ESA/SER Joint Meeting (August 5 -- August 10, 2007)
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COS 3 - Community ecology: General theory and models

Monday, August 6, 2007: 1:30 PM-5:00 PM
J3, San Jose McEnery Convention Center
1:30 PM
COS 3-1
Shade tolerance, gap dynamics, and coexistence of forest trees
Dominique Gravel, Université du Québec à Rimouski; Charles D. Canham, Cary Institute of Ecosystem Studies; Marilou Beaudet, Université du Québec à Montréal; Christian Messier, Université du Québec à Montréal
1:50 PM
COS 3-2
When will environmental variation most influence species coexistence?
Robin Snyder, Case Western Reserve University
2:10 PM
COS 3-3
Intra-specific variability and fecundity: Potential impact on competition interactions and species coexistence in plant communities
Benoit Courbaud, Cemagref - Grenoble; Georges Kunstler, Cemagref - Grenoble; Ghislain Vieilledent, Cemagref - Grenoble
2:30 PM
COS 3-4
Changing vegetation and trend analysis
Jay Bai, MDSM Data Analysis Service LLC
2:50 PM
COS 3-5
Ecological guilds can generate repeatable indicator values and realistic patterns of habitat partitioning: Insights from metacommunity simulations
Jason Pither, University of British Columbia, Okanagan Campus
3:10 PM
COS 3-
Break
3:20 PM
COS 3-6
Contrasts between habitat generalist and specialists: A challenge to metacommunity models
Shubha Pandit, McMaster University; Jurek Kolasa, McMaster University; Karl Cottenie, University of Guelph
3:40 PM
COS 3-7
A flexible spatial modeling approach for the analysis of metacommunities
Pedro R. Peres-Neto, University of Quebec at Montreal
4:00 PM
COS 3-8
Meta-community phylogenetics: Evolutionary ecology at regional and biogeographic scales
Mathew A. Leibold, University of Texas at Austin
4:20 PM
COS 3-9
Threshold strength and diagonality: Quantitative measures of response pattern shape for modeling method evaluation and progress toward ecological understanding
Heather E. Lintz, Oregon Climate Change Research Institute; Andrew Gray, USDA Forest Service Pacific Northwest Research Station; Bruce McCune, Oregon State University
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