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

8:00 AM

COS 18-1

Drought tolerance and escape traits in semiarid grasslands: Tradeoffs with leaf economics and synergies with herbivore resistance
Dana M. Blumenthal, USDA, Agricultural Research Service; Kevin E. Mueller, Cleveland State University; Kevin Wilcox, University of Wyoming; Julie A. Kray, USDA-ARS; Troy W. Ocheltree, Colorado State University; David J. Augustine, USDA-ARS

8:20 AM Cancelled

COS 18-2

The environmental predictors of ant melanisation over a bioclimatic gradient (widthdrawn)
James T. Buxton, La Trobe University; Matthew W. Bulbert, Macquarie University; Claire Buchanan, La Trobe University; Evan G. Robertson, La Trobe University; Mark A. Elgar, University of Melbourne; Heloise Gibb, La Trobe University

8:40 AM

COS 18-3

Testing the pessimistic-optimistic crown architecture hypothesis in a hyperdiverse forest
Marcel Vaz, UCLA; José L.C. Camargo, National Institute for Amazonian Research (INPA) and Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute; Alexandre A. Oliveira, Universidade de São Paulo; Alberto Vicentini, Instituto Nacional de Pesquisas da Amazônia; Nathan J. B. Kraft, University of California, Los Angeles

9:00 AM

COS 18-4

Life between patches: Relaxing assumptions about inter-patch ecology alters the predictions of metacommunity models
Elizabeth T. Miller, University of Oregon; Brendan J.M. Bohannan, University of Oregon

9:20 AM

COS 18-5

Intraspecific trait variability regulates the trait integration-biodiversity relationships along environmental gradients
Enrong Yan, East China Normal University; Dong He, East China Normal University; Shekhar R. Biswas, East China Normal University; Mingshan Xu, East China Normal University; Wenhui You, East China Normal University

9:40 AM

COS 18-

Break

9:50 AM

COS 18-6

A survey on the interpretation and application of the terms 'trait' and 'functional trait' among ecologists
Samantha Dawson, Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences; Alexander Duthie, University of Stirling; Manuela Gonzalez-Suarez, University of Reading; Mari Jönsson, Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences; Carlos Pérez Carmona, University of Tartu

10:10 AM

COS 18-7

Alternative designs and tropical tree seedling growth performance landscapes
Samantha Worthy, University of Maryland; Daniel Laughlin, University of Wyoming; Jenny Zambrano, University of Maryland; Maria Natalia Umaña, University of Michigan; Caicai Zhang, University of Chinese Academy of Sciences; Luxiang Lin, Xishuangbanna Tropical Botanical Garden, CAS; Min Cao, Xishuangbanna Tropical Botanical Garden, CAS; Nathan G. Swenson, University of Maryland

10:30 AM

COS 18-8

Functional diversity is a passenger but not driver of drought-related plant diversity losses in annual grasslands
Jesse E. D. Miller, Stanford University; Daijiang Li, University of Florida; Marina LaForgia, UC Davis; Susan P. Harrison, University of California, Davis

10:50 AM

COS 18-9

Tree diversity effects on aboveground productivity and UAV remote sensing of canopy traits in field experiments
Kyle Ryan Kovach, University of Freiburg; Michael Scherer-Lorenzen, University of Freiburg; Harald Auge, Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research - UFZ; Charles A. Nock, University of Alberta

COS 18 - Communities: Traits And Functional Diversity II