Session: Community Ecology: Experiments and Disturbance (93rd ESA Annual Meeting (August 3 -- August 8, 2008))

1:30 PM

COS 36-1

Catastrophic mortality of experimental plantings in an extended tropical dry season
Cristina Martinez-Garza, Universidad Autonoma del Estado de Morelos; Wolke Tobon, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México; Julio Campo, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México; Henry F. Howe, University of Illinois-Chicago

1:50 PM

COS 36-2

Influence of fallen coarse woody debris on spiders inhabiting the leaf litter of a deciduous forest
Alberto Castro, Sociedad de Ciencias Aranzadi; David H. Wise, University of Illinois at Chicago

2:10 PM

COS 36-3

Vegetative assemblage distribution and long-term guild trajectories in a metal contaminated brownfield
Frank Gallagher, Rutgers University; Ildiko Pechmann, Rutgers University; Alexander Marti, Rutgers University; Claus Holzapfel, Rutgers University

2:30 PM

COS 36-4

Decoupling of herbaceous layer composition from the abiotic environment after long-term recovery from large-scale disturbance
Julie L. Wyatt, Wake Forest University; Miles R. Silman, Wake Forest University

2:50 PM

COS 36-5

An experimental test of source-sink dynamics in a multitrophic metacommunity
Sarah C. Lee, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill; Zachary T. Long, University of North Carolina Wilmington; Jennifer Adams Krumins, Montclair State University; Peter J. Morin, Rutgers University

3:10 PM

COS 36-

Break

3:20 PM

COS 36-6

Changes in natural enemy assemblages across an urban to rural landscape gradient
Ashley B. Bennett, University of Illinois; Claudio Gratton, University of Wisconsin - Madison

3:40 PM

COS 36-7

An experimental examination of the strength of interspecific interactions in small mammal communities in forests of the Northeast
Jesse Brunner, Washington State University; Richard S. Ostfeld, Cary Institute of Ecosystem Studies

4:00 PM

COS 36-8

Community and ecosystem dynamics: Insights gained by comparing natural ponds, pond mesocosms, and pond enclosures
Amy L. Downing, Ohio Wesleyan University; Lauren M. Woods, Washington University; Adrienne E. Mock, Ohio Wesleyan University; Mathew A. Leibold, University of Texas at Austin

4:20 PM

COS 36-9

Predator effects on aquatic community assembly: Disentangling the role of habitat selection and post-colonization processes
Johanna M. Kraus, U.S. Geological Survey; James R. Vonesh, Virginia Commonwealth University; Shoshana Rosenberg, Washington University in Saint Louis; Jonathan M. Chase, Biodiversity Synthesis Laboratory

COS 36 - Community Ecology: Experiments and Disturbance