9:00 Welcome and Introduction Walter Jetz

9:45 Multi-species camera trapping: Challenges and opportunities Fabiola Iannarilli, U of Minnesota

10:20 Accounting for temporal variation in the traditional correlational distributional modeling framework Kate Ingenloff, U of Kansas

10:55 Coffee

11:15 Biodiversity-ecosystem functioning relationships in marine communities: Evidence from observations and modeling Aurore Maureaud, TU of Denmark

11:50 The relative importance of abiotic and biotic processes depends on spatial scale and environmental context Sarah Amundrud, U of British Columbia

12:25 Lunch

13:25 Adaptations for a complex life cycle: Exploring aquatic habitats and phenotypes of burrowing dragonfly larvae Emily Sandall, Pennsylvania State U

14:00 The ecology, evolution and global diversification of miniature trap-jaw ants (Strumigenys) Douglas Booher, U of Illinois

14:35 Molecular evolutionary and macroecological analyses of the eastern Asia - eastern North America disjunct flora Anthony Melton, U of Florida

15:10 Coffee15:30 Investigating drivers of angiosperm divergence: From population differentiation to speciation Diana Gamba-Moreno, U of Missouri

16:05 The conservation biogeography of plants under global change Matthew Kling, U of California, Berkeley

16:40 TBD, Bort Edwards, Smithsonian