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

1:30 PM

COS 45-1

Effects of multitrophic changes in biodiversity and species composition on ecosystem functioning
Eric Allan, University of Bern; Santiago Soliveres, University of Bern; Peter Manning, Senckenberg; Caterina Penone, University of Bern; Maria Felipe Lucia, University of Bern; Markus Fischer, University of Bern

1:50 PM

COS 45-2

Multiple facets of biodiversity drive the diversity-stability relationship
Peter Manning, Senckenberg; Dylan James Craven, Universidad Mayor; Nico Eisenhauer, German Centre for Integrative Biodiversity Research (iDiv) Halle-Jena-Leipzig; William Pearse, Utah State University; Yann Hautier, Utrecht University; Christiane Roscher, Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research; Forest Isbell, University of Minnesota

2:10 PM

COS 45-3

The interaction between climate and multiple dimensions of plant diversity regulates ecosystem carbon exchange
Case M. Prager, University of Vermont, University of Copenhagen; Nathan J. Sanders, University of Vermont, University of Copenhagen; Jeremiah A. Henning, University of Tennessee; Xin Jing, University of Vermont; Quentin D. Read, Michigan State University; Peter Meidl, University of Tennesse; Aimée T. Classen, University of Vermont

2:30 PM

COS 45-4

Predicting ecosystem vulnerability to biodiversity loss from community composition
Sebastian Heilpern, Columbia University; Brian C. Weeks, University of Michigan; Shahid Naeem, Columbia University

2:50 PM

COS 45-5

Predator diversity, biological control, and plankton community stability in pond mesocosms
Chase J. Rakowski, University of Texas at Austin; Mathew A. Leibold, University of Florida

3:10 PM

COS 45-

Break

3:20 PM

COS 45-6

Consistent patterns in the activity of bacterial taxa across environmental variation
Ember Morrissey, West Virginia University; Rebecca L. Mau, Northern Arizona University; Xiao-Jun A Liu, Northern Arizona University; Benjamin J. Koch, Northern Arizona University; Michaela Hayer, Northern Arizona University; Egbert Schwartz, Northern Arizona University; Paul Dijkstra, Northern Arizona University; Bruce A. Hungate, Northern Arizona University

3:40 PM

COS 45-7

Using graphical causal models to correctly attribute the contributions of community structure measures to ecosystem functions
Donald R. Schoolmaster Jr., U.S. Geological Survey; Chad R. Zirbel, Michigan State University; James Patrick Cronin, U.S. Geological Survey

4:00 PM

COS 45-8

A modeling framework for predicting species richness as a measure of biodiversity in changing bioenergy-landscapes
Jasmine A. F. Kreig, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, University of Tennessee Knoxville; Henriette (Yetta) Jager, Oak Ridge National Laboratory; Gangsheng Wang, Oak Ridge National Laboratory

4:20 PM

COS 45-9

The TRY database of plant traits: Ongoing developments and future perspectives
Jens Kattge, Max Planck Institute for Biogeochemistry, German Centre for Integrative Biodiversity Research (iDiv) Halle-Jena-Leipzig; Sandra Díaz, Instituto Multidisciplinario de Biología Vegetal, Universidad Nacional de Córdoba; Sandra Lavorel, CNRS - Universite Grenoble Alpes; Paul W. Leadley, Université Paris Sud; I. Colin Prentice, Imperial College; Gerhard Boenisch, Max Planck Institute for Biogeochemistry; Christian Wirth, Max Planck Institute for Biogeochemistry, University of Leipzig, German Centre for Integrative Biodiversity Research (iDiv) Halle-Jena-Leipzig

4:40 PM

COS 45-10

Can partitioning a plant community in functional groups solve the productivity-biodiversity conundrum?
Carlos Alberto Arnillas Merino, University of Toronto, Scarborough; Marc Cadotte, University of Toronto; Jennifer Firn, Queensland University of Technology; Kimberly J. La Pierre, Smithsonian Environmental Research Center; Nutrient Network, Multiple Institutions

COS 45 - Ecosystem Function: Biodiversity II