COS 233 - Ecosystem Function: Biodiversity 1

Presentations:

• 10:00 AM – 10:15 AM EDT

  Community assembly of soil fauna functional groups in differently managed agroecosystems
  

  Presenting Author: Emogine Mamabolo – Stellenbosch University

  Coauthor: James Pryke – Stellenbosch University

  Coauthor: René Gaigher – Stellenbosch University
• 10:15 AM – 10:30 AM EDT

  Long-term warming disturbs the positive relationship between ecosystem function and microbial diversity
  

  Presenting Author: Melissa Shinfuku – UMass Amherst

  Coauthor: Luiz Domeignoz-Horta – University of Zurich

  Coauthor: Mallory J. Choudoir – UMass Amherst

  Coauthor: Kristen M. DeAngelis – University of Massachusetts Amherst
• 10:30 AM – 10:45 AM EDT

  Ecosystem patchworks: landscape feature reassembly of carbon dynamics in a semi-arid Kenyan savanna, in response to experimental large herbivore community reassembly
  

  Presenting Author: Elizabeth S. Forbes – Yale University

  Coauthor: Kelly Caylor – University of California, Santa Barbara

  Coauthor: Joshua Schimel – University of California Santa Barbara

  Coauthor: Truman P. Young – University of California Davis

  Coauthor: Hillary Young – UC Santa Barbara
• 10:45 AM – 11:00 AM EDT

  Diversity alters allometry: measuring tree growth in a forest diversity experiment
  

  Presenting Author: Lauren Schmitt – University of Maryland

  Coauthor: Kelsey McGurrin – University of Maryland College Park

  Coauthor: Jamie Pullen – Smithsonian Environmental Research Center

  Coauthor: John D. Parker – Smithsonian Environmental Research Center

  Coauthor: Karin Burghardt – University of Maryland College Park
• 11:00 AM – 11:15 AM EDT

  Inquiline bacterial community diversity in Darlingtonia californica negatively impacts prey degradation
  

  Presenting Author: Megan Teigen – California State Polytechnic - Humboldt

  Coauthor: Cataline Cuellar-Gempeler – California State Polytechnic - Humboldt
• 11:15 AM – 11:30 AM EDT

  Environmental effects on constructed wetland microbial diversity and function in the context of wastewater management
  

  Coauthor: Sandrine A. Thompson, MS – Humboldt State University

  Coauthor: Bob Gearheart, PhD – Arcata Marsh Research Institute

  Presenting Author: Catalina Cuellar-Gempeler, PhD – California State Polytechnic Humboldt