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

Monday, August 6, 2007: 1:30 PM-5:00 PM

J1, San Jose McEnery Convention Center

1:30 PM

COS 1-1

Productivity, temperature, and the global distribution of terrestrial vertebrates
Walter Jetz, Yale University

1:50 PM

COS 1-2

Global meta-analysis of elevational diversity for amphibians and reptiles
Christy M. McCain, University of Colorado Boulder

2:10 PM

COS 1-3

Latitudinal diversity gradient drives community response to heterogeneity and shapes marine biodiversity patterns at small scales
Amy L. Freestone, Temple University; Richard W. Osman, Smithsonian Environmental Research Center

2:30 PM

COS 1-4

Latitudinal variation of European freshwater diversity is not concordant across habitat types
Christian Hof, Biodiversity and Climate Research Centre (BiK-F) & Senckenberg Gesellschaft für Naturforschung; Martin Brändle, Philipps-University Marburg; Roland Brandl, Department of Animal Ecology

2:50 PM

COS 1-5

The legacy of evolutionary history and regional environment on continental diversity patterns
Judsen E. Bruzgul, Stanford University; Elizabeth A. Hadly, Stanford University

3:10 PM

COS 1-

Break

3:20 PM

COS 1-6

The distribution and diversity of plant function across the New World
Nathan G. Swenson, Michigan State University; Brian Enquist, University of Arizona; Jason Pither, University of British Columbia, Okanagan Campus; Andrew J. Kerkhoff, Kenyon College

3:40 PM

COS 1-7

Global gradients of plant diversity and their ecological and historical determinants
Holger Kreft, Georg-August University; Jens Mutke, University of Bonn; Gerold Kier, University of Bonn; Wilhelm Barthlott, University of Bonn; Walter Jetz, Yale University

4:00 PM

COS 1-8

The climatic control of plant species richness along altitudinal gradients in different climate zones, southwest China
Yang Liu, Chinese Academy of Sciences; Yiping Zhang, Xishuangbanna tropical botanical garden, Chinese Academy of Sciences

4:20 PM

COS 1-9

Species richness gradients: Re-evaluation of the mid-domain effect null model of diversity patterns
Michael A. Huston, Texas State University; David F. Snyder, Texas State University

4:40 PM

COS 1-10

Beta diversity as a function of sample size and distance
Luís A. Borda-de-Água, Faculdade de Ciencias da Universidade de Lisboa; Stephen P. Hubbell, UCLA

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