97th ESA Annual Meeting (August 5 -- 10, 2012)

Thursday, August 9, 2012: 1:30 PM-5:00 PM

E141, Oregon Convention Center

1:30 PM

COS 157-1

Empirical evidence from and simulations of a tropical coral reef show positive feedbacks can produce alternate community states
Ranjan Muthukrishnan, Univeristy of Minnesota; James O. Lloyd-Smith, National Institutes of Health; Peggy Fong, UCLA

1:50 PM

COS 157-2

Resource stability regulates ecosystem multifunctionality
Ian Donohue, Trinity College Dublin; Antoine Dubois, Trinity College Dublin; Jorge García Molinos, Trinity College Dublin

2:10 PM

COS 157-3

Phylogenetic diversity affects the temporal stability of communities by altering species’ functioning and competitive interactions.
Patrick A. Venail, University of Michigan; Bradley J. Cardinale, University of Michigan

2:30 PM

COS 157-4

Diversity awareness: Using Arabidopsis as a model for crop varietal mixtures
Henry E. Creissen, John Innes Centre; Tove H. Jorgensen, University of East Anglia; James K. M. Brown, John Innes Centre

2:50 PM

COS 157-5

Inferring resilience of forest ecosystems from satellite data
Milena Holmgren, University of Wageningen; Marina Hirota, Wageningen University; Egbert H. van Nes, Wageningen University; Marten Scheffer, Wageningen University

3:10 PM

COS 157-

Break

3:20 PM

COS 157-6

The spatial insurance hypothesis in spatially explicit networks
Patrick L. Thompson, McGill University; Bronwyn Rayfield, McGill University; Andrew Gonzalez, McGill University

3:40 PM

COS 157-7

Spatial variation, synchrony, and loss of stability in ecosystem variables
Matthew P. Hammond, McMaster University; Jurek Kolasa, McMaster University

4:00 PM

COS 157-8

Conditional heteroskedasticity warns of impending regime shift in whole-ecosystem experiment
David A. Seekell, University of Virginia; Stephen R. Carpenter, University of Wisconsin - Madison; Timothy J. Cline, University of Wisconsin-Madison; Michael L. Pace, University of Virginia

4:20 PM

COS 157-9

Zooplankton provide early warning of a regime shift in a whole lake manipulation
Michael L. Pace, University of Virginia; Stephen R. Carpenter, University of Wisconsin - Madison; Jason Kurtzweil, University of Wisconsin - Madison; Robert A. Johnson, University of Virginia

4:40 PM

COS 157-10

Critical slowing down provides advance warning of population collapse
Lei Dai, Massachusetts Institute of Technology; Daan Vorselen, VU University; Kirill Korolev, Boston University; Jeff Gore, MIT

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