Name: Northern Plant Ecology
Start: 2015-05-24T08:30:00-0600
End: 2015-05-24T10:00:00-0600

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Northern Plant Ecology

8:30 - Lee C and Whitton J. Patterns of Niche Evolution and Speciation in Townsendia
8:45 - Mamet SD, Singh KK, Chun KP, Brown CD, Bernard J, and Johnstone JF. A sensitive slope at treeline: Do substrate and environmental characteristics determine tree sensitivity to climate?
9:00 - Hardy S and Siciliano S. Survival of the Salix: Fertility of Frost Boils in a Polar Desert
9:15 - Jean M, Melvin AM, Mack MC, and Johnstone JF. 'Room to breathe: Impacts of environment and leaf litter on moss growth and N-fixation
9:30 - Kambo D and Danby R. Seed availability and substrate influence on germination rates of white spruce in a boreal-tundra ecotone
9:45 - Pounden E and Greene DF. Timing of bud differentiation in Pinaceae species

Moderators

Steven Mamet

Postdoctoral Fellow, University of Saskatchewan

I focus my research on range limits of tree species at northern tree lines, and how climate and environmental change shape tree line dynamics. I thoroughly enjoy the outdoors and wearing plaid—boreal fieldwork allows me to indulge both my passions.

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