GC23E:
Responses of Alpine and Arctic Treeline Ecotones to Environmental Change II Posters

Session ID#: 5175

Tuesday, 16 December 2014: 1:40 PM-6:00 PM
Not an Option (Moscone West)
Chairs:  Jeremy S Littell, USGS Alaska Climate Adaptation Science Center, Anchorage, United States, Matthew J Germino, United States Geological Survey, Boise, ID, United States, Connie Millar, USDA Forest Service, PSW Research Station, Vallejo, CA, United States and Cairns M. David, Texas A&M University, Department of Geography, College Station, TX, United States
Primary Convener:  Connie Millar, USDA Forest Service, PSW Research Station, Vallejo, CA, United States
Co-conveners:  Cairns M. David, Texas A&M University, Department of Geography, College Station, TX, United States, Matthew J Germino, United States Geological Survey, Boise, ID, United States and Jeremy S Littell, USGS Alaska Climate Adaptation Science Center, Anchorage, United States
OSPA Liaison:  Jeremy S Littell, USGS Alaska Climate Adaptation Science Center, Anchorage, United States
Co-Sponsor(s):
  • B - Biogeosciences
Index Terms:

0429 Climate dynamics [BIOGEOSCIENCES]
0476 Plant ecology [BIOGEOSCIENCES]
1630 Impacts of global change [GLOBAL CHANGE]
1637 Regional climate change [GLOBAL CHANGE]
Virtual Option?: No

Abstracts Submitted to this Session:

 
GC23E-0674
Evidence That Drought-Induced Stomatal Closure Is Not an Important Constraint on White Spruce Performance Near the Arctic Treeline in Alaska (9880)
Patrick Sullivan1, Annalis Brownlee1, Sarah Ellison2 and Bjartmar Sveinbjornsson1, (1)University of Alaska Anchorage, Anchorage, AK, United States, (2)USDA Forest Service, Pacific Northwest Research Station, Anchorage, AK, United States
 
GC23E-0675
Physiological limitation at alpine treeline: relationships of threshold responses of conifers to their establishment patterns (30914)
Matthew J Germino1, Brynne Lazarus1, Cristina Castanha2, Andrew B Moyes3 and Lara M Kueppers4, (1)US Geological Survey, Forest and Rangeland Ecosystem Science Center, Boise, ID, United States, (2)Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Climate and Ecosystem Sciences Division, Berkeley, United States, (3)University of California Merced, Merced, United States, (4)Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Earth and Environmental Sciences, Berkeley, United States
 
GC23E-0676
Morphological and Physiological Compensation Promote Climate-Induced Invasions Above and below Treeline (9882)
Daniel Edward Winkler, University of California Irvine, Irvine, CA, United States, Travis E Huxman, University of California, Irvine, Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, Irvine, United States and Gaku Kudo, Hokkaido University, Sapporo, Japan
 
GC23E-0677
Can nutrient limitations explain low and declining white spruce growth near the Arctic treeline in the eastern Brooks Range, Alaska? (15357)
Sarah Ellison, USDA Forest Service, Pacific Northwest Research Station, Anchorage, AK, United States and Patrick Sullivan, University of Alaska Anchorage, Environment and Natural Resources Institute, Anchorage, AK, United States
 
GC23E-0678
Evolutionary History Underlies Plant Physiological Responses to Global Change Since the Last Glacial Maximum (30021)
Katie M. Becklin1, Juliana S Medeiros2, Kayla R. Sale3 and Joy K. Ward3, (1)Syracuse University, Syracuse, NY, United States, (2)Holden Arboretum, Kirtland, OH, United States, (3)University of Kansas, Lawrence, KS, United States
 
GC23E-0679
Can Treeline Shift in Tropical Africa be Used As Proxy to Study Climate Change? (10167)
Miro Jacob1, Amaury Frankl2, Maaike De Ridder3, Etefa Guyassa4, Hans Beeckman3 and Jan Nyssen2, (1)Ghent University, Ghent, Belgium, (2)Ghent University, Department of Geography, Ghent, Belgium, (3)The Royal Museum for Central Africa, Laboratory for Wood Biology and Xylarium, Brussels, Belgium, (4)Mekelle University, Land Resources Management and Environmental Protection, Mekelle, Ethiopia
 
GC23E-0681
Recruitment Patterns and Mature-Tree Growth Response of High-Elevation Pines to Climatic Variability, 1883-2013, Western Great Basin, USA (10235)
Connie Millar1, Robert D Westfall1 and Diane Delany2, (1)USDA Forest Service, PSW Research Station, Vallejo, CA, United States, (2)USDA Forest Service, Pacific Southwest Research Station, Albany, CA, United States
 
GC23E-0682
Effect of Shrub Cover on Spruce Seedling Establishment at and Above Alpine Treeline in the Alaska Range (11055)
Galen Fastie, Vermont Commons School, South Burlington, VT, United States and Andrea H Lloyd, Middlebury College, Middlebury, VT, United States
 
GC23E-0683
Effect of soil quality on determining the timberline at the Pico de Orizaba volcano (17808)
Paola Molina Sevilla1, Rafael Navarro-Gonzalez1, Christopher P McKay2, Pablo Martinez-Sosa3 and Laura Esquivel-Hernandez3, (1)Universidad Nacional Autonoma de Mexico, Instituto de Ciencias Nucleares, Mexico City, DF, Mexico, (2)NASA Ames Research Center, Moffett Field, CA, United States, (3)Universidad Nacional Autonoma de Mexico, Mexico City, Mexico
 
GC23E-0684
Modeling effects of climate change on spruce-fir forest ecosystems: Changes in the montane ecotone between boreal and temperate forests in the Green Mountains, U.S.A, from forest edge detection in Landsat TM imagery,1989 to 2011 (31307)
Jane R Foster, University of Vermont, Rubenstein School of Environment and Natural Resources, Burlington, United States and Anthony W D'Amato, University of Minnesota Twin Cities, Minneapolis, MN, United States
 
GC23E-0685
The Response of Vegetation Zonation in Rocky Mountain Ecotones to Climate Change (7943)
Adrianna Foster, University of Virginia Main Campus, Charlottesville, United States, Jacquelyn K Shuman, PhD, University of Virginia, Charlottesville, United States and Herman Henry Shugart, University of Virginia Main Campus, Charlottesville, VA, United States
 
GC23E-0686
Elevation, Substrate, & Climate effects on Alpine & Sub-Alpine Plant Distribution in California & Nevada's High Mountains: Preliminary Data from the California and Nevada GLORIA Project (32071)
Adelia Barber, Organization Not Listed, Washington, DC, United States and Connie Millar, USDA Forest Service, Pacific Southwest Research Station, Albany, CA, United States
 
GC23E-0687
Climate Change Effects on Treeline Communty Dynamics in Basin and Range Mountains (20093)
Brian Smithers, University of California Davis, Davis, CA, United States, Connie Millar, USDA Forest Service, PSW Research Station, Vallejo, CA, United States and Malcolm North, USDA Forest Service, Davis, CA, United States
 
GC23E-0688
Neighborhood functions alter unbalanced facilitation on a stress gradient in an alpine treeline simulation (15954)
George P Malanson, National Science Foundation, Div Environmental Biology, Arlington, VA, United States and Lynn M Resler, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, Geography, Blacksburg, VA, United States
 
GC23E-0689
The Interface Between Snowfields and Treeline at Glacier National Park, Montana (17443)
Martha E Apple1, Macy Kara Ricketts2, Lindsay G Carlson2 and Nicky Ouellet3, (1)Montana Technological University, Biological Sciences, Butte, MT, United States, (2)Montana Tech, Butte, MT, United States, (3)University of Montana, Environmental Journalism, Missoula, MT, United States
 
GC23E-0691
Interactions of climate and regional landscape physiography on high elevation forest growth (16994)
Kathy Kelsey1, Nichole N Barger1 and Jason Caufield Neff2, (1)University of Colorado, Boulder, CO, United States, (2)University of Colorado at Boulder, Sustainability Innovation Lab at Colorado, Boulder, CO, United States
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