Session: Biogeography And Macroecology (97th ESA Annual Meeting (August 5 -- 10, 2012))

8:00 AM

Variation in long-term threshold responses to habitat availability
Yntze Van der Hoek, City University of New York; Rosalind Renfrew, The Vermont Center for Ecostudies; Lisa L. Manne, City University of New York

8:20 AM

COS 178-2

Climate variability and historical spruce beetle outbreaks across northwestern Colorado
Sarah J. Hart, University of Colorado-Boulder; Karen S. Eisenhart, Edinboro University of Pennsylvania; Daniel Jarvis, Clark University; Dominik Kulakowski, Clark University; Thomas T. Veblen, University of Colorado

8:40 AM

COS 178-3

Data collected from user-uploaded photo websites improves estimation of habitat area and range size in the anemonefishes
James L. O'Donnell, University of California Santa Cruz

9:00 AM Cancelled

COS 178-4

Patterns in species aggregation across spatial scales and species abundances (widthdrawn)
Justin A. Kitzes, University of California; Mark Wilber, University of California, Santa Barbara; Daniel J. McGlinn, Utah State University; John Harte, University of California

9:20 AM

COS 178-5

A probability-based reanalysis of a classic dataset from biogeography and community ecology
Joseph A. Veech, Texas State University - San Marcos

9:40 AM

COS 178-

Break

9:50 AM

COS 178-6

Understanding Eltonian biomass pyramids with size-based ecological theory
Rowan Trebilco, Simon Fraser University; Julia K. Baum, University of Victoria; Anne K. Salomon, Simon Fraser University; Nicholas K. Dulvy, Simon Fraser University

10:10 AM

COS 178-7

Patterns and processes behind the range size distributions of the New World plants
Naia Morueta-Holme, Aarhus University; Brian Enquist, University of Arizona; Brian McGill, University of Maine; Jens-Christian Svenning, Aarhus University

10:30 AM

COS 178-8

Cenozoic migrations, extinctions and the latitudinal gradient in body size of New World mammals
Ignacio Morales-Castilla, Universidad de Alcalá; Miguel Á. Olalla-Tárraga, Universidad de Alcalá; Andy Purvis, Imperial College London; Bradford Hawkins, University of California-Irvine; Miguel Á. Rodríguez, Universidad de Alcalá

10:50 AM

COS 178-9

Cryptic invasion and the interpretation of island biodiversity
Julian D. Avery, Rutgers University; Dina Fonseca, Rutgers University; Phill Cassey, The University of Adelaide; Julie L. Lockwood, Rutgers University

11:10 AM

COS 178-10

Predicting species extinction risk from phylogenetic, spatial and remotely sensed environmental information
Walter Jetz, Yale University; Robert P. Freckleton, University of Sheffield

COS 178 - Biogeography And Macroecology