Tuesday, August 4, 2020: 3:00 PM-3:30 PM
Co-organizers:
Laura Dee
and
Andrew Gonzalez
This session will present recent advances in the theory and analysis of scaling biodiversity-ecosystem functioning relationships. It will also present a future research agenda to assess these relationships at scales most relevant to policy and conservation. The ecological data revolution brings new opportunities to study ecology across space and time. However, the vast majority of evidence for relationships between biodiversity and ecosystem functioning comes from small-scale, stylized experiments with random species assemblages. Outside of these experiments, biodiversity change shows many patterns at different spatial and temporal scales. Predicting the consequences of biodiversity change on ecosystem functioning across scales will require that we extend the understanding we have at local scales to include patterns of biodiversity change at regional and global scales and across time. Harnessing the biodiversity data revolution to make these predictions, however, will require advances in theory, data, and methods. This session will present recent advances and provide a roadmap for future work.
3:00 PM
The question of scale in biodiversity-ecosystem functioning research: What does theory say?
Andrew Gonzalez, Quebec Center for Biodiversity Science;
Rachel Germain, University of British Columbia;
Diane S. Srivastava, University of British Columbia;
Elise Filotas, Université du Québec (TELUQ);
Laura Dee, University of Colorado-Boulder;
Dominique Gravel, University of Sherbrooke;
Patrick L. Thompson, University of British Columbia;
Forest Isbell, University of Minnesota;
Shaopeng Wang, Peking University;
Sonia Kefi, CNRS;
Jose M. Montoya, Paul Sabatier University;
Yuval R. Zelnik, Station d’Ecologie Théorique et Expérimentale du CNRS;
Michel Loreau, Theoretical and Experimental Ecology Station (CNRS)
3:15 PM
Zooming out to better understand the consequences of biodiversity change
Kathryn Barry, Leipzig University, German Centre for Integrative Biodiversity Research;
Gabriella Pinter, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee;
Joseph Strini, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee;
Karrisa Yang, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee;
Istvan Lauko, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee;
Stefan A. Schnitzer, Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute;
Adam T. Clark, Karl-Franzens-Universität Graz;
Jane M. Cowles, University of Minnesota;
Akira S. Mori, Yokohama National University;
Peter B. Reich, University of Minnesota;
Alexandra J. Wright, Bard College
3:30 PM
Causal inference to infer relationships between biodiversity-productivity in observational data
Laura Dee, University of Colorado-Boulder;
Paul Ferraro, Johns Hopkins University;
Chris Severen, Philadelphia Federal Reserve;
Eric W. Seabloom, University of Minnesota;
Elizabeth T. Borer, University of Minnesota;
Ashley L. Asmus, University of Minnesota;
Michel Loreau, Theoretical and Experimental Ecology Station (CNRS);
Jarrett E. K. Byrnes, University of Massachusetts Boston;
Kimberly Komatsu, Smithsonian Environmental Research Center;
Akira S. Mori, Yokohama National University;
The NutNet Consorteum, Nutrient Network (www.nutnet.org)
4:15 PM
Agenda 2050: Challenges for biodiversity-ecosystem functioning research
Mary O'Connor, University of British Columbia;
Akira S. Mori, Yokohama National University;
Andrew Gonzalez, Quebec Center for Biodiversity Science;
Michel Loreau, Theoretical and Experimental Ecology Station (CNRS);
Meghan Avolio, Johns Hopkins University;
Jarrett E. K. Byrnes, University of Massachusetts Boston;
Jane M. Cowles, University of Minnesota;
Adam T. Clark, University of Minnesota;
Laura Dee, University of Colorado-Boulder;
Yann Hautier, Utrecht University;
Andy Hector, University of Oxford;
Kimberly Komatsu, Smithsonian Environmental Research Center;
Tim Newbold, University College London;
Charlie Outhwaite, University College London;
Peter B. Reich, University of Minnesota;
Eric W. Seabloom, University of Minnesota;
Laura J. Williams, University of Minnesota;
Alexandra J. Wright, California State University: Los Angeles;
Forest Isbell, University of Minnesota
