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

8:00 AM

COS 33-1

How powerful are tests of neutral theory? Detecting density dependence in ecological communities
Omar al Hammal, University of Leeds; David Alonso, Center for Advanced Studies of Blanes (CEAB‐CSIC), Spanish Council for Scientific Research; Stephen J. Cornell, University of Leeds

8:20 AM

COS 33-2

Plant nitrogen acquisition strategies and community assembly in a tropical montane forest
Kelly M. Andersen, San Diego Zoo Global; Benjamin L. Turner, Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute

8:40 AM

COS 33-3

Beta-diversity, gamma diversity, and community assembly along a tropical elevational gradient
J. Sebastian Tello, Missouri Botanical Garden; Iván Jiménez, Missouri Botanical Garden; Peter Jorgensen, Missouri Botanical Garden; Jonathan A. Myers, Washington University in St. Louis; Manuel J. Macia, Universidad Autónoma de Madrid; Alfredo F. Fuentes-Claros, Herbario Nacional de Bolivia; Leslie Cayola-Pérez, Herbario Nacional de Bolivia; Gabriel Arellano, Smithsonian Institution; Maritza Cornejo-Mejía, Herbario Nacional de Bolivia; M. Isabel Loza-Rivera, Herbario Nacional de Bolivia; Javier Quisbert-Quispe, Herbario Nacional de Bolivia; Vania W. Torrez, Herbario Nacional de Bolivia

9:00 AM

COS 33-4

Opposing trait drivers of phylogenetic community assembly across a subalpine elevational gradient
Christine A. Lamanna, University of Maine; Lindsey L. Sloat, University of Arizona; Amanda N. Henderson, University of Arizona; Brian Enquist, University of Arizona

9:20 AM

COS 33-5

Exploring stochastic and niche-based community assembly dynamics in a long-term grassland field experiment
Alexander T. Bittel, University of Kansas; Bryan L. Foster, University of Kansas; Gregory Houseman, Wichita State University

9:40 AM

COS 33-

Break

9:50 AM

COS 33-6

Evaluating the importance of spatiotemporal variation in plant establishment
Jonathan Bakker, University of Washington; Eric G. Delvin, The Nature Conservancy; Peter W. Dunwiddie, University of Washington

10:10 AM

COS 33-7

Biogeographic history determines local scale community structure in a hyperdiverse clade of Neotropical plants
Brian E. Sedio, University of Michigan; John R. Paul, Colorado State University; Charlotte M. Taylor, Missouri Botanical Garden; Christopher W. Dick, University of Michigan

10:30 AM

COS 33-8

Components of stochastic niche dynamics and their influence on the species abundance distribution
Rosalyn C. Rael, Tulane University; Rafael D'Andrea, University of Michigan; Gyorgy Barabas, University of Michigan; Annette M. Ostling, University of Michigan

10:50 AM

COS 33-9

The utility of C-score analysis for examining bacterial co-occurrence patterns in large sequencing datasets
Lee F. Stanish, University of Colorado; Teresa M. Legg, University of Colorado; Diana R. Nemergut, University of Colorado; Sean P. O'Neill, University of Colorado at Boulder; Antonio Gonzalez-Pena, University of Colorado

11:10 AM

COS 33-10

Making and breaking a new ecological theory: Does maximum information entropy predict community structure in evolving ecosystems?
Andrew J. Rominger, University of California Berkeley; Daniel Gruner, University of Maryland; John Harte, University of California; Rosemary G. Gillespie, University of California, Berkeley

COS 33 - Community Assembly And Neutral Theory II