Wednesday, August 10, 2016: 8:00 AM-11:30 AM
	124/125, Ft Lauderdale Convention Center
	
	
	
	
	
	
	
	
		
	
	
	
		
	
	
	
	
	
	8:00 AM 
	
	
	
	
	
		Plant species richness and functional group composition affect root decomposition via changes in both root substrate quality and soil biota
		
			
				
Hongmei Chen, University of Leipzig; 
			
				
Liesje Mommer, Wageningen University; 
			
				
Jasper van Ruijven, Wageningen University; 
			
				
Hans de Kroon, Radboud University; 
			
				
Arthur Gessler, Swiss Federal Institute for Forest, Snow and Landscape Research WSL, Berlin-Brandenburg Institute of Advanced Biodiversity Research (BBIB); 
			
				
Michael Scherer-Lorenzen, University of Freiburg; 
			
				
Christian Wirth, German Centre for Integrative Biodiversity Research (iDiv) Halle-Jena-Leipzig, University of Leipzig; 
			
				
Alexandra Weigelt, University of Leipzig, German Centre for Integrative Biodiversity Research (iDiv) Halle-Jena-Leipzig
			
		
	 
 
	
	
	
	
	9:20 AM 
	
	
	
	
	
		Ecological and socioeconomic functions across tropical land-use systems after rainforest conversion
		
			
				
Jochen Drescher, Georg-August University; 
			
				
Katja Rembold, Georg-August University; 
			
				
Damayanti Buchori, Bogor Agricultural University; 
			
				
Alexander Knohl, Georg-August University; 
			
				
Christoph Leuschner, University of Goettingen; 
			
				
Matin Qaim, Georg-August University; 
			
				
Aiyen Tjoa, Tadulako University; 
			
				
Kerstin Wiegand, Georg-August University; 
			
				
Holger Kreft, Georg-August University; 
			
				
Stefan Scheu, Georg-August University
			
		
	 
 
	
	
	
	
	10:30 AM 
	
	
	
	
	
		Biodiversity increases the resistance of ecosystem productivity to climate extremes
		
			
				
Forest Isbell, University of Minnesota; 
			
				
Dylan James Craven, Universidad Mayor; 
			
				
John Connolly, University College Dublin; 
			
				
Michel Loreau, Station d'Ecologie Expérimentale du CNRS à Moulis; 
			
				
Bernhard Schmid, University of Zurich; 
			
				
Carl Beierkuhnlein, University of Bayreuth; 
			
				
T. Martijn Bezemer, Netherlands Institute of Ecology (NIOO-KNAW); 
			
				
Catherine Bonin, Iowa State University; 
			
				
Helge Bruelheide, Martin Luther University Halle-Wittenberg; 
			
				
Enrica de Luca, University of Zurich; 
			
				
Anne Ebeling, Friedrich Schiller University Jena; 
			
				
John N. Griffin, Swansea University; 
			
				
Qinfeng Guo, USDA Forest Service - Southern Research Station; 
			
				
Yann Hautier, Utrecht University; 
			
				
Andy Hector, University of Oxford; 
			
				
Anke Jentsch, University of Bayreuth; 
			
				
Juergen Kreyling, Greifswald University; 
			
				
Vojtech Lanta, University of South Bohemia; 
			
				
Pete Manning, University of Bern; 
			
				
Sebastian T. Meyer, Technische Universität München; 
			
				
Akira S. Mori, Yokohama National University; 
			
				
Shahid Naeem, Columbia University; 
			
				
Pascal Niklaus, University of Zurich; 
			
				
H. Wayne Polley, USDA, Agricultural Research Service; 
			
				
Peter B. Reich, University of Minnesota; 
			
				
Christiane Roscher, Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research; 
			
				
Eric W. Seabloom, University of Minnesota; 
			
				
Melinda Smith, Colorado State University; 
			
				
Madhav Prakash Thakur, Friedrich-Schiller-University Jena; 
			
				
David Tilman, University of Minnesota; 
			
				
Benjamin F. Tracy, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University; 
			
				
Wim H. Van der Putten, Netherlands Institute of Ecology; 
			
				
Jasper van Ruijven, Wageningen University; 
			
				
Alexandra Weigelt, German Centre for Integrative Biodiversity Research (iDiv) Halle-Jena-Leipzig; 
			
				
Wolfgang Weisser, Technical University of Munich; 
			
				
Brian J. Wilsey, Iowa State University; 
			
				
Nico Eisenhauer, Leipzig University