98th ESA Annual Meeting (August 4 -- 9, 2013)

COS 89 - Ecosystem Stability And Resilience I

Thursday, August 8, 2013: 8:00 AM-11:30 AM
L100E, Minneapolis Convention Center
8:00 AM
Biodiversity–stability relationships: Environmental and biotic effects on community properties
Enrica de Luca, University of Zurich; Alexandra Weigelt, University of Leipzig; Bernhard Schmid, University of Zurich
8:20 AM
Detecting tipping points in mutualistic communities
Vasilis Dakos, Estación Biológica de Doñana, CSIC; Jordi Bascompte, Estación Biológica de Doñana, CSIC
8:40 AM
Detecting bifurcations and alternate stable states in vegetation with remote sensing: when hypotheses and errors align
Niall P. Hanan, South Dakota State University; Andrew Tredennick, Colorado State University; Lara Prihodko, South Dakota State University; Gabriela Bucini, University of Vermont; Justin Dohn, Colorado State University
9:00 AM
Predicting geomorphic stability in low-order streams of the western Lake Superior basin
Debra L. Taylor, U.S. EPA, Mid-Continent Ecology Division; Mark S. Pearson, U.S. EPA, Mid-Continent Ecology Division; Brian H. Hill, U.S. EPA, Mid-Continent Ecology Division
9:20 AM
Mycorrhizal guilds decline similarly with depth in two northern hardwood forests
Franklin Diggs, State University of New York College of Environmental Science and Forestry
9:40 AM
9:50 AM
Deconstructing complexity: Towards a theory of whole food webs
Gabriel Gellner, Colorado State University; Kevin S. McCann, University of Guelph
10:30 AM
Species sorting along a subsidy gradient affects community stability
Mario E. Muscarella, Indiana University; Stuart E. Jones, University of Notre Dame; Jay T. Lennon, Indiana University
10:50 AM
Spatiotemporal variability in landscape function in a semi-arid rangeland in Kenya
Elizabeth King, University of Georgia; Trenton Franz, University of Arizona
11:10 AM Cancelled
COS 89-10
Construction of a social-ecological framework of elk management in Northern Colorado to understand landscape-scale resource management (widthdrawn)
Amber N. Childress, Colorado State University; Dennis Ojima, Colorado State University; Jill Baron, US Geological Survey; Kathleen A. Galvin, Colorado State University