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

1:50 PM Cancelled

COS 103-1

Not all forests are created equal: Tree species composition in primary, unplanted secondary, and communally restored cloud forests in Northwest Andean Ecuador (widthdrawn)
Sarah Jane Wilson, McGill University; Oliver T. Coomes, McGill University

1:30 PM

COS 103-2

Biodiversity simultaneously enhances the production and stability of community biomass, but the effects are independent
Bradley J. Cardinale, University of Michigan; Kevin Gross, North Carolina State University; Keith J. Fritschie, Dartmouth College; Pedro Flombaum, Centro de Investigaciones del Mar y la Atmósfera; Jeremy Fox, University of Calgary; Christian Rixen, WSL Institute for Snow and Avalanche Research, SLF; Jasper van Ruijven, Wageningen University; Peter B. Reich, University of Minnesota; Michael Scherer-Lorenzen, University of Freiburg; Brian J. Wilsey, Iowa State University

2:10 PM

COS 103-3

Predation and resource abundance influence the diversity-productivity relationship in herbivores and primary producers
Jerome J. Weis, Yale University; David Post, Yale University

2:30 PM

COS 103-4

Can plant-soil feedbacks drive biodiversity-productivity relationships in grasslands?
Jane M. Cowles, University of Minnesota; David Tilman, University of Minnesota

2:50 PM

COS 103-5

Pollinator ecological traits mediate the loss of pollination services with agricultural intensification
Ignasi Bartomeus, Estación Biológica de Doñana (EBD-CSIC); Daniel P. Cariveau, University of Minnesota; Rachael Winfree, Rutgers University

3:10 PM

COS 103-

Break

3:20 PM

COS 103-6

Functional group responses to varying disturbance severities 15 years following biomass harvest in aspen forests
Miranda T. Curzon, University of Minnesota; Anthony W. D'Amato, University of Minnesota; Brian J. Palik, USDA Forest Service

3:40 PM

COS 103-7

Variation in the susceptibility of species to local extinction alters the effect of predator biodiversity on prey suppression
David R. Chalcraft, East Carolina University; Robert A. Deans, East Carolina University

4:00 PM

COS 103-8

Diversity drives higher tree seedling performance due to associational resistance
Susan Cook-Patton, Smithsonian Environmental Research Center; Marina LaForgia, Smithsonian Environmental Research Center; John D. Parker, Smithsonian Environmental Research Center

4:20 PM

COS 103-9

The role of fungi in biofiltration of livestock emissions: Full-scale and bench-scale observations
Jason P. Oliver, University of Minnesota; Jonathan Schilling, University of Minnesota; Kevin A. Janni, University of Minnesota

4:40 PM

COS 103-10

An ecological assessment of insect diversity at organic Central Coast vegetable farms on two spatial scales
Emily A. Musgrave, San Jose State University; Rachel O'Malley, San Jose State University; Deborah K. Letourneau, University of California-Santa Cruz

COS 103 - Ecosystem Function: Biodiversity I