COS 267 - Communities: Paleoecology And Long-Term Dynamics

Presentations:

• 3:30 PM – 3:45 PM EDT

  Reconstructing trophic palaeoecology & niche partitioning in Cretaceous coastal plain ecosystems using biogeochemical proxies
  

  Presenting Author: Thomas M. Cullen, n/a – Department of Earth Sciences, Carleton University

  Coauthor: Shuangquan Zhang – Department of Earth Sciences, Carleton University

  Coauthor: Hillary Maddin – Department of Earth Sciences, Carleton University

  Coauthor: Brian Cousens – Department of Earth Sciences, Carleton University
• 3:45 PM – 4:00 PM EDT

  Dark waters of SGang Gwaay: limnological changes uncover a history of avian activity, invasive species, human settlement, and climate change over millennia
  

  Presenting Author: Alexandra Catalina Zvezdin – Memorial University of Newfoundland

  Coauthor: Inmaculada Álvarez-Manzaneda – Queen's University

  Coauthor: Neal Michelutti – Queen's University

  Coauthor: Nadine Wilson – Parks Canada

  Coauthor: Mark Hipfner – Environment and Climate Change Canada

  Coauthor: Christopher Grooms – Queen's University

  Coauthor: John smol – Queen's University

  Coauthor: Kathryn Hargan – Memorial University of Newfoundland
• 4:00 PM – 4:15 PM EDT

  CANCELLED - Holocene population expansion of a tropical bee coincides with early human colonization of Fiji rather than climate change
  

  Presenting Author: James B. Dorey – Yale University

  Coauthor: Scott V. Groom – PERSA

  Coauthor: Alejandro Velasco-Castrillón – Molecular & Environmental Sciences, insect taxonomy and biosecurity

  Coauthor: Mark I Stevens – South Austraian Museum

  Coauthor: Michael SY Lee – Flinders University

  Coauthor: Michael P Schwarz – Flinders University
• 4:15 PM – 4:30 PM EDT

  A paleolimnological reconstruction of Eastern Spruce Budworm (Choristoneura fumiferana) outbreak dynamics and vegetation changes in Newfoundland
  

  Presenting Author: Courtney White – Memorial University of Newfoundland

  Coauthor: Les Cwynar – University of New Brunswick

  Coauthor: Shawn J. Leroux – Memorial University of Newfoundland

  Coauthor: Amy Hurford – Memorial University of Newfoundland

  Coauthor: Bo Zhang – Memorial University of Newfoundland

  Coauthor: Joseph Bowden – Natural Resources Canada

  Coauthor: Eric Moise – Natural Resources Canada

  Coauthor: Kathryn Hargan – Memorial University of Newfoundland
• 4:30 PM – 4:45 PM EDT

  Tracking population dynamics of the Northern gannet (Morus bassannus) nesting colony in Cape St Mary’s Ecological Reserve, Newfoundland, within a ~140-year sedimentary record
  

  Presenting Author: Johanna-Lisa Bosch – Memorial University of Newfoundland - St Johns, NL

  Coauthor: Inmaculada Álvarez-Manzaneda – Queen's University

  Coauthor: John smol – Queen's University

  Coauthor: Neal Michelutti – Queen's University

  Coauthor: Greg Robertson – Environment and Climate Change Canada

  Coauthor: Andrew Lang – Memorial University of Newfoundland

  Coauthor: Kathryn Hargan – Memorial University of Newfoundland
• 4:45 PM – 5:00 PM EDT

  High peat carbon stocks across a hydrological gradient in a cedar swamp in the Lake Simcoe watershed, southern Ontario, Canada
  

  Presenting Author: Cathal Doherty – University of Toronto

  Coauthor: Florin Pendea – Lakehead University

  Coauthor: Sarah A. Finkelstein – University of Toronto