94th ESA Annual Meeting (August 2 -- 7, 2009)
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COS 6 - Functional Ecology and Species-Area Relationships

Monday, August 3, 2009: 1:30 PM-5:00 PM
Santa Ana, Albuquerque Convention Center
Presider:
Rakan A. Zahawi
1:30 PM
COS 6-1
Desert woody plant functional strategies are related to facilitation and precipitation variability
Brad J. Butterfield, Arizona State University; John M. Briggs, Kansas State University
1:50 PM
COS 6-2
The relationship between functional traits, climate and demographic rates across temperate tree species
Jordi Martínez-Vilalta, CREAF / Autonomous University of Barcelona; Jordi Vayreda, CREAF / Autonomous University of Barcelona; Maurizio Mencuccini, ICREA - CREAF and University of Edinburgh; Javier Retana, CREAF / Autonomous University of Barcelona
2:10 PM
COS 6-3
Linking leaf toughness to performance traits and life history characteristics of tree species in a moist forest in Bolivia
Kaoru Kitajima, University of Florida; Lourens Poorter, Wageningen University
2:30 PM
COS 6-4
How do leaf functional traits vary across ecological scales?
Julie Messier, University of Arizona; Brian McGill, University of Maine; Martin J. Lechowicz, McGill University
2:50 PM
COS 6-5
The relationship of water- and nitrogen-use efficiency to C4-cycle activity in C3-C4 intermediate species of Flaveria (Asteraceae)
Patrick J. Vogan, University of Guelph; Rowan F Sage, University of Toronto
3:10 PM
COS 6-
Break
3:20 PM
COS 6-6
Macrophyte declines in Florida's spring-fed rivers: Implications for faunal organisms
Edward V. Camp, University of Florida; William E Pine III, University of Florida; Christina L. Staudhammer, University of Alabama; Thomas K. Frazer, University of Florida
3:40 PM
COS 6-7
CANCELLED - Predicting declines in avian species richness under non-random patterns of habitat loss in a Neotropical landscape
Ghislain Rompré, Université Laval; W. Douglas Robinson, Oregon State University; André Desrochers, Université Laval
4:00 PM
COS 6-8
Species-area relationships are altered by biological invasions
Kristin I. Powell, The National Socio-Environmental Synthesis Center; Jonathan M. Chase, Biodiversity Synthesis Laboratory; Tiffany M. Knight, Washington University in St. Louis
4:20 PM
COS 6-9
Tree and liana diversity in an African forest
Duncan Thomas, Washington State University; David Kenfack, Center for Tropical Forest Science & Smithsonian Global Earth Observatory; George B. Chuyong, University of Buea; Sainge N. Moses, Korup Forest Dynamics Plot Programme
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