COS 106 - Ecosystem Function: Biodiversity

Thursday, August 6, 2009: 1:30 PM-5:00 PM
Sendero Blrm I, Hyatt
Presider:
Susanne S. Hoeppner, Purdue University
1:30 PM
 Functional diversity and denitrification: Evidence that greater plant biodiversity buffers variability in denitrification potential over changes in season and soil conditions
Bonnie McGill, Duke University; Ariana Sutton-Grier, University of Maryland and National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration; Justin Wright, Duke University
1:50 PM
 Predicting non-additive effects of species diversity on decomposition using functional traits based on litter chemistry
Courtney L. Meier, National Ecological Observatory Network (NEON); William D. Bowman, University of Colorado
2:30 PM
 Plant genetic diversity resists herbivory and enhances plant fitness through both selection and complementarity effects
John D. Parker, Smithsonian Environmental Research Center; Anurag A. Agrawal, Cornell University; Juha-Pekka Salminen, University of Turku
2:50 PM
 Root production and methane dynamics: Impact of wetland functional group diversity and composition
Rachel E. Schultz, Mississippi State University; Virginie Bouchard, Ohio State University; Serita D. Frey, University of New Hampshire
3:10 PM
3:40 PM
  Effect of native and exotic functional group removals on grassland ecosystem function and invasibility
Enrique J. Chaneton, IFEVA-CONICET, Universidad de Buenos Aires; Tristram Seidler, Imperial College London; Lucas A. Garibaldi, CONICET - Universidad del Comahue; Pedro M. Tognetti, IFEVA-CONICET, Universidad de Buenos Aires; H. Charles J. Godfray, University of Oxford
4:00 PM
 Links between plant diversity and fungal function across latitudes
Krista L. McGuire, Barnard College, Columbia University; Kathleen K. Treseder, University of California, Irvine
4:20 PM
 How does diversity stabilise communities: A new predictor for community variance
Claire de Mazancourt, Station d'Ecologie Expérimentale du CNRS à Moulis; Bart Haegeman, CNRS; Michel Loreau, Station d'Ecologie Expérimentale du CNRS à Moulis
4:40 PM
 The relationship between biodiversity and ecosystem function in a tropical natural forest
Maria del Carmen Ruiz-Jaen, McGill University; Catherine Potvin, McGill University; S. Joseph Wright, Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute
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