COS 4 - Biodiversity 1

Presentations:

• 1:30 PM – 1:45 PM EDT

  Diversifying oil palm plantations restores key microhabitats for forest dependent herpetofauna whereas monocultures favor disturbance specialists
  

  Presenting Author: Edgar Francisco – Stanford University

  Coauthor: Rodolfo Dirzo – Stanford University
• 1:45 PM – 2:00 PM EDT

  Understanding biodiversity in unknown Ecosystems: Eskers
  

  Presenting Author: Akib Hasan – Groupe de Recherche en Ecologie de la MRC Abitibi, Institut de Recherche sur les Forêts, Université du Québec en Abitibi-Témiscamingue

  Coauthor: Miguel Montoro Girona – Groupe de Recherche en Ecologie de la MRC Abitibi, Institut de Recherche sur les Forêts, Université du Québec en Abitibi-Témiscamingue

  Coauthor: Louis Imbeau – Université du Québec en Abitibi-Témiscamingue

  Coauthor: Jennifer Lento – Department of Biology, Canadian Rivers Institute, University of New Brunswick

  Coauthor: Anouschka R Hof – Resource Ecology Group, Wageningen University

  Coauthor: Guillaume Grosbois – Groupe de recherche en écologie de la MRC Abitibi (GREMA), Université du Québec en Abitibi-Témiscamingue
• 2:00 PM – 2:15 PM EDT

  Assessing the Darwinian shortfall in the knowledge of freshwater fishes
  

  Presenting Author: Bruno E. Soares – University of Toronto, Scarborough

  Coauthor: Gabriel Nakamura – Texas A&M University

  Coauthor: Aline Richter – Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul
• 2:15 PM – 2:30 PM EDT

  Honeybee Microbiome Variation Within and Between Colonies Over Seasons
  

  Presenting Author: Erica Harris – Agnes Scott College

  Coauthor: Kai Brady – Spelman College

  Coauthor: Jennifer Kovacs – Agnes Scott College - Decatur, GA
• 2:30 PM – 2:45 PM EDT

  Warming in connected landscapes: an experimental test of metabolic scaling and metacommunity hypotheses for understanding ecological change
  

  Presenting Author: Mary O'Connor – University of British Columbia

  Coauthor: Patrick Thompson – Fisheries and Oceans Canada

  Coauthor: Joey Bernhardt – University of British Columbia

  Coauthor: Evgeniya Yangel – University of British Columbia

  Coauthor: Keila Stark – University of British Columbia

  Coauthor: Kaleigh Davis – University of British Columbia

  Coauthor: Coreen Forbes – University of British Columbia

  Coauthor: Laura Parfrey – University of British Columbia
• 2:45 PM – 3:00 PM EDT

  Evolutionary history, paleo- and contemporary environmental changes drive tropical mammal community structure
  

  Presenting Author: Chia Hsieh – Program in Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, Department of Biosciences, Rice University

  Coauthor: Daniel Gorczynski – Rice University

  Coauthor: Patrick A. Jansen – Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute, Balboa, Ancon, Republic of Panama; Forest Ecology and Forest Management Group, Wageningen University & Research

  Coauthor: Kelly Boekee – Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute, Balboa, Ancon, Republic of Panama

  Coauthor: David Kenfack – Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute, Balboa, Ancon, Republic of Panama

  Coauthor: Douglas Sheil – Wageningen University

  Coauthor: Robert Bitariho – Institute of Tropical Forest Conservation

  Coauthor: Marcella Guimaraes Moreira Lima – Universidade Federal do Pará

  Coauthor: Fernanda Santos – Oak Ridge National Laboratory

  Coauthor: Krisna Gajapersad – Conservation International Suriname

  Coauthor: Patricia Alvarez-Loayza – Duke University

  Coauthor: Wilson Spironello – Instituto Nacional de Pesquisas da Amazônia

  Coauthor: Ben Swanepoel – Wildlife Conservation Society

  Coauthor: Vittoria Estienne – Wildlife Conservation Society

  Coauthor: William Marthy – Wildlife Conservation Society

  Coauthor: Ahimsa Campos-Arceiz – University of Nottingham Malaysia

  Coauthor: Christine Fletcher – University of Nottingham Malaysia

  Coauthor: Arafat Mtui – Tropical Biodiversity Section, MUSE-Museo delle Scienze

  Coauthor: Francesco Rovero – University of Florence

  Coauthor: Oscar Madrigal – Organization for Tropical Studies

  Coauthor: Rodolfo Vasquez – Missouri Botanical Garden

  Coauthor: Santiago Espinosa – Universidad Autónoma de San Luis Potosí

  Coauthor: Julia Salvador – Wildlife Conservation Society

  Coauthor: Lydia Beaudrot, PhD – Rice University