Abstracts for Symposim -image -first pageQuite a line-up! This August in San Juan. Schedule below, and details on their website, as are the abstracts:

DAY I:  August 1, 2013

8:30 Ray Huey        Opening remarks

9:00 Ariel Lugo      Climate change or land cover change? Which is driving some lizards to the lowlands?

9:30 Jennifer Sunday   Global patterns of thermal tolerance and range limits in ectotherms

10:00 Barry Sinervo   On the risk of extinction of tropical ectotherms: Are they buffered against climate?

10:30 Coffee Break

11:00 Elvira Cuevas   Update of climate change in the Caribbean, and projections on soil nutrient cycling and interactions

11:30 Omar Gutierrez    Significant diurnal and seasonal variation in soil CO2 efflux is positively related to temperature in a moist subtropical forest in Puerto Rico

12:00 Lauren Buckley   Thermal specialization of ecotherms on tropical mountains

12:30 Michael Kearney   The thermodynamic niches of tropical ectotherms

1:00 Lunch Break

2:30 Mike Kaspari    Life in the boundary zone–the thermal ecology of small cursorial insects

3:00 Patricia Burrowes     Climate change efects on Caribbean seasonality and its implications on an ectotherm host-pathogen dynamics

3:30 Carlos Navas    Vulnerability of anuran amphibians to climate change: inferring the impact of water availability and temperature

4:00 Ana C. Carnaval   Integrating data sets to validate models of biological response to former climate change in the Brazilian Atlantic forest

4:30 Coffee Break

5:00 Mridul Thomas   The effects of ocean warming on marine phytoplankton diversity

5:30 Brad Lister     Long-term declines in arthropod abundance restructure a rainforest food web

DAY II: August 2, 2013

8:30 Martha M. Muñoz   Evolutionary stasis and lability in thermal physiology in a group of tropical lizards

9:00 Luisa Otero     Effects of recent climate warming on the reproductive phenology of Puerto Rican Anolis lizards

9:30 Alexander Gunderson   Behavioral responses to thermal variation: implications for predicting the biological impacts of climate change

10:00 Michael L. Logan Population level differences in thermal ecology suggest resilience to warming among Honduran Anolis lizards

10:30 Ignacio de la Riva    Thermal ecology of Bolivian lizards of the genus Liolaemus: Will climate warming drive them to extinction?

11:00 Mat Vickers     Sunshine, on a cloudy day

11:30 Michael Angilletta    Symposium highlights

12:00 Leave for Field Trip to El Verde

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