Abstracts of all talks and posters presented.
Presiding:
G Greenwood, University of Bern, Bern, Switzerland
J A Hicke, University of Idaho, Moscow
C I Millar, Sierra Nevada Research Center, USDA Forest Service, Albany
C Tague, Bren School of Environmental Science and Management, University
of California, Santa Barbara, Santa Barbara
Effects
of overcast and foggy conditions on transpiration rates of Pinus patulatrees along a chronosequence within the cloud belt of the Sierra Madre
Oriental, Central Veracruz, Mexico
*Alvarado-Barrientos, M S; Holwerda, F; Asbjornsen, H; Sauer, T; Dawson,
T E; Bruijnzeel, L A
Climate
and floristic variation in Great Basin Mountain Ranges(Invited)
*Charlet, D A; Leary, P
Modeling
plant species distributions under future climates: how fine-scale do climate
models need to be?(Invited)
*Davis, F W; Franklin, J; Ikegami, M; Syphard, A D; Flint, A L; Hannah,
L
Mechanisms
controlling the effects of weather and climate on California's ecosystems(Invited)
*Goulden, M; Kelly, A E; Fellows, A; Winston, G
The
upper mountain forest and tree response to climate change in South Siberian
Mountains
*Kharuk, V; Ranson, J
Sensitivity of subalpine tree seedlings and alpine plants to natural
and manipulated climate variation: Initial results from an alpine treeline
warming experiment (Invited)
*Kueppers, L M
Forest
responses to increasing aridity and warmth in the southwestern United
States
*Williams, P; Allen, C D; Millar, C I; Swetnam, T W; Michaelsen,
J; Leavitt, S W; Still, C J
Do
plant species interactions reflect small-scale abiotic gradients in the
alpine zone?
*Whitecloud, S S
Fine-scale
phenology and nitrogen-fixing microbes at a GLORIA site in southwestern
Montana, USA
*Apple, M E; Prince, J; Morales, S; Apple, C; Gallagher, J
Investigating
tree mortality at multiple spatial and temporal scales in the Bishop pine
forest on Santa Cruz Island, California
*Baguskas, S A; Bookhagen, B; Peterson, S H; Asner, G P
Fire
and climate history of mixed conifer woodlands in the Great Basin, USA
*Biondi, F; Bradley, M; Cheek, J; Jamieson, L; Kilpatrick, M; Sibold,
J; Strachan, S D
Modeling
the response of glaciers to climate change in the Upper North Saskatchewan
River Basin
*Booth, E; Byrne, J M; Jiskoot, H; MacDonald, R J
Building
topographically modified tree-ring chronologies from high elevation bristlecone
pine in the White Mountains of California, USA
*Bunn, A G; Hughes, M K; Salzer, M W
Subalpine
conifer seedling demographics: Species responses to climate manipulations
across an elevational gradient at Niwot Ridge, Colorado
*Castanha, C; Germino, M J; Torn, M S; Ferrenberg, S; Harte, J; Kueppers,
L M
20th-century
climate change in the Sierra Nevada from PRISM data
*Conklin, D R; Osborne-Gowey, J D
Soil
moisture dynamics and forest fire risk in the Upper North Saskatchewan
Watershed, Alberta
*Dalla Vicenza, S A; Byrne, J M; Letts, M G
Subsurface
thermal and hydrological changes between forest and clear-cut sites in
the Oregon Cascades
*Davis, M G; Waschmann; R S; Harris, R N; Chapman, D S
Climate contributes to zonal forest mortality in Southern California's
San Jacinto Mountains
*Fellows, A; Goulden, M
Dry season foliar fog uptake, reverse sapflow, and nighttime transpiration
in the tropical montane cloud forests of Mexico
*Gotsch, S G; Asbjornsen, H; Holwerda, F; Goldsmith, G R; Dawson, T E
Alpine
ecosystem vulnerability to climate change on the Tibetan Plateau: Global
implications for carbon balance, regional consequences for local pastoralists
*Hopping, K A; Klein, J A; Hu, J; Kang, S
Complimentary
and dense sensor networks to understand climate variability in mountainous
terrain
Isaak, D; Holden, Z; *Luce, C; Roper, B
Analyzing the locations, severity and frequency of Cold Air Pools (CAP)
in the Sierra Nevada, California
Kunz, A; *Helmschrot, J; Lundquist, J D
Geologic and geomorphic controls of altitudinal
treeline in the Canadian Rocky Mountains
*Macias Fauria, M; Johnson, E A
Assessing
stream temperature response to environmental change
*MacDonald, R J; Boon, S; Byrne, J M
Mortality
in subalpine forests of the Sierra Nevada, California, USA: differential
response of pines (Pinus albicaulisand P. flexilis) to
climate variability
*Millar, C I; Westfall, R D; Delany, D L
Sensitivity
of limber pine (Pinus flexilis) seedling physiology to elevation,
warming, and water availability across a timberline ecotone
*Moyes, A B; Castanha, C; Ferrenberg, S; Germino, M J; Kueppers, L M
document unavailable Stream
temperature sensitivity to climate warming in California's Sierra Nevada
*Null, S; Viers, J H; Deas, M; Tanaka, S; Mount, J
document unavailable A
subalpine forb's response to natural and experimental climate variation
*Panetta, A M; Harte, J; Stanton, M
Science
challenges in supporting adaptation planning in mountainous terrain: lessons
from the NOAA climate assessment to inform the FWS Status Review of the
American pika
*Ray, A J; Barsugli, J J; Eischeid, J; Wolter, K
A
top-down soil moisture and sap flux sampling design to capture the effect
of inter-annual climate variability on ecohydrology in mountain catchments
*Son, K; Tague, C