8:00 AM: Shipley, Bill^*,1, Vile, Denis^{1, 2}, ¹ Département de biologie, Sherbrooke, Québec, Canada² Centre d'Écologie Fonctionnelle et Évolutive, Montpellier, France, Comparative ecology as a tool for integrating across scales.

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8:30 AM: LAVOREL, Sandra¹, GARNIER, Eric², VISTA, consortium³, ¹ Laboratoire d'Ecologie Alpine, Grenoble, France² Centre d'Ecologie Fonctionnelle et Evolutive, Montpellier, France³ EU contract, EVK2-2002-00168, Plant functional traits to scale from plant and community response to land use changes to ecosystem function.

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9:00 AM: Hunt, Roderick^*,1, Colasanti, Ric L^{2, 3}, ¹ School of Biosciences, University of Exeter, UK² School of Applied Science, University of Glamorgan, UK³ Environmental Protection Agency, Corvallis, OR, Self-assembling plants and integration across ecological scales.

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9:30 AM: Cornelissen, Hans^*,1, Simone, Lang¹, Soudzilovskaia, Nadejda¹, ¹ Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, Amsterdam, The Netherlands, Comparative cryptogam ecology: Established and novel traits to screen the effects of mosses and lichens on biogeochemistry, hydrology and vascular plant performance.

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10:00 AM: Wright, Ian^*,1, ¹ Macquarie University, Sydney, NSW, Australia, Major dimensions of ecological trait variation among plant species.

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10:30 AM: Grime, Phillip^*,1, ¹ University of Sheffield, Sheffield, UK, Plant traits, plant species, communities and ecosystems: Establishing the functional connections.

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11:00 AM: , ROUNDTABLE DISCUSSION AND QUESTIONS: What is next? What don’t we know yet? What is preventing us from knowing it?