COS 49 - Communities: Traits And Functional Diversity 3

Presentations:

• 8:00 AM – 8:15 AM EDT

  CANCELLED - The influence of environment, phylogeny, and morphology in the assembly of tropical hummingbird communities
  

  Presenting Author: Mannfred Boehm – University of British Columbia

  Coauthor: Juan Parra – Universidad de Antioquia

  Coauthor: Karen Vera – Universidad de Antioquia

  Coauthor: Quentin Cronk – University of British Columbia

  Coauthor: Jill Jankowski – University of British Columbia
• 8:15 AM – 8:30 AM EDT

  High resolution spatial modelling of functional trait dynamics for conservation: a case study of benthic invertebrate assemblages in the Bay of Fundy, Canada
  

  Presenting Author: Aaron B. Judah – Dalhousie University

  Coauthor: Benjamin Misiuk – Dalhousie University

  Coauthor: Craig J. Brown – Dalhousie University
• 8:30 AM – 8:45 AM EDT

  Humans elicit community change via consumptive and non-consumptive impacts on keystone species
  

  Presenting Author: Ishana Shukla – University of Victoria

  Coauthor: Chris Darimont – University of Victoria & Raincoast Conservation Fdn
• 8:45 AM – 9:00 AM EDT

  CANCELLED - Seed traits underlie tradeoffs in spatial and temporal dispersal across an aridity gradient
  

  Presenting Author: Marina LaForgia – UC Davis

  Coauthor: Lauren Hallett – Institute of Ecology and Evolution, University of Oregon, Eugene, OR

  Coauthor: Larry Venable – University of Arizona

  Coauthor: Susan Harrison – UC Davis

  Coauthor: Loralee Larios – University of California, Riverside

  Coauthor: Pierre-Olivier Cheptou – Center for Functional and Evolutionary Ecology (CEFE)

  Coauthor: Jennifer R. Gremer – University of California, Davis
• 9:00 AM – 9:15 AM EDT

  Functional change in coral reef communities across an inshore to offshore environmental gradient
  

  Presenting Author: Julia Briand – McGill University

  Coauthor: Hector Guzman, PhD – Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute

  Coauthor: Jennifer Sunday, PhD – McGill University
• 9:15 AM – 9:30 AM EDT

  ­­Plant Chemical Traits Are Better Predictors of Phylogeny and Community Ecology
  

  Presenting Author: George N. Furey – Canadian Chapter of ESA

  Coauthor: David Tilman – University of Minnesota