97th ESA Annual Meeting (August 5 -- 10, 2012)

COS 176 - Biodiversity V

Friday, August 10, 2012: 8:00 AM-11:30 AM
C123, Oregon Convention Center
8:00 AM
Interactions among climate, biodiversity, and ecosystem services in tropical forest ecosystems
Kyle C. Cavanaugh, University of California Santa Barbara; Sam L. Davis, Wright State University; J. Stephen Gosnell, Baruch College, City University of New York, and CUNY Graduate Center; Jorge Ahumada, Conservation International; Sandy Andelman, Conservation International
8:20 AM
Plant functional responses to drought in the Fynbos of South Africa
Todd Dawson, University of California Berkeley; Adam G. West, University of Cape Town; Timothy Llewellyn Aston, University of Wyoming; William J. Bond, University of Cape Town; Guy Midgley, South African National Biodiversity Institute; Edmund February, University of Cape Town
8:40 AM
Cropping biodiversity effects on soil organic matter dynamics and microbial function
Marshall D. McDaniel, University of New Hampshire; A. Stuart Grandy, University of New Hampshire
9:00 AM
Quantifying ecological drift in annual plant communities
Benjamin Gilbert, University of Toronto; Jonathan M. Levine, ETH Zurich; Janneke Hille Ris Lambers, University of Washington
9:20 AM
Comparing the incomparable: Reconciling dimensions of biodiversity across microbial domains
Rebecca A. Daly, University of California, Berkeley; David W. Armitage, University of California Berkeley; Joanne B. Emerson, University of California, Berkeley; Daniela Goltsman, University of California, Berkeley; Hannah Salim, University of California, Berkeley; Alexis Pepper Yelton, University of California, Berkeley; Jennifer Kerekes, University of California, Berkeley; Mary K. Firestone, University of California, Berkeley; Matthew D. Potts, University of California, Berkeley
9:40 AM
9:50 AM
The commonness and distribution of rarity: Quantifying the botanical diversity of all plant species in the Americas
Brian Enquist, University of Arizona; Brad Boyle, University of Arizona; John C. Donoghue II, University of Arizona; Barbara Thiers, The New York Botanical Garden; Peter Jorgensen, Missouri Botanical Garden; Brian McGill, University of Maine; Jens-Christian Svenning, Aarhus University; Richard Condit, The field museum; Naia Morueta-Holme, Aarhus University; Lindsey L. Sloat, University of Arizona; Brian Enquist, National Center for Ecological Analysis and Synthesis
10:10 AM Cancelled
COS 176-7
Climatic history, seed dispersal, and patterns of β diversity in the floras of southwest Australia and northern Europe (widthdrawn)
Matthew C. Fitzpatrick, University of Maryland Center for Environmental Science; Nathan J. Sanders, The University of Copenhagen; Signe Normand, University of Aarhus; Jens-Christian Svenning, Aarhus University; Simon Ferrier, CSIRO Land and Water Flagship; Aaron D. Gove, Curtin University; Robert R. Dunn, North Carolina State University
10:30 AM Cancelled
COS 176-8
Intermediate level of environmental changes promotes higher community richness since 15,500 years (widthdrawn)
Olivier Blarquez, Université du Québec à Montréal; Christopher Carcaillet, Université de Montpellier 2; Yves Bergeron, University of Quebec in Abitibi-Temiscamingue
10:50 AM
The hierarchical spatial structure of the river network supports high biodiversity in headwater streams
Hiromi Uno, University of California, Berkeley; Kanehiro Kitayama, Kyoto University; David Dudgeon, The University of Hong Kong
11:10 AM
The influence of local and landscape level agricultural factors on within farm biodiversity
David J. Gonthier, University of Michigan; Katherine K. Ennis, University of California, Santa Cruz; Serge A. Farinas, University of Mchigan; Hsun-Yi Hsieh, Michigan State University; Aaron Iverson, University of Michigan; Bradley J. Cardinale, University of Michigan; Ivette Perfecto, University of Michigan