Session: Biodiversity: Patterns and Processes (93rd ESA Annual Meeting (August 3 -- August 8, 2008))

1:30 PM

COS 2-1

What factors explain distribution patterns of herbivores along an altitudinal gradient? A tri-trophic community approach
Genoveva Rodríguez-Castañeda, Umeå University; Lee A. Dyer, University of Nevada; Grant L. Gentry, Samford University

1:50 PM

COS 2-2

Patterns of fungal virus biodiversity in a natural community of fungi
Tracy S. Feldman, The University of Wisconsin - Stevens Point; Marilyn Roossinck, Pennsylvania State University

2:10 PM

COS 2-3

The association of environmental variables with diversity measures at different spatial scales
Andres Lira-Noriega, University of Kansas; Jorge Soberon, Biodiversity Institute, University of Kansas

2:30 PM

COS 2-4

Spatial diversity patterns of the Mexican terrestrial vertebrates
Jorge Soberon, Biodiversity Institute, University of Kansas; Andres Lira-Noriega, University of Kansas; Patricia Koleff, CONABIO; Hector Arita, Instituto de Ecologia, UNAM; Patricia Davila, UBIPRO, FES-Iztacala, UNAM; Oscar Flores-Villela, Facultad de Ciencias, UNAM; Gonzalo Halffter, Instituto de Ecologia, A.C.; Claudia E. Moreno, Centro de Investigaciones Biológicas, UAEH; Elizabeth Moreno, University of Kansas; Mariana Munguia, Instituto de Biologia, UNAM; Miguel Murguia, UBIPRO, FES-Iztacala, UNAM; Adolfo G. Navarro-Sigüenza, Facultad de Ciencias, UNAM; Pilar Rodriguez, CONABIO; Leticia Ochoa-Ochoa, Facultad de Ciencias, UNAM; A.Townsend Peterson, University of Kansas; Oswaldo Tellez, UBIPRO, FES-Iztacala, UNAM

2:50 PM

COS 2-5

The effect of habitat heterogeneity on species richness of soil mites and microbes
Uffe N. Nielsen, Western Sydney University; Graham H.R. Osler, The Macaulay Institute; Colin D. Campbell, The Macaulay Institute; Rene Van der wal, Aberdeen Centre for Environmental Sustainability (ACES), Macaulay Institute & University of Aberdeen; David F.R.P. Burslem, University of Aberdeen

3:10 PM

COS 2-

Break

3:20 PM

COS 2-6

The effects of temporal auto-correlation on species coexistence in annual plants, with and without seed predation
Jessica J. Kuang, University of Arizona; Peter Chesson, University of Arizona

3:40 PM

COS 2-7

Effects of plant diversity on insect diversity and stability in a long-term experiment
Nick M. Haddad, North Carolina State University; Gregory M. Crutsinger, University of British Columbia; Kevin Gross, North Carolina State University; John Haarstad, University of Minnesota; David Tilman, University of Minnesota

4:00 PM

COS 2-8

Biodiversity maintenance mechanisms differ between native and exotic communities
Brian J. Wilsey, Iowa State University; Terri B. Teaschner, Iowa State University; Pedram Daneshgar, Iowa State University; H. Wayne Polley, USDA, Agricultural Research Service

4:20 PM

COS 2-9

Synchronization of a portfolio of salmon populations
Jonathan W. Moore, Simon Fraser University; Michelle M. McClure, Northwest Fisheries Science Center, National Marine Fisheries Service; Lauren A. Rogers, University of Oslo

4:40 PM

COS 2-10

Global diversity of island floras: Species richness, endemism, and threat
Holger Kreft, Georg-August University; Wilhelm Barthlott, University of Bonn; Pierrre L. Ibisch, University of Applied Sciences Eberswalde; Walter Jetz, Yale University; Gerold Kier, University of Bonn; Tien Ming Lee, University of California, San Diego; Jens Mutke, University of Bonn; Christoph Nowicki, University of Applied Sciences Eberswalde

COS 2 - Biodiversity: Patterns and Processes