Session: Biodiversity and ecosystem function II (ESA/SER Joint Meeting (August 5 -- August 10, 2007))

1:30 PM

COS 80-1

Prokaryotic metacommunity concept: linking microbial diversity to biogeochemical cycling in the ocean
Takeshi Miki, Kyoto University; Taichi Yokokawa, Kyoto University; Toshi Nagata, Kyoto University; Norio Yamamura, Kyoto University

1:50 PM

COS 80-2

Understanding the effects of marine biodiversity on community and ecosystem processes: A review and synthesis
John J. Stachowicz, University of California, Davis; John Bruno, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill; J. Emmett Duffy, Tennenbaum Marine Observatory Network, Smithsonian Institution

2:10 PM

COS 80-3

Herbivore species richness and the structure of Caribbean coral reefs
Deron E. Burkepile, Florida International University; Alexander D. Chequer, Georgia Institute of Technology; Mark E. Hay, Georgia Institute of Technology

2:30 PM

COS 80-4

Genetic diversity and disturbance interact to influence seagrass productivity
A. Randall Hughes, Florida State University; John J. Stachowicz, University of California, Davis

2:50 PM

COS 80-5

If you pulse it, they will come: Pulse rate of detritus inputs affects richness and abundance of aquatic invertebrates
Donald A. Yee, University of Southern Mississippi; Steven A. Juliano, Illinois State University

3:10 PM

COS 80-

Break

3:20 PM

COS 80-6

Annual plant productivity as a function of species richness, diversity, and evenness over 17 years of rainfall variability in a Chilean semiarid shrubland
Aurora Gaxiola, Universidad Católica de Chile, Instituto de Ecologia y Biodiversidad; Martin Carmona, Institute of Ecology and Biodiversity and CASEB, Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile; M. Francisca Diaz, Institute of Ecology and Biodiversity and CASEB, Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile; Peter L. Meserve, University of Idaho; Douglas A. Kelt, University of California; Juan J. Armesto, Institute of Ecology and Biodiversity; Julio R. Gutierrez, Instituto de Ecología y Biodiversidad, Universidad de La Serena

3:40 PM

COS 80-7

Effects of plant species diversity on individual plant performance
Andrea Schmidtke, University of Potsdam, Institute of Biochemistry and Biology; Tanja Rottstock, University of Potsdam, Institute of Biochemistry and Biology; Markus Fischer, University of Bern

4:00 PM

COS 80-8

Comparing a single high-diversity mixture with all its component species in monocultures
Bernhard Schmid, University of Zurich

4:20 PM

COS 80-9

Ecosystem functioning determined by plant functional group composition
Jennie R. McLaren, University of Texas at El Paso

4:40 PM

COS 80-10

Functional diversity and productivity peak at intermediate levels of dispersal in evolving meta-communities
Nicolas Mouquet, Université Montpellier 2, CNRS; Patrick Venail, Université Montpellier 2, CNRS; Thierry Bouvier, ECOLAG - Université Montpellier 2; Mike Brockhurst, The University of Liverpool; Mike Hochberg, CNRS - ISEM - Université Montpellier 2; Craig MacLean, Imperial College of London

COS 80 - Biodiversity and ecosystem function II