Oral Session #66: Large Scale Climate Change.

Presiding: L.D. Daniels, University of Colorado.
Wednesday, August 9, 2000
1:00 PM to 5:00 PM
Cottonwood Room I - Sports Event Center

1:00 PM	A solar-cycle model for holocene climates. LOEHLE, C.
1:15 PM	Vegetation response to late-glacial and early Holocene climate change in New England. SHUMAN, B.N. , P.C. NEWBY and T. WEBB III
1:30 PM	Influences of inter- and intra-annual climatic variations on green-up of the inner Mongolian grasslands of China. YU, F. , K.P. PRICE and R. LEE, J. ELLIS, P. SHI
1:45 PM	Drought cycles and prairie responses with past aridity in the northern Plains. CLARK, J.S. , E. GRIMM and J. DONOVAN, S. FRITZ, D. ENGSTROM
2:00 PM	Will plants be able to evolve in response to climate change? A case study from the Great Plains. ETTERSON, J.R.
2:15 PM	Climate change or changing climate variability: Which is worse for crop growth in the midwestern region of the United States? SOUTHWORTH, J. , J.C. RANDOLPH and O.C. DOERING, M. HABECK, R.A. PFEIFER, M.A. MAZZOCCO
2:30 PM	ENSO effects on bulk precipitation and temperature, and their potential consequences for productivity in wet tropical ecosystems of Central America. LOESCHER, H.W , S.F OBERBAUER
2:45 PM	Radiocarbon studies of plant leaves and tree rings from Mammoth Mountain, CA: A long-term record of magmatic CO2 release. COOK, A.C. , L.J. HAINSWORTH and M.L. SOREY, W.C. EVANS, J.R. SOUTHON
3:00 PM	Break
3:15 PM	Recent growth in conifer species of western North America: Assessing regional and continental patterns. MCKENZIE, D. , A.E. HESSL and D.L. PETERSON
3:30 PM	Observations on the role of tree line in controlling atmospheric circulations. BERINGER, J. , FS CHAPIN III and I. MCHUGH, N.J TAPPER
3:45 PM	Once and future climates of the conterminous United States: Spatial-temporal variability in the VEMAP2 historical and scenario bioclimate dataset. KITTEL, T.G.F. , D. NYCHKA and N. ROSENBLOOM, S. AULENBACH, C. KAUFMAN, D. YATES, D. SCHIMEL, D. OJIMA, C. DALY, J.A. ROYLE, VEMAP MEMBERS
4:00 PM	Simulated climate change impacts on key ecosystem properties of potential compared to current land cover for the conterminous United States. OJIMA, D.S. , W.J. PARTON and T.G.F. KITTEL, R. KELLY, M. HARTMAN
4:15 PM	Relationship between decadal anomalies in climate and model-estimated AET, NPP, total carbon, and net ecosystem carbon exchange, 1895-1993: Results from VEMAP Phase 2. THORNTON, P.E. , S.W. RUNNING and V. MEMBERS
4:30 PM	Global soil respiration in a warmer world. RAICH, J.W. , C.S. POTTER and D. BHAGAWATI
4:45 PM	The Role of Coral Reefs in the Possible Upcoming Green House Effect. ZHANG, F.Y.