Session: Biodiversity II (97th ESA Annual Meeting (August 5 -- 10, 2012))

1:30 PM

COS 99-1

Reconciling museum records and ecological surveys in biogeographic analyses of New England’s ant fauna
Nicholas J. Gotelli, University of Vermont; Aaron Ellison, Harvard University

1:50 PM

COS 99-2

A metric of biodiversity that integrates abundance, phylogeny, and function
Samuel Scheiner, National Science Foundation

2:10 PM

COS 99-3

Do perennial habitat fragments support greater parasitoid diversity and pest regulation in ephemeral crops?
Deborah K. Letourneau, University of California-Santa Cruz; Sara G. Bothwell Allen, University of California-Santa Cruz; John O. Stireman III, Wright State University

2:30 PM

COS 99-4

Temporal niche dynamics promote biodiversity: An experimental demonstration
Jiaqi Tan, Georgia Institute of Technology; Lin Jiang, Georgia Institute of Technology

2:50 PM

COS 99-5

The ecological importance of diversity within species
David Post, Yale University; Joseph K. Bailey, The University of Tennessee, Knoxville; Simone des Roches, University of Idaho; Andrew P. Hendry, McGill University; Michael T. Kinnison, University of Maine; Eric P. Palkovacs, Duke University; Jennifer Schweitzer, University of Tennessee; Nash Turley, University of Toronto; Mark Vellend, Université de Sherbrooke

3:10 PM

COS 99-

Break

3:20 PM

COS 99-6

The changing face of Andean Peatlands: The effects of climate and human disturbance on ecosystem structure and function
Juan C. Benavides, Pontificial Xaverian University; Dale H. Vitt, Southern Illinois University

3:40 PM

COS 99-7

Differing effects of savanna trees and forest trees on savanna understory plant diversity
Joseph W. Veldman, University of Wisconsin; Lars Brudvig, Michigan State University; W. Brett Mattingly, Eastern Connecticut State University

4:00 PM

COS 99-8

Land use and biotic factors contribute to the ecological sustainability of Montado Ecosystems
Helena Freitas, UNESCO Chair in Biodiversity Safeguard for Sustainable Development; Center for Functional Ecology - University of Coimbra; Sofia Costa, Center for Functional Ecology; Helena Castro, Center for Functional Ecology; Anabela M. Azul, Center for Functional Ecology; António Gouveia, Center for Functional Ecology

4:20 PM

COS 99-9

The influence of ecological context over community assembly processes and diversity patterns
Eric R. Sokol, Virginia Tech; John E. Barrett, Virginia Polytechnic and State University; J. Matthew Hoch, Florida International University; Joel Trexler, Florida International University

4:40 PM Cancelled

COS 99-10

Patterns of fish biodiversity in the Salish Sea (widthdrawn)
Christy V. Pattengill-Semmens, Reef Environmental Education Foundation (REEF); Brice X. Semmens, UC San Diego; Janna Nichols, Reef Environmental Education Foundation (REEF)

COS 99 - Biodiversity II