We have a modest sized group of current folks at ESA this week presenting on all the cool things they’ve been doing. We’re also around and always happy to try to find time to grab a coffee or just a few minutes to chat science.

Our schedule for the week is:

Monday

Get a double dose of rapid change in ecological communities from the Portal Project with Morgan Ernest and Erica Christensen.

02:50 PM – 03:10 PM in C120-121. Erica Christensen (w/Dave Harris & Morgan Ernest). Novel approach for the analysis of community dynamics: Separating rapid reorganizations from gradual trends.

03:20 PM – 03:40 PM in C120-121. Morgan Ernest (w/Erica Christensen). Do existing communities slow community reorganization in response to changes in assembly processes?

Tuesday

Find out what we can learn about how natural systems may change in response to climate from looking at large datasets with Ethan White and Kristina Riemer.

01:50 PM – 02:10 PM in D139. Kristina Riemer (w/Rob Guralnick & Ethan White). No general relationship between mass and temperature in endotherm species.

02:30 PM – 02:50 PM in Portland Blrm 256. Ethan White (w/Dave Harris & Shawn Taylor). Data-intensive approaches to forecasting biodiversity.

Thursday

Check out a new project with a new and exciting research tool for us (metabarcoding) at the poster session.

04:30 PM – 06:30 PM in the Exhibit Hall. Ellen Bledsoe (w/Sam Wisely & Morgan Ernest). DNA metabarcoding of fecal samples provides insight into desert rodent diet partitioning.

Collaborations

There are also plenty of weecology collaborations being presented this week:

• Transient species are common: Implications for ecological inference (Thursday at 9:20 am in C120-121)
• Modeling community assembly and the functioning of ecosystems (Thursday at 4:20 pm in E143-144)
• Advancing biodiversity-ecosystem function research by integrating community assembly: The CAFE approach (Friday at 8 am in Portland Blrm 257)
• Diversity alone is not enough: Nitrogen enrichment and community assembly determine ecosystem response to drought (Friday at 9:40 am in Portland Blrm 257)

We’re really looking forward to catching up with old friends and meeting new people this week.