COS 8 - Communities: Traits And Functional Diversity 1

Presentations:

• 1:30 PM – 1:45 PM EDT

  The functional diversity and structure of Cambrian ecosystems
  

  Presenting Author: Karma Nanglu – Harvard University and Museum of Comparative Zoology

  Coauthor: Javier Ortega-Hernández – Harvard University and Museum of Comparative Zoology
• 1:45 PM – 2:00 PM EDT

  Diverse domestic settings alter the structure and functional potential of pig gut microbial communities and drive ecological variation in pig immunity
  

  Presenting Author: Sahana Kuthyar – UC San Diego

  Coauthor: Fabiola Avalos-Villatoro – UC San Diego

  Coauthor: Jessica Diaz – UC San Diego

  Coauthor: Aspen Reese – UC San Diego
• 2:00 PM – 2:15 PM EDT

  Decomposing leaf mass per area (LMA) into photosynthetic and structural components explains divergent patterns in trait variation within and among species
  

  Presenting Author: Jeremy W. Lichstein – Department of Biology, University of Florida

  Coauthor: Masatoshi Katabuchi – Xishuangbanna Tropical Botanical Garden

  Coauthor: Sergio Marconi, PhD – University of Florida

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

  Coauthor: Kaoru Kitajima – Kyoto University
• 2:15 PM – 2:30 PM EDT

  CANCELLED - Contrasting responses of soil microbes and plant growth to drought and carbon addition
  

  Presenting Author: Jennifer M. Jones, n/a – Kellogg Biological Station - Michigan State University

  Coauthor: Sarah Evans – Kellogg Biological Station, Michigan State University
• 2:30 PM – 2:45 PM EDT

  California annual plant community demographic responses to long term variation in climate- implications for coexistence and global change
  

  Presenting Author: Mary Van Dyke – Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, University of California, Los Angeles

  Coauthor: Jonathan M. Levine – Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, Princeton University

  Coauthor: Nathan Kraft – Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, University of California
• 2:45 PM – 3:00 PM EDT

  Shade tolerance influences the degree of intraspecific trait coordination and variation in temperate tree seedlings
  

  Presenting Author: Sam Schaffer-Morrison – University of Michigan Ecology and Evolutionary Biology

  Coauthor: Maria Natalia Umana – University of Michigan Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology