Session: Ecosystem Stability And Resilience II (98th ESA Annual Meeting (August 4 -- 9, 2013))

1:30 PM

Leading—and misleading—indicators of grassland to shrubland regime shifts
Zak Ratajczak, Kansas State University; Paolo D'Odorico, University of Virginia; Jesse B. Nippert, Kansas State University; Nathaniel Brunsell, University of Kansas; Sujith Ravi, Stanford University; Scott L. Collins, University of New Mexico

1:50 PM

COS 104-2

Global effects of biodiversity and eutrophication on the stability of natural grassland ecosystems
Yann Hautier, University of Minnesota; Nutrient Network, Multiple Institutions

2:10 PM

COS 104-3

Different mechanisms underlie diversity-stability relationships between native- and exotic-dominated communities
Brian J. Wilsey, Iowa State University; Pedram P. Daneshgar, Monmouth University; H. Wayne Polley, USDA, Agricultural Research Service

2:30 PM

COS 104-4

Patterns of direct and indirect interactions prior to systemic shifts in ecological networks
J. Jelle Lever, Wageningen UR & Estación Biológica de Doñana, CSIC; Egbert H. van Nes, Wageningen University; Jordi Bascompte, Estación Biológica de Doñana, CSIC; Marten Scheffer, Wageningen University

2:50 PM

COS 104-5

Tree harvest, fire, and drought can drive state transitions in savannas
Andrew Tredennick, Colorado State University; Niall P. Hanan, South Dakota State University

3:10 PM

COS 104-

Break

3:20 PM

COS 104-6

Competition vs. spatial insurance as determinants of community stability and composition in experimentally warmed pond zooplankton metacommunities
Patrick L. Thompson, McGill University; Andrew Gonzalez, McGill University

3:40 PM

COS 104-7

Dispersal generates a trade-off between adaptive capacity to temperature stress and local adaptation to stable conditions
Britas Klemens Eriksson, University of Groningen; M. Karin de Boer, Centre for Ecological and Evolutionary Studies, University of Groningen; Vera Caruso, Centre for Ecological and Evolutionary Studies, University of Groningen; Helen Moor, Natural Resource Management, Stockholm University; Helmut Hillebrand, Carl von Ossietzky University of Oldenburg; Birte Matthiessen, GEOMAR Helmholtz Centre for Ocean Research

4:20 PM Cancelled

COS 104-8

Vegetation resilience to precipitation anomalies in savanna and grassland biomes in arid and semi-arid Africa (widthdrawn)
Jan C. Ruppert, University of Cologne; Anja Linstädter, University of Cologne

4:00 PM

COS 104-9

Predicting the consequences for stability of connecting ecosystems: What do spatiotemporal patterns of variables tell us?
Matthew P. Hammond, McMaster University; Jurek Kolasa, McMaster University

4:40 PM

COS 104-10

The resilience of a dry tropical forest to single-fire events: A case study in Guánica Forest, southwest Puerto Rico
Tristan Allerton, Clemson University; Skip J. Van Bloem, University of Puerto Rico

COS 104 - Ecosystem Stability And Resilience II