PP14A:
A Living Planet: Biotic Responses to Past Changes in Earth's Climate and Geology III

Monday, 15 December 2014: 4:00 PM-6:00 PM
Chairs:  Elizabeth C Sibert, University of California San Diego, Scripps Institution of Oceanography, La Jolla, CA, United States and Paul A Baker, Duke University, Durham, NC, United States
Primary Conveners:  Elizabeth C Sibert, Scripps Institution of Oceanography, La Jolla, CA, United States
Co-conveners:  Richard D Norris, Scripps Institution of Oceanography, La Jolla, CA, United States, Paul A Baker, Duke University, Durham, NC, United States and Sherilyn C Fritz, University of Nebraska - Lincoln, Earth and Atmospheric Sciences, Lincoln, NE, United States
OSPA Liaisons:  Sherilyn C Fritz, University of Nebraska - Lincoln, Earth and Atmospheric Sciences, Lincoln, NE, United States

Abstracts Submitted to this Session:

4:00 PM
 
Influence of climate change and marine chemistry on ecological shifts following the Triassic/Jurassic mass extinction
Kathleen A Ritterbush1, A. Joshua West2, William Berelson2, Silvia Rosas3, David J Bottjer2, Joyce Ann Yager2 and Frank A Corsetti2, (1)University of Chicago, Chicago, IL, United States, (2)University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA, United States, (3)Pontifical Catholic University of Peru, Mining Engineering, Lima, Peru
4:15 PM
 
Succes of foraminiferal calcification mechanisms depend on ocean chemistry
Inge van Dijk1, Lennart Jan de Nooijer1, Malcolm Hart2 and Gert-Jan Reichart1,3, (1)NIOZ Royal Netherlands Institute for Sea Research, Geology and Chemical Oceanography, 1790AB, Den Burg, Texel, Netherlands, (2)Plymouth University, Earth & Environmental Sciences, Plymouth, United Kingdom, (3)Department of Earth Sciences, Faculty of Geosciences, Utrecht University. Budapestlaan 4, 3584CD, Utrecht, Netherlands
4:30 PM
 
Lead and Lags of Lake System Responses to Late Allerød and Early Younger Dryas Climatic Fluctuation – an Example from Varved Lake Sediments from Northern Poland (Central Europe)
Michal M. Slowinski1,2, Izabela Zawiska3, Florian Ott1, Agnieszka M. Noryśkiewicz4, Birgit Plessen1, Karina Apolinarska5, Monika Lutyńska6, Danuta J. Michczynska7, Sabine Wulf1, Piotr Skubała8, Mirosław Błaszkiewicz2 and Achim Brauer1, (1)Helmholtz Centre Potsdam GFZ German Research Centre for Geosciences, Section 5.2: Climate Dynamics and Landscape Evolution, Potsdam, Germany, (2)Institute of Geography and Spatial Organization, Polish Academy of Sciences,, Department of Environmental Resources and Geohazards, Torun, Poland, (3)Institute of Geography and Spatial Organization, Polish Academy of Sciences, Department of Geoecology and Climatology, Warsaw, Poland, (4)Nicholas Copernicus University, Institute of Archaeology, Torun, Poland, (5)Adam Mickiewicz University, Institute of Geology, Poznań, Poland, (6)Adam Mickiewicz University, Department of Geology and Quaternary Paleogeography, Poznań, Poland, (7)CSE Silesian University of Technology, Department of Radioisotopes Institute of Physics, Gliwice, Poland, (8)University of Silesia, Department of Ecology, Katowice, Poland
4:45 PM
 
Recognizing Andean Uplift and the Growth of Continuous Topographic Barriers
Brian K Horton, University of Texas at Austin, Department of Geological Sciences and Institute for Geophysics, Austin, TX, United States
5:00 PM
 
Investigating Processes of Neotropical Rain Forest Tree Diversification By Examining the Evolution and Historical Biogeography of the Protieae (BURSERACEAE)
Paul Fine, University of California Berkeley, Berkeley, CA, United States, Felipe Zapata, Brown University, Providence, RI, United States and Douglas Daly, New York Botanical Garden, Bronx, NY, United States
5:15 PM
 
Biogeographic, molecular evolution, and diversification patterns in Neotropical plants
Stephen Andrew Smith, University of Michigan Ann Arbor, Ann Arbor, MI, United States and Christopher W Dick, University of Michigan Ann Arbor, Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, Ann Arbor, MI, United States
5:30 PM
 
Environmental Controls on Space-Time Biodiversity Patterns in the Amazon
Amilcare M Porporato1, Sara Bonetti2 and Xue Feng2, (1)Duke Univ, Durham, NC, United States, (2)Duke University, Durham, NC, United States
5:45 PM
 
Impact of Miocene Tectonics on Global and Neotropical Climate: A Modelling Approach
Pierre Sepulchre, CNRS, Paris Cedex 16, France; LSCE Laboratoire des Sciences du Climat et de l'Environnement, Gif-Sur-Yvette Cedex, France, Carlos Jaramillo, Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute, Balboa, Panama and Alain Franc, INRA, BioGeCo, Bordeaux, France