COS 132
Ecosystem Function: Biodiversity III

Friday, August 15, 2014: 8:00 AM-11:30 AM
Regency Blrm B, Hyatt Regency Hotel
8:00 AM
COS 132-1
 Biodiversity, productivity, and the spatial insurance hypothesis revisited
David W. Shanafelt, Arizona State University; Ulf Dieckmann, International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis; Matthias Jonas, International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis; Oskar Franklin, International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis; Charles Perrings, Arizona State University; Michel Loreau, Station d'Ecologie Expérimentale du CNRS à Moulis
8:20 AM
COS 132-2
 Beta-diversity, not alpha-diversity, is the most important driver of high multifunctionality in natural European forests
Fons van der Plas, Senckenberg Biodiversity Institute; Eric Allan, University of Bern; Pete Manning, University of Bern; Markus Fischer, University of Bern
8:40 AM Cancelled
COS 132-3
 Biodiversity-ecosystem function relationship in natural grassland communities
Kathryn Luckett, Imperial College London; K. Blake Suttle, Imperial College London
9:00 AM
COS 132-4
 A scale-dependent framework for predicting losses and gains in ecosystem functions from shifts in biodiversity patterns
Kristin I. Powell, The National Socio-Environmental Synthesis Center; Nathan Kraft, University of Maryland
9:20 AM
COS 132-5
 Biodiversity drives ecosystem multifunctionality: A meta-analysis
Jonathan Lefcheck, Virginia Institute of Marine Science; Jarrett E. K. Byrnes, University of Massachusetts; Forest Isbell, University of Georgia; Lars Gamfeldt, University of Gothenburg; John N. Griffin, Swansea University; Marc Hensel, University of Massachusetts; Bradley J. Cardinale, University of Michigan; David U. Hooper, Western Washington University; J. Emmett Duffy, Tennenbaum Marine Observatory Network, Smithsonian Institution
9:40 AM
COS 132-
 Break
9:50 AM
COS 132-6
 Tree diversity enhances stand productivity in a large-scale field experiment in subtropical China
Nadia Castro, University of Zurich; Pascal A. Niklaus, University of Zurich
10:10 AM
COS 132-7
 Biodiversity and ecosystem function in the real world: The German Biodiversity Exploratories
Pete Manning, University of Bern; Eric Allan, University of Bern; Markus Fischer, University of Bern; The Biodiversity Exploratories Consortium, BIK-F - Biodiversity Exploratories Office
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