Session: Biodiversity II (2017 ESA Annual Meeting (August 6 -- 11))

8:00 AM

COS 27-1

Mixed conifer understory plant diversity patterns across wildfire severity classes and associated ecological characteristics of the Sierra Nevada, California
Clark Richter, University of California - Davis; Marcel Rejmánek, University of California, Davis; Hugh D. Safford, Regional Ecologist, USDA Forest Service

8:20 AM

COS 27-2

Resource quantity and resource heterogeneity shape species richness and beta-diversity patterns in big sagebrush plant communities
Kyle A. Palmquist, University of Wyoming; Samuel E. Jordan, Yale University; John B. Bradford, U.S. Geological Survey; Daniel R. Schlaepfer, University of Wyoming, University of Basel; William K. Lauenroth, University of Wyoming, Yale University

8:40 AM

COS 27-3

Response of avian gut microbiome composition to land use change in a countryside landscape in Costa Rica
Priscilla San Juan, Stanford University; Tadashi Fukami, Stanford University

9:00 AM

COS 27-4

Beyond the macro: The role of micronutrients in structuring plant and insect communities in coastal tallgrass prairies
Chelse M. Prather, University of Dayton; Angela N. Laws, Kansas State University; Ryan W. Reihart, University of Dayton; Steven Pennings, University of Houston

9:20 AM

COS 27-5

Effects of fire and rodent presence on a semi-arid cold-desert ant community
Joshua D. Day, Brigham Young University; Samuel B. St Clair, Brigham Young University

9:40 AM

COS 27-

Break

9:50 AM

COS 27-6

Improving global scale diversity estimates with high-throughput automation of high quality species range maps
Cory Merow, University of Connecticut; Walter Jetz, Yale University

10:10 AM

COS 27-7

It’s all relative: Bacterial richness varies across global habitats
Kendra Walters, University of California, Irvine; Jennifer B.H. Martiny, University of California, Irvine

10:30 AM

COS 27-8

Modeling multi-scale plant species richness in a Piedmont, NC landscape using LiDAR-hyperspectral remote-sensing
Christopher Hakkenberg, University of North Carolina; Kai Zhu, University of Texas, Arlington; Robert K. Peet, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill; Conghe Song, UNC Chapel Hill

10:50 AM

COS 27-9

Nitrogen uptake and crown-level allocation across an experimental tree diversity gradient
Shan Kothari, University of Minnesota Twin Cities; Jeannine Cavender-Bares, University of Minnesota; Anna K. Schweiger, University of Minnesota; Philip Townsend, University of Wisconsin-Madison; Sarah E. Hobbie, University of Minnesota; Rebecca A. Montgomery, University of Minnesota

11:10 AM Cancelled

COS 27-10

Reconciling the effects of time, area, and energy on geographic gradients of species richness and coexistence (widthdrawn)
Walter Jetz, Yale University

COS 27 - Biodiversity II