97th ESA Annual Meeting (August 5 -- 10, 2012)

COS 166 - Niche Relationships And Theory

Thursday, August 9, 2012: 1:30 PM-5:00 PM
Portland Blrm 258, Oregon Convention Center
1:30 PM
COS 166-1
Niche engineering reveals complementary resource use
David Crowder, Washington State University; Jacob Gable, Washington State University; Tobin D. Northfield, University of Wisconsin; Shawn A. Steffan, USDA-ARS; William E. Snyder, Washington State University
1:50 PM
COS 166-2
The value of expert-driven niche models and historical records in informing the sustainable harvest of yellow anaconda in northern Argentina
Francine Kershaw, Columbia University; Tomas Waller, Fundación Biodiversidad; Richard Pearson, American Museum of Natural History; Martin Mendez, Wildlife Conservation Society
2:10 PM
COS 166-3
Quantifying the strength of a species coexistence mechanism in spatially variable environments between invasive and native desert winter annual plants
Yue Li, University of Arizona; Peter Chesson, University of Arizona
2:30 PM
COS 166-4
Dispersal as a deterministic or stochastic process: The influence of nutrient additions on dispersal traits
Lauren Sullivan, Iowa State University; W. Stanley Harpole, Iowa State University
2:50 PM
COS 166-5
Adjusted AUC: A new method for evaluating ecological niche models for non-equilibrium species distributions
Aaryn Olsson, Northern Arizona University
3:10 PM
COS 166-
Break
3:20 PM
COS 166-6
Functional traits predict phytoplankton community structure and successional pattern in a marine ecosystem
Kyle F. Edwards, University of Hawaii; Elena Litchman, Michigan State University; Christopher Klausmeier, Michigan State University
3:40 PM
COS 166-7
The stochastic nature of the competitive exclusion principle
José A. Capitán, Centro de Astrobiología, INTA-CSIC; Sara Cuenda, Universidad Autónoma de Madrid; José A. Cuesta, Grupo Interdisciplinar de Sistemas Complejos (GISC), Universidad Carlos III; David Alonso, Center for Advanced Studies of Blanes (CEAB‐CSIC), Spanish Council for Scientific Research
4:00 PM Cancelled
COS 166-8
The niche in a changing world: Improving niche modeling to plan for the future (widthdrawn)
Winifred S. B. Whiteman, University of New Mexico; Meghan A. Balk, University of New Mexico; Melissa I. Pardi, University of New Mexico; Natalie A. Wright, University of New Mexico; Felisa A. Smith, University of New Mexico
4:20 PM
COS 166-9
Can evolutionary history help explain coexistence and the mechanisms behind it?
Anita Narwani, University of Michigan; Bradley J. Cardinale, University of Michigan
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