8:00 AM Lortie, Christopher^*,1, Brooker, Rob², Choler, Phillipe³, Kikvidze, Zaal⁴, Michalet, Richard⁵, Pugnaire, Francisco⁶, Callaway, Ragan⁶, ¹ University of Montana, Missoula, Montana, USA² Centre for Ecology and Hydrology, Banchory, Banchory, Scotland³ University Joseph Fourier, Grenoble, Grenoble, France⁴ Institute of Botany of the Georgian Academy of Sciences, Tbilisi, Republic of Georgia⁵ Université de Bordeaux, Talence, France⁶ Estacion Experimental de Zonas Aridas, Almeria, Spain Rethinking individualistic theory for communities: An integrative solution.

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8:15 AM Patten, Bernard^*,1, Borrett, Stuart ¹, Whipple, Stuart², Christian, Robert³, Thomas, Cassondra⁴, ¹ Institute of Ecology, Athens, GA² Skidaway Institute of Oceanography, Savannah, GA³ Biology Department, Greenville, NC⁴ Department of Environmental Sciences, Charlottesville, VA Discrete-time dynamic environ analysis of indirect effects in ecological networks: Basic considerations.

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8:30 AM Borrett, Stuart^*,1, ¹ Institute of Ecology, Athens, GA Development of environ indirect effects in ecological flow networks: Initial lessons from the Neuse River Estuary.

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8:45 AM Wright, Justin^*,1, Naeem, Shahid^{1, 2}, ¹ University of Washington, Seattle, WA² Columbia University, New York, NY Does functional biodiversity matter: A null-model analysis of functional diversity ecosystem function relationships.

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9:00 AM Cottingham, Kathryn^*,1, ¹ Dartmouth College, Hanover, NH Is stability theory derived for removal perturbations relevant to a broader class of perturbations?

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9:15 AM Li, Bai-Lian¹, ¹ University of California, Riverside, CA Biological and physical foundations of allometric scaling revisited.

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9:30 AM Break.

9:45 AM He, Fangliang^*,1, ¹ Canadian Forest Service, Victoria, BC, Canada Local-regional diversity relationships: Immigration, extinction and scale.

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10:00 AM Steiner, Christopher^*,1, Leibold, Mathew², ¹ Rutgers University, New Brunswick, NJ, U.S.A.² University of Chicago, Chicago, IL, U.S.A. Community assembly and the generation of scale-dependent productivity-diversity relationships.

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10:15 AM Breshears, David^*,1, West, Geoffrey¹, Brown, James², Allen, Craig³, Enquist, Brian⁴, ¹ Los Alamos National Laboratory, Los Alamos, NM² University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, NM³ US Geological Survey, Midcontinent Ecological Science Center, Los Alamos, NM⁴ University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ Biophysical scaling relationships for tree structure and stand patterns: Extensions to semiarid ecosystems.

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10:30 AM Allen, Craig^*,1, Sendzimir, Jan ², Peterson, Garry³, ¹ South Carolina Cooperative Fish and Wildlife Research Unit, Clemson, South Carolina² International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis, Laxenburg, Austria³ McGill University, Montreal, Quebec Cross-scale structure and resilience in animal communities.

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10:45 AM Dornelas, Maria^*,1, Connolly, Sean¹, Hughes, Terrence¹, ¹ Centre for Coral Reef Biodiversity, Townsville, QLD, AUSTRALIA Indo-Pacific coral reefs and the neutral theory: A multi-scale comparison.

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11:00 AM Debeljak, Marko^*,1, ¹ Nova Gorica Polytechnic, Nova Gorica, Slovenia, Slovenia Exergy as indicator of ecosystem's integrity.

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