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

COS 78 - Community Pattern And Dynamics IV

Wednesday, August 8, 2012: 8:00 AM-11:30 AM
F151, Oregon Convention Center
8:00 AM
COS 78-1
The geometry of coexistence: Resource configuration alters richness and limiting similarity in an ant assemblage
Jesse E. Czekanski-Moir, University of Oklahoma
8:20 AM
COS 78-2
The memory of spatial patterns – Using information from spatial pattern to detect changes in the abundance of tropical tree species
Anton J. Flügge, University College London; Sofia C. Olhede, University College London; David J. Murrell, University College London
8:40 AM
COS 78-3
Coordination of plant functional traits in predicting relative abundance of 42 tropical tree species during secondary succession in Central Panama
Dylan James Craven, Universidad Mayor; Michiel van Breugel, Smithsonian Tropical Research Institution; Jefferson Hall, Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute; Mark S. Ashton, Yale University; Graeme P. Berlyn, Yale University
9:00 AM
COS 78-4
Evaluating community structure and the role of regional and local processes in larval trematode metacommunities of Helisoma trivolvis
Katherine L. D. Richgels, University of Colorado; Jason T. Hoverman, Purdue University; Pieter TJ Johnson, University of Colorado at Boulder
9:20 AM
COS 78-5
Resonance-Induced Multimodal Body-Size Distributions
Adam Lampert, University of California, Davis
9:40 AM
COS 78-
Break
9:50 AM
COS 78-6
Local forest structure, climate, and human land cover determine broad-scale gradients of boreal bird species richness
Jian Zhang, University of Alberta; W. Daniel Kissling, Aarhus University; Fangliang He, University of Alberta
10:10 AM
COS 78-7
Does the importance of environmental and spatial variables in structuring stream macroinvertebrate metacommunities depend on dispersal mode?
Mira M. Grönroos, Finnish Environment Institute; Jani M. Heino, Finnish Environment Institute; Luis M. Bini, Federal University of Goiás; Tadeu Siqueira, Universidade Estadual Paulista (UNESP); Victor L. Landeiro, Federal University of Goiás; Juho A. Kotanen, Centre for Economic Development, Transport and the Environment for South Savo
10:30 AM
COS 78-8
Distributional boundaries of salt marsh ecotone plant community are influenced by competitive interactions at both harsh and benign ends of an environmental gradient
Carla C. Fresquez, University of California, Santa Cruz
10:50 AM
COS 78-9
Linking species area curves to spatially explicit community models
Stephen J. Cornell, University of Leeds; James O'Dwyer, Santa Fe Institute; Omar al Hammal, University of Leeds
11:10 AM
COS 78-10
Stand dynamics and structure of old-growth Fraxinus nigra systems: Critical baselines for a foundation species in peril
Anthony W. D'Amato, University of Minnesota; Mike Reinikainen, University of Minnesota; Shawn Fraver, University of Minnesota; Brian J. Palik, USDA Forest Service; Kyle Gill, University of Minnesota
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