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

PS 37-184

Troposphere ozone contamination produces unexpected changes in adaptive traits of Spergula arvensis in herbaceous communities
M. Alejandra Martínez-Ghersa, IFEVA/CONICET, Facultad de Agronomía, Universidad de Buenos Aires, Argentina; Analía I. Menéndez, IFEVA/CONICET, Facultad de Agronomía, Universidad de Buenos Aires, Argentina; Pedro E. Gundel, IFEVA/CONICET, Facultad de Agronomía, Universidad de Buenos Aires, Argentina

PS 37-185

Does Intermediate Disturbance Hypothesis explain mechanisms of biodiversity decline in agricultural lands? Perennial plants play key roles in maintaining herbivorous insect diversity
Kei Uchida, Yokohama National University; Atushi Ushimaru, Kobe University

PS 37-186

Ground cover in fire-maintained longleaf pine forests varying in age from 5 to 87 years at Fort Benning, GA
Lorenzo Ferrari, Auburn University; Lisa J. Samuelson, Auburn University

PS 37-187

Sea surface warming and biodiversity loss in Caribbean coral reefs
Raisa Hernandez-Pacheco, University of Puerto Rico; Edwin A. Hernandez-Delgado, University of Puerto Rico

PS 37-188

Evolution of climatic niche in the Pacific Island genus, Coprosma (Rubiaceae)
Kristen Nolting, Michigan State University; Nathan Swenson, Michigan State University; Sterling C. Keeley, University of Hawaii; Jason T. Cantley, University of Hawaii

PS 37-189

Fertilization superimposes the legume effect on microbial efficiency in a grassland plant diversity gradient
Tanja Strecker, University of Goettingen; Romain L. Barnard, University of California, Berkeley; Pascal Niklaus, University of Zurich; Stefan Scheu, Georg-August University; Alexandra Weigelt, University of Leipzig; Nico Eisenhauer, Friedrich-Schiller-University Jena

PS 37-190

Applying meta-community theory for understanding long-term changes in arable plant communities of intensively managed farmland
Santiago L. Poggio, IFEVA/CONICET, Facultad de Agronomía, Universidad de Buenos Aires, Argentina.; Claudio M. Ghersa, IFEVA, School of Agronomy University of Buenos Aires, Conicet

PS 37-191

Effects of a fungal pathogen on recruitment of Ormosia glaberrima seedlings in a subtropical forest
Yu Liu, Sun Yat-sen University; Christian Staehelin, Sun Yat-sen University; Shixiao Yu, Sun Yat-sen University; Fangliang He, University of Alberta; Zhiping Xie, Sun Yat-sen University

PS 37-192

Scale-dependent trait filtering of woody diversity in North America
Irena Simova, Charles University in Prague and Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic; Cyrille Violle, CNRS; Nathan J.B. Kraft, University of British Columbia; David Storch, Charles University; Brad Boyle, University of Arizona; John C. Donoghue II, University of Arizona; Brian Enquist, University of Arizona

PS 37-193

Effect of environmental factors on negative plant-soil feedback in a subtropical forest
Jie Li, Sun Yat-sen University; Shixiao Yu, Sun Yat-sen University

PS 37-194

Impacts of American beech sapling density on herbaceous plant diversity
Elizabeth N. Hane, Rochester Institute of Technology

PS 37-195

Controls on ground cover species richness in the longleaf pine-wiregrass ecosystem
Lisa M. Giencke, Joseph W. Jones Ecological Research Center; L. Katherine Kirkman, Joseph W. Jones Ecological Research Center; Robert J. Mitchell, Joseph W. Jones Ecological Research Center; Jason D. McGee, Joseph W. Jones Ecological Research Center; R. Scott Taylor, Joseph W. Jones Ecological Research Center

PS 37-196

Forest diversity and plant-soil feedback: The effects of mature trees on seedling survival
Samantha M. Wolf, University of Michigan; Iñes Ibáñez, University of Michigan

PS 37 - Biodiversity