COS 32 - Communities: Traits And Functional Diversity II

Tuesday, August 8, 2017: 8:00 AM-11:30 AM
C125-126, Oregon Convention Center
8:00 AM Cancelled
 Consumer adaptation mediates top-down regulation of ecosystems across a productivity gradient
Michael F. Chislock, Purdue University; Alan E. Wilson, Auburn University; Ash Abebe, Auburn University; Orlando Sarnelle, Michigan State University
8:20 AM
 Functional traits and the drivers of plant species coexistence across a heterogeneous landscape
Gaurav S. Kandlikar, University of California, Los Angeles; Jonathan M. Levine, ETH Zurich; Nathan J. B. Kraft, University of California, Los Angeles
8:40 AM
 A phylogenetic framework for trait innovation and selection in microbial communities
Mario E. Muscarella, University of Illinois; James P. O'Dwyer, University of Illinois
9:00 AM
 A trait-based perspective on ecosystem responses to environmental variation along elevational and latitudinal gradients using Trait Driver Theory
Daniel J. Wieczynski, University of California, Los Angeles; Sandra M. Duran, University of Arizona; Gregory P. Asner, Carnegie Institution for Science; Lisa Patrick Bentley, University of Oxford; Brad Boyle, University of Arizona; Vanessa R. Buzzard, University of Arizona; Sandra Díaz, Instituto Multidisciplinario de Biología Vegetal, Universidad Nacional de Córdoba; Brian J. Enquist, University of Arizona; Amanda Henderson, University of Arizona; Catherine Hulshof, University of Puerto Rico, Mayaguez; Andrew J. Kerkhoff, Kenyon College; Yadvinder Malhi, University of Oxford; Roberta Martin, Carnegie Institution for Science; Sean Michaletz, University of Arizona; Norma Salinas, Universidad San Antonio Abad del Cusco; Alexander Shenkin, University of Oxford; Miles Silman, Andes Biodiversity and Ecosystem Research Group; Nathan Swenson, University of Maryland; Van M. Savage, UCLA
9:20 AM
 Can trait similarity and environmental conditions predict community invasibility?
Chad R. Zirbel, Michigan State University; Emily Grman, Eastern Michigan University; Lars A. Brudvig, Michigan State University
9:40 AM
10:10 AM Cancelled
 Genetic determinants of competition and coexistence in the nectar microbiome: Genes to ecosystems approach
Manpreet K. Dhami, Stanford University; Andrew D. Letten, Stanford University; Thomas Hartwig, Carnegie Institution of Washington; Tadashi Fukami, Stanford University
10:30 AM
 Local adaptation of hydraulic traits in two Hakea species growing under contrasting climatic regimes
Rosana Lopez, INRA; Francisco Javier Cano, Hawkesbury Institute for the Environment, Western Sydney University; Herve Cochard, INRA; Brendan Choat, Hawkesbury Institute for the Environment, Western Sydney University
10:50 AM
 Phenotypic diversity within dominant blue grama grass across a precipitation gradient
Ava M. Hoffman, Colorado State University; Melinda D. Smith, Colorado State University; Julie A. Bushey, Colorado State University; Troy Ocheltree, Colorado State University
11:10 AM
 Taking a bird’s eye view to examine predator-prey interactions
Ashley L. Kissick, Purdue University; Jeffrey D. Holland, Purdue University; John B. Dunning Jr., Purdue University; Patrice Baumhardt, Purdue University; Esteban Fernández-Juricic, Purdue University
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