Friday, August 10, 2012: 8:00 AM-11:30 AM
	C123, Oregon Convention Center
	
	
	
	
	
	
	
	
		
	
	
	
		
	
	
	
	
	
	
	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
			
		
	 
 
	
	
	
	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
			
		
	 
 
	
	
	9:50 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
			
	
	
 
	
	10:30 AM 
	
	Cancelled 
	
	
	
	
		
			
			COS 176-8