ESA/SER Joint Meeting (August 5 -- August 10, 2007)
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COS 22 - Community assembly and neutral theory

Tuesday, August 7, 2007: 8:00 AM-11:30 AM
J3, San Jose McEnery Convention Center
8:00 AM
COS 22-1
Species-area relationships from a spatially explicit neutral model in an infinite landscape
James Rosindell, Imperial College London; Stephen J. Cornell, University of Leeds
8:20 AM
COS 22-2
Effect of the spatial structure on relative species abundance distribution for neutral theory in ecology
Kazunori Sato, Shizuoka University; Tomoka Hasegawa, Shizuoka University
8:40 AM
COS 22-3
Neutral and niche-based processes driving species turnover at large spatial scales
Hélène Morlon, École Normale Supérieure; Jessica Bryant, University of Oregon; Brendan Bohannan, University of Oregon; Jessica Green, University of Oregon
9:00 AM
COS 22-4
Traits, habitats, and clades: Identifying traits involved in the environmental filtering of coexisting plant species
Margaret M. Mayfield, The University of Queensland; Maciej F. Boni, Resources for the Future; David Ackerly, University of California
9:20 AM
COS 22-5
Niche and neutral controls over the coexistence of serpentine annual plants
Jonathan M. Levine, ETH Zurich; Janneke Hille Ris Lambers, University of Washington
9:40 AM
COS 22-
Break
9:50 AM
COS 22-6
Leaf functional trait variation in New World tree communities across a latitudinal and diversity gradient: Implications for coexistence
Jeffrey Lake, Adrian College; Stephen P. Hubbell, UCLA
10:10 AM
COS 22-7
Functional trait distributions, phylogenetic structure, and the assembly of a Neotropical tree community in Amazonian Ecuador
Nathan Kraft, University of Maryland; David Ackerly, University of California; Renato Valencia, Pontificia Universidad Católica del Ecuador; Richard Condit, The field museum; Consuelo Hernandez, Pontificia Universidad Catolica del Ecuador; Gorky F. Villa M., Pontificia Universidad Catolica del Ecuador; Robin Foster, The Field Museum
10:30 AM
COS 22-8
Dispersal dynamics affect the distribution, but not the abundance, of tropical trees: A study of tropical tree communities in Amazonian Peru
Kyle G. Dexter, University of Edinburgh
10:50 AM
COS 22-9
What shapes tropical seedling community structure? Seed dispersal versus environmental conditions
C. E. Timothy Paine, University of Stirling; Kyle Harms, Louisiana State University
11:10 AM
COS 22-10
Dispersal, determinism, and the structure of a desert grassland grasshopper community
Andrew J. Rominger, University of California Berkeley; Thomas Miller, Rice University; Scott Collins
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