| Order | Date/Time | Title | Section | Type | Authors | Keywords |
Wednesday, August 17th
8:00 am to 12:00 pm · Salon K - Austin Grand Ballroom/Hilton
Session 41: Symposium: Biology of Dryland Plants, Part I
Presiding: Frank W. Ewers, Michigan State University |
| 1 | August 17th
8:00 am | Introduction to the biology of dryland plants
Log in to add this item to your schedule | Biology of Dryland Plants | Symposium | Ewers, Frank W., Lopez-Portillo, Jorge. | aridlands
water stress
water resources
dryland plants
deserts
chaparral
water use
ecophysiology
plant structure and function |
| 2 | August 17th
8:15 am | Roots of Dryland Plants: Where and How Water Uptake Occurs
Log in to add this item to your schedule | Biology of Dryland Plants | Symposium | North, Gretchen. | Agavaceae
Chaparral shrub
hydraulic conductance |
| 3 | August 17th
8:30 am | Structure and function of the deep roots of woody species on the Edwards Plateau, Texas, USA.
Log in to add this item to your schedule | Biology of Dryland Plants | Symposium | Pockman, William, McElrone, Andrew, Jackson, Robert. | water relations
rooting depth
Hydraulic redistribution
hydraulic conductance
Sap flow |
| August 17th
8:45 am | Discussion
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| 4 | August 17th
9:00 am | Anatomy of stem-succulent dryland plants
Log in to add this item to your schedule | Biology of Dryland Plants | Symposium | Mauseth, James D.. | cactus
xeric
anatomy
meristems
vessel refilling |
| 5 | August 17th
9:15 am | Pereskia water relations reflect deep ecophysiological conservatism in Cactaceae
Log in to add this item to your schedule | Biology of Dryland Plants | Symposium | Edwards, Erika. | Pereskia
Cactaceae
xylem hydraulic conductivity
physiological evolution
Phylogeny
water relations |
| August 17th
9:30 am | Discussion
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| August 17th
9:45 am | Break
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| 6 | August 17th
10:15 am | Dryland root ecology
Log in to add this item to your schedule | Biology of Dryland Plants | Symposium | Schenk, H. Jochen. | root ecology
rooting depth
soil infiltration
hydraulic segmentation
dryland plants
plant growth forms |
| 7 | August 17th
10:30 am | Mycorrhizal dynamics with global change in arid ecosystems
Log in to add this item to your schedule | Biology of Dryland Plants | Symposium | Haskins, Kristin. | global climate change
mycorrhizas
arid environments
tree mortality
drought |
| 8 | August 17th
10:45 am | The use of stable isotopes to investigate dynamics of dryland communities and ecosystems
Log in to add this item to your schedule | Biology of Dryland Plants | Symposium | Williams, David. | stable isotopes
ecosystem dynamics
precipitation variability |
| August 17th
11:00 am | Discussion
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| 9 | August 17th
11:15 am | Ecophysiology of Chaparral: California's Dryland Shrub Community
Log in to add this item to your schedule | Biology of Dryland Plants | Symposium | Davis, Stephen D.. | chaparral
water stress
wildfire
freezing
cavitation |
| 10 | August 17th
11:30 am | Xylem ecophysiology in the drylands
Log in to add this item to your schedule | Biology of Dryland Plants | Symposium | Hacke, Uwe G., Sperry, John S.. | water transport
drought resistance
xylem cavitation
transport efficiency
pits |
| August 17th
11:45 am | Discussion
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