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

COS 129 - Community Pattern And Dynamics VI

Thursday, August 9, 2012: 8:00 AM-11:30 AM
D137, Oregon Convention Center
8:00 AM
COS 129-1
Functional diversity of early modern mammalian communities 30 to 20 million years ago
Jonathan J. Calede, University of Washington
8:20 AM
COS 129-2
Ecosystem assembly meets geostatistics: Using airborne remote sensing and simultaneous autoregression to understand vegetation patterns in a recently disturbed landscape
Kyla M. Dahlin, National Center for Atmospheric Research; Gregory P. Asner, Carnegie Institution for Science; Christopher Field, Stanford University
8:40 AM
COS 129-3
A gradient analysis of multiple interacting guilds highlights the role of biotic interactions in structuring communities
Jane Shevtsov, UCLA; Kyle Wickings, University of New Hampshire
9:00 AM
COS 129-4
The effects of prairie dogs (Cynomes spp.) on vegetation dynamics in Boulder, Colorado
Stower C. Beals, University of Colorado; Tim Seastedt, University of Colorado at Boulder
9:20 AM
COS 129-5
Water availability, functional trait diversity, and competitive interactions in Sonoran Desert winter annuals
Jennifer R. Gremer, University of Arizona; Sarah Kimball, UC Irvine; Katie R. Keck, University of Arizona; Travis E. Huxman, University of California, Irvine; Amy L. Angert, University of British Columbia; D. Larry Venable, University of Arizona
9:40 AM
COS 129-
Break
9:50 AM
COS 129-6
Context matters: Effects of phytoplankton on bacterial community composition change across varying temperature and light conditions
Sara F. Paver, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign; Angela Kent, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
10:10 AM
COS 129-7
Spatial interaction network and species traits predetermine metacommunity structure and its potential dynamics
Jurek Kolasa, McMaster University; Julia Kim, McMaster University; Tamara N. Romanuk, Dalhousie University; W. Mather A. Carscallen, Dalhousie University
10:30 AM
COS 129-8
The effects of habitat loss, fragmentation, and matrix quality on metacommunity structure and ecosystem function
Brian J. Spiesman, University of Wisconsin - Madison; Brian D. Inouye, Florida State University
10:50 AM
COS 129-9
Towards predicting community level effects of climate change: Relative temperature scaling of metabolic and ingestion rates for a suite of rocky intertidal consumers
Alison C. Iles, Oregon State University
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