94th ESA Annual Meeting (August 2 -- 7, 2009)

COS 18 - Biodiversity: Traits and Interactions

Tuesday, August 4, 2009: 8:00 AM-11:30 AM
Pecos, Albuquerque Convention Center
Presider:
Carolyn M. Kurle
8:00 AM
Comparing the impacts of plant genotypic and species diversity on plant communities and natural selection on individuals
Susan C. Cook, Cornell University; Amy L. Parachnowitsch, Cornell University; Scott H. McArt, Cornell University; Anurag A. Agrawal, Cornell University; Jennifer Thaler, Cornell University
8:20 AM
Comparison of plant genotypic and species diversity on arthropod community structure
Scott H. McArt, Cornell University; Susan C. Cook, Cornell University; Amy L. Parachnowitsch, Cornell University; Jennifer Thaler, Cornell University; Anurag A. Agrawal, Cornell University
9:00 AM
Exotic plant traits lead to functional diversity decline in novel ecosystems
Pedram Daneshgar, Iowa State University; Brian J. Wilsey, Iowa State University; H. Wayne Polley, USDA, Agricultural Research Service
9:20 AM
Predation by collared lizards increases α-diversity, but decreases β-diversity of grasshopper metacommunities in Missouri Ozark Glades
Wade A. Ryberg, Texas A&M University; Kevin G. Smith, Washington University in St. Louis; Jonathan M. Chase, Biodiversity Synthesis Laboratory
9:40 AM
9:50 AM
Impact of predation pressure on marine epifaunal communities shifts with latitude and drives diversity patterns in tropics
Amy L. Freestone, Temple University; Richard W. Osman, Smithsonian Environmental Research Center
10:30 AM
Competition for light causes plant biodiversity loss following eutrophication
Yann Hautier, University of Minnesota; Pascal Niklaus, University of Zurich; Andy Hector, University of Oxford
10:50 AM
Trophic cascades decline with increasing algal diversity in streams
Carolyn M. Kurle, University of California San Diego; Bradley J. Cardinale, University of Michigan