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

8:00 AM

COS 92-1

Soil homogenization in a tallgrass prairie restoration: Toward resolved understanding of the relationship between soil heterogeneity and plant diversity
Holly J. Stover, University of Western Ontario; Hugh Henry, University of Western Ontario

8:20 AM

COS 92-2

Plasticity in seed production expands the range of coexistence conditions in a competition-colonization trade-off
Ranjan Muthukrishnan, Univeristy of Minnesota; Lauren L. Sullivan, University of Minnesota; Allison Shaw, University of Minnesota; James D. Forester, University of Minnesota

8:40 AM

COS 92-3

Biodiversity of Hymenoptera across sky islands of Arkansas
Allison F. Monroe, Hendrix College; Oliver J. Kuhns, Hendrix College; Reynol Rodriguez, Hendrix College; Sierra C. Hubbard, Hendrix College; Maureen R. McClung, Hendrix College; Matthew D. Moran, Hendrix College; Michael W. Gates, Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History

9:00 AM

COS 92-4

Does diversity of tree neighbors influence moth and butterfly host use and compositional patterns: A test in a large-scale tree diversity experiment
Karin T. Burghardt, Smithsonian Environmental Research Center; John Parker, Smithsonian Environmental Research Center

9:20 AM

COS 92-5

Relationship between cattle stocking rates and diversity of vascular plants, mosses, lichens, mammals, birds and mites
Tan Bao, University of Alberta; Cameron N. Carlyle, University of Alberta; Edward W. Bork, University of Alberta; Craig DeMaere, University of Alberta; Mike Alexander, Government of Alberta; Marcus Becker, Alberta Biodiversity Monitoring Institute; Dan R. Farr, Government of Alberta; Majid Iravani, Alberta Biodiversity Monitoring Institute; Tim A. McAllister, Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada; Jim Schieck, Alberta Biodiversity Monitoring Institute; Carrie Selin, Alberta Biodiversity Monitoring Institute; Marian Weber, Alberta Innovates; James F. Cahill Jr., University of Alberta

9:40 AM

COS 92-

Break

9:50 AM

COS 92-6

Species responses to nutrient addition depend on abundance and persistence
Ashley L. Asmus, University of Minnesota; Elizabeth T. Borer, University of Minnesota; Eric W. Seabloom, University of Minnesota; Nutrient Network, Multiple Institutions

10:10 AM

COS 92-7

Dung beetle diversity (Scarabaeidae) in sheep grazing pastures and temperate forests in the Mexican Transition Zone
Cecilia Lucero Rios Sr., Universidad Autónoma del Estado de Hidalgo; Claudia E. Moreno Ortega Jr., Universidad Autónoma del Estado de Hidalgo; Ilse J. Ortega Martínez II, Universidad Autónoma del Estado de Hidalgo

10:30 AM

COS 92-8

Ecological controls on coexistence and global biodiversity gradients
Alex L Pigot, UCL

10:50 AM

COS 92-9

Interspecific variation in conspecific negative density-dependence can make species less likely to coexist
Simon M. Stump, Yale University; Liza S. Comita, Yale University

COS 92 - Biodiversity IV