PARENT SESSIONOral Session 4: Biodiversity I: Communities and Function.
Presiding: C Holzapfel and D Ellsworth
Monday, August 2, 8:00 AM to 11:30 AM, Meeting Room B 110.
8:00 AM Cornwell, William*,1, Schwilk, Dylan1, Ackerly, David1, 1 Dept. of Biological Sciences, Stanford, CA, USA Quantifying functional diversity: A new analytic method.
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8:20 AM VINEBROOKE, ROLF*,1, TURNER, MICHAEL2, FINDLAY, DAVID2, PATERSON, MICHAEL2, SCHINDLER, DAVID1, 1 FRESHWATER BIODIVERSITY LABORATORY, EDMONTON, ALBERTA, CANADA2 EXPERIMENTAL LAKES AREA, WINNIPEG, MANITOBA, CANADA Ecosystem functioning during anthropogenic stress and recovery: A 20-yr whole-lake experimental investigation.
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8:40 AM Comas, L*,1, Skinner, R1, Goslee, S1, Sanderson, M, 1 USDA-ARS, University Park, PA Defining plant functional types by their potential effects on ecosystem properties.
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9:00 AM Gross, Kevin*,1, Cardinale, Bradley2, 1 North Carolina State University, Raleigh, NC2 University of Wisconsin - Madison, Madison, WI On the generality of biodiversity – ecosystem function patterns observed in random assembly experiments.
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9:20 AM Cottenie, Karl 1, 1 National Center for Ecological Analysis and Synthesis, UC Santa Barbara, Santa Barbara, CA Meta-analysis of metacommunities.
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9:40 AM Break.
9:50 AM Freestone, Amy*,1, Inouye, Brian2, 1 University of California, Davis2 Florida State University, Tallahassee Space, heterogeneity, and scale affect diversity partitions in a naturally patchy landscape.
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10:10 AM Johnson, Marc*,, Genotypic diversity in plant populations shapes arthropod community composition.
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10:30 AM McCain, Christy*,1, 1 National Center for Ecological Analysis and Synthesis, Santa Barbara, CA, USA Elevational gradients in small mammal diversity: Mid-elevation peaks and effects of climate, latitude, and area.
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10:50 AM Ryberg, Wade1, Chase, Jonathan1, 1 Washington University in St. Louis, St. Louis, Missouri Connectivity, scale-dependence, and the productivity-diversity relationship.
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11:10 AM Schmitz, Oswald*,1, 1 Yale University, New Haven, CT, USA Perturbation and alternate states of trophic control of biodiversity and productivity.
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