94th ESA Annual Meeting (August 2 -- 7, 2009)
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COS 25 - Distributions and Range Limits

Tuesday, August 4, 2009: 8:00 AM-11:30 AM
Sendero Blrm III, Hyatt
Presider:
Sierra K. Curtis-McLane
8:00 AM
COS 25-1
Determining the native region of an invasive insect, through host parasitoid relations, and taxonomic, molecular, and ethnobotanical approaches, to facilitate its biological control
Robert W. Pemberton, USDA ARS Invasive Plant Research Lab; Timothy M. Collins, Florida International University; Dennis O'Dowd, Monash University; Penny J. Gullan, University of California, Davis; Paul Sharp, Florida International University; Hong Liu, International Center for Tropical Botany and Department of Earth and Environment, Florida International University, Miami, Florida; Sibylle Schroer, University of Florida, Fort Lauderdale
8:20 AM
COS 25-2
Interspecific competition mediates range limits in tropical montane birds: Implications for species responses to climate change
Jill E. Jankowski, University of British Columbia; Scott K. Robinson, University of Florida; Doug Levey, National Science Foundation
8:40 AM
COS 25-3
Elevated breeding success at a distribution margin: Potential for range shift under climate change
Lori Hargrove, University of California, Riverside; John T. Rotenberry, University of California, Riverside
9:00 AM
COS 25-4
Correlations between niche breadth, local dispersal behavior, and North American range size in libellulid dragonflies
Shannon J. McCauley, Cal Poly State University; Chris Davis, University of Michigan; Earl E. Werner, University of Michigan
9:20 AM
COS 25-5
Gene flow enhances fitness at low-elevation range limit in a Sierra Nevada monkeyflower
Jason P. Sexton, University of California, Merced
9:40 AM
COS 25-
Break
9:50 AM
COS 25-6
CANCELLED - Using classical niche concepts in species distribution models: accounting for biotic interactions
Greg J. McInerny, Microsoft Research, Cambridge.; Drew Purves, Microsoft Reserach, Cambridge
10:10 AM
COS 25-7
Selection, genetic variation and niche conservatism in Lasthenia fremontii
Nancy C. Emery, Purdue University; Renata Solan, University of Wisconsin Madison; David Ackerly, University of California
10:30 AM
COS 25-8
The costs and benefits of mutualism: Evaluation of Piper-ant plants along an altitudinal gradient in the north-eastern Andes of Ecuador
Genoveva Rodríguez-Castañeda, Umeå University; Rebecca E. Forkner, George Mason University; Lee A. Dyer, University of Nevada; Eric Tepe, University of Utah
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