Session: Community Assembly And Neutral Theory I (97th ESA Annual Meeting (August 5 -- 10, 2012))

1:30 PM Cancelled

COS 6-1

Colonization-extinction dynamics in protist metacommunities (widthdrawn)
Kayoko Fukumori, National Institute for Environmental Studies; George Livingston, University of Texas at Austin; Mathew A. Leibold, University of Texas at Austin

1:50 PM

COS 6-2

Occupancy-based null-model for species area relationship
Yoni Gavish, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev; Yaron Ziv, Ben-Gurion University

2:10 PM

COS 6-3

The grimy side of Grime's CSR theory: How we can use life history strategy to better understand mycorrhizal ecology
Pierre-Luc Chagnon, Université de Sherbrooke; Robert L. Bradley, Université de Sherbrooke; John Klironomos, University of British Columbia; Hafiz Maherali, University of Guelph

2:30 PM

COS 6-4

Biogeographic variation in species turnover across environmental gradients: A meta-analysis of wetland invertebrate communities
Hamish S. Greig, University of Canterbury; Scott A. Wissinger, Allegheny College; Russell Death, Massey University

2:50 PM

COS 6-5

Dispersal limitation and habitat connectivity drive patterns of genetic and species diversity of invertebrate metacommunities in river systems
Florian Altermatt, Eawag: Swiss Federal Institute of Aquatic Science and Technology; Mathew Seymour, Eawag: Swiss Federal Institute of Aquatic Science and Technology

3:10 PM

COS 6-

Break

3:20 PM

COS 6-6

Ecological determinism increases with organism size
Vinicius F. Farjalla, Federal University of Rio de Janeiro; Diane S. Srivastava, University of British Columbia; Nicholas AC Marino, University Federal of Rio de Janeiro; Fernanda D. Azevedo, University Federal of Rio de Janeiro; Viviane Dib, University Federal of Rio de Janeiro; Paloma L. Marinho, Federal University of Rio de Janeiro; Alexandre S. Rosado, University Federal of Rio de Janeiro; Reinaldo L. Bozelli, Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro; Francisco A. Esteves, Federal University of Rio de Janeiro/UFRJ

3:40 PM

COS 6-7

The co-assembly of tropical plant communities and their vertebrate seed dispersers
Lydia Beaudrot, Conservation International; Marcel Rejmánek, University of California, Davis; Andrew J. Marshall, University of California-Davis

4:00 PM

COS 6-8

Assembly of endosymbiont communities shaped by within-host species interactions
Aaron S. David, University of Minnesota; Sarah Emery, University of Louisville; Georgiana May, University of Minnesota; Jennifer Rudgers, University of New Mexico; Eric W. Seabloom, University of Minnesota

4:20 PM

COS 6-9

Experimental investigation of the origin of fynbos plant community structure after fire
Jonathan Silvertown, The Open University; Yoseph Araya, The Open University

4:40 PM

COS 6-10

The impact of the invasive Argentine ant (Linepithema humile) on association network structure of native ant species in Northern California
Lis Castillo Nelis, Stanford University; Joshua Ladau, Gladstone Institutes, University of California San Francisco; Nathan J. Sanders, The University of Copenhagen; Katherine Fitzgerald, Stanford University; Nicole E. Heller, Duke University; Jessica Shors Appel, San Francisco Public Utilities Commission; Deborah M. Gordon, Stanford University

COS 6 - Community Assembly And Neutral Theory I