Tuesday, August 3, 2010: 1:30 PM-5:00 PM
330, David L Lawrence Convention Center
COS 34 - Biodiversity
1:30 PM	COS 34-1		Extinction risks of 40,000 Amazonian plant species due to deforestation incorporating the spatial distribution of species ranges and disturbances Kenneth J. Feeley, Department of Biological Sciences
1:50 PM	COS 34-2		Importance of large trees for epiphyte biodiversity in Chilean temperate rainforests Iván A. Díaz, Universidad Austral de Chile, Mauricio E. Peña, P. Universidad Catolica de Chile, Juan J. Armesto, P. Universidad Catolica de Chile, IEB, Universidad de Chile; CASEB Departamento de Ecologia, Kathryn E. Sieving, University of Florida
2:10 PM	COS 34-3		The effects of delayed intraspecific density-dependence on species richness and species abundance distributions Frederick R. Adler, University of Utah
2:30 PM	COS 34-4		Environmental stability and lake zooplankton diversity – contrasting effects of chemical and thermal variability Jonathan Shurin, University of California- San Diego, Monika Winder, University of California, Rita Adrian, Leibniz-Institute of Freshwater Ecology and Inland Fisheries,, W. Bill Keller, Ontario Ministry of the Environment, Blake Matthews, EAWAG, Andrew M. Paterson, Ontario Ministry of the Environment, Michael J. Paterson, Fisheries & Oceans Canada, Bernadette Pinel-Alloul, University of Montreal, James A. Rusak, University of Wisconsin, Norman D. Yan, York University
2:50 PM	COS 34-5		Blame it on the weather: Temporal variability vs. treatment effects in plant species richness and diversity Amy J. Symstad, USGS, Jayne L. Jonas, IAP World Services
3:10 PM			Break
3:20 PM	COS 34-6		Bird species richness and range dynamics: What can we predict by studying variation and size of species ranges? Genoveva Rodríguez-Castañeda, Umeå University, Roland Jonsson, Umeå University
3:40 PM	COS 34-7		Nest predation cannot explain homogeneous urban bird communities Amy E. Hank, University of Illinois at Chicago, Kirsten Almberg, Lincoln Park Zoo, Norbert Cordeiro, Roosevelt University, Eric Lonsdorf, Lincoln Park Zoo, Aaron Nash, Lake Forest College, L. Kristen Page, Wheaton College, Christopher J. Whelan, Illinois Natural History Survey
4:00 PM	COS 34-8		Experimental nitrogen additions lead to non-random extinctions within mycorrhizal communities Rebecca C. Mueller, University of Oregon, Brendan JM Bohannan, University of Oregon
4:20 PM	COS 34-9		Mechanisms of altered arthropod evenness in response to plant genotypic richness Scott H. McArt, Cornell University, Jennifer Thaler, Cornell University
4:40 PM	COS 34-10		Diversity and productivity in northern hardwood forest understories: experimentally testing the predictions of the intermediate disturbance hypothesis Julia I. Burton, University of Wisconsin-Madison, David J. Mladenoff, University of Wisconsin-Madison, Jodi A. Forrester, University of Wisconsin-Madison

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