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

8:00 AM

COS 54-1

De-coupled hyperdominance in understory and canopy Amazon tree communities
Frederick C. Draper, Carnegie Institution for Science, Florida International University; Christopher Baraloto, UMR EcoFOG; Gregory P. Asner, Carnegie Institution for Science; Flávia R. C. Costa, Instituto Nacional de Pesquisas da Amazônia (INPA); Oliver Phillips, University of Leeds; Gabriel Arellano, Smithsonian Institution; Manuel J. Macia, Universidad Autónoma de Madrid; Alvaro J. Duque, Universidad Nacional de Colombia; Juliana Scheitti, Instituto Nacional de Pesquisas da Amazônia

8:20 AM

COS 54-2

Response of bird gut microbiomes to insect diet composition across land use
Priscilla San Juan, Stanford University; J. Nicholas Hendershot, Stanford University; Gretchen C. Daily, Stanford University; Tadashi Fukami, Stanford University

8:40 AM

COS 54-3

Non-universality of species area relationships and the geometry of species ranges
Joshua Ladau, Joint Genome Institute; Stephen J. Cornell, University of Liverpool; Katherine S. Pollard, University of California San Francisco, Gladstone Institutes, University of California San Francisco; James O'Dwyer, University of Illinois

9:00 AM

COS 54-4

Fungal communities on neotropical birds across land uses
Laura Aldrich-Wolfe, North Dakota State University; Stefanie N. Vink, University of Groningen; Catherine A. Lindell, Michigan State University

9:20 AM

COS 54-5

Biodiversity Analysis in Los Angeles (BAILA): A novel approach for studying urban environments, citizen science data, and biodiversity
Enjie Li, Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County, The Nature Conservancy; Sophie S. Parker, The Nature Conservancy; Gregory Pauly, Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County; John M. Randall, The Nature Conservancy; Brian Brown, Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County; Brian Cohen, The Nature Conservancy

9:40 AM

COS 54-

Break

9:50 AM

COS 54-6

Nitrogen enrichment effects on grassland plant diversity are dependent on spatial scale
Evan Batzer, University of California Davis; Valerie T. Eviner, University of California Davis

10:10 AM

COS 54-7

Polyploid niches differ from those of diploids, but not in predictable ways, in three species of Phlox
L. Alan Prather, Michigan State University; Shannon D. Fehlberg, Desert Botanical Garden; Carolyn J. Ferguson, Kansas State University

10:30 AM

COS 54-8

A test of the seasonal growth advantage hypothesis to explain pan-tropical plant species distributions
Stefan A. Schnitzer, Marquette University, Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute; Geertje M.F. van der Heijden, University of Nottingham

10:50 AM

COS 54-9

Mechanisms of ecosystem stability shift with diversity change caused by nitrogen addition
Jushan Liu, Northeast Normal University; Forest Isbell, University of Minnesota; Deli Wang, School of Environment, Northeast Normal University

COS 54 - Biodiversity II