ESA/SER Joint Meeting (August 5 -- August 10, 2007)

COS 101 - Biodiversity patterns and processes

Thursday, August 9, 2007: 8:00 AM-11:30 AM
Blrm Salon V, San Jose Marriott
8:00 AM
Comprehensive analyses of the α-diversity of deciduous forest soil fauna: Idiosyncratic effects of climate and environmental variables lead to independent patterns
Roman J. Fricke, Philipps University Marburg; Martin Brändle, Philipps-University Marburg; Roland Brandl, Department of Animal Ecology
8:20 AM
Do canopy gaps give rare tree species an advantage via the storage effect?
Scott C. Stark, Michigan State University; Peter Chesson, University of Arizona; Jessica E. Metcalf, Duke University
8:40 AM
Interacting life history schedules of trees: Implications for biodiversity
James Clark, Duke University; Michael C. Dietze, University of Illinois; Michelle H. Hersh, Eastern Michigan University; Ines Ibanez, University of Michigan; Shannon L. LaDeau, Cary Insitute of Ecosystem Studies; Jacqueline Mohan, University of Georgia; Michael Wolosin, Duke University
9:00 AM
Nitrogen enrichment alters biodiversity of plant communities at multiple scales
David R. Chalcraft, East Carolina University; Chris Clark, AAAS; Elsa Cleland, University of California San Diego; Stephen B. Cox, Texas Tech University; Evan Weiher, University of Wisconsin - Eau Claire; Katharine N. Suding, University of California at Berkeley; Deana Pennington, LTER Network Office
9:20 AM
Latitudinal diversity gradients: Phylogenetic signal among flowering plants
Stephanie A. Stuart, University of California Berkeley; Alison R. Doniger, University of California Berkeley; David Ackerly, University of California
9:40 AM
9:50 AM
Phenotypic constraints offer a general, evolutionary explanation for species diversity gradients
Christian O. Marks, The Nature Conservancy; Helene Muller-Landau, Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute; G. David Tilman, University of Minnesota
10:10 AM
Arthropod species richness, herbivory, and predator/prey ratios along a tree diversity gradient in a central European deciduous forest
Stephanie Sobek, University of Western Ontario; Ingolf Steffan-Dewenter, University of Würzburg; Teja Tscharntke, Georg-August-University Göttingen
10:30 AM
Resource quantity, resource quality, and biodiversity: Caves as model ecosystems
Katie Schneider, University of Maryland; William F. Fagan, University of Maryland
10:50 AM
Borders of biodiversity: Life at the edge of the world’s great lakes
Yvonne Vadeboncoeur, Wright State University; Peter B. McIntyre, University of Wisconsin; Jake Vander Zanden, University of Wisconsin