Instructions for Submitting Contributed Talk or Poster Abstracts

Deadline for abstracts: Friday, July 22, 2016
Follow format below and send abstracts by email to: abstracts@mtnclim.org

We invite all participants to MtnClim 2016 to submit abstracts for oral or poster presentations that are relevant to western North American mountain regions, and address CIRMOUNT science, management, or policy themes.

Review this years' Agenda and Themes, and indicate your preference for talk or poster. As the number of oral slots (20-minutes each) is limited, the program committee will select oral presentations from those who indicate that preference. As there likely will not be enough time, however, for all who wish to give talks, the remaining can be given as posters, if desired.

Posters will be displayed the duration of the conference. On the evening of October 18 there will be a dedicated session for discussion with poster authors. Posters should be no wider than 48 inches.

By July 22, 2016, submit abstracts electronically as an MS Word document. Name your file LastName.docx (e.g., Millar.docx). Follow the example format below, limiting word count to 300, using Arial script with font size 10. Send electronically to the organizers at: abstracts@mtnclim.org.

We will print abstracts in the conference program and also post them on the MtnClim website prior to the meeting. After the conference, we will post PDF copies of contributed and invited talks and posters of all authors who wish to submit their presentations. For questions about abstracts, email the organizers, abstracts@mtnclim.org.

We will have a PC laptop and computer projector available. If you need additional equipment, please note it with your submission and confirm with us.

SAMPLE ABSTRACT FORMAT:

PREFERENCE: Poster or Talk [indicate one]

RESPONSES OF HIGH-ELEVATION SIERRAN AND GREAT BASIN PINES TO LATE HOLOCENE DECADAL- AND CENTURY-SCALE CLIMATE VARIABILITY

Millar, Constance I. (1), Westfall, Robert D. (1), Delany, Diane L. (1), King, John C. (2), and Alden, Harry (3)
(1) USDA Forest Service, PSW Research Station, Albany, CA 94701, (2) Lone Pine Research, Bozeman, MT 59715, (3) The Smithsonian Institution, Suitland, MD 20746

We present results from a series of ongoing studies of high-elevation pine ecosystems in the eastern Sierra Nevada and western Great Basin ranges that demonstrate forest response to past climate changes at decadal- and century scales. Using standard tree-ring and ecological analysis methods, we document 20th century growth responses in krummholz Pinus albicaulis at treeline and invasion of meadows and formerly persistent snowfields by P. albicaulis, P. contorta, and P. monticola that correlate with climate. Responses range from progressive trends throughout the century to episodic and reversible responses that appear triggered by threshold conditions. These responses correlate complexly with decadal trends in minimum temperature, PDO indices, and precipitation. Century- to millennial-scale growth variability of P. flexilis forests over the past 3500 years correlates with major temperature and precipitation patterns derived from various proxies. Repeating extirpation and recolonization events at the watershed scale in P. flexilis correlate with Neoglacial, Medieval, Little Ice Age, and 20th century periods, with periods of extirpation during extended droughts. Implications of climate variability to vegetation dynamics have not been integrated into conservation analysis and planning, and as a result, misdiagnoses of ecological condition and misapplication of management treatments have occurred.