95th ESA Annual Meeting (August 1 -- 6, 2010)

Wednesday, August 4, 2010: 8:00 AM-11:30 AM

333, David L Lawrence Convention Center

Presider:

Jameal F. Samhouri, NOAA Fisheries

8:00 AM

COS 49-1

Plant diversity and the stability of arthropod foodwebs
Nick M. Haddad, North Carolina State University; Gregory M. Crutsinger, University of British Columbia; Kevin Gross, North Carolina State University; John Haarstad, University of Minnesota; David Tilman, University of Minnesota

8:20 AM

COS 49-2

Realistic species losses disproportionately reduce productivity in a California serpentine grassland
Paul C. Selmants, University of Hawaii at Manoa; Erika S. Zavaleta, University of California, Santa Cruz

8:40 AM

COS 49-3

New methods in characterizing functional diversity and tests from a grassland biodiversity experiment
Christopher M. Clark, US Environmental Protection Agency; Dan F.B. Flynn, University of Zurich; Brad J. Butterfield, Arizona State University; Peter B. Reich, University of Minnesota

9:00 AM

COS 49-4

Pollinator diversity and the pollination of wild plants in an experimental setting
Jochen Fründ, University of Guelph; Carsten F. Dormann, Albert-Ludwigs-University Freiburg; Andrea Holzschuh, University of Würzburg; Teja Tscharntke, Georg-August-University Göttingen

9:20 AM

COS 49-5

Seaweed diversity affects mobile invertebrate diversity and abundance of grazing mollusks: implications for community stability
John J. Stachowicz, University of California, Davis; Kristin Aquilino, University of California, Davis; Matthew E. S. Bracken, Northeastern University

9:40 AM

COS 49-

Break

9:50 AM

COS 49-6

Interactive effects of seaweed diversity and herbivory on community recovery from disturbance
Kristin M. Aquilino, University of California; John J. Stachowicz, University of California, Davis

10:10 AM

COS 49-7

The response of arthropod assemblages to patterns of evolutionary history in plant communities
Russell Dinnage, University of Toronto; Marc W. Cadotte, University of Toronto; Gregory M. Crutsinger, University of British Columbia; Nick M. Haddad, North Carolina State University

10:30 AM

COS 49-8

Species redundancy and coexistence: separating niche and service
Susanne Schwinning, Texas State University; Colleen K. Kelly, University of Oxford

10:50 AM

COS 49-9

Pathogen biodiversity heightens host mortality
Randa Jabbour, University of Wyoming; David Crowder, Washington State University; Elizabeth Aultman, Washington State University; William E. Snyder, Washington State University

11:10 AM

COS 49-10

How does plant diversity influence the function of a young coastal ecosystem as arthropod habitat?
Theresa Sinicrope Talley, University of California, San Diego; Mona Wang, University of California, San Diego; Paul Dayton, University of California San Diego

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