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Date	Paper(s)	Presenter(s)	Notes
28 August	van der Puten et al. (2009) Empirical and theoretical challenges in aboveground–belowground ecology. Oecologia 161: 1-14	Emily Austin & Noellia Barrios
4 September	Engelkes T et al. (2008)Successful range-expanding plants experience less above-ground and below-ground enemy impact Nature doi:10.1038/nature07474	Emmi Felker-Quinn
11 September	Fierer et al. Global patterns in belowground communities. Ecology Letters doi: 10.1111/j.1461-0248.2009.01360.x	None.
18 September	Microbes on mountainsides: Contrasting elevational patterns of bacterial and plant diversity and The diversity and biogeography of soil bacterial communities	JP and Melissa	Nate gone
25 September
2 October	Lecture by Alison Boyer
9 October	Lecture by Gary Graves		Gary Graves here
16 October	Fall break		Nate gone
23 October	Dominant Species and Diversity: Linking Relative Abundance to Controls of Species Establishment	JP presents	Nate gone
30 October	Effects of predator functional diversity on grassland ecosystem function and Climate warming strengthens indirect interactions in an old-field food web	Mariano presents	Doug Levey here
6 November	Thermal adaptation of soil microbial respiration to elevated temperature and Temperature sensitivity of soil carbon decomposition and feedbacks to climate change and Soil microbial respiration in arctic soil does not acclimate to temperature		Mark Bradford here
13 November			Nate gone
20 November	Functional traits and phylogenies
27 November			Thanksgiving break
4 December	Is there a general theory of community ecology? - Roughgarden Disintegration of the Ecological Community - Ricklefs Conceptual synthesis in community ecology - Vellend