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

COS 2 - Biodiversity: Landscape Structure and Environmental Gradients

Monday, August 3, 2009: 1:30 PM-5:00 PM
Pecos, Albuquerque Convention Center
Presider:
Janice Bossart
1:30 PM
Revisiting Rapoport’s rule and its relationship to the latitudinal diversity gradient in tree species
Xavier Morin, Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique CNRS; Martin J. Lechowicz, McGill University
1:50 PM
Environment and the local-regional richness relationships in terrestrial vertebrates
Jonathan Belmaker, Tel Aviv University; Walter Jetz, Yale University
2:10 PM
Regional and local drivers of ant community structure
Jean-Philippe Lessard, University of Tennessee; Nathan J. Sanders, The University of Copenhagen
2:30 PM
Everything is possible! How to measure land-use effects on arthropod diversity and ecosystem functions?
Martin M. Goßner, Institute of Ecology, Friedrich-Schiller-University; Esther Kowalski, Institute of Ecology, Friedrich-Schiller-University; Markus Lange, Institute of Ecology, Friedrich-Schiller-University; Manfred Türke, Technische Universität München; Wolfgang Weisser, Technical University of Munich
3:10 PM
3:20 PM
Hotspots: Density and species richness for cetaceans in the oceanic eastern tropical Pacific
Lisa T. Ballance, Southwest Fisheries Science Center; Jessica Redfern, Southwest Fisheries Science Center; Robert L. Pitman, Southwest Fisheries Science Center; Tim Gerrodette, Southwest Fisheries Science Center, NMFS, NOAA
3:40 PM
Connectivity, regional heterogeneity, and their effects on biodiversity of artificial pond metacommunities
Michael T. Pedruski, McGill University; Shelley A. Arnott, Queen's University
4:00 PM
The value of indigenous forest reserves to biodiversity conservation
Janice Bossart, Southeastern Louisiana University
4:20 PM
CANCELLED - Promotion of biodiversity in logged landscapes with experimental canopy gaps
Paul Alaback, University of Montana; Michael Ausman, USDA Forest Service, Tongass National Forest
4:40 PM
Patterns of species diversity in relation to site productivity and management
Andrew Gray, USDA Forest Service Pacific Northwest Research Station