Thursday, August 11, 2016: 8:00 AM-11:30 AM
Grand Floridian Blrm A, Ft Lauderdale Convention Center
8:00 AM
Forest loss and the phylogenetic impoverishment of tree assemblages in the Brazilian Atlantic forest
Edyla R. de Andrade, Universidade Estadual de Santa Cruz;
Víctor Arroyo-Rodríguez, Universidad Nacional Autonoma de Mexico;
Bráulio A. Santos, Universidade Federal da Paraíba;
Gustavo H. Carvalho, Universidade Estadual de Santa Cruz;
Eduardo Mariano-Neto, Universidade Federal da Bahia;
Larissa Rocha-Santos, Universidade Estadual de Santa Cruz;
Michaele S. Pessoa, Universidade Estadual de Santa Cruz;
Francisco S. Gomes, Universidade Federal da Bahia;
Deborah Faria, Universidade Estadual de Santa Cruz;
Eliana Cazetta, Universidade Estadual de Santa Cruz
8:40 AM
Investigating the performance of amplicon vs. shotgun sequencing for accurate abundance estimation in macroinvertebrate community samples
Iliana Bista, Bangor University;
Gary R. Carvalho, Bangor University;
Kerry Walsh, Environment Agency;
Martin Christmas, Environment Agency;
Mehrdad Hajibabaei, University of Guelph;
Shadi Shokralla, University of Guelph;
Min Tang, BGI-Shenzhen;
Shanlin Liu, BGI-Shenzhen;
Xin Zhou, BGI-Shenzhen;
Simon Creer, Bangor University
9:20 AM
Vascular plant extinction in North America north of Mexico: What have we lost and what can we learn?
Wesley M. Knapp, Maryland Department of Natural Resources;
Anne L. Frances, NatureServe;
Alan S. Weakley, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill;
Robert F.C. Naczi, New York Botanical Gardens;
George Gann, Institute for Regional Conservation;
Jackie Poole, Retired - Texas Parks and Wildlife Department;
Bruce G. Baldwin, University of California, Berkeley;
John R. Clark, Center for Plant Conservation;
Daniel Gluesenkamp, California Native Plant Society;
Bonnie L. Heidel, University of Wyoming;
Kathryn Kennedy, U.S. Forest Service;
Patrick McIntyre, California Department of Fish and Wildlife;
James S. Miller, Missouri Botanical Gardens;
Brent D. Mishler, University of California, Berkeley;
Gerry Moore, Natural Resource Conservation Service;
Reed Noss, University of Central Florida;
Richard Olmstead, University of Washington;
Daniela Roth, New Mexico EMNRD-Forestry Division;
Jason Singhurst, Texas Parks and Wildlife;
Anna Strong, Texas Parks and Wildlife
9:50 AM
Trends, research flows, and deficits in biodiversity research
Laura Tydecks, Freie Universität Berlin;
Jonathan M. Jeschke, Freie Universität Berlin;
Max Wolf, Leibniz-Institute of Freshwater Ecology and Inland Fisheries;
Gabriel Singer, Leibniz-Institute of Freshwater Ecology and Inland Fisheries;
Klement Tockner, Leibniz-Institute of Freshwater Ecology and Inland Fisheries
