IGN 2
Going Macro: Is Scaling Up All the Same?

Monday, August 10, 2015: 3:30 PM-5:00 PM
345, Baltimore Convention Center
Organizer:
Margaret Kosmala, Harvard University
Co-organizer:
Brian J. McGill, University of Maine
Moderator:
Stephen Klosterman, Harvard University
Ecology is increasingly focusing on larger spatial, temporal, and taxonomic scales. Research in the macroecology and macrosystems biology subdisciplines is motivated, at least in part, by the desire to address problems of global change and conservation. Traditional subdisciplines in ecology that focus at the species, community, and ecosystem level are each developing tools and strategies to collect and analyze large datasets, build global databases, and scale models up. But because focal study systems and targeted applications vary among traditional ecology subdisciplines, approaches to scaling up also differ. In this Ignite Session we bring together ecologists from diverse backgrounds ranging from population, community and ecosystem ecology whose research encompasses scaling up to regional, continental, and global scales. We use the session to explore the similarities and differences in scaling up from different ecology subdisciplines and to compare and contrast the challenges in addressing global change and conservation issues at large scales.
IGN 2-1
 Why scaling up is harder than you think
Brian J. McGill, University of Maine
IGN 2-2
 Biodiversity conservation: From prairie dogs to global mammal extinction
Ana Davidson, University of New Mexico
IGN 2-3
 Stop using the power-law species-area relationship (and what to do instead)
Justin A. Kitzes, University of California
IGN 2-4
 Metagenomics at the global scale: Plant microbes across the Nutrient Network
Elizabeth T. Borer, University of Minnesota; Bradford Condon, University of Minnesota; Linda L. Kinkel, University of Minnesota; Candice Lumibao, University of Minnesota; Georgiana May, University of Minnesota; Eric W. Seabloom, University of Minnesota
IGN 2-5
 Allometric population models as mechanistic predictors of macroecological patterns
John P. DeLong, University of Nebraska
IGN 2-6
 Rivers without headwaters are like trees without branches: Integrating network-level ecological connectivity to enhance conservation
John S. Kominoski, Florida International University; Amy D. Rosemond, University of Georgia; Kaitlin J. Farrell, University of Georgia; David W.P. Manning, University of Georgia
Cancelled
IGN 2-7
 Are cities the same everywhere? Testing homogeneity of human-dominated ecosystems at continental scales
Sharon J. Hall, Arizona State University; Jennifer K. Learned, Arizona State University; Benjamin L. Ruddell, Arizona State University; Kelli L. Larson, Arizona State University; Jeannine M. Cavender-Bares, University of Minnesota; Neil Bettez, Cary Institute of Ecosystem Studies; Peter M. Groffman, Cary Institute of Ecosystem Studies; Morgan Grove, USDA Forest Service; James B. Heffernan, Duke University; Sarah E. Hobbie, University of Minnesota; Jennifer L. Morse, Portland State University; Christopher Neill, Marine Biological Laboratory; Kristen C. Nelson, University of Minnesota; Jarlath O'Neil-Dunne, University of Vermont; Laura A. Ogden, Dartmouth College; Diane E. Pataki, University of Utah; Will Pearse, McGill University; Colin Polsky, Florida Atlantic University; Rinku Roy Choudhury, Indiana University; Meredith K. Steele, Virginia Tech; Tara L.E. Trammell, University of Delaware
IGN 2-8
 Diverse environmental data in support of regional to global human-earth system predictions
C. Adam Schlosser, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
IGN 2-9
 Plants, canopies, landscapes: Plant phenology across scales
Margaret Kosmala, Harvard University; Andrew D. Richardson, Harvard University
IGN 2-
 Discussion (until session ends)
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