SYMP 5 - ESA Early Career Fellows and Mercer Award Symposium I

Organizer(s)

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  Charles Nilon

  University of Missouri
  Columbia, Missouri, United States

Moderator(s)

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  Charles Nilon

  University of Missouri
  Columbia, Missouri, United States

This symposium will showcase the research of ESA Early Career Fellows and the Mercer Award winner. Early Career Fellows are members recognized for advancing ecological knowledge and for their promise of continuing to make outstanding contributions to ecology. The Mercer Award is given by ESA for an outstanding ecological research paper published by a younger researcher 40 years of age or younger at the time of publication. Talks will span the field of ecology and highlight new directions in ecological research.

Presentations:

• 8:00 AM – 8:20 AM EDT

  CANCELLED - Non-equilibrium is the norm: Theory-data integration to predict community responses to global change
  

  Presenting Author: Lauren G. Shoemaker – University of Wyoming

  Co-author: Lauren L. Sullivan – University of Missouri-Columbia

  Co-author: Lauren Hallett – Institute of Ecology and Evolution, University of Oregon, Eugene, OR

  Co-author: Katharine Suding – University of Colorado

  Co-author: Courtney G. Collins – University of British Columbia

  Co-author: Eric W. Seabloom – University of Minnesota

  Co-author: Janette L. Davidson – University of Wyoming

  Co-author: Kaitlyn McKnight – University of Wyoming

  Co-author: Melissa H. DeSiervo – University of Wyoming

  Co-author: Chhaya M. Werner – University of Wyoming

  Co-author: Megan C. Szojka – University of Wyoming

  Co-author: Nathan I. Wisnoski, n/a – University of Wyoming
• 8:20 AM – 8:40 AM EDT

  Improving understanding of species range dynamics under climate change
  

  Presenting Author: Jennifer Sunday, PhD – McGill University
• 8:40 AM – 9:00 AM EDT

  Plant-pollinator networks across scales
  

  Presenting Author: Julian Resasco – University of Colorado Boulder
• 9:00 AM – 9:20 AM EDT

  CANCELLED - Differential sensitivity of aboveground and belowground processes to drought in tallgrass prairie
  

  Presenting Author: Nathan lemoine – Marquette University

  Co-author: Michelle Budny – Marquette University

  Co-author: Ethan Rose – Marquette University

  Co-author: Anesti Sotirovski, Undergraduate Student – Marquette University

  Co-author: Christopher Marshall – Marquette University
• 9:20 AM – 9:30 AM EDT

  Discussion