiques de Chizé. Impact of climate changes on an
Antarctic seabird: Role of individual quality.
10:10 AM COS 76-7 Jenouvrier, S 1 and H Weimerskirch 2 , (1)
Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution- Centre d’étude
biologiques de Chizé, (2)Centre d’Etude Biologiques de
Chizé. Linking foraging behaviours to demography to
study a seabird population response to climate change.
10:30 AM COS 76-8 Dybala, KE 1 , T Gardali 2 and JM Eadie 3 , (1)
University of California-Davis and PRBO Conservation
Science, (2)PRBO Conservation Science, (3)University
of California - Davis. Effects of weather on survival differ
between dependent and independent juvenile Song
Sparrows.
10:50 AM COS 76-9 Gedalof, Z and DR Norris, University of
Guelph. Spatio-temporal analysis of Gray Jay (Perisoreus
canadensis) population dynamics: A test of the “hoard
rot hypothesis”.
11:10 AM COS 76-10 Donner, SD, University of British Colombia.
Coral reefs in a warming world: Lessons on resilience
from the Central Equatorial Pacific.
COS 77 - Climate Change: Plants III
F150, Oregon Convention Center
8:00 AM COS 77-1 Kreyling, J, D Thiel, L Nagy, A Jentsch
and C Beierkuhnlein, University of Bayreuth. Within-species
variability and past climatic experience influence the response to
late spring frost in five common temperate grass and tree species.
8:20 AM COS 77-2 Blonder, B, B Boyle and BJ Enquist,
University of Arizona. Leaf venation networks link carbon economics
to climate, paleo and present.
8:40 AM COS 77-3 Spasojevic, MJ, V Bullard, HW Day, RJ
Southard and S Harrison, University of California - Davis. Assessing
the potential for assisted colonization in four serpentine endemic
plants: the importance of geology, soils and biotic interactions.
9:00 AM COS 77-4 Compagnoni, A and PB Adler, Utah State
University. Warming and reduced snow cover improve
cheatgrass (Bromus tectorum) performance in the
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