COS 168 - Communities: Traits And Functional Diversity 2

Presentations:

• 10:00 AM – 10:15 AM PDT

  Traits and dispersal shape Species Abundance Distributions (SADs): experimental tests of mechanistic theory
  

  Presenting Author: Elena Litchman – Carnegie Institution

  Coauthor: Masatoshi Katabuchi – Xishuangbanna Tropical Botanical Garden

  Coauthor: Thomas Koffel – Université Lyon 1

  Coauthor: Kaito Umemura – Kobe University

  Coauthor: Christopher A. Klausmeier – W. K. Kellogg Biological Station Michigan State University
• 10:15 AM – 10:30 AM PDT

  The role of host species differences in phylloplane pH regulation is shaping bacterial communities.
  

  Presenting Author: Kadeem J. Gilbert – Michigan State University

  Co-Author: Jean-Baptiste Floc'h – Michigan State University

  Coauthor: Tanya Renner – Penn State University
• 10:30 AM – 10:45 AM PDT

  Water availability partially explains annual variation in grassland plant species’ functional traits
  

  Presenting Author: George R. Wheeler – University of Nebraska-Lincoln
• 10:45 AM – 11:00 AM PDT

  Global tree allometric traits vary in response to climate, competition and biome type.
  

  Presenting Author: Jingyu Dai – New Mexico State University

  Coauthor: Siwen Feng – Peking University

  Coauthor: Hongyan Liu – Peking University

  Coauthor: Kailiang Yu – Princeton University

  Coauthor: Zhiyao Tang – Peking University

  Coauthor: Boyi Liang – Beijing Forestry University

  Coauthor: Qiuyan Yu – New Mexico State University

  Coauthor: Niall Hanan – New Mexico State University
• 11:00 AM – 11:15 AM PDT

  Temporal versus spatial variation in functional traits and their implications in forest tree species’ acclimation potential
  

  Presenting Author: Kelly Kerr – Department of Ecology, Evolution and Marina Biology, University of California Santa Barbara

  Coauthor: Leander DL Anderegg – UC Santa Barbara, Ecology, Evolution, and Marine Biology