Plenary Session: Marine biodiversity and ecosystem resilience

Plenary Session: Marine biodiversity and ecosystem resilience
Chairs: Tricia Thibodeau, Randie Bundy, Victoria Coles, Dreux Chappell, Susanne Menden-Deuer
1) Session Introduction (session organizers)
2) What (if anything) does biodiversity have to do with ocean carbon and biogeochemistry? (J. Emmett Duffy, Smithsonian Environmental Research Ctr)
3) Phytoplankton functional diversity in an era of environmental change (Tammi Richardson, Univ. South Carolina)
4) Lightning talks Ecosystem community composition and biogeochemical cycles: Community Earth System Model Simulations with multiple plankton functional types (Jun Yu, UCI)
Diatoms in motion: multi-year time series reveals synchronous communities (Diana Fontaine, URI)
Phenotypic diversity is foundational to marine microbial biodiversity (Susanne Menden-Deuer, URI)
5) Find the helpers: Prioritizing multiple-driver studies of key taxa (Gwenn Hennon, Univ. Alaska Fairbanks)
6) Lightning talks
Exploring the role of cryptic sulfur cycling in hypoxia formation: insights from the Chesapeake Bay biogeochemical model (Rui Jin, Johns Hopkins Univ.)
Microbial energy turnover rates and nutrient cycling under elevated temperature (Kim Popendorf, RSMAS)
Getting small helps you survive in a warmer ocean (Mike Roman, UMCES)
7) Lightning talks
Changes in primary production, microbial growth, and microbial community structure partially relate to biodiversity over ten years in the California coastal surface ocean (Jacob Cram, UMCES)
Ecosystem predictability in an Earth System Model (Graeme MacGilchrist, Univ. St. Andrews)
Modeled biodiversity affects ecosystem function and resilience to change (Victoria Coles, UMCES)
8) Disturbance, persistence, and resilience of microbes (Jessica M. Labonté, TAMU-G)
9) Set up debate
10) Debate
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