8:00 AM: Pavoine, Sandrine^*,1, Ollier, Sébastien¹, ¹ University Claude Bernard Lyon 1, Villeurbanne, France, When and why Rao's quadratic entropy may be a good biodiversity measure?

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8:20 AM: Peet, Robert^*,1, Kennedy, Jessie², Paterson, Trevor³, Kukla, Robert ², Franz, Nico⁴, ¹ University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, NC, USA² Napier University, Edinburgh, Scotland³ Roslin Institute, Roslin, Scotland⁴ National Center for Ecological Analysis and Synthesis, Santa Barbara, CA, USA, Names are not sufficient: The challenge of documenting organism identity in ecological research.

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8:40 AM: Reger, Birgit^*,1, Waldhardt, Rainer¹, Otte, Annette¹, ¹ Justus-Liebig-University Giessen, Giessen, Germany, Modeling regional plant species richness: Handling habitat age by probabilistic analyses.

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9:00 AM: Rohr, Jason^*,1, Kim, Ke Chung¹, ¹ Penn State University, University Park, PA, USA, Developing efficient biodiversity assessment tools using a structured arthropod and floral inventory of hardwood and hemlock forests.

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9:20 AM: Aviron, Stéphanie^*,1, Jeanneret, Philippe¹, Schüpbach, Béatrice¹, Pfiffner, Lukas², Walter, Thomas¹, Herzog, Felix¹, ¹ Agroscope FAL Reckenholz, Zürich, Switzerland² FIBL, Frick, Switzerland, Determinants of arthropod diversity in farming landscapes: A multi-scale assessment.

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9:50 AM: McDonald, Robert^*,1, McKnight, Meghan², Weiss, Daniel², Moody, Aaron², ¹ Harvard University, Petersham, MA, USA² University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, NC, USA, Do ecoregion boundaries represent zones of high species turnover?

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10:10 AM: Proulx, Raphaël^*,1, Parrott, Lael¹, ¹ Complex Systems Laboratory, Montréal, Québec, Canada, Relationship between structural complexity and biological diversity in a forest ecosystem.

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10:30 AM: Riede, Klaus^*,1, ¹ Zoologisches Forschungsinstitut und Museum Alexander Koenig, Bonn, Germany, Bonn, Germany, Mapping the dynamic component of biodiversity: A GIS analysis of migratory species diversity.

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10:50 AM: Ranganathan, Jai^*,1, Daily, Gretchen, Chan, Kai, Ehrlich, Paul, ¹ Stanford University, Stanford, CA, USA, The use of remotely-sensed data to estimate avian community response to land-cover heterogeneity.

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11:10 AM: Chesson, Peter^{*,1, 2}, ¹ University of California, Davis, California, USA² University of Arizona, Tucson, Arizona, USA, Towards definitive tests of species coexistence mechanisms.

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