COS 108 - Communities: Traits And Functional Diversity 6

Presentations:

• 3:30 PM – 3:45 PM EDT

  CANCELLED - Exploring the role of species pool functional diversity across trophic levels to understand beta-diversity among bees and their gut bacteria
  

  Presenting Author: Magda Argueta-Guzmán – University of California, Riverside

  Coauthor: Quinn S. McFrederick – University of California Riverside

  Coauthor: Marko J. Spasojevic – University of California, Riverside
• 3:45 PM – 4:00 PM EDT

  Drought and soil phosphorus explain variation in functional trait-vital rate relationships in tropical tree seedlings
  

  Presenting Author: Luke Browne – School of the Environment, Yale University

  Coauthor: Lars Markesteijn – Departamento de Biología y Geología, Física y Química inorgánica. ESCET, Universidad Rey Juan Carlos

  Coauthor: Robert Bagchi – Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, University of Connecticut

  Coauthor: Bettina Engelbrecht – Department of Plant Ecology, Bayreuth Center of Ecology and Environmental Research (BayCEER), University of Bayreuth

  Coauthor: F. Andrew Jones – Department of Botany and Plant Pathology, Oregon State University

  Coauthor: Owen Lewis – Department of Zoology, University of Oxford

  Coauthor: Eric Manzané-Pinzón – Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute

  Coauthor: S. Joseph Wright – Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute, Panama

  Coauthor: Liza Comita – School of the Environment, Yale University
• 4:00 PM – 4:15 PM EDT

  Microbial effects on plant community dynamics through the lens of plant functional traits
  

  Presenting Author: Gaurav S. Kandlikar, n/a – University of Missouri
• 4:15 PM – 4:30 PM EDT

  Living in the shadow of shrub expansion
  

  Presenting Author: Emily C. Riffe – Virginia Commonwealth University

  Coauthor: Megan Nicholson – Virginia Commonwealth University

  Coauthor: Julie C. Zinnert, PhD – Virginia Commonwealth University
• 4:30 PM – 4:45 PM EDT

  Determinants of host-associated trait distribution in Ascomycete marsh endophytes
  

  Presenting Author: McKenzie Smith – Tulane University

  Coauthor: Emily Farrer – Tulane University
• 4:45 PM – 5:00 PM EDT

  Origin and persistence of Kalmia heath: Habitat filter, species traits and co-existence by niche differentiation and overlap
  

  Presenting Author: Azim Mallik – Lakehead University