Oral Session #43: Plant Community Responses to Climate Change.

Presiding: S.O. Link, Washington State University at Tri-Cities, Richland, WA.
Tuesday, August 8, 2000
8:15 AM to 12:00 PM
Cottonwood Room III - Sports Event Center

8:15 AM	Carbon dioxide fluxes on the Colorado shortgrass steppe and Wyoming northern mixed prairie. MORGAN, J.A. and G.E. SCHUMAN, T.G. GILMANOV
8:30 AM	Influence of precipitation timing on sagebrush steppe vegetation. BATES, J. and T. SVEJCAR, R. ANGELL, R. MILLER
8:45 AM	Initial plant productivity and species composition responses to lengthened inter-rainfall intervals in a grassland: Possible consequences of altered rainfall patterns. FAY, P.A. and J.M. BLAIR, J.D. CARLISLE, A.K. KNAPP, M.S. LETT
9:00 AM	Effect of growth at low atmospheric CO2 on plant photosynthetic tolerance of high temperatures. TAUB, D.R. and J. SEEMANN, J.S. COLEMAN
9:15 AM	Physiological response of tropical rainforest canopy trees to climate. O'BRIEN, J.J. and S.F. OBERBAUER
9:30 AM	Physiological adaptations of nine coniferous species of the northern Rocky Mountains to environmental change. KOROL, R.L.
9:45 AM	Global change impacts on northern U.S. forests. MICKLER, R.A. and R.A. BIRDSEY, J. HOM
10:00 AM	Break
10:15 AM	Changes in plant community patterns under elements of global change. SEBASTIA, M. and V. GRACIA, S. DUAIGUES
10:30 AM	The effect of snowpack on the timing and abundance of flowering in the montane plant, Delphinium barbeyi. MORALES, M.A. and D.W. INOUYE
10:45 AM	Reproductive response of Delphinium nelsonii (Ranunculaceae) to a subalpine climate warming experiment . SAAVEDRA, F. and D.W. INOUYE
11:00 AM	The effects of late spring frosts on the diversity and abundance of flowering in sub-alpine meadows. INOUYE, D.W.
11:15 AM	Changes in arctic plant community composition under natural and experimental warming. WALKER, M. and W. GOULD, A. BORNER
11:30 AM	Implications of changes in hibernation behavior by three high-altitude mammal species, and correlations with climate change. ARMITAGE, K.B. and D.W. INOUYE, B. BARR
11:45 AM	Climate variation and the dynamics of altitudinal treelines in the southern Andes DANIELS, L.D. and T.T. VEBLEN