ESA/SER Joint Meeting (August 5 -- August 10, 2007)

COS 60 - Biodiversity and ecosystem function I

Wednesday, August 8, 2007: 8:00 AM-11:30 AM

J1, San Jose McEnery Convention Center

8:00 AM

COS 60-1

The balance of niche and neutral processes dictate the effects of biodiversity on ecosystem production
Ian T. Carroll, Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution; Bradley J. Cardinale, University of Michigan

8:20 AM

COS 60-2

Does community production drive species diversity or vice versa? Towards resolution of a diversity paradox
Bradley J. Cardinale, University of Michigan; Danuta Bennett, University of California; Kevin Gross, North Carolina State University

8:40 AM

COS 60-3

Does species richness drive community production or vice versa? Reconciling historical and contemporary paradigms in models of competitive communities
Kevin Gross, North Carolina State University; Bradley J. Cardinale, University of Michigan

9:00 AM

COS 60-5

Biogeographic affinity helps explain the productivity-richness relationship at regional and local scales
Susan Harrison, University of California; James Grace, USGS National Wetlands Research Center

9:20 AM

COS 60-6

Can the functional consequences of species extinction be predicted by evolutionary history?
Marc Cadotte, University of Toronto - Scarborough; Bradley J. Cardinale, University of Michigan; Todd H. Oakley, University of California

9:40 AM

COS 60-

Break

9:50 AM

COS 60-7

Influences of tropical tree diversity on soil carbon dynamics: Results from a laboratory incubation
William R. Wieder, University of Colorado, Boulder; Cory C. Cleveland, University of Montana; Alan R. Townsend, University of Colorado at Boulder

10:10 AM

COS 60-8

Species distribution: Correlating plant species richness and MODIS NDVI based on Beta diversity measurements
Jianting Zhang, University of New Mexico; Kate He, Murray State University

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