1:30 PM: Steiner, Christopher^{*,1, 2}, Long, Zachary^{1, 3}, Krumins, Jennifer¹, Morin, Peter¹, ¹ Rutgers University, New Brunswick, NJ² University of Illinois, Urbana, IL³ University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, NC, Population and community stability in aquatic food webs: partitioning the effects of species diversity, species composition and enrichment.

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1:50 PM: Burkepile, Deron^*,1, Hay, Mark ¹, Chequer, Alexander¹, ¹ Georgia Tech, Atlanta, Georgia, Herbivorous fish functional diversity and the structure of seaweed communities on coral reefs.

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2:10 PM: Longmuir, Allyson^*,1, Shurin, Jon¹, ¹ University of British Columbia, Vancouver, BC, Canada, Promoting diversity: the relative importance of food web assembly.

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2:30 PM: Spivak, Amanda^*,1, Canuel, Elizabeth ¹, Duffy, J. Emmett¹, Richardson, J. Paul¹, ¹ College of William and Mary, Gloucester Point, VA, Linking community structure to carbon cycling: evidence of cascading effects in an experimental seagrass system.

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2:50 PM: Bracken, Matthew^*,1, Stachowicz, John¹, ¹ University of California, Davis, Davis, CA, Complementarity in nitrogen uptake by seaweeds occurs via simultaneous effects of diversity on multiple ecosystem functions.

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3:20 PM: Gamfeldt, Lars^*,1, Hillebrand, Helmut², Jonsson, Per¹, ¹ Göteborg University, Göteborg, Sweden² University of Cologne, Köln, Germany, Species richness changes across two trophic elevels simultaneously affect prey and consumer biomass.

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3:40 PM: Tittensor, Derek^*,1, Worm, Boris¹, Myers, Ransom¹, ¹ Department of Biology, Dalhousie University, Halifax, NS, Canada, Diversity in the open ocean: a species-area relationship for predatory pelagic fish in the Pacific.

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4:00 PM: Wood, Spencer^*,1, Shurin, Jonathan¹, Lilley, Stacie², Schiel, David², ¹ University of British Columbia, Vancouver, BC, Canada² University of Canterbury, Christchurch, New Zealand, An empirical assessment of community-wide species interaction strengths in the rocky intertidal.

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4:20 PM: Gardezi, Tariq¹, ¹ McGill University, Montreal, Quebec, Canada, Ecology, history, and the distribution of fish species in Ontario lakes.

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4:40 PM: Helmus, Matthew^*,1, Bland, Thomas¹, Williams, Christopher², Ives, Anthony¹, ¹ Department of Zoology, University of Wisconsin, Madison, WI² Department of Entomology & Wildlife Ecology, University of Delaware, Newark, DE, Do phylogenetic relationships explain patterns of diversity among north-temperate lakes?

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