COS 157 - Ecosystem Stability And Resilience I

Thursday, August 9, 2012: 1:30 PM-5:00 PM
E141, Oregon Convention Center
1:30 PM
 Empirical evidence from and simulations of a tropical coral reef show positive feedbacks can produce alternate community states
Ranjan Muthukrishnan, Univeristy of Minnesota; James O. Lloyd-Smith, National Institutes of Health; Peggy Fong, UCLA
1:50 PM
 Resource stability regulates ecosystem multifunctionality
Ian Donohue, Trinity College Dublin; Antoine Dubois, Trinity College Dublin; Jorge García Molinos, Trinity College Dublin
2:10 PM
2:30 PM
 Diversity awareness: Using Arabidopsis as a model for crop varietal mixtures
Henry E. Creissen, John Innes Centre; Tove H. Jorgensen, University of East Anglia; James K. M. Brown, John Innes Centre
2:50 PM
 Inferring resilience of forest ecosystems from satellite data
Milena Holmgren, University of Wageningen; Marina Hirota, Wageningen University; Egbert H. van Nes, Wageningen University; Marten Scheffer, Wageningen University
3:10 PM
3:20 PM
 The spatial insurance hypothesis in spatially explicit networks
Patrick L. Thompson, McGill University; Bronwyn Rayfield, McGill University; Andrew Gonzalez, McGill University
3:40 PM
 Spatial variation, synchrony, and loss of stability in ecosystem variables
Matthew P. Hammond, McMaster University; Jurek Kolasa, McMaster University
4:00 PM
 Conditional heteroskedasticity warns of impending regime shift in whole-ecosystem experiment
David A. Seekell, University of Virginia; Stephen R. Carpenter, University of Wisconsin - Madison; Timothy J. Cline, University of Wisconsin-Madison; Michael L. Pace, University of Virginia
4:20 PM
 Zooplankton provide early warning of a regime shift in a whole lake manipulation
Michael L. Pace, University of Virginia; Stephen R. Carpenter, University of Wisconsin - Madison; Jason Kurtzweil, University of Wisconsin - Madison; Robert A. Johnson, University of Virginia
4:40 PM
 Critical slowing down provides advance warning of population collapse 
Lei Dai, Massachusetts Institute of Technology; Daan Vorselen, VU University; Kirill Korolev, Boston University; Jeff Gore, MIT