Presenters at the session "Climate change experiments in temperate grasslands"
convened on June 20th and 21st, 2011 in Lyon, France, during the 54th Annual
Symposium of the International Association for Vegetation Science
Introduction: Carlyle, C. N., White, S. R., Fraser, L. H., and J. C. Cahill. “Climate change
experiments in temperate grasslands: Session introduction.”
1) Fraser, L. H, Carlyle, C. N., and R. Turkington. “Interacting effects of climate
change and grazing on grassland plant communities along a natural productivity
gradient.”
2) Cahill, J. C., White, S. R., Bork, E., Attaien, B., Chang, S., Wilson, S.,
Nyanumba, S., Newton, J., and H. Proctor. “Complex responses to altered
warming, water, and defoliation: Results from a field experiment in three northern
grasslands.”
3) Collins, S. L., Thomey, M. L., Xia, Y., Pockman, W. T., and S. Báez. “Rainfall
variability and community dynamics in Chihuahuan desert vegetation.”
4) Knapp, A., Smith, M., Collins, S., and J. Blair. “Grassland ecosystem responses to
experimental manipulations of the precipitation regime.”
5) Smith, M., Hoover, D., and A. Knapp. “Impacts of climate extremes on a mesic
grassland.”
6) Fridley, J., Grime, J. P., Askew, A., Moser, B., and Ravenscroft, C. “The basis of
community resistance to climate change in a limestone grassland, and why it may
not last.”
7) E. Cleland. “Community trait composition and ecosystem feedbacks to global
change: Inter- vs. intra-specific variability and temporal scale.”
8) Knops, J. M. H., Brassil, C. E., and E. K. Miles. “Biodiversity is not at
equilibrium but reflects the ghost of ecological processes past.”
9) Henry, H., Hutchison, J., Kim, M. K., Moise, E., and M. Turner. “Plant and soil
responses to four years of warming and nitrogen addition in a grass-dominated,
northern temperate old field.”
10) Soussana, J., Picon-Cochard, C., Bloor, J., Cantarel, A., Alessio, G., Roy, J., and
S. Lavorel. “Assessing the impacts of climate change, elevated CO2 and extreme
events on mesic and alpine grasslands”.
11) Beierkuhnlein, C., Wellstein, C., Kreyling, J., Astor, T., and A. Jentsch.
“Sensitivity of plant species to climatic extremes during grassland succession.”
12) Jentsch, A., Kreyling, J., Elmer, M., Gellesch, E., Glaser, B., Grant, K., Hein, R.,
Lara, M., Mirzae, H., Nadler, S. E., Nagy, L., Otieno, D., Pritsch K., Rascher, U.,
Schädler, M., Schloter, M., Singh, B. K., Stadler, J., Walter, J. Wellstein, C.,
Wöllecke, J., C. Beierkuhnlein. “Effects of recurrent severe drought on multiple
ecosystem functions in temperature grasslands.”
13) Maalouf, J., Bagousse-Pinguet, Y. L., Marchand, L., Bâchelier, E., Touzard, B.,
and R. Michalet. “Adapting ecosystem conservation management to climate
change: The case of calcareous grasslands subject to simulated drought.”
14) Mariotte, P., Vandenberghe, and A. Buttler. “Subordinate plants species promote
resistance of plant community during summer drought”.
15) Dutoit, T., and H. Frederic. “Discriminating climate changes from land-use
changes to explain the absence of shrub colonization in a Mediterranean steppe.”
16) Casper, B., Liancourt, P., Petraitis, P., Ariuntsetseg, L., Boldgiv, B., Helliker, B.,
and A. Plante. “Flowing in the Mongolian steppe: Effects of topography, year,
and climate manipulation.”
17) Doležal, J., Janeček. S., Lanta, V., de Bello, F., Lepš, J., and J. Klimešová. “A
comparative analysis of water economy-related traits in species-rich seminatural
meadows of Central Europe.” (poster)
18) Mantilla-Contreras, J., Möller, I., Spencer, T., and S. Zerbe. “Influence of climate
and land use changes on low lying Baltic coastal habitats.” (poster)