Thursday, August 9, 2018: 8:00 AM-11:30 AM
245, New Orleans Ernest N. Morial Convention Center
8:20 AM
Limits to forest growth: Saturating biomass and climate change
Kai Zhu, University of California, Santa Cruz;
Jian Zhang, East China Normal University;
Shuli Niu, Key Laboratory of Ecosystem Network Observation and Modeling, Institute of Geographic Sciences and Natural Resources Research, Chinese Academy of Sciences;
Chengjin Chu, Sun Yat-sen University;
Yiqi Luo, Northern Arizona University
9:50 AM
Food and industrial crops in a warmer sub-Saharan Africa: Looking for adaptation through agro-biodiversity
Samuel Pironon, Royal Botanic Gardens Kew;
James Borrell, Royal Botanic Gardens Kew;
Thomas Etherington, Royal Botanic Gardens Kew;
Eleanor Hammond-Hunt, Royal Botanic Gardens Kew;
Nicola Kuhn, Royal Botanic Gardens Kew;
Marc Macias-Fauria, University of Oxford;
Ian Ondo, Royal Botanic Gardens Kew;
Carolina Tovar, Royal Botanic Gardens Kew;
Paul Wilkin, Royal Botanic Gardens Kew;
Katherine J. Willis, University of Oxford, Royal Botanic Gardens Kew