Oral Session #32: Paleoecology.

Presiding: J.P. Haskell, University of New Mexico.
Monday, August 7, 2000
1:15 PM to 5:15 PM
Cottonwood Room I - Sports Event Center

1:15 PM	Quantitative analyses of late Cretaceous benthic marine communities: Spatial and temporal variation. KOSNIK, M.
1:30 PM	Interpreting late Pleistocene and Holocene climatic records of Carolina bays on the southern Atlantic Coastal Plain. TAYLOR, B.E. and M.J. BROOKS, E.E. GAISER
2:00 PM	Holocene paleoecology of Southern California: Methods, results, and testing of climate model simulations. WAHL, E.R.
2:15 PM	Forest clearance and plant cultivation by prehistoric people in southwestern Ohio. MCLAUCHLAN, K.K.
2:30 PM	Prehistoric hurricane disturbance and forest regeneration in Nicaragua. URQUHART, G.R.
2:45 PM	The influence of substrate on long-term ecosystem development and its paleoecological record. EWING, H.A.
3:00 PM	Break
3:15 PM	Reconstructing the historic ecosystems of Swede Hollow, Minnesota: An investigation in urban paleoecology. CARD, V.
3:30 PM	A high-resolution record of ENSO variability, vegetation, and fire history over the past millennium in a monsoon forest, East Java. CRAUSBAY, S.
3:45 PM	Pollen-stratigraphic evidence of human activity at Dieng, Central Java. CUSHING, E.J. and A. PUDJOARINTO
4:00 PM	The role of dispersal, climate, and topography in the Holocene migration of Utah juniper, Juniperus osteosperma, into Wyoming and southern Montana. LYFORD, M.E. and J.L. BETANCOURT, S.T. JACKSON
4:15 PM	Geomorphic and climatic controls over Holocene soil development in the arctic foothills of Alaska. HU, F.S. and W.W. OSWALD, L.B. BRUBAKER, G.W. KLING
4:30 PM	Climatic and geomorphic controls on Holocene vegetational changes in the arctic foothills of Alaska. OSWALD, W.W. and F. SHENG HU, L.B. BRUBAKER, G.W. KLING
4:45 PM	Composition, structure, dynamics, biomass and climate of Eocene fossil forests, Canadian High Arctic. LEPAGE, B.A. and C.J. WILLIAMS, A.H. JAHREN, A.H. JOHNSON, D.R. VANN
5:00 PM	Structure and biomass of a polar-latitude Eocene forest from the Canadian Arctic. WILLIAMS, C.J. and A.H. JOHNSON, B.A. LEPAGE, D.R. VANN, T. SWEDA