93rd ESA Annual Meeting (August 3 -- August 8, 2008)
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COS 19 - Community Assembly and Neutral Theory

Tuesday, August 5, 2008: 8:00 AM-11:30 AM
103 C, Midwest Airlines Center
8:00 AM
COS 19-1
Evolution and maintenance of functional equivalence in simulated plant communities
Jeffrey Lake, Adrian College; Stephen P. Hubbell, UCLA; Luis Borda de Agua, University of Georgia
8:20 AM
COS 19-2
Colonization-related tradeoffs and the maintenance of diversity in seed size
Helene Muller-Landau, Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute; S. Joseph Wright, Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute; Osvaldo Calderon, Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute; Andres Hernandez, Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute
8:40 AM
COS 19-3
Flooding effects on plant diversity along hydrologic gradients of Mississippi riverine islands
James Moore, Christian Brothers University; Scott B Franklin, The University of Memphis
9:00 AM
COS 19-4
Competitive equivalency of cultivar and non-cultivar dominant prairie grasses in an experimental restoration
Lewis K. Reed, Southern Illinois University; Sara Baer, Southern Illinois University Carbondale; David J. Gibson, Southern Illinois University Carbondale
9:20 AM
COS 19-5
Core functional groups maintain low functional β-diversity
Sébastien Villéger, UMR 5119 Ecosystèmes Lagunaires; Julia Ramos Miranda, Centro de Ecología, Pesquerías y Oceanografía de Golfo de México (EPOMEX); David Mouillot, ECOLAG-Université Montpellier 2
9:40 AM
COS 19-
Break
9:50 AM
COS 19-6
Niche theory and neutral theory as explanations for broad-scale diversity gradients: A test with ants
Nathan J. Sanders, The University of Copenhagen; Jean-Philippe Lessard, University of Tennessee
10:10 AM
COS 19-7
Convergence in community assembly of California grasslands differs with nitrogen availability
Rebecca J. Aicher, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency; Katharine N. Suding, University of California at Berkeley
10:30 AM
COS 19-8
Body size structure of ecological guilds as a test of alternative community theories
Mark E. Ritchie, Syracuse University
10:50 AM
COS 19-9
Applications of stochastic field theory in ecology
James O'Dwyer, Santa Fe Institute; Jessica Green, University of Oregon
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