ESA/SER Joint Meeting (August 5 -- August 10, 2007)
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COS 60 - Biodiversity and ecosystem function I

Wednesday, August 8, 2007: 8:00 AM-11:30 AM
J1, San Jose McEnery Convention Center
8:00 AM
COS 60-1
The balance of niche and neutral processes dictate the effects of biodiversity on ecosystem production
Ian T. Carroll, Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution; Bradley J. Cardinale, University of Michigan
8:20 AM
COS 60-2
Does community production drive species diversity or vice versa?  Towards resolution of a diversity paradox
Bradley J. Cardinale, University of Michigan; Danuta Bennett, University of California; Kevin Gross, North Carolina State University
8:40 AM
COS 60-3
Does species richness drive community production or vice versa?  Reconciling historical and contemporary paradigms in models of competitive communities
Kevin Gross, North Carolina State University; Bradley J. Cardinale, University of Michigan
9:00 AM
COS 60-5
Biogeographic affinity helps explain the productivity-richness relationship at regional and local scales
Susan Harrison, University of California; James Grace, USGS National Wetlands Research Center
9:20 AM
COS 60-6
Can the functional consequences of species extinction be predicted by evolutionary history?
Marc Cadotte, University of Toronto - Scarborough; Bradley J. Cardinale, University of Michigan; Todd H. Oakley, University of California
9:40 AM
COS 60-
Break
9:50 AM
COS 60-7
Influences of tropical tree diversity on soil carbon dynamics: Results from a laboratory incubation
William R. Wieder, University of Colorado, Boulder; Cory C. Cleveland, University of Montana; Alan R. Townsend, University of Colorado at Boulder
10:10 AM
COS 60-8
Species distribution: Correlating plant species richness and MODIS NDVI based on Beta diversity measurements
Jianting Zhang, University of New Mexico; Kate He, Murray State University
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