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(2)University of Cape Town, (3)University of Wyoming,
(4)South African National Biodiversity Institute. Plant
functional responses to drought in the Fynbos of South
Africa.
8:40 AM COS 176-3 McDaniel, MD and AS Grandy, University of
New Hampshire. Cropping biodiversity effects on soil
organic matter dynamics and microbial function.
9:00 AM COS 176-4 Gilbert, B 1 , JM Levine 2 and J Hille Ris
Lambers 3 , (1)University of Toronto, (2)ETH Zurich, (3)
University of Washington. Quantifying ecological drift in
annual plant communities.
9:20 AM COS 176-5 Daly, RA, DW Armitage, JB Emerson, D
Goltsman, H Salim, AP Yelton, J Kerekes, MK Firestone
and MD Potts, University of California, Berkeley.
Comparing the incomparable: Reconciling dimensions
of biodiversity across microbial domains.
9:40 AM Break
9:50 AM COS 176-6 Enquist, BJ 1 , B Boyle 1 , JC Donoghue II 1 ,
B Thiers 2 , P Jorgensen 3 , BJ McGill 4 , JC Svenning 5 ,
R Condit 6 , N Morueta-Holme 5 , LL Sloat 1 and T BIEN
Working Group 7 , (1)University of Arizona, (2)The New
York Botanical Garden, (3)Missouri Botanical Garden, (4)
McGill University, (5)Aarhus University, (6)Smithsonian
Tropical Research Institute, (7)National Center for
Ecological Analysis and Synthesis. The commonness
and distribution of rarity: Quantifying the botanical
diversity of all plant species in the Americas.
10:10 AM COS 176-7 Fitzpatrick, MC 1 , NJ Sanders 2 , S Normand 3 ,
JC Svenning 4 , S Ferrier 5 , AD Gove 6 and RR Dunn 7 , (1)
University of Maryland Center for Environmental Science,
(2)University of Tennessee, (3)Swiss Federal Research
Institute WSL, (4)Aarhus University, (5)CSIRO Ecosystem
Services, (6)Curtin University, (7)NCSU. Climatic history,
seed dispersal, and patterns of δ diversity in the floras of
southwest Australia and northern Europe.
10:30 AM COS 176-8 Blarquez, O 1 , C Carcaillet 2 and Y Bergeron 3 ,
(1)Université du Québec à Montréal, (2)Université
de Montpellier 2, (3)University of Quebec in Abitibi-
Temiscamingue. Intermediate level of environmental
changes promotes higher community richness since
15,500 years.
10:50 AM COS 176-9 Uno, H 1 , K Kitayama 2 and D Dudgeon 3 , (1)
University of California, Berkeley, (2)Kyoto University, (3)
The University of Hong Kong. The hierarchical spatial
structure of the river network supports high biodiversity
in headwater streams.
11:10 AM COS 176-10 Gonthier, DJ 1 , KK Ennis 2 , SA Farinas 3 ,
HY Hsieh 1 , A Iverson 3 , BJ Cardinale 1 and I Perfecto 1 ,
(1)University of Michigan, (2)University of Toledo, (3)
University of Mchigan. The influence of local and
landscape level agricultural factors on within farm
biodiversity.
COS 177 - Biogeochemistry: Scaling Processes From
Genes To Ecosystems
F150, Oregon Convention Center
8:00 AM COS 177-1 Cleveland, CC 1 , SC Reed 2 and BZ Houlton 3 ,
(1)University of Montana, (2)USGS, (3)University of
California, Davis. Have we greatly overestimated nitrogen
(N) inputs via biological N fixation in tropical forests?.
8:20 AM COS 177-2 Mendola, ML 1 , SG Baer 1 and L Johnson 2 , (1)
Southern Illinois University, (2)Kansas State University.
Ecotypic variation in a dominant prairie grass affects
belowground biomass and ecosystem processes.
8:40 AM COS 177-3 Sobota, DJ 1 , JE Compton 2 and JA Harrison 3 ,
(1)National Research Council Postdoctoral Associate,
Life on Earth: Preserving, Utilizing, and Sustaining our Ecosystems
8 am-11:30 am
(2)US EPA, NHEERL, Western Ecology Division, (3)
Washington State University Vancouver. Regional and
national significance of biological nitrogen fixation by
crops in the United States.
9:00 AM COS 177-4 Lintz, HE 1 , A Kruger 2 , D Wagner 2 and I
Tenney 2 , (1)Oregon Climate Change Research Institute,
(2)University of Iowa. Small automated sensor of plant
flowering and vegetative bud break.
9:20 AM COS 177-5 Goad, RK 1 , SG Baer 2 , B Klubek 2 and DJ
Gibson 2 , (1)Southern Illinois University Carbondale, (2)
Southern Illinois University. A test of local adaptation to soil
microbial communities in tallgrass prairie plant assemblages.
9:40 AM Break
9:50 AM COS 177-6 Buckley, TN 1 , TL Turnbull 2 and MA Adams 2 ,
(1)Sonoma State University, (2)University of Sydney.
Testing simple new conductance models that are derived
from a process model and can be parameterised by gas
exchange.
10:10 AM COS 177-7 Harrison, JA 1 , P Frings 2 , A Beusen 3 , D
Conley 2 and M McCrackin 4 , (1)Washington State
University Vancouver, (2)Lund University, (3)Netherlands
Environmental Assessment Agency, (4)Washington State
University, Vancovuer. Regional and global controls and
potential significance of dissolved silica retention in lakes
and reservoirs.
10:30 AM COS 177-8 McCormack, ML 1 , EA Crisfield 1 , B Raczka 1 ,
SG Pritchard 2 , DM Eissenstat 3 and EAH Smithwick 1 ,
(1)The Pennsylvania State University, (2)College of
Charleston, (3)Pennsylvania State University. Fine root
lifespan and turnover at ecosystem and landscape
scales: Sensitivity of four ecological models and new
strategies for model incorporation.
10:50 AM COS 177-9 Tang, J and T Savas, Marine Biological
Laboratory. Stem respiration and its linkage with soil
respiration.
11:10 AM COS 177-10 West, J 1 , D Moore 1 , A Hyodo 1 , G
Bowen 2 , C Miller 2 , T Zhang 2 and L Zhao 2 , (1)Texas
A&M University, (2)Purdue University. Understanding
human withdrawals through tap water stable isotope
comparison with meteoric water isoscapes.
COS 178 - Biogeography And Macroecology
F151, Oregon Convention Center
8:00 AM COS 178-1 Van der Hoek, Y1 , R Renfrew2 and LL
Manne1 , (1)City University of New York, (2)The Vermont
Center for Ecostudies. Variation in long-term threshold
responses to habitat availability.
8:20 AM COS 178-2 Hart, SJ1 , KS Eisenhart2 , D Jarvis3 , D
Kulakowski3 and TT Veblen1 , (1)University of Colorado,
(2)Edinboro University of Pennsylvania, (3)Clark
8:40 AM
University. Climate variability and historical spruce beetle
outbreaks across northwestern Colorado.
COS 178-3 O’Donnell, JL, University of California Santa
Cruz. Data collected from user-uploaded photo websites
improves estimation of habitat area and range size in the
anemonefishes.
9:00 AM COS 178-4 Kitzes, JA1 , M Wilber1 , DJ McGlinn2 and
J Harte1 , (1)University of California, Berkeley, (2)
University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill. Patterns in
species aggregation across spatial scales and species
abundances.
9:20 AM COS 178-5 Veech, JA, Texas State University - San
Marcos. A probability-based reanalysis of a classic
dataset from biogeography and community ecology.
9:40 AM Break
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