PP11A:
A Living Planet: Biotic Responses to Past Changes in Earth's Climate and Geology I Posters

Monday, 15 December 2014: 8:00 AM-12:20 PM
Chairs:  Sherilyn C Fritz, University of Nebraska - Lincoln, Earth and Atmospheric Sciences, Lincoln, NE, United States and Elizabeth C Sibert, University of California San Diego, Scripps Institution of Oceanography, La Jolla, CA, 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:  Richard D Norris, University of California San Diego, Scripps Institution of Oceanography, La Jolla, CA, United States

Abstracts Submitted to this Session:

 
Betula Pollen Influx as an Indicator of Holocene Climate Change in Northwest Iceland
Sigrún Dögg Eddudóttir1, Egill Erlendsson1,2 and Guðrún Gísladóttir1,2, (1)University of Iceland, Institute of Life and Environmental Sciences, Reykjavik, Iceland, (2)University of Iceland, Institute of Earth Sciences, Reykjavik, Iceland
 
Climate and abrupt vegetation change in Northern Europe during the Lateglacial and Holocene.
Alistair William Robin Seddon1, Marc Macias-Fauria2 and Kathy Jane Willis1,2, (1)University of Bergen, Bergen, Norway, (2)University of Oxford, Oxford, United Kingdom
 
Identifying and Interpreting the Imprint of the Little Ice Age over the Balkan Landscape: A Combined Palynological and Geochemical Approach
Charuta Kulkarni, CUNY Graduate School and University Center, Earth and Environmental Sciences, New York, NY, United States, Dorothy M Peteet, NASA Goddard Institute for Space Studies, New York, NY, United States; Columbia University of New York, Palisades, NY, United States and Rebecca A Boger, CUNY Brooklyn College, Brooklyn, NY, United States
 
An 8000-yr Record of Vegetation and Sedimentation Change from Kaau Crater, Hawaii Shows Mid-Holocene Climate Variability in the Pacific
Olivia Schubert and Dave Beilman, University of Hawaii at Manoa, Department of Geography, Honolulu, HI, United States
 
Macrofossil and Leaf Wax Biomarkers Reveal Vegetational and Climate History of Tamarack Pond, Black Rock Forest, Southeastern New York
Mio Alt, Columbia University of New York, Palisades, NY, United States, Dorothy M Peteet, Goddard Inst Space Studies, New York, NY, United States and Jonathan E Nichols, Lamont -Doherty Earth Observatory, Palisades, NY, United States
 
Reconstruction of full glacial environments and summer air temperatures from Lago della Costa, a refugial site in northeastern Italy.
Stephanie Veronica Samartin, Oliver Heiri, Petra Boltshauser-Kaltenrieder and Willy Tinner, University of Bern, Bern, Switzerland
 
Alder Expansion as a Coastal Warming Signal – Linking Coastal Alaskan Carbon to Vegetation Change with Climate
Dorothy M Peteet1, Jonathan E Nichols2, Christopher M Moy3 and Alicia McGeachy1, (1)Goddard Inst Space Studies, New York, NY, United States, (2)LDEO-Biology & Paleoenvironment, Palisades, NY, United States, (3)University of Otago, Dunedin, New Zealand
 
Diverse Responses of Global Vegetation to Climate Changes: Spatial Patterns and Time-lag Effects
Donghai Wu1, Xiang Zhao1, Tao Zhou2, Kaicheng Huang2 and Wenfang Xu2, (1)BNU Beijing Normal University, College of Global Change and Earth System Science, Beijing, China, (2)BNU Beijing Normal University, State Key Laboratory of Earth Surface Processes and Resource Ecology, Beijing, China
 
Molluscan and Foraminiferan Paleoecological Reconstructions of Extreme Post-Glacial Seafloor Environments of the California Borderland
Sarah E Moffitt1,2, Tessa M Hill1,2, Kristy Kroeker1,3, Peter D Roopnarine4 and James Kennett5, (1)University of California Davis, Davis, CA, United States, (2)Bodega Marine Lab, Sebastopol, CA, United States, (3)University of California Santa Cruz, Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, Santa Cruz, CA, United States, (4)California Academy of Sciences, San Francisco, CA, United States, (5)Univ of California, Santa Barbara, CA, United States
 
Adding a New Dimension to the Study of Calcareous Plankton Response to Ocean Acidification
Rosie L Oakes1, Jeffrey M Urbanski2 and Timothy J Bralower1, (1)Pennsylvania State University Main Campus, University Park, PA, United States, (2)GE, Measurement & Control, Lewistown, PA, United States
 
Influence of Past Changes in Atmospheric CO2 on Boron/Calcium of Planktic Fossil Foraminifera
Robert Andrew Domeyko, George Mason University Fairfax, College of Sciences, Fairfax, VA, United States, Katherine A Allen, Rutgers University, New Brunswick, NJ, United States; Columbia University, Palisades, NY, United States and Peter B deMenocal, Lamont-Doherty Earth Obs, Palisades, NY, United States
 
Benthic Redox Conditions and Oceanographic Variability in the Upper Central Peruvian Margin since the Nineteenth Century Depicted from Benthic Foraminifera
Jorge Cardich1, Abdelfettah Sifeddine1,2, Renato Salvatecci2, Francisco Javier Briceño Sr1, Carine Almeida1, Dennis Romero3 and Dimitri Gutierrez3, (1)Universidade Federal Fluminense, Niteroi, Brazil, (2)IRD Bondy, Bondy Cedex, France, (3)Peruvian Institute of Marine Research IMARPE, Callao, Peru
 
Using Nitrogen Isotope Records to Constrain Changes to the Global Oceanic Fixed Nitrogen Budget during the Last Glacial Maximum in an Earth System Climate Model
Christopher J Somes1, Andreas Schmittner2 and Andreas Oschlies1, (1)GEOMAR Helmholtz Centre for Ocean Research Kiel, Kiel, Germany, (2)Oregon State University, College of Earth, Ocean, and Atmospheric Sciences, Corvallis, OR, United States
 
Caribbean Reef Response to Plio-Pleistocene Climate Change: Results of the Dominican Republic Drilling Project (DRDP)
James Klaus1, Donald F McNeill1, Viviana Diaz1, Peter K Swart2 and Ali Pourmand1, (1)University of Miami, Miami, FL, United States, (2)University of Miami, Department of Marine Geosciences - RSMAS, Miami, FL, United States
 
Faunal transition of benthic foraminifera at the middle Eocene carbonate accumulation events in the eastern equatorial Pacific Ocean (ODP Site 1218 and IODP Site U1333)
Hiroyuki Takata1, Ritsuo Nomura2, Akira Tsujimoto2 and Boo-Keun Khim1, (1)Pusan National University, Busan, South Korea, (2)Shimane University, Matsue, Japan
 
Temperature-Metabolism Linkage and the Effects on Marine Biota: Evidence Across the Middle Eocene Climatic Optimum in the South-East Atlantic
Flavia Boscolo Galazzo1, Ellen Thomas2, Mark Pagani2, Courtney Warren2, Valeria Luciani3 and Luca Giusberti1, (1)University of Padua, Padua, Italy, (2)Yale University, New Haven, CT, United States, (3)University of Ferrara, Ferrara, Italy
 
Paleolatitudinal Gradients in Marine Phytoplankton Composition and Cell Size
Jorijntje Henderiks1, Manuela Bordiga2, Miloš Bartol2 and Luka Šupraha2, (1)Uppsala University, Department of Earth Sciences, Uppsala, Sweden, (2)Uppsala University, Uppsala, Sweden
 
Pollen and palynofacies analyses of Paleocene-Eocene Thermal Maximum sediments from the North American continental shelf
Debra A Willard1, Marci M Robinson1, Jean M. Self-Trail1, Gregory A Wandless1 and Appy Sluijs2, (1)USGS, Reston, VA, United States, (2)Utrecht University, Utrecht, 3584, Netherlands
 
Carbon Burn-Down in a Greenhouse World: Wildfires and Soil Carbon Loss across the Paleocene-Eocene Thermal Maximum (PETM)
Elizabeth H Denis1, Brady Foreman2, Bianca Maibauer3, Gabriel J Bowen3, Margaret E Collinson4, Claire Belcher5 and Katherine H Freeman1, (1)Pennsylvania State University Main Campus, University Park, PA, United States, (2)University of Minnesota Twin Cities, Minneapolis, MN, United States, (3)University of Utah, Salt Lake City, UT, United States, (4)Royal Holloway University of London, Egham, United Kingdom, (5)University of Exeter, Exeter, United Kingdom
 
Fish production and diversity in the Paleocene-Eocene Thermal Maximum—Increased production but no novel faunas during a “Future Earth” analog
Douglas W Tomczik1, Richard D Norris1 and Daniel E Gaskell2, (1)Scripps Institution of Oceanography, La Jolla, CA, United States, (2)Baylor University, Waco, TX, United States
 
An Early Cenozoic Ichthyolith Record from Demerara Rise (ODP Site 1258: Equatorial Atlantic Ocean)
Raquel M Bryant, Brown University, Providence, RI, United States, Elizabeth C Sibert, University of California San Diego, Scripps Institution of Oceanography, La Jolla, CA, United States and Richard D Norris, Scripps Institution of Oceanography, La Jolla, CA, United States
 
The Dynamic Response of Marine Life to Extreme Temperature and Low Oxygen Events Following the End-Permian Mass Extinction.
Carlie Pietsch and David J Bottjer, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA, United States
 
PAST PLANKTONIC DIVERSITY
Marta Mega Rufino1, Emilia Salgueiro2, Antje H L Voelker1 and Fatima F G Abrantes2, (1)IPMA, Lison, Portugal, (2)Instituto Port Mar e Atmosfera, Lisbon, Portugal
 
Two Years of Plankton Tows in a Seasonal Upwelling Region: Foraminiferal Abundances and Implications for the Fossil Record
Catherine V Davis, University of California Davis, Davis, CA, United States, Tessa M Hill, University California Davis, Davis, CA, United States and Jaime Jahncke, Point Blue Conservation Science, Petaluma, CA, United States
 
Middle Miocene closure of the Central American Seaway
Camilo Montes, Universidad de los Andes, Bogotá, Colombia and Agustin Cardona, Universidad Nacional de Colombia, Facultad de Minas, Medellín, Colombia
 
Ecological Resilience and Resistance in the Hyper Diverse Forests on the Eastern Andean Flank (Mera, Ecuador)
Hayley F Keen1, William D Gosling2,3, Encarni Montoya3, Sarah Sherlock3 and Patricia A Mothes4, (1)Open University, Milton Keynes, MK7, United Kingdom, (2)University of Amsterdam, Institute for Biodiversity and Ecosystem Dynamics, Amsterdam, Netherlands, (3)Open University, Milton Keynes, United Kingdom, (4)Instituto Geofisico, Quito, Ecuador
 
The Impacts of Climate Change on Mauritia Felxuosa and Biodiversity in Neotropical Cerrãdo Savanna Ecosystems
Shira Yoshimi Maezumi1, Mitchell James Power1, Frank Mayle2 and Jose Luis Iriarte3, (1)University of Utah, Salt Lake City, UT, United States, (2)University of Reading, Reading, United Kingdom, (3)University of Exeter, Exeter, United Kingdom