8:00 AM: Girardin, Martin Phillipe^*,1, Tardif, Jacques¹, Flannigan, Mike², Bergeron, Yves³, ¹ Centre for Forest Interdisciplinary Research (C-FIR), Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada² Great Lakes Forestry Centre, Sault Ste Marie, Ontario, Canada³ Groupe de recherche en écologie forestière inter-universitaire (GREFI), Montréal, Québec, Canada, Synoptic scale atmospheric circulation and summer drought variability of the past three centuries, Boreal Canada.

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8:20 AM: Frelich, Lee^*,1, Janssens, Joannes², Reich, Peter¹, ¹ University of Minnesota, St.Paul, MN² Lambda-Max Ecological Research, Minneapolis, MN, Productivity gradients, range of natural variability, and bryophyte conservation in the southern boreal forest.

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8:40 AM: Adler, Peter^*,1, Hille Ris Lambers, Janneke¹, Levine, Jonathan¹, ¹ University of California, Santa Barbara, CA, USA, Climatic variability and coexistence in a Kansas grassland.

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9:00 AM: Jetz, Walter^*,1, ¹ EBE Section, La Jolla, California, USA, Energy and temperature as contemporary and evolutionary determinants of the global biodiversity of birds.

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9:20 AM: Heegaard, Einar^{*,1, 3}, Grytnes, John-Arvid², Legendre, Pierre³, Gibson, Chris E.^{4, 5}, ¹ Bjerknes Centre for Climate Research, Bergen, Norway³ Université de Montréal, Montreal, Canada² University of Bergen, Bergen, Norway⁴ Department of Agricultural and Rural Development, Belfast, Northern Ireland⁵ Queen's University of Belfast, Belfast, Northern Ireland, At what spatial scale do environmental factors control species richness? A dissection of spectial dependence patterns in species richness.

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9:50 AM: Grytnes, John-Arvid^*,1, Romdal, Tom², Beaman, John^{3, 4}, ¹ University of Bergen, Bergen, Norway² University of Copenhagen, Copenhagen, Denmark³ Royal Botanical Gardens, Kew, London, UK⁴ Michigan State University, East Lansing, Michigan, Elevational pattern of species richness on Mount Kinabalu, Borneo: An evaluation of different mid-domain effect models.

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10:10 AM: Kerr, Jeremy¹, Ellis, Meghan ¹, ¹ Canadian Facility for Ecoinformatics Research (CFER), Ottawa, Ontario, Canada, Consistent climate impacts on butterfly species richness in natural and human-dominated areas of Canada since 1880.

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10:30 AM: Wohl, Debra^*,1, ¹ Elizabethtown College, Elizabethtown, PA, Environmental fluctuations facilitate species co-existence and increase organic matter decomposition.

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10:50 AM: Astorga, Anna^{*,1, 2}, Heino, Jani¹, Muotka, Timo^{1, 2}, ¹ Finnish Environment Institute, Helsinki, Finland² University of Oulu, Oulu, Finland, Contribution of spatial position and local environmental factors to stream insect species richness assessed across multiple spatial scales.

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11:10 AM: Romdal, Tom¹, Grytnes, John-Arvid^{1, 2}, ¹ Center for Macroecology, Copenhagen, Denmark² University of Bergen, Bergen, Norway, The indirect effect of regional habitat area on small-scale elevational species richness patterns.

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