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

COS 69 - Community Assembly and Neutral Theory II

Wednesday, August 5, 2009: 1:30 PM-5:00 PM
Dona Ana, Albuquerque Convention Center
Presider:
Sharon K. Collinge
1:30 PM
1:50 PM
Component models of assembly in a metacommunity of tropical arboreal ants
George F. Livingston, University of Texas; Stacy M. Philpott, University of California, Santa Cruz
2:10 PM
Experimental evidence for neutral community dynamics governing an insect assemblage
Adam M. Siepielski, University of San Diego; Keng-Lou J. Hung, University of California, San Diego; Eben E.B. Bein, Dartmouth College; Mark A. McPeek, Dartmouth College
2:30 PM
The effects of time averaging on temporal turnover in species composition and tests of metacommunity models
Adam Tomašových, University of Chicago; Susan M. Kidwell, University of Chicago
2:50 PM
Transient patterns in the assembly of vernal pool plant communities
Sharon K. Collinge, University of Colorado; Chris Ray, University of Colorado
3:10 PM
3:20 PM
Limited dispersal, priority effects, and nutrient availability determine alternative  community states in an old-field grassland succession
Pedro M. Tognetti, IFEVA-CONICET, Facultad de Agronomia, Universidad de Buenos Aires; Enrique J. Chaneton, IFEVA-CONICET, Facultad de Agronomía, Universidad de Buenos Aires
3:40 PM
Scale-dependent contributions of environmental and spatial processes to beta diversity of a subtropical forest community scale-dependent contributions of environmental and spatial processes to beta diversity of a subtropical forest community
Xiangcheng Mi, Institute of Botany, Chinese Academy of Sciences; Pierre Legendre, Université de Montréal; Haibao Ren, Institute of Botany, Chinese Academy of Sciences; Keping Ma, Institute of Botany, Chinese Academy of Sciences; Mingjian Yu, Zhejiang University; Jianhua Chen, Zhejiang Normal University
4:00 PM
Consistency of species-area relationship, and neutrality or non-neutrality in a scale context in subtropical forest of China
Haibao Ren, Institute of Botany, Chinese Academy of Sciences; Xiangcheng Mi, Institute of Botany, Chinese Academy of Sciences; Keping Ma, Institute of Botany, Chinese Academy of Sciences
4:20 PM
CANCELLED - Testing genetic control of grassland assembly rules
Danny J. Gustafson, The Citadel; Charles Major, The Citadel; Dewitt Jones, The Citadel; David J. Gibson, Southern Illinois University Carbondale; Sara Baer, Southern Illinois University Carbondale
4:40 PM
Patterns of phylogenetic dispersion in tropical dry forest trees and implications for community assembly
John N. Williams, University of California, Davis; Colleen K. Kelly, University of Oxford