PARENT SESSIONSymposium 17: Species range dynamics: Past, present, and future
Organized by: JS McLachlan and JW Williams
Thursday, August 11, 8:00 AM - 11:30 AM, Meeting Room 517 B, Level 5, Palais des congrès de Montréal
8:00 AM: , INTRODUCTION: J. WILLIAMS.
8:05 AM: Shafer, Sarah*,1, Bartlein, Patrick2, Thompson, Robert3, 1 U.S. Geological Survey, Corvallis, OR2 University of Oregon, Eugene, OR3 U.S. Geological Survey, Denver, CO, Modeling paleo and potential future changes in the distributions of North American plant taxa and functional types.
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8:30 AM: Hewitt, Godfrey1, 1 University of East Anglia, Norwich, UK, The postglacial colonization of Europe: Genetic signals and phylogeographic deductions.
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8:55 AM: Jackson, Stephen*,1, 1 University of Wyoming, Laramie, WY, 82071, Climate variability, landscape texture, and the episodic dynamics of species ranges.
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9:20 AM: Richardson, David*,1, Rouget, Mathieu2, Thuiller, Wilfried2, 1 Centre for Invasion Biology, Matieland, Western Cape, South Africa2 South African National Biodiversity Institute, Claremont, Western Cape, South Africa, Determinants of plant distribution: Evidence from alien invasions: A southern perspective.
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9:45 AM: , BREAK.
10:00 AM: Parmesan, Camille*,1, 1 University of Texas at Austin, Austin, Texas, USA, Earth and sea under a changing climate : Dynamics at the edges of species' ranges.
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10:25 AM: Hellmann, Jessica*,1, 1 Department of Biological Sciences, Notre Dame, IN, USA, Possible constraints on range shifts under climate change due to local adaptation.
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10:50 AM: Etterson, Julie*,1, 1 University of Minnesota Duluth, Duluth, MN, 55803, Evolution in response to climate change of a prairie species at the northern range limit.
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11:15 AM: , DISCUSSION: J. S. MCLACHLAN AND J. W. WILLIAMS. INTEGRATING PALEOECOLOGY, PHYLOGEOGRAPHY, AND MACROECOLOGY.