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OOS-53:
Days to decades and meters to miles: Exploring community dynamics across
scales, taxa, and habitats
Friday,
August 12, 8 AM - 11:30 AM, Meeting Rooms 510b and 510d, Level 5, Palais
des congrès de Montréal
Organizers:
Jeff Houlahan (jeffhoul@unbsj.ca),
C. Scott Findlay
Description:
General
ecological principles can, by definition, only be derived by integrating
research across multiple taxa, geographic areas, and time periods. This implies
the sharing of data among ecologists from many different disciplines and around
the world. This session arises from an international collaboration of ecologists
committed to identifying and overcoming barriers to data-sharing, who have
contributed several multi-species, -site, and -time datasets to be used to
address fundamental ecological questions. The datasets include a wide range of
taxa and scales, from bird communities on 40-kilometer routes across North
America, to plant communities in quadrats across a 20-hectare site in Arizona,
to moths in traps across the United Kingdom. The questions that are being
addressed include such general ecological topics as the influence of diversity
on the stability of natural communities, and specifically how these various
ecological relationships change across taxa, habitats, and spatio-temporal
scales. The objectives of this session are: (1) to emphasize the need for
large-scale data sharing; and (2) to demonstrate the kinds of questions that can
be addressed when ecological datasets are shared.
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