8:00 AM: Vogt, Richard ^*,1, Beisner, Beatrix¹, Prairie, Yves ¹, ¹ Université du Québec à Montréal, Montreal, Quebec, Canada, The relationship between taxonomic and functional diversity: Evidence from diatom communities.

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8:20 AM: Cardinale, Bradley^{*,1, 2}, Weis, Jerome^{1, 2}, Tilmon, Kelley², Forbes, Andy², Ives, Anthony², ¹ University of California-Santa Barbara, Santa Barbara, CA, 93106² University of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison, WI, 53706, Biodiversity as both a cause and consequence of resource abundance.

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8:40 AM: Waugh, Jennifer^*,1, Aarssen, Lonnie¹, ¹ Department of Biology, Kingston, Ontario, Canada, Relating temporal changes in species dispersion and inter-specific associations in successional plant communities to mechanisms of community assembly.

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9:00 AM: Hooper, David^*,1, Dukes, Jeffery², Meredith, Rebecca¹, ¹ Western Washington University, Bellingham, WA² University of Massachusetts - Boston, Boston, MA, Historical effects of community composition on invader success: functional mechanisms in community assembly.

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9:20 AM: Chalcraft, David^{*,1, 2, 3}, Wilsey, Brian⁴, Bowles, Christy¹, Willig, Michael^{2, 5}, ¹ National Center for Ecological Analysis and Synthesis, Santa Barbara, CA² Texas Tech University, Lubbock, TX³ East Carolina University, Greenville, NC⁴ Iowa State University, Ames, Iowa⁵ National Science Foundation, Arlington, VA, The relationship between productivity and multiple aspects of species diversity in grassland communities.

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9:50 AM: Unsicker, Sybille ^*,1, Kahmen, Ansgar ², Wagner, Markus ¹, Buchmann, Nina³, Weisser, Wolfgang¹, ¹ Institute of Ecology, Jena, Germany² Max Planck Institute for Biogeochemistry, Jena, Germany³ ETH, Zürich, Switzerland, Insect herbivory along a gradient of plant species diversity in extensively managed Central European grasslands.

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10:10 AM: Snyder, William^*,1, Snyder, Gretchen¹, Prasad, Renee¹, ¹ Washington State University, Pullman, WA, Predator diet-breadth diversity and the strength of herbivore suppression.

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10:30 AM: Smart, Simon ^*,1, Marrs, Robert², ¹ CEH Lancaster, Land Use Section, Lancaster University, Lancaster, England² Applied Vegetation Dynamics Laboratory, Liverpool, England, Spatial segregation of species and traits: A large-scale test of the biotic homogenization and similarity hypotheses across Britain.

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10:50 AM: Karst, Justine^*,1, Gilbert, Ben¹, Lechowicz, Martin², ¹ University of British Columbia, Vancouver, B.C., Canada² McGill University, Montreal, Q.C., Canada, Structuring fern communities at local and mesoscales: The roles of environmental determinism and dispersal.

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11:10 AM: Cadotte, Marc^*,1, ¹ University of Tennessee, Knoxville, TN, USA, Landscape design and the structuring of local and metacommunity richness.

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