94th ESA Annual Meeting (August 2 -- 7, 2009)

COS 28 - Habitat Structure, Fragmentation, and Connectivity I

Tuesday, August 4, 2009: 8:00 AM-11:30 AM
Grand Pavillion III, Hyatt
Presider:
Leslie Ries
8:00 AM
Use of shallow lakes by arctic grayling in summer: growth or refuge
Chris Luecke, Utah State University; Cody R. Johnson, Utah State University
8:20 AM
Trade-offs between nutrient and predator effects in human-modified habitats
Clifton Ruehl, Columbus State University; Joel Trexler, Florida International University
8:40 AM
A conceptual framework to study the effects of habitat structure on diversity of benthic assemblages
Miguel G. Matias, School of Biological Sciences - The University of Sydney; A.J. Underwood, School of Biological Sciences - The University of Sydney; R.A. Coleman, School of Biological Sciences - The University of Sydney; D.F. Hochuli, The University of Sydney
9:00 AM
Emergent properties of fragmentation when edge effects are extrapolated over complex landscapes
Leslie Ries, University of Maryland; Thomas D. Sisk, Northern Arizona University
9:40 AM
9:50 AM
Landscape matrix mediates avian community stability in fragmented tropical forests in Jamaica
Christina M. Kennedy, The Nature Conservancy; Evan H. Campbell Grant, US Geological Survey; Maile C. Neel, University of Maryland; William F. Fagan, University of Maryland; Peter Marra, Smithsonian Conservation Biology Institute
10:10 AM
Pollinator diversity and abundance in a fragmented oak-savannah ecosystem
Lisa A. Neame, Simon Fraser University; Elizabeth Elle, Simon Fraser University
10:30 AM
The effect of forest fragmentation on biodiversity and species composition of forest regeneration in the Central Amazon
Elaine R. Hooper, Yale University; Douglas C. Daly, The New York Botanical Garden; Pierre Legendre, Université de Montréal; Mark S. Ashton, Yale University
10:50 AM
Predicting the locations of breeding pools to assess landscape connectivity for a rare amphibian
William R. Fields, North Carolina State University; Matthew C. Simon, University of North Carolina
11:10 AM
Community and ecosystem-level interactions within fragmented mussel beds
César O. Largaespada, McGill University; Frédéric Guichard, McGill University; Philippe Archambault, Université du Québec à Rimouski