COS 113
Community Pattern And Dynamics VI

Thursday, August 14, 2014: 1:30 PM-5:00 PM
Regency Blrm B, Hyatt Regency Hotel
1:30 PM
Is there a window of opportunity for microbial colonization in the root microbiota?
Kristin A. E. Aleklett, University of British Columbia - Okanagan; Miranda M. Hart, University of British Columbia - Okanagan
1:50 PM
New metrics for linking trait patterns to niche differentiation
Rafael D'Andrea, University of Michigan
2:10 PM
Geographic variation in the structure and function of fungal leaf endophyte communities
Posy E. Busby, University of Washington; Joshua Miller, University of Idaho; Shannon Fraser, University of Idaho; Dylan P. Smith, Stanford University; Kabir G. Peay, Stanford University; George Newcombe, University of Idaho
2:30 PM
Disentangling coexistence mechanisms in competitive metacommunities
Bertrand Fournier, Concordia University; Dominique Gravel, Université du Québec à Rimouski; Mathew A. Leibold, University of Texas at Austin; Nicolas Mouquet, Université Montpellier 2, CNRS
2:50 PM
Camouflage evolutionary dynamics structure plant-arthropod communities
Timothy E. Farkas, University of Sheffield; Tommi Mononen, Aalto University; Aaron A. Comeault, University of Sheffield; Gabriela M. Kovacevich, University of Sheffield; Ilkka Hanski, University of Helsinki; Patrik Nosil, University of Sheffield
3:10 PM
3:20 PM
Temporal variability predicts species importance in an ecological interaction network
J. Timothy Wootton, The University of Chicago; Elizabeth L. Sander, University of Chicago; Amy K. Henry, University of Chicago
3:40 PM
Reconceptualizing community structure and dynamics in light of consumer mobility
Douglas McCauley, University of California at Santa Barbara; Fiorenza Micheli, Stanford University; Giulio DeLeo, Stanford University; James A. Estes, University of California
4:00 PM
Seasonal dynamics in the assembly of arthropod community structure and trophic structure
Laura E. Hagenauer, Northern Arizona University; Anita Antoninka, Northern Arizona University; Matthew Bowker, Northern Arizona University; Nancy Johnson, Northern Arizona University
4:20 PM
Microbial community assembly at Evolution Canyon: Does dormancy dilute the effects of dispersal and filtering?
Mario E. Muscarella, Indiana University; Kenneth J. Locey, Indiana University; Eviatar Nevo, University of Haifa; Shmuel Raz, Matrix; Jay T. Lennon, Indiana University
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