1:30 PM

White, Joseph*,1, Gutzwiller, Kevin1, Barrow, Wylie2, Johnson Randall, Lori2, 1 Baylor University, Waco, TX2 USGS National Wetlands Research Center, Lafayette, LA, Combined landscape and winter bird distribution modeling: influences of climate change, increased CO2, and fire management in the Chihuahuan Desert.

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1:50 PM

Jetz, Walter*,1, Wilcove, David2, Dobson, Andy2, 1 University of California, San Diego, La Jolla, CA2 Princeton University, Princeton, NJ, The relative impacts of climate and land use change on the global diversity of birds.

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2:10 PM

Piha, Henna*,1, Luoto, Miska2, 3, Piha, Markus4, Merilä, Juha1, 1 University of Helsinki, Helsinki, Finland2 Finnish Environment Institute, Helsinki, Finland3 University of Oulu, Oulu, Finland4 Finnish Museum of Natural History, Helsinki, Finland, Anuran abundance and persistence in agricultural habitats during a climatic extreme.

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2:30 PM

Vadeboncoeur, Matthew*,1, Hamburg, Steven1, Richardson, Andrew2, Bailey, Amey3, 1 Brown University, Providence, RI2 University of New Hampshire, Durham, NH3 US Forest Service, Woodstock, NH, Looking for climate change at the ecosystem level: examination of a 50-year record from the Hubbard Brook Experimental Forest.

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2:50 PM

Gregg, Jillian*,1, 1 Terrestrial Ecosystems Research Associates, Corvallis, OR, USA, 'Night'-Warming a misnomer: plant growth also affected by concomitantly warmer mornings.

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3:10 PM

, Break.

3:20 PM

Nippert, Jesse*,1, Ward, Joy1, 1 University of Kansas, Lawrence, KS, Comparing the effects of climate variability and ENSO on tree growth at glacial and modern times.

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3:40 PM

Sternberg, Marcelo *,1, Holzapfel, Claus2, Parag, Hadas, Konsens, Irit 1, Harel, Danny1, 1 Tel Aviv University, Tel Aviv, Tel Aviv, Israel2 Rutgers University, Newark, New Jersey, USA, Soil seed banks and climate change: an experimental approach along a climatic gradient in Israel.

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4:00 PM

Volder, Astrid*,1, Tjoelker, Mark 1, Briske, David1, 1 Texas A&M University, College Station, TX, Rainfall redistribution and warming induces seasonal shifts between facilitation and competition among tree and grass dominants in southern oak savanna.

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4:20 PM

Suttle, Kenwyn*,1, Thomsen, Meredith2, Power, Mary1, 1 University of California, Berkeley, CA2 University of Wisconsin, La Crosse, WI, Community-level consequences of changing rainfall patterns in an annual grassland.

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