Session: Communities: Traits And Functional Diversity (2019 ESA Annual Meeting (August 11 -- 16))

PS 6-55

On a global scale, the fruit bodies of mushroom assemblages in the temperate zone are the largest
Claus Bässler, Bavarian Forest National Park; Jörg Müller, Bavarian Forest National Park; Franz Krah, Technical University München; Arthur Reinelt, Bavarian Forest National Park; Roland Brandl, Philipps-University Marburg; Hans Halbwachs, Bavarian Forest National Park

PS 6-56

Does predation limit the variability in prey traits among communities?
Joseph T. Neale, Rice University; Volker H. W. Rudolf, Rice University

PS 6-57

Effects of forest productivity and succession on the species and functional diversity of New England ant communities
Maggie Anderson, Lawrence University; Israel Del Toro, University of Copenhagen; Aaron Ellison, Harvard University

PS 6-58

Climate and allometry explain variation in wood density in California trees and shrubs
Rebecca A. Nelson, Stanford University; Leander DL Anderegg, University of Washington; Emily Francis, Stanford University; Joseph A. Berry, Carnegie Institution for Science

PS 6-59

Fine root respiration is more strongly correlated with an acquisition-conservation functional trade-off than tree species identity
Eva Paradiso, Wellesley College; Fiona Jevon, Dartmouth College; Jaclyn Matthes, Wellesley College

PS 6-60

Diversity of neighborhood hydraulic regulation mediates growth response during drought in temperate forests
V. R. Kirk Acharya, University of Michigan; Inés Ibáñez, University of Michigan

PS 6-61

Contrasting ecohydrological functional trait relationships in savanna tree and grass species
Julienne E. NeSmith, University of Georgia; Jesse B. Nippert, Kansas State University; Ricardo M. Holdo, University of Georgia

PS 6-62

Flow similarity, stochastic branching, and quarter power scaling in plants
Charles A. Price, University of Western Australia; Paul Drake, University of Western Australia; Erik Veneklaas, University of Western Australia; Michael Renton, University of Western Australia

PS 6-63

A meta-analytical generalization of plant performance as a function of seed mass
Jurian J. Yock, Kutztown University; Christopher W. Habeck, Kutztown University

PS 6-64

Ditching discrete data: A case for the use of continuous models when classifying bee body size
Joshua Marino, Saint Louis University; Jordan Hathaway, Saint Louis University; Gerardo R. Camilo, Saint Louis University

PS 6-65

Do physiological functional traits define differences between tropical lianas and trees?
Felipe Mello, Marquette University; Yuriani Cozzarelli, Marquette University; Maria Muriel Garcia, Marquette University; Christine Scoffoni, California State University; Stefan A. Schnitzer, Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute, Marquette University

PS 6-66

Eighty-two years of plant composition and functional group change in a chaparral community
Wade M. Gibson, Northern Arizona University; Margaret M. Moore, Northern Arizona University; Jackson M. Leonard, US Forest Service, Rocky Mountain Research Station; Kevin C. Grady, Northern Arizona University

PS 6-67

Seed dispersing ants in the longleaf pine sandhill ecosystem: A subset of the generalist ant community resilient to prescribed fire
Rachel A Atchison, University of Florida; Andrea Lucky, University of Florida

PS 6-68

Comparative demographics and hyperdominance of Lecythidaceae species in a mature Amazonian forest
Tamara F. Milton, University of Michigan; Alberto Vicentini, Instituto Nacional de Pesquisas da Amazônia; Christopher W. Dick, University of Michigan

PS 6 - Communities: Traits And Functional Diversity