94th ESA Annual Meeting (August 2 -- 7, 2009)

Monday, August 3, 2009: 1:30 PM-5:00 PM

Santa Ana, Albuquerque Convention Center

Presider:

Rakan A. Zahawi, Organization for Tropical Studies

1:30 PM

COS 6-1

Desert woody plant functional strategies are related to facilitation and precipitation variability
Brad J. Butterfield, Arizona State University; John M. Briggs, Kansas State University

1:50 PM

COS 6-2

The relationship between functional traits, climate and demographic rates across temperate tree species
Jordi Martínez-Vilalta, CREAF / Autonomous University of Barcelona; Jordi Vayreda, CREAF / Autonomous University of Barcelona; Maurizio Mencuccini, ICREA - CREAF and University of Edinburgh; Javier Retana, CREAF / Autonomous University of Barcelona

2:10 PM

COS 6-3

Linking leaf toughness to performance traits and life history characteristics of tree species in a moist forest in Bolivia
Kaoru Kitajima, University of Florida; Lourens Poorter, Wageningen University

2:30 PM

COS 6-4

How do leaf functional traits vary across ecological scales?
Julie Messier, University of Arizona; Brian J. McGill, University of Maine; Martin J. Lechowicz, McGill University

2:50 PM

COS 6-5

The relationship of water- and nitrogen-use efficiency to C₄-cycle activity in C₃-C₄ intermediate species of Flaveria (Asteraceae)
Patrick J. Vogan, University of Guelph; Rowan F Sage, University of Toronto

3:10 PM

COS 6-

Break

3:20 PM

COS 6-6

Macrophyte declines in Florida's spring-fed rivers: Implications for faunal organisms
Edward V. Camp, University of Florida; William E Pine III, University of Florida; Christina L. Staudhammer, University of Alabama; Thomas K. Frazer, University of Florida

3:40 PM

COS 6-7

CANCELLED - Predicting declines in avian species richness under non-random patterns of habitat loss in a Neotropical landscape
Ghislain Rompré, Université Laval; W. Douglas Robinson, Oregon State University; André Desrochers, Université Laval

4:00 PM

COS 6-8

Species-area relationships are altered by biological invasions
Kristin I. Powell, The National Socio-Environmental Synthesis Center; Jonathan M. Chase, Biodiversity Synthesis Laboratory; Tiffany M. Knight, Washington University in St. Louis

4:20 PM

COS 6-9

Tree and liana diversity in an African forest
Duncan Thomas, Oregon State University; David Kenfack, Center for Tropical Forest Science & Smithsonian Global Earth Observatory; George B. Chuyong, University of Buea; Sainge N. Moses, Korup Forest Dynamics Plot Programme

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COS 6 - Functional Ecology and Species-Area Relationships