Organized Oral Session
Hybrid Session
Fletcher Halliday
University of Zürich Institute for Evolutionary Biology and Environmental Studies; Oregon State University Department of Botany and Plant Pathology, United States
Benjamin Delory
Leuphana University Lüneburg, Institute of Ecology, United States
Tadashi Fukami
Stanford University, Department of Biology, United States
Vicky Temperton
Leuphana University Lüneburg, Institute of Ecology, United States
Elle Barnes
Postdoctoral Fellow
Department of Energy Joint Genome Institute
Berkeley, California, United States
Chelsea Little
Assistant Professor
Simon Fraser University, British Columbia, Canada
Over the past decade, there has been increasing recognition of historical contingency in the processes that determine biodiversity. This contingency is often caused by priority effects, in which the order and timing of species immigration determine the way species affect one another. In some cases, priority effects are strong enough to completely change how local interspecific interactions influence species coexistence. Priority effects could be an overlooked process, creating much of the unexplained variation in biodiversity and influencing the role that biodiversity plays in ecosystem functioning. Moreover, priority effects are increasingly recognized as relevant to the restoration and management of biodiversity in degraded ecosystems and to health outcomes over the course of child development and during infectious disease outbreaks. Yet, historical contingency and priority effects remain an understudied component of community assembly theory. This session brings together researchers who are connecting different approaches to understand the importance of history in community assembly, including researchers who use empirical data to test and extend theory, researchers who synthesize theory and data across study systems to provide general insights, and researchers who apply theory to manage biodiversity restoration and health outcomes.
How species interact with one another often drives population trajectories, community dynamics, and ecosystem functioning, but the degree to which these interactions depend on past events is unknown. This session brings together researchers and practitioners to address this knowledge gap. Fitting with the meeting theme, “for all ecologists”, our session bridges the gaps from theory to synthesis to practice, including perspectives across study systems, career stages, and countries to address a pressing, but understudied question in community ecology: When does history matter during community assembly?
Presenting Author: Elle M. Barnes – Department of Energy Joint Genome Institute
Co-author: J.D. Lewis, Ph.D. – Fordham University
Presenting Author: Miriam N. Ojima – Kyoto University
Co-Author: Lin Jiang – Georgia Institute of Technology
Co-Author: Aleksandr A. Arzamasov – Sanford Burnham Prebys Medical Discovery Institute
Co-Author: Keisuke Yoshida – Morinaga Milk Industry Co., Ltd
Co-Author: Toshitaka Odamaki – Morinaga Milk Industry Co., Ltd
Co-Author: Jinzhong Xiao – Morinaga Milk Industry Co., Ltd
Co-Author: Aruto Nakajima – Kyoto University
Co-Author: Motomitsu Kitaoka – Niigata University
Co-Author: Junko Hirose – Kyoto Women’s University
Co-Author: Tadasu Urashima – Obihiro University of Agriculture and Veterinary Medicine
Co-Author: Toshihiko Katoh – Kyoto University
Co-Author: Aina Gotoh – Kyoto University
Co-Author: Dmitry A. Rodionov – Sanford Burnham Prebys Medical Discovery Institute
Co-Author: Andrei L. Osterman – Sanford Burnham Prebys Medical Discovery Institute
Co-Author: Mikiyasu Sakanaka – Kyoto University
Co-Author: Takane Katayama – Kyoto University
Presenting Author: tamara van Steijn – Umeå University, Department of Ecology and Environmental Sciences
Co-author: Judith Sarneel, Associate professor – University of Umeå
Co-author: Paul Kardol, Professor – Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences
Co-author: Roland Jansson, Professor – University of Umeå
Presenting Author: Rubia Secco – Federal University of Parana, Post Graduate Program in Ecology and Conservation
Co-author: Emanuela W A Weidlich – Institute of Ecology, Leuphana University, Lüneburg, Germany.
Co-author: Marcia C M Marques – Laboratory of Plant Ecology, Federal University of Parana, Curitiba, Brazil
Presenting Author: Chelsea J. Little – Simon Fraser University
Co-author: Fletcher W. Halliday – University of Zürich Institute for Evolutionary Biology and Environmental Studies; Oregon State University Department of Botany and Plant Pathology
Co-author: Judith Sarneel, Associate professor – University of Umeå
Co-author: tamara van Steijn – Umeå University, Department of Ecology and Environmental Sciences
Co-author: Jasmin Albert – University of Oregon
Co-author: Elle M. Barnes – Department of Energy Joint Genome Institute
Co-author: Tess Grainger – University of British Columbia
Co-author: Paul Kardol, Professor – Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences
Co-author: Emma Ladouceur – German Centre for Integrative Biodiversity Research
Co-author: Vicky Temperton – Leuphana University Lüneburg, Institute of Ecology
Co-author: Chhaya Werner – University of Southern Oregon, Environmental Science, Policy, & Sustainability
Co-author: Tadashi Fukami – Stanford University, Department of Biology
Co-author: Benjamin Delory – Leuphana University Lüneburg, Institute of Ecology