ESA/SER Joint Meeting (August 5 -- August 10, 2007)

COS 63 - Community pattern: Environmental gradients and spatial variation

Wednesday, August 8, 2007: 8:00 AM-11:30 AM
J4, San Jose McEnery Convention Center
8:00 AM
Spatial scales of variability in temperate reef communities across a gradient of upwelling intensity
Rebecca G. Martone, Stanford University; Alison J. Haupt, Stanford University; Fiorenza Micheli, Stanford University
8:20 AM
Community richness, diversity, and evenness across rocky intertidal environmental stress gradients in Atlantic Canada
Ricardo A. Scrosati, St. Francis Xavier University; Christine S. Heaven, Saint Francis Xavier University
8:40 AM
Does geology matter? The relative importance of substrates and their properties to rocky intertidal communities
Elizabeth A. Perotti, University of California, Berkeley; David R. Lindberg, University of California, Berkeley
9:00 AM
Fish life-history traits predict patterns of occurrence and assemblage composition in prairie streams
David J. Hoeinghaus, University of North Texas; Keith B. Gido, Kansas State University; Walter K. Dodds, Kansas State University
9:20 AM
Resource distribution drives arthropod community responses to habitat edges
Gina Marie Wimp, Georgetown University; Shannon M. Murphy, University of Denver; Robert F. Denno, University of Maryland
9:40 AM
9:50 AM
Waterbird use of water hyacinth in Lake Chapala, Mexico: Implications for invasive weed management
Amy M. Villamagna, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University; Brian R. Murphy, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University
10:10 AM
Removal of woody encroachment restores biophysical gradients in Midwestern oak savannas
Lars Brudvig, Michigan State University; Heidi Asbjornsen, University of New Hampshire
10:50 AM
Soil depth affects on plant species richness and community composition in restored tallgrass prairie in central Iowa, USA
Mathew E. Dornbush, University of Wisconsin-Green Bay; Brian J. Wilsey, Iowa State University
11:10 AM
Spatial heterogeneity of understory light: Linking canopy structure to diversity in three temperate plant communities
Steven T. Brantley, Virginia Commonwealth University; Donald R. Young, Alaska Department of Fish and Game