93rd ESA Annual Meeting (August 3 -- August 8, 2008)

Monday, August 4, 2008: 1:30 PM-5:00 PM

103 DE, Midwest Airlines Center

1:30 PM

COS 5-1

Plant traits predict species diversity along an environmental gradient
Cyrille Violle, CNRS; Anne Bonis, University of Rennes; Manuel Plantegenest, INRA-Agrocampus Ouest; Christophe Cudennec, INRA-Agrocampus Rennes; Christian Damgaard, University of Aarhus; Benoît Marion, University of Rennes; Didier Le Coeur, INRA-Agrocampus Rennes; Jan-Bernard Bouzillé, University of Rennes

1:50 PM

COS 5-2

The Janzen-Connell effect as a driver of grassland diversity?
Jana S. Petermann, Freie Universität Berlin; Alexander J. Fergus, University of Zurich; Lindsay A. Turnbull, University of Zürich; Bernhard Schmid, University of Zurich

2:10 PM

COS 5-3

The effects of the presence of clonal growth form and soil resource heterogeneity on a sand prairie community
J. Alexander Eilts, Michigan State University; Katherine L. Gross, Michigan State University; Gary G. Mittlebach, Michigan State University; Heather L. Reynolds, Indiana University

2:30 PM

COS 5-4

Biodiversity and spatial heterogeneity among successional forest herb populations
Jody R. Schaub, Ohio University; Glenn Matlack, Ohio University

2:50 PM

COS 5-5

Species and trait associations in alpine tundra: Evidence for the increased role of limiting similarity in productive communities
Marko J. Spasojevic, Washington University in St. Louis; Katharine N. Suding, University of California at Berkeley

3:10 PM

COS 5-

Break

3:20 PM

COS 5-6

From plant traits to plant communities: Towards a predictive community ecology
Grégory Sonnier, University of Wisconsin-Madison; Bill Shipley, University of Sherbrooke; Marie L. Navas, INRA- SupAgro; J. Philip Grime, University of Sheffield; Ken Thompson, University of Sheffield

3:40 PM

COS 5-7

Niche divergence: Root-level competition, scale, and implications for invaded plant communities
Mark June-Wells, Rutgers University Newark; Claus Holzapfel, Rutgers University

4:00 PM

COS 5-8

The effect of manipulated light and water on evergreen understory herbs in north- and south-facing common gardens
Robert J. Warren II, University of Georgia

4:20 PM

COS 5-9

Near-term spatial reorganization of forest ground-layer vegetation in response to experimental forest gap creation
Julia I. Burton, Oregon State University; D.J. Mladenoff, University of Wisconsin - Madison; J. Forrester, University of Wisconsin-Madison

4:40 PM

COS 5-10

Local biotic interactions drive community dynamics in a Sonoran Desert perennial plant community
Brad J. Butterfield, Arizona State University; John M. Briggs, Kansas State University; Julio L. Betancourt, US Geological Survey; Raymond M. Turner, Arizona State University; Janice M. Bowers, Arizona State University

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