COS 67 - Communities: Traits And Functional Diversity 4

Presentations:

• 10:00 AM – 10:15 AM EDT

  Light-driven intraspecific variation in leaf traits is critical for simulating ecosystem dynamics with process-based models in tropical forests
  

  Presenting Author: Yixin Ma – Cornell University

  Coauthor: Xiangtao Xu – Cornell University

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

  Coauthor: Paul Moorcroft – Harvard University
• 10:15 AM – 10:30 AM EDT

  Linkages between traits and decomposition of spontaneous vegetation along a soil management and pedoclimate gradient in Mediterranean vineyards
  

  Presenting Author: Marie-Charlotte Bopp – Centre d'Ecologie Fonctionnelle et Evolutive

  Coauthor: Guillaume Fried – ANSES

  Coauthor: Aurélie Metay – Institut Agro Montpellier

  Coauthor: Elena Kazakou – Centre d'Ecologie Fonctionnelle et Evolutive
• 10:30 AM – 10:45 AM EDT

  Burn regimes influence the functional diversity of insect herbivores
  

  Presenting Author: Robert F. Grosdidier – University of Florida

  Coauthor: Marcus Lashley – University of Florida

  Coauthor: Philip G. Hahn, n/a – University of Florida
• 10:45 AM – 11:00 AM EDT

  Incorporating crown densities improves predictions of species’ growth strategies
  

  Presenting Author: Minh Chau N. Ho – University of Michigan

  Coauthor: Michael Kalyuzhny – The University of Texas at Austin

  Coauthor: Annette M. Ostling – The University of Texas at Austin
• 11:00 AM – 11:15 AM EDT

  Belowground traits lack response to chronic nitrogen addition in tallgrass prairie
  

  Presenting Author: Sarah L. Gora – University of North Carolina at Greensboro

  Coauthor: Meghan L. Avolio – Johns Hopkins University

  Coauthor: Kimberly Komatsu – Smithsonian Environmental Research Center

  Coauthor: Kevin Wilcox, PhD – Program in Ecology, University of Wyoming

  Coauthor: Sally E. Koerner, PhD – University of North Carolina Greensboro
• 11:15 AM – 11:30 AM EDT

  Evolutionary lineage, not plant functional type, explains the most trait variation in grasses
  

  Presenting Author: Ryan Donnelly – Kansas State University

  Coauthor: Jesse Nippert, PhD – Kansas State University Division of Biology

  Coauthor: Daniel Griffith – Oregon State University

  Coauthor: Emily Wedel – Kansas State University

  Coauthor: Jeffrey Taylor – Kansas State University

  Coauthor: Christopher Still – Oregon State University