Session: Functional Ecology (100th ESA Annual Meeting (August 9 -- 14, 2015))

8:00 AM

COS 70-1

Variations of plant N, P concentrations in shrubland biomes across northern China: Phylogeny, climate and soil
Xian Yang, Peking University, Georgia Institute of Technology; Lin Jiang, Georgia Institute of Technology; Chengjun Ji, Peking University; Hongyan Liu, Peking University; Wenhong Ma, Inner Mongolia University; Anwar Mohhamot, Xinjiang Institute of Ecology and Geography, Chinese Academy of Sciences; Zhaoyong Shi, Henan University of Science and Technology; Xiangping Wang, Beijing Forestry University; Shunli Yu, Institute of Botany, Chinese Academy of Science; Ming Yue, Northwest University; Chengyang Zheng, Peking University; Zhiyao Tang, Peking University

8:20 AM

COS 70-2

Does biomass partitioning differ between woody plant functional types? Analysis of a global biomass and allometry database (BAAD)
Remko A. Duursma, Western Sydney University; Daniel S. Falster, Macquarie University

8:40 AM

COS 70-3

Does environmental variability drive plant functional trait variability?
Rachel M. Mitchell, Duke University; Justin P. Wright, Duke University; Gregory M. Ames, Duke University

9:00 AM

COS 70-4

A worldview of root traits: functional trait variation in fine roots of seed plants
Oscar J. Valverde-Barrantes, Kent State University; Christopher Blackwood, Kent State University

9:20 AM

COS 70-5

Tropical dry forests on serpentine soils are structured by cloud line: Insights from plant functional diversity and turnover across elevation
Catherine M. Hulshof De la Peña, Recinto Universitario de Mayagüez, Universidad de Puerto Rico

9:40 AM

COS 70-

Break

9:50 AM

COS 70-6

Biotic and abiotic factors affect dispersal and spread of an invasive thistle
Brittany J. Teller, Utah State University; Eelke Jongejans, Radboud University; Katherine M. Marchetto, Cornell University; Laura A. Russo, Cornell University; Rui Zhang, Harvard Forest; Katriona Shea, The Pennsylvania State University

10:10 AM

COS 70-7

Anatomical underpinnings of wood density better associated with growth and mortality of tropical trees
Oyomoare Osazuwa-Peters, University of Missouri-Saint Louis; S. Joseph Wright, Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute; Amy Zanne, The George Washington University

10:30 AM

COS 70-8

Decomposing leaf mass into photosynthetic and structural components explains divergent patterns of trait variation within vs. among plant communities
Masatoshi Katabuchi, University of Florida; Kaoru Kitajima, Kyoto University; Joseph S. Wright, Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute; Jeanne L. D. Osnas, Purdue University; Jeremy W. Lichstein, University of Florida

10:50 AM

COS 70-9

Can root competition be size asymmetric?
Anne Nygaard Weisbach, University of Copenhagen; Camilla R. Rasmussen, University of Copenhagen; Kristian Thorup-Kristensen, University of Copenhagen; Jacob Weiner, University of Copenhagen

11:10 AM

COS 70-10

Environmental filtering determines patterns of host trait covariation and the ability of host traits to predict pathogen infection
Miranda E. Welsh, University of North Carolina; James Patrick Cronin, U.S. Geological Survey; Charles E. Mitchell, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

COS 70 Functional Ecology

COS 70
Functional Ecology