Session: Communities: Traits And Functional Diversity III (2017 ESA Annual Meeting (August 6 -- 11))

1:30 PM

COS 55-1

Intraspecific trait-environment relationships in Western grasses, and implications for ecological restoration
Carla Roybal, Northern Arizona Univeristy; Brad Butterfield, Northern Arizona University; Troy Wood, U.S. Geological Survey

1:50 PM

COS 55-2

Small mammals influence functional diversity in California grassland plant communities
Loralee Larios, University of California-Riverside; John L. Maron, The University of Montana

2:10 PM

COS 55-3

Thermal and nutritional niche partitioning promotes species coexistence in an invaded ant assemblage
Karl A. Roeder, University of Oklahoma; Diane V. Roeder, Cameron University; Michael Kaspari, University of Oklahoma

2:30 PM

COS 55-4

Functional traits and tradeoffs explain dominance of invasive plant species under drought and nitrogen deposition
Justin M. Valliere, University of California, Los Angeles; Edith B. Allen, University of California, Riverside

2:50 PM

COS 55-5

Demographic drivers of functional composition dynamics
Robert Muscarella, Aarhus University, Uppsala University; Madelon Lohbeck, Wageningen University, World Agroforestry Centre; Miguel Martinez-Ramos, Universidad Nacional Autonoma de Mexico; Lourens Poorter, Wageningen University; Jorge Enrique Rodriguez-Velázquez, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México; Michiel van Breugel, Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute; Frans Bongers, Wageningen University

3:10 PM

COS 55-

Break

3:20 PM

COS 55-6

Scaling the relationship between functional trait variation and evolutionary history
C.M. Tucker, University of North Carolina, CNRS; Francois Vasseur, CNRS; Cyrille Violle, CNRS

3:40 PM

COS 55-7

Comparing taxonomic and functional diversity in canopy insect communities across a space for time substitution: The role of productivity versus substrate age
Elske Karolien Tielens, University of Maryland; Daniel Gruner, University of Maryland

4:00 PM

COS 55-8

Deconstructing leaf trait variation along tropical environmental gradients
Lisa Patrick Bentley, University of Oxford; Imma Oliveras, University of Oxford; Nikolaos Fyllas, Hellenic Agricultural Organization; Roberta E. Martin, Carnegie Institution for Science; Agne Gvozdevaite, University of Oxford; Alexander Shenkin, University of Oxford; Norma Salinas, Universidad San Antonio Abad del Cusco; Theresa Peprah, CSIR-Forestry Research Institute of Ghana; Beatriz Marimon, Universidade do Estado de Mato Grosso; Ben Hur Marimon-Junior, Universidade do Estado de Mato Grosso; Stephen Adu-Bredu, Forestry Research Institute of Ghana; Gregory P. Asner, Carnegie Institution for Science; Sandra Díaz, Instituto Multidisciplinario de Biología Vegetal, Universidad Nacional de Córdoba; Brian Enquist, University of Arizona; Yadvinder Malhi, University of Oxford

4:20 PM

COS 55-9

Effects of functional similarity on seedling survival may help to explain species diversity in tropical forests
Caicai Zhang, University of Chinese Academy of Sciences

4:40 PM

COS 55-10

Effects of environmental filtering and non-random mortality on the theoretical trait space of North American trees
Michael Fell, Northern Arizona University; Kiona Ogle, Northern Arizona University; Jarrett Barber, Northern Arizona University; Jeremy W. Lichstein, University of Florida

COS 55 - Communities: Traits And Functional Diversity III