Thursday, August 6, 2009: 1:30 PM-5:00 PM
Grand Pavillion IV, Hyatt
Presider:
Fiona J. Clissold, The University of Sydney
2:10 PM
Empirical evaluation of the external branching architecture of diverse trees in light of metabolic scaling theory assumptions
Lisa D. Patrick, University of Arizona;
Philippe Grégiore, University of Arizona;
Vanessa R. Buzzard, University of Arizona;
William W. Driscoll, University of Arizona;
Scott C. Stark, Michigan State University;
James C. Stegen, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory;
Andrew J. Kerkhoff, Kenyon College;
Charles A. Price, University of Western Australia;
Christine A. Lamanna, University of Maine;
Ashley L. Wiede, University of Arizona;
Evan Sommer, University of Arizona;
Van M. Savage, UCLA;
Brian J. Enquist, University of Arizona
3:20 PM
Food of life: Fire of life!
Chen Hou, Albert Einstein Medical College;
Wenyun Zuo, University of New Mexico;
Melanie Moses, University of New Mexico;
William H. Woodruff, Los Alamos National Laboratory,;
James H. Brown, University of New Mexico;
Geoffrey B. West, The Santa Fe Institute
