Date Paper(s) Presenter(s) Notes
28 August
Emily Austin & Noellia Barrios
 
4 September 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
9 October
Lecture by Gary Graves
Gary Graves here
16 October
Fall break
 
Nate gone
23 October
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