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COS 84 - Ecosystem Function: Biodiversity II

Thursday, August 7, 2008: 8:00 AM-11:30 AM
202 E, Midwest Airlines Center
8:00 AM
COS 84-1
 Mechanisms maintaining grassland biodiversity and ecosystem stability
Forest I. Isbell, University of Minnesota; H. Wayne Polley, USDA, Agricultural Research Service; Brian J. Wilsey, Iowa State University
8:20 AM
COS 84-2
 Linking nematode and microathropod bioindicators to ecosystem function in forest soils
Deborah Neher, University of Vermont; Mary E. Barbercheck, The Pennsylvania State University; Thomas R. Weicht, University of Vermont; Osama Anas, North Carolina State University
8:40 AM
COS 84-3
 Effects of plant functional group loss on soil properties in a northern grassland
Jennie R. McLaren, University of Texas at El Paso
9:00 AM
COS 84-4
 Arthropod succession in a completely donor controlled system: Results from an ecosystem-level resource manipulation experiment
Katie Schneider, University of Maryland; William F. Fagan, University of Maryland
9:20 AM
COS 84-5
 Mapping and classifying groundwater dependent ecosystems by incorporating remote sensing data and mapped vegetation communities within a hydro-geomorphological framework
Jon D. Fawcett, Future Farming Systems Research Division; R J Clark, Future Farming Systems Research Division; B C Gill, Future Farming Systems Research Division; D C Cochrane, Future Farming Systems Research Division; M. a. White, Arthur Rylah Institute for Environmental Research
9:40 AM
COS 84-
 Break
9:50 AM
COS 84-6
 Energy, heterogeneity, seasonality, and scale: The species-environment relationship in New World bats
J. Sebastian Tello, Missouri Botanical Garden; Richard D. Stevens, Louisiana State University
10:10 AM
COS 84-7
 Species richness, trophic efficiency, and energy resources in lakes: Fish exploitation of littoral primary production across an ecosystem size gradient
Yvonne Vadeboncoeur, Wright State University; M. Jake Vander Zanden, University of Wisconsin-Madison; Sudeep Chandra, University of Nevada, Reno
10:30 AM
COS 84-8
 Biodiversity and stability in the restoration of a high-stress ecosystem
Paul J. Richardson, University of Waterloo; Douglas W. Larson, University of Guelph
10:50 AM
COS 84-9
 Predation affects relationships between biodiversity and stability
Lin Jiang, Georgia Institute of Technology; Hena Joshi, Georgia Institute of Technology; Shivani N. Patel, Georgia Institute of Technology
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