Chairs: Stephanie Pau, Florida State University, Geography, Tallahassee, FL, United States, David L. Fox, University of Minnesota Twin Cities, Minneapolis, MN, United States, Christopher J Still, Oregon State University, Forest Ecosystems and Society, Corvallis, OR, United States and Caroline A E Strömberg, University of Washington Seattle Campus, Department of Biology and Burke Museum, Seattle, WA, United States
Primary Convener: Stephanie Pau, Florida State University, Geography, Tallahassee, FL, United States
Co-conveners: Christopher J Still, Oregon State University, Forest Ecosystems and Society, Corvallis, OR, United States, David L. Fox, University of Minnesota Twin Cities, Earth and Environmental Sciences, Minneapolis, United States and Caroline A E Strömberg, University of Washington, Biology & Burke Museum of Natural History & Culture, Seattle, United States
OSPA Liaison: Stephanie Pau, Florida State University, Geography, Tallahassee, FL, United States
Using vegetation model-to-data comparisons to test the role of abiotic factors in the Neogene and Quaternary origins of modern C4 grasslands (24741)
David L. Fox, University of Minnesota Twin Cities, Minneapolis, MN, United States, Caroline A E Strömberg, University of Washington, Biology & Burke Museum of Natural History & Culture, Seattle, United States, Stephanie Pau, Florida State University, Geography, Tallahassee, FL, United States, Lyla Taylor, Leverhulme Centre for Climate Change Mitigation, School of Biosciences, Sheffield, United Kingdom, Caroline Lehmann, University of Edinburgh, School of GeoScienes, Edinburgh, United Kingdom, Colin Osborne, University of Sheffield, Animal and Plant Sciences, Sheffield, United Kingdom, David John Beerling, University of Sheffield, Leverhulme Centre for Climate Change Mitigation; School of Biosciences, Sheffield, S10, United Kingdom, Christopher J Still, Oregon State University, Forest Ecosystems and Society, Corvallis, OR, United States and C4 Grasslands Working Group
Elevation-induced climate change as a dominant factor causing the late Miocene C4 plant expansion in the Himalayan foreland (14331)
Haibin Wu1, Zhengtang Guo1, Joel Guiot2, Christine Hatte3, Changhui Peng4, Yanyan Yu5, Junyi Ge1, Qin Li1, Dr. Aizhi Sun1 and Deai Zhao1, (1)Key Laboratory of Cenozoic Geology and Environment, Institute of Geology and Geophysics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China, (2)CEREGE, Aix-en-Provence Cedex, France, (3)LSCE Laboratoire des Sciences du Climat et de l'Environnement, Gif-Sur-Yvette Cedex, France, (4)University of Quebec at Montreal UQAM, Department of Biology Sciences, Montreal, QC, Canada, (5)Institute of Geology and Geophysics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China
Spatiotemporal variation in C4-grass abundance during the early to middle Miocene in Spain (28880)
Michael Allen Urban1, Michael Urban2, David M Nelson3, Gonzalo Jimenez-Moreno4 and Fengsheng Hu2, (1)University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign, Urbana, IL, United States, (2)University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign, Program in Ecology, Evolution and Conservation Biology, Urbana, IL, United States, (3)University of Maryland Center for Environmental Science Appalachian Laboratory, Frostburg, MD, United States, (4)Universidad de Granada, Granada, Spain
Reconstructing Vegetation and Hydrological Changes from Biomarkers in Modern Soils and Late Neogene Paleosols, Meade Basin, KS, USA (24618)
Brenden Fischer-Femal, University of Puget Sound, Tacoma, WA, United States, Kevin T Uno, Lamont -Doherty Earth Observatory, Biology and Paleo Environment, Palisades, NY, United States, Pratigya J Polissar, Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory, Palisades, United States, Kena Fox-Dobbs, University of Puget Sound, Geology Department, Tacoma, WA, United States, Joshua M Feinberg, University of Minnesota Twin Cities, Institute for Rock Magnetism, Department of Earth & Environmental Sciences, Minneapolis, United States, David L. Fox, University of Minnesota Twin Cities, Minneapolis, MN, United States, Kathryn E Snell, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, CA, United States and Robert Martin, Murray State University, Murray, KY, United States
A Plio-Pleistocene molecular isotopic record of Turkana Basin vegetation (29482)
Kevin T Uno1, Pratigya J Polissar2, Raymonde Bonnefille3, Christopher J Lepre4,5 and Peter B deMenocal2,6, (1)Lamont -Doherty Earth Observatory, Biology and Paleo Environment, Palisades, NY, United States, (2)Lamont -Doherty Earth Observatory, Palisades, NY, United States, (3)CEREGE, Aix-en-Provence Cedex, France, (4)Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory, Paleomagnetics Lab, Palisades, NY, United States, (5)Lamont -Doherty Earth Observatory, Paleomagnetics Lab, Palisades, NY, United States, (6)Columbia University, New York, NY, United States
