Session: Biodiversity I (2018 ESA Annual Meeting (August 5 -- 10))

1:30 PM

COS 37-1

Maintenance of Borrelia burgdorferi among vertebrate hosts: A test of dilution effect mechanisms
Samniqueka J. Halsey, University of Illinois-Urbana/Champaign; James R. Miller, University of Illinois

1:50 PM

COS 37-2

Disturbance-driven variation in conspecific negative density dependence and the resulting effects on forest diversity
Benjamin S. Ramage, Randolph-Macon College; David M. Chan, Virginia Commonwealth University; Matthew Erik Mills, Virginia Commonwealth University; Daniel J Johnson, Utah State University; Keith Clay, Indiana University

2:10 PM

COS 37-3

Is there a carrying capacity for species richness? Revisiting the more-individuals hypothesis
David Storch, Charles University; Jordan Okie, Arizona State University

2:30 PM

COS 37-4

Loss of a floral patch type has cascading effects on a nectar microbial metacommunity
Marion Donald, Rice University; Adam S. Hadley, Oregon State University; Manpreet K. Dhami, Landcare Research; Kara Leimberger, Oregon State University; Po-Ju Ke, Stanford University; Tadashi Fukami, Stanford University; Thomas Miller, Rice University

2:50 PM

COS 37-5

A field experiment on the importance of species abundance and patch occupancy to extinction risk from habitat loss in a terrestrial arthropod system
Ryan J. Almeida, Davidson College; Kevin G. Smith, Davidson College

3:10 PM

COS 37-

Break

3:20 PM

COS 37-6

Ecological context determines the role of competition in adaptive radiation
Jiaqi Tan, Georgia Institute of Technology; Xian Yang, Georgia Institute of Technology; Qixin He, University of Chicago; Lin Jiang, Georgia Institute of Technology

3:40 PM

COS 37-7

Host specificity may predict a reversed latitudinal diversity gradient pattern in foliar fungal endophytes
Austen Apigo, University of California, Santa Barbara; Rodolfo Salas-Lizana, National Autonomous University of Mexico; Jose Rubén Montés, National Autonomous University of Mexico; Edward Allen Herre, Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute; Luis C. Mejia, Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute, Institute for Scientific Research and High Technology Services (INDICASAT-AIP); Ryoko Oono, University of California, Santa Barbara

4:00 PM

COS 37-8

Plant species and phylogenetic diversity on islands of South China Sea
Shengchun Li, Key Laboratory of Plant Resources Conservation and Sustainable Utilization, South China Botanical Garden, Chinese Academy of Sciences, University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, School of Biological Sciences; Lin Jiang, Georgia Institute of Technology; Shaopeng Li, School of Biological Sciences; Tieyao Tu, Key Laboratory of Plant Resources Conservation and Sustainable Utilization, South China Botanical Garden, Chinese Academy of Sciences; Dianxiang Zhang, Key Laboratory of Plant Resources Conservation and Sustainable Utilization, South China Botanical Garden, Chinese Academy of Sciences

4:20 PM

COS 37-9

A mechanistic explanation of the spatial scaling of relationships between species richness and productivity
Tak Fung, National University of Singapore; Ryan A. Chisholm, National University of Singapore, Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute

COS 37 - Biodiversity I