93rd ESA Annual Meeting (August 3 -- August 8, 2008)
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COS 43 - Niche Relationships and Theory

Tuesday, August 5, 2008: 1:30 PM-5:00 PM
101 A , Midwest Airlines Center
1:30 PM
COS 43-1
Using evolutionary game theory to model the influence of interspecific interactions on thermoregulation and evolution of thermal performance curves
William A. Mitchell, Indiana State University; Michael J. Angilletta, Arizona State University
1:50 PM
COS 43-2
The need for an evolutionary niche concept
Joel Brown, University of Illinois at Chicago; Thomas L. Vincent, University of Arizona; Lauren M. Pintor, The Ohio State University
2:10 PM
COS 43-3
Competitive niche: Way of population regulation
Géza Meszéna, Eötvös University; András Szilágyi, Eötvös University; Kalle Parvinen, University of Turku; Liz Pásztor, Eötvös University
2:30 PM
COS 43-4
A different type of mechanism for the diversity-productivity relationship: Or, why the whole is more than the sum of the parts
Gregory M. Mikkelson, McGill School of Environment
2:50 PM
COS 43-5
Using metacommunity theory in empirical studies
Kendi Davies, University of Colorado; Marcel Holyoak, University of California, Davis
3:10 PM
COS 43-
Break
3:20 PM
COS 43-6
Comparisons of niche diversification in an upland neotropical stream food web pre- and post- frog extinction
Susan S. Kilham, Drexel University; Piet Verburg, University of Georgia; Catherine M. Pringle, University of Georgia; Scott J. Connelly, University of Georgia; Matt R. Whiles, Southern Illinois University Carbondale; Karen R. Lips, Southern Illinois University
3:40 PM
COS 43-7
Segregation of niches among four species of orb-weaving spiders (Araneidae)
Matthew L. Richardson, Smithsonian Conservation Biology Institute; Lawrence M Hanks, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
4:00 PM
COS 43-8
Bark fissure index: A scalable indicator of bark niche in forests
David W. MacFarlane, Michigan State University; Aidong Luo, Xishuangbanan National Nature Reserve Management Bureau
4:20 PM
COS 43-9
Does variation in δ13C correlate with niche position among plants growing along a hydrological gradient?
Yoseph Araya, The Open University; Jonathan Silvertown, The Open University; David Gowing, The Open University; Kevin McConway, The Open University; Peter Linder, University of Zurich; Guy Midgley, South African National Biodiversity Institute
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