94th ESA Annual Meeting (August 2 -- 7, 2009)
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COS 22 - Community Pattern and Dynamics: Spatial Patterns

Tuesday, August 4, 2009: 8:00 AM-11:30 AM
Picuris, Albuquerque Convention Center
Presider:
Molly B. McNicoll
8:00 AM
COS 22-1
Role of regional and local factors in population dynamics of rock pools metacommunity along the gradient of species habitat specialization
Shubha Pandit, McMaster University; Jurek Kolasa, McMaster University; Karl Cottenie, University of Guelph
8:20 AM
COS 22-2
Climate, disturbance, and seed arrival interact to assemble high-diversity pine savanna groundcover communities
Jonathan A. Myers, Washington University in St. Louis; Kyle Harms, Louisiana State University
8:40 AM
COS 22-3
Distribution of over-wintering ground beetles in an agricultural landscape and testing for similarity in species response to environmental gradients
Michael C. Russell, Oregon State University
9:00 AM
COS 22-4
Interactions between disturbance and dispersal mediate coexistence in a rock pool metacommunity
Bram Vanschoenwinkel, Vrije Universiteit Brussel (VUB); Luc Brendonck, K.U.Leuven
9:20 AM
COS 22-5
Turnover and predictability of flower communities across two deserts and two mountains
Karen R. Wetherill, University of New Mexico; David W. Inouye, University of Maryland; C. David Bertelsen, University of Arizona; Theresa M. Crimmins, USA National Phenology Network; Jessica Forrest, University of California, Davis
9:40 AM
COS 22-
Break
9:50 AM
COS 22-6
The contingencies of ecosystem engineering: Impacts of host plant species and leaf-tying caterpillar species
H. George Wang, Smithsonian Institution; Robert J. Marquis, University of Missouri - St. Louis; Richard A. Lankau, University of Georgia; Christina Baer, University of Missouri - St. Louis
10:10 AM
COS 22-7
Post disturbance tree establishment in mature Douglas-fir forests in Washington and Oregon
James A. Freund, University of Washington; Jerry F. Franklin, University of Washington
10:30 AM
COS 22-8
Long term structural dynamics of mature Puerto Rican dry forest
Skip J. Van Bloem, University of Puerto Rico; Ariel Lugo, USDA Forest Service; Peter G. Murphy, Michigan State University
10:50 AM
COS 22-9
Local and large-scale species richness relationships in managed longleaf pine savannas
Lars Brudvig, Michigan State University; Ellen I. Damschen, University of Wisconsin-Madison
11:10 AM
COS 22-10
Compositional consistency of alluvial vegetation types across spatial scales
Elizabeth R. Matthews, University of California Santa Barbara; Robert K. Peet, University of North Carolina; Alan S. Weakley, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill; Thomas R. Wentworth, NC State University
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