93rd ESA Annual Meeting (August 3 -- August 8, 2008)
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COS 81 - Community Ecology: Patterns

Thursday, August 7, 2008: 8:00 AM-11:30 AM
103 DE, Midwest Airlines Center
8:00 AM
COS 81-1
Competition and recruitment limitation in high-diversity pine savanna: Mechanistic effects of dominant species
Jonathan A. Myers, Washington University in St. Louis; Kyle Harms, Louisiana State University
8:20 AM
COS 81-2
Fine-scale environmental heterogeneity promotes coexistence without niche specialization
Sarah M. Pinto, Universtiy of Montana; Andrew S. MacDougall, University of Guelph
8:40 AM
COS 81-3
Trait-based community ecology of phytoplankton
Elena Litchman, Michigan State University; Christopher A. Klausmeier, Michigan State University
9:00 AM
COS 81-4
Plant genetic variation determines metacommunity structure of gall inquiline communities
Gregory M. Crutsinger, University of British Columbia; Marc Cadotte, University of Toronto - Scarborough; Nathan J. Sanders, The University of Copenhagen
9:20 AM
COS 81-5
Phylogenetic patterns in community composition: Estimating the effects of species traits, environmental characteristics, and species interactions
Anthony R. Ives, University of Wisconsin-Madison; Mathew R. Helmus, University of Wisconsin - Madison
9:40 AM
COS 81-
Break
9:50 AM
COS 81-6
Community inferences from single-species data
Karen C. Abbott, Case Western Reserve University; Jorgen Ripa, Lund University; Anthony R. Ives, University of Wisconsin-Madison
10:10 AM
COS 81-7
Ant-hemipteran mutualism and the persistence and spatial distribution of a predatory ladybeetle in a coffee agroecosystem
Heidi Liere, University of Wisconsin - Madison; John Vandermeer, University of Michigan; Ivette Perfecto, University of Michigan
10:30 AM
COS 81-8
Regional, landscape, and local scale factors influencing the community assemblage of diadromous fauna in tropical island river networks
Catherine Hein, Umeå University; Todd A. Crowl, Florida International University
10:50 AM
COS 81-9
Bottom-up regulation of top-down effects: Host plant structure mediates arthropod community composition along a habitat edge
Gina Marie Wimp, Georgetown University; Shannon M. Murphy, University of Denver; Robert F. Denno, University of Maryland
11:10 AM
COS 81-10
Trophic omnivory and the structure, strength, and non-linear nature of species interactions across a productivity gradient
Mark Novak, Oregon State University
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