COS 63 - Biodiversity 4

Presentations:

• 10:00 AM – 10:15 AM EDT

  Eco-evolutionary causes and consequences of rarity in plants: a meta-analysis
  

  Presenting Author: Jennifer N. Boyd – University of Tennessee at Chattanooga

  Coauthor: Jill T. Anderson – University of Georgia

  Coauthor: jessica brzyski – Seton Hill University

  Coauthor: carol Baskauf – Austin Peay State University

  Coauthor: Jennifer Cruse-Sanders – State Botanical Garden of Georgia, University of Georgia
• 10:15 AM – 10:30 AM EDT

  CANCELLED - Mutualistic animal-plant interactions positively influences net primary productivity in a biodiversity hotspot
  

  Presenting Author: Lilian P. Sales, n/a – Concordia University

  Coauthor: Jean-Philippe Lessard, n/a – Concordia University

  Coauthor: Pedro Peres-Neto – Concordia University
• 10:30 AM – 10:45 AM EDT

  Diversity stabilizes but does not increase sapling survival in a tree diversity experiment
  

  Presenting Author: Rachel King – Smithsonian Environmental Research Center

  Coauthor: Jamie Pullen – Smithsonian Environmental Research Center

  Coauthor: Susan Cook-Patton – The Nature Conservancy

  Coauthor: John D. Parker – Smithsonian Environmental Research Center
• 10:45 AM – 11:00 AM EDT

  CANCELLED - Disentangling effects of species interactions on ecosystem functions in biodiversity experiments
  

  Presenting Author: Rongzhou Man – Ontario Ministry of Natural Resources and Forestry
• 11:00 AM – 11:15 AM EDT

  Urban Heavy Metal Concentrations May Affect Paridae Survival
  

  Presenting Author: Se-Min Lee – Dankook university

  Coauthor: Kyeong-Tae Kim – Dankook Univ.

  Coauthor: Hyun-Jung Lee – Dankook Univ.

  Coauthor: Chan Park – University of Seoul

  Coauthor: WonKyong Song – Dankook Univ.
• 11:15 AM – 11:30 AM EDT

  Recent evolution of ancient Arctic leech relatives: systematics of the hook-faced fish worms
  

  Presenting Author: Danielle de Carle – University of Toronto

  Coauthor: Łukasz Gajda – University of Silesia in Katowice

  Coauthor: Aleksander Bielecki – University of Warmia and Mazury in Olsztyn

  Coauthor: Stanisław Cios, n/a – Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Poland

  Coauthor: Joanna Cichocka – University of Warmia and Mazury in Olsztyn

  Coauthor: Heidi Golden – University of Connecticut

  Coauthor: Andrew Gryska – Alaska Department of Fish and Game

  Coauthor: Sergey Sokolov – A.N. Severtsov Institute of Ecology and Evolution

  Coauthor: Marina Shedko – Far Eastern Branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences

  Coauthor: Rune Knudsen – The Arctic University of Norway

  Coauthor: Serge Utevsky – V.N. Karazin Kharkiv National University

  Coauthor: Piotr Świątek – University of Silesia in Katowice

  Coauthor: Michael Tessler – St. Francis College & American Museum of Natural History