Session: Biodiversity II (98th ESA Annual Meeting (August 4 -- 9, 2013))

1:50 PM Cancelled

COS 35-1

Partitioning beta diversity in a Neotropical forest Opiliones assemblage (Cusuco National Park, Honduras.) (widthdrawn)
Brittany Damron, Wright State University; Thomas P. Rooney, Wright State University

1:30 PM

COS 35-2

Climate interacts with soil to produce beta diversity in Californian plant communities
Barbara M. Fernandez-Going, University of California, Santa Barbara; Susan Harrison, University of California; Brian L. Anacker, University of California, Davis; Hugh Safford, Regional Ecologist, USDA Forest Service

2:10 PM

COS 35-4

Tree species diversity enhances individual growth in a temperate forest of central Europe
Juliette Chamagne, University of Zürich; C. E. Timothy Paine, University of Stirling; Martin Svátek, Mendel University; Radim Matula, Mendel Univesity; David C. Frank, Swiss Federal Research Institute WSL; Lindsay A. Turnbull, University of Zürich; Andrew Hector, University of Zürich

2:50 PM Cancelled

COS 35-3

Plant species diversity promotes erosion resistance on sea dikes (widthdrawn)
Frank Berendse, Wageningen University; Jasper van Ruijven, Wageningen University

2:30 PM

COS 35-5

Biodiversity loss belowground has multiple ecosystem consequences
Cameron Wagg, University of Zurich; Marcel G.A. van der Heijden, Agroscope

3:10 PM

COS 35-

Break

3:20 PM

COS 35-7

Functional traits explain vascular epiphyte distributional patterns along environmental gradients in tropical canopies
Carrie L. Woods, Clemson University

4:00 PM Cancelled

COS 35-6

The effect of neighbourhood competition and species richness on individual-tree growth under heterogeneous environmental conditions (widthdrawn)
Ying Li, Leuphana University Lüneburg; Werner Härdtle, Leuphana University Lüneburg; Helge Bruelheide, Martin Luther University Halle-Wittenberg; Karin Nadrowski, University Leipzig; Thomas Scholten, Eberhard Karls University of Tübingen; Henrik von Wehrden, Leuphana University Lüneburg; Goddert von Oheimb, Leuphana University Lüneburg

3:40 PM

COS 35-8

Intraspecific variation matters: the forces that explain it and its impact on community weighted means in the Sandhills region of North Carolina
Gregory M. Ames, Duke University; Justin Wright, Duke University; Matthew G. Hohmann, US Army Corps of Engineers ERDC - CERL

4:20 PM

COS 35-9

Temporal trends in tree species richness in harvested stands over a landscape scale
James Rosson Jr., USDA Forest Service, Southern Research Station; Anita K. Rose, USDA Forest Service, Southern Research Station

4:40 PM

COS 35-10

Timber Rattlesnakes may reduce incidence of Lyme disease in the Northeastern United States
Edward Kabay, East Chapel Hill High School; Nicolas M. Caruso, University of Alabama; Karen Lips, University of Maryland

COS 35 - Biodiversity II