94th ESA Annual Meeting (August 2 -- 7, 2009)

Wednesday, August 5, 2009: 1:30 PM-5:00 PM

La Cienega, Albuquerque Convention Center

Presider:

Volker Bahn, Wright State University

1:30 PM

COS 68-1

The causes of gradients in biological diversity may be unknowable
Robert Dunn, NCSU

1:50 PM

COS 68-2

Linking turnover of species and environments
Lauren B. Buckley, University of Washington; Walter Jetz, Yale University

2:10 PM

COS 68-3

A unified theory of unified theories of biodiversity
Brian J. McGill, University of Maine

2:30 PM

COS 68-4

Area-energy equivalency and the scaling of species richness
Allen H. Hurlbert, University of North Carolina; Walter Jetz, Yale University

2:50 PM

COS 68-5

Carbon exudation as a cross-ecosystem phenomenon: magnitudes, causes, and consequences
Kathryn L. Cottingham, Dartmouth; Elizabeth M. Wolkovich, Harvard University; Stuart Sandin, Scripps Institution of Oceanography; Claire de Mazancourt, Station d'Ecologie Expérimentale du CNRS à Moulis

3:10 PM

COS 68-

Break

3:20 PM

COS 68-6

Globetrotting: Patterns of similarity in mammalian distributions across continents
Larisa E. Harding, University of New Mexico; Felisa A. Smith, University of New Mexico; S. Kathleen Lyons, National Museum of Natural History; Kristin M. Youberg, University of New Mexico; James H. Brown, University of New Mexico

3:40 PM

COS 68-7

No man is an island, but his teeth may be an archipelago: Bacterial biogeography and the human mouth
Clara Davis Long, Stanford School of Medicine; Peter Loomer, University of California, San Francisco; Gary Armitage, University of California, San Francisco; David A. Relman, Stanford School of Medicine

4:00 PM

COS 68-8

Charles Darwin's experience in Chile: The importance of contingency and analytical observation in science
Juan J. Armesto, Universidad Católica de Chile, Institute of Ecology and Biodiversity; Mary F. Willson, Fundacion Senda Darwin; Nelida Pohl, Fundacion Senda Darwin and Instituto de Ecologia y Biodiversidad; Iván A. Díaz, Universidad Austral de Chile; Wara Marcelo, Institute of Ecology and Biodiversity; Ricardo Rozzi, IEB-UMAG-UNT

4:20 PM

COS 68-9

Range shifts and species diversity in marine ecosystem engineers: Patterns and predictions for European sedimentary habitats
Sarah K. Berke, Siena College; Andrew R. Mahon, Central Michigan University; Fernando P. Lima, University of South Carolina; Kenneth M Halanych, Auburn University; David S Wethey, University of South Carolina; Sarah A Woodin, University of South Carolina

4:40 PM

COS 68-10

CANCELLED - Evidence of forest mesophication in the eastern United States?
Songlin Fei, Purdue University; Peilin Yang, University of Kentucky

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