Chairs: Stephanie Pau, Florida State University, Tallahassee, FL, United States, David L. Fox, University of Minnesota Twin Cities, Minneapolis, MN, United States, Christopher J Still, Oregon State University, 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 Conveners: Stephanie Pau, Florida State University, Tallahassee, FL, United States
Co-conveners: Christopher J Still, Oregon State University, Corvallis, OR, United States, David L. Fox, University of Minnesota, Earth Sciences, Minneapolis, MN, United States and Caroline Strömberg, University of Washington, Biology & Burke Museum of Natural History & Culture, Seattle, United States
OSPA Liaisons: Stephanie Pau, Florida State University, 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
David L. Fox1, Caroline Strömberg2, Stephanie Pau3, Lyla Taylor4, Caroline Lehmann5, Colin Osborne4, David John Beerling6 and Christopher J Still7, (1)University of Minnesota Twin Cities, Minneapolis, MN, United States, (2)University of Washington, Biology & Burke Museum of Natural History & Culture, Seattle, United States, (3)Florida State University, Tallahassee, FL, United States, (4)University of Sheffield, Sheffield, United Kingdom, (5)University of Edinburgh, School of GeoScienes, Edinburgh, United Kingdom, (6)University of Sheffield, Sheffield, S10, United Kingdom, (7)Oregon State University, Corvallis, OR, United States
Elevation-induced climate change as a dominant factor causing the late Miocene C4 plant expansion in the Himalayan foreland
Haibin Wu1, Zhengtang Guo1, Joel Guiot2, Christine Hatte3, Changhui Peng4, Yanyan Yu1, Junyi Ge1, Qin Li1, 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, Montreal, QC, Canada
Spatiotemporal variation in C4-grass abundance during the early to middle Miocene in Spain
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)Appalachian Laboratory, University of Maryland Center for Environmental Science, 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
Brenden Fischer-Femal1, Kevin T Uno2, Pratigya J Polissar3, Kena Fox-Dobbs1, Joshua M Feinberg4, David L. Fox5, Kathryn E Snell6 and Robert Martin7, (1)University of Puget Sound, Tacoma, WA, United States, (2)Lamont -Doherty Earth Observatory, Palisades, NY, United States, (3)Lamont-Doherty Earth Observato, Nyack, NY, United States, (4)University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN, United States, (5)University of Minnesota Twin Cities, Minneapolis, MN, United States, (6)California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, CA, United States, (7)Murray State University, Murray, KY, United States
A Plio-Pleistocene molecular isotopic record of Turkana Basin vegetation
Kevin T Uno1, Pratigya J Polissar1, Raymonde Bonnefille2, Christopher J Lepre1,3 and Peter B deMenocal1,4, (1)Lamont -Doherty Earth Observatory, Palisades, NY, United States, (2)CEREGE, Aix-en-Provence Cedex, France, (3)Rutgers University New Brunswick, Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences, New Brunswick, NJ, United States, (4)Columbia University of New York, Dept. of Earth and Environmental Science, Palisades, NY, United States
