Session: Biodiversity I (99th ESA Annual Meeting (August 10 -- 15, 2014))

1:30 PM

COS 2-1

Four-species experimental grassland swards improve agronomic yield and resistance to weeds across 31 international sites
John A. Finn, Johnstown Castle; Laura Kirwan, Waterford Institute of Technology; John Connolly, University College Dublin; Caroline Brophy, Maynooth University; Andreas Lüscher, Forage Production and Grassland Systems

1:50 PM

COS 2-2

Immigration and the maintenance of tree diversity in a tropical forest
Ryan A. Chisholm, National University of Singapore; James P. O'Dwyer, Santa Fe Institute; Stephen W. Pacala, Princeton University; Stephen P. Hubbell, UCLA; Richard Condit, The field museum

2:10 PM

COS 2-3

Contrasting patterns of activity in fungal and bacterial communities along a natural environmental gradient
Rebecca C. Mueller, Los Alamos National Laboratory; Laverne Gallegos-Graves, Los Alamos National Laboratory; Donald R. Zak, University of Michigan; Cheryl R. Kuske, Los Alamos National Laboratory

2:30 PM

COS 2-4

Do more niches or better niches promote species richness? Insight from local and regional drivers of lichen diversity across U.S. forests
Jessica R. Coyle, University of North Carolina; Allen Hurlbert, University of North Carolina

2:50 PM

COS 2-5

Local and regional drivers of plant species richness in Ozark glades
Jesse E. D. Miller, University of California; Ellen I. Damschen, University of Wisconsin-Madison; Susan Harrison, University of California

3:10 PM

COS 2-

Break

3:20 PM

COS 2-6

Species richness of bats (Chiroptera) along lakeshore habitats in western South Carolina
J. Eric Williams, University of California Merced; Wm. David Webster, University of North Carolina Wilmington; Eman Ghoneim, University of North Carolina Wilmington

3:40 PM

COS 2-7

Does interspecific vertical canopy space partitioning promote productivity of mixed subtropical forest stands?
Pascal Niklaus, University of Zurich; Martin Baruffol, Institute of Evolutionary Biology and Environmental Studies, University of Zurich; Bernhard Schmid, University of Zurich

4:00 PM

COS 2-8

Negative functional density dependence and the seed to seedling transition in tropical trees
María Natalia Umaña, Michigan State University; Nathan Swenson, Michigan State University

4:20 PM Cancelled

COS 2-9

Structural and functional microbial diversity determined by shrubs ecophysiological adaptation in Negev desert (widthdrawn)
Varsik Martirosyan, Life Sciences International Postgraduate Educational Center; Yosef Steinberger, Bar Ilan University; Tirza Doniger, Bar Ilan University; Chaim Wachtel, Bar-Ilan University; Gad Miller, Bar-Ilan University

4:40 PM

COS 2-10

Abundance and occupancy of Leopard and their prey in Wangqing Leopard Reserve, China
Li Zhang, Beijing Normal University; Yanchao Cheng, Beijing Normal University; Limin Feng, Beijing Normal University; Tianming Wang, Beijing Normal University; Pu Mou, Beijing Normal University; Jianping Ge, Beijing Normal University

COS 2 Biodiversity I

COS 2
Biodiversity I