COS 279 - Communities: Paleoecology And Long-Term Dynamics 1

Presentations:

• 1:30 PM – 1:45 PM PDT

  Patterns and limitations in ontogenetic niche shifts across Swiss tree species
  

  Presenting Author: Rubén D. Manzanedo – ETH Zürich

  Coauthor: Kristiina Visakorpi – Norwegian University of Science and Technology

  Coauthor: Anna Görlich – ETH Zürich

  Coauthor: Katja Schendorfer – ETH Zürich

  Coauthor: Annette Altermatt Bieger – ETH Zürich

  Coauthor: Emily Gates – University of Queensland

  Coauthor: Janneke HilleRisLambers – ETH Zürich
• 1:45 PM – 2:00 PM PDT

  Ecological legacies during the pre- and post-Colonial era in Amazonian forests
  

  Presenting Author: Crystal N.H. McMichael – University of Amsterdam

  Coauthor: Majoi De Novaes Nascimento – Department of Ecosystem and Landscape Dynamics, Institute for Biodiversity and Ecosystem Dynamics, University of Amsterdam

  Coauthor: Teye Aukes – University of Amsterdam

  Coauthor: Mark B. Bush – Florida Institute of Technology

  Coauthor: William Gosling – University of Amsterdam

  Coauthor: Kenneth J. Feeley – University of Miami
• 2:00 PM – 2:15 PM PDT

  Causes of megafaunal extinction on Madagascar: climate or humans?
  

  Presenting Author: Sean Hixon – Max Planck Institute for Geoanthropology
• 2:15 PM – 2:30 PM PDT

  Long-term patterns of tree growth in South Florida
  

  Presenting Author: Manuel Bernal-Escobar – University of Miami

  Coauthor: James H. Speer – Indiana State University

  Coauthor: Lauren Coombs – University of Miami

  Coauthor: Kenneth J. Feeley – University of Miami
• 2:30 PM – 2:45 PM PDT

  An automated method for morphological analysis of leaf cuticle with implications for paleoecology and paleoclimatology
  

  Presenting Author: Benjamin Lloyd – University of Washington

  Coauthor: Richard Barclay – Smithsonian Museum of Natural History

  Coauthor: Surangi Punyasena – University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign

  Coauthor: Regan Dunn – La Brea Tar Pits