COS 190 - Communities: Traits And Functional Diversity 3

Presentations:

• 1:30 PM – 1:45 PM PDT

  CANCELLED - Interactions between functional leaf traits and foliar endophytes in defense of tropical trees against natural enemies
  

  Presenting Author: Bolivar A. Aponte Rolon – Tulane University

  Coauthor: Sunshine A. Van Bael, Ph D. – Tulane University

  Coauthor: A. Elizabeth Arnold – University of Arizona
• 1:45 PM – 2:00 PM PDT

  Plant species height differences and co-occurrences change along a natural gradient of competition intensity
  

  Presenting Author: Riley Gridzak – Queen's University

  Coauthor: Thomas Michael Lavender – University of Regina

  Coauthor: Lonnie Aarssen – Queen's University

  Coauthor: Brandon Schamp – Algoma University
• 2:00 PM – 2:15 PM PDT

  CANCELLED - Competition drives greater increased intraspecific trait variability in Inferior than in superior species
  

  Presenting Author: Jing Yang – East China Normal University

  Coauthor: Guochun Shen – East China Normal University
• 2:15 PM – 2:30 PM PDT

  CANCELLED - Comparing intra- and inter-specific trait variation in dryland bryophytes across environmental gradients
  

  Presenting Author: Rebecca M. Molina – University of Florida

  Coauthor: Kirsten Fisher – California State University, Los Angeles

  Coauthor: John Brinda – Missouri Botanical Garden

  Coauthor: Mandy L. Slate – University of Colorado, Boulder
• 2:30 PM – 2:45 PM PDT

  Interaction networks of soil fungi in different host plant and precipitation contexts
  

  Presenting Author: Elliot Lagueux – University of Houston

  Coauthor: Kerri Crawford – University of Houston
• 2:45 PM – 3:00 PM PDT

  Protecting your young: quantifying stabilizing feedbacks in tropical Turbinaria ornata stands utilizing a trait based approach
  

  Presenting Author: Katherine Hannibal – University of California, Los Angeles

  Coauthor: Peggy Fong, PhD – University of California, Los Angeles