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

8:00 AM

COS 20-1

Easing our way to change: Changes in functional diversity in the decade following protection of marine areas
J. Stephen Gosnell, Baruch College, City University of New York, and CUNY Graduate Center; Jennifer E. Caselle, University of California, Santa Barbara

8:20 AM

COS 20-2

Understanding the spatial scaling of boreal endophytic fungal communities using environmental cloning and Ion Torrent targeted amplicon sequencing
Emilie Lefevre, Duke University; Kayla Arendt, The University of Arizona; Bernard Ball, Duke University; Jolanta Miadlikowska, Duke University; Kathryn Picard, Duke University; Jana M. U'Ren, University of Arizona; Elizabeth Arnold, University of Arizona; FranÃ§ois Lutzoni, Duke University

8:40 AM

COS 20-3

Eight years of selection in a biodiversity experiment leads to differentiation into monoculture and mixture types in 12 grassland species
Bernhard Schmid, University of Zurich; Debra Zuppinger-Dingley, University of Zurich; Varuna Yadav, University of Zurich; Dan F.B. Flynn, Chinese Academy of Sciences

9:00 AM

COS 20-4

Tropical forest beta diversity across multiple taxa and scales
Matthew D. Potts, University of California, Berkeley; Benjamin Ramage, Randolph-Macon College

9:20 AM

COS 20-5

Fine-scale species pattern affects grassland diversity-invasion relationships
Kathryn Yurkonis, University of North Dakota; Thomas P. McKenna, University of North Dakota

9:40 AM

COS 20-

Break

9:50 AM

COS 20-6

Life-history trade-offs among core and transient species regulate local diversity and community structure
Sarah R. Supp, Stony Brook University; David N. Koons, Utah State University; S.K. Morgan Ernest, Utah State University

10:10 AM

COS 20-7

Human legacies differentially organize functional and phylogenetic diversity of urban herbaceous plant communities at multiple spatial scales
Anna L. Johnson, University of Maryland Baltimore County; Erica Tauzer, SUNY-ESF; Christopher M. Swan, University of Maryland, Baltimore County

10:30 AM

COS 20-8

Demystifying the enigma of soil biodiversity: long-term effects of 14 tree species and underlying mechanisms
Kevin E. Mueller, Cleveland State University; Nico Eisenhauer, Friedrich-Schiller-University Jena; Peter B. Reich, University of Minnesota; Tomasz Dobies, PoznaÅ„ University of Life Sciences; Cynthia Hale, University of Minnesota Duluth; Sarah E. Hobbie, University of Minnesota; Andrzej M. Jagodzinksi, Polish Academy of Sciences; Izabela Kalucka, University of ÅÃ³dÅº; Marek Kasprowicz, 9Adam Mickiewicz University; Lukasz Sobczyk, Jagiellonian University; MaÅ‚gorzata StasiÅ„ska, University of Szczecin; Lidia K. Trocha, Polish Academy of Sciences; January Weiner, Jagiellonian University; Jacek Oleksyn, Polish Academy of Sciences, Institute of Dendrology

10:50 AM

COS 20-9

Comparison of fitness-related life history traits of pure westslope cutthroat trout (Oncorhynchus clarkii lewisi) and hybrids with rainbow trout (O. mykiss)
Mariola E. Janowicz, Concordia University College of Alberta; Harriet Harris, University of Alberta; Wlodzimierz Zalachowski, West Pomeranian University of Technology

11:10 AM

COS 20-10

Interspecific competition suppresses adaptive radiation
Jiaqi Tan, Georgia Institute of Technology; Matthew R. Slattery, Western Washington University; Lin Jiang, Georgia Institute of Technology

COS 20 - Biodiversity I