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COS 176 -
Biodiversity V
Friday, August 10, 2012: 8:00 AM-11:30 AM
C123, Oregon Convention Center
8:00 AM
Interactions among climate, biodiversity, and ecosystem services in tropical forest ecosystems
Kyle C. Cavanaugh, University of California, Los Angeles;
Sam L. Davis, Wright State University;
J. Stephen Gosnell, Baruch College, City University of New York, and CUNY Graduate Center;
Jorge Ahumada, Conservation International;
Sandy Andelman, Conservation International
8:20 AM
Plant functional responses to drought in the Fynbos of South Africa
Todd E. Dawson, University of California Berkeley;
Adam G. West, University of Cape Town;
Timothy Llewellyn Aston, University of Wyoming;
William J. Bond, University of Cape Town;
Guy Midgley, South African National Biodiversity Institute;
Edmund February, University of Cape Town
9:20 AM
Comparing the incomparable: Reconciling dimensions of biodiversity across microbial domains
Rebecca A. Daly, University of California, Berkeley;
David W. Armitage, University of California Berkeley;
Joanne B. Emerson, University of California, Berkeley;
Daniela Goltsman, University of California, Berkeley;
Hannah Salim, University of California, Berkeley;
Alexis Pepper Yelton, University of California, Berkeley;
Jennifer Kerekes, University of California, Berkeley;
Mary K. Firestone, University of California, Berkeley;
Matthew D. Potts, University of California, Berkeley
9:50 AM
The commonness and distribution of rarity: Quantifying the botanical diversity of all plant species in the Americas
Brian J. Enquist, University of Arizona;
Brad Boyle, University of Arizona;
John C. Donoghue II, University of Arizona;
Barbara Thiers, The New York Botanical Garden;
Peter Jorgensen, Missouri Botanical Garden;
Brian J. McGill, University of Maine;
Jens-Christian Svenning, Aarhus University;
Richard Condit, Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute;
Naia Morueta-Holme, Aarhus University;
Lindsey L. Sloat, University of Arizona;
The BIEN Working Group, National Center for Ecological Analysis and Synthesis
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