Session: Communities: Traits And Functional Diversity II (2018 ESA Annual Meeting (August 5 -- 10))

1:30 PM

Inter- and intraspecific consumer trait variation determine consumer diversity effects in multispecies predator-prey systems
Sabine Flöder, Carl von Ossietzky University of Oldenburg; Toni Klauschies, University of Potsdam; Ursula Gaedke, University of Potsdam; Lara Bromann, Carl von Ossietzky University of Oldenburg; Rebecca Schröter, Carl von Ossietzky University of Oldenburg; Stefanie D. Moorthi, Carl von Ossietzky University of Oldenburg

1:50 PM

COS 115-2

Quantifying the role of wood density in explaining interspecific variation in growth of tropical trees
Emily Francis, Stanford University; Helene Muller-Landau, Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute; S. Joseph Wright, Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute; Marco D. Visser, Radboud University Nijmegen; Yoshiko Iida, Michigan State University; Christine Fletcher, Forest Research Institute Malaysia; Stephen P. Hubbell, Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute; Abdul Rahman Kassim, Forest Research Institute Malaysia

2:10 PM

COS 115-3

Fine-root strategies along an environmental gradient in western Canada: Support for a multidimensional root trait framework
Camille Defrenne, The University of British Columbia; M. Luke McCormack, University of Minnesota; Shalom D. Addo-Danso, The University of British Columbia; Suzanne W. Simard, University of British Columbia

2:30 PM

COS 115-4

Leaf economic traits of Hawaiian species are independent of geographic distribution
Andrea C. Westerband, University of Hawaii at Manoa; Tiffany Knight, Martin Luther University Halle-Wittenberg; Kasey E. Barton, University of Hawaii at Manoa

2:50 PM

COS 115-5

Do demographic rates and functional traits relate to species position in the canopy?
Claire Fortunel, University of Texas at Austin, Institut de Recherche pour le Développement; Caroline Farrior, University of Texas at Austin

3:10 PM

COS 115-

Break

3:20 PM

COS 115-6

Waves or ripples? Whole genome duplication and plant community structure
Michelle L. Gaynor, University of Central Florida; Julienne Ng, University of Colorado at Boulder; Robert G. Laport, Rhodes College, University of Colorado Boulder

3:40 PM

COS 115-7

Dung beetle functional traits related to restoration management practices in tallgrass prairie
Sheryl C. Hosler, University of Illinois-Chicago; Holly P. Jones, Northern Illinois University; Nicholas A. Barber, Northern Illinois University

4:00 PM

COS 115-8

Predicting ecosystem roles without a priori information: Inferences about fishes in coastal mosaics
Stephen Potts, Louisiana State University

4:20 PM

COS 115-9

Inclusion of intraspecific variation does not improve predictive power of functional diversity for ecosystem function in restored prairie plant communities
Anna K. Farrell, Northern Illinois University; Ryan C. Blackburn, Northern Illinois University; Holly P. Jones, Northern Illinois University; Nicholas A. Barber, Northern Illinois University

4:40 PM

COS 115-10

Towards an ecological trait-data standard
Florian D. Schneider, Darmstadt University of Technology; Caterina Penone, University of Bern; Malte Jochum, University of Bern; Gaëtane Le-Provost, Senckenberg; Andreas Ostrowski, University of Jena; Nadja K. Simons, Technical University of Munich

COS 115 - Communities: Traits And Functional Diversity II