COS 22
Community Assembly And Neutral Theory II

Tuesday, August 12, 2014: 8:00 AM-11:30 AM
309/310, Sacramento Convention Center
8:00 AM
COS 22-1
Multi-scale coexistence under spatially variable environments
Yue Li, University of Arizona; Peter Chesson, University of Arizona
8:20 AM
COS 22-2
Arrival and survival: Influences of a dominant, ground-nesting ant on arboreal ant colonies and communities
Katherine K. Ennis, University of California, Santa Cruz; Stacy M. Philpott, University of California, Santa Cruz
8:40 AM
COS 22-3
Species niche and fitness differences influence community assembly and ecosystem functioning
Jiaqi Tan, Georgia Institute of Technology; Nicole Johnston, Georgia Institute of Technology; Lin Jiang, Georgia Institute of Technology
9:00 AM
COS 22-4
Coexistence in five perennial plant communities: weak fitness differences, strong stabilizing niche differences, and a large role for recruitment
Peter Adler, Utah State University; Chengjin Chu, Utah State University
9:20 AM
COS 22-5
Fair game dynamics and ecological equivalence in a tropical forest
Yue Lin, German Centre for Integrative Biodiversity Research (iDiv) Halle-Jena-Leipzig; Uta Berger, TU Dresden; James Rosindell, Imperial College London; Helge Bruelheide, Martin Luther University Halle-Wittenberg; Jens Kattge, Max Planck Institute for Biogeochemistry; Volker Grimm, Helmholtz Centre for Ecological Research - UFZ
9:40 AM
COS 22-
Break
9:50 AM
COS 22-6
Community-wide phenological shifts along a soil resource gradient reveal the role of phenology in grassland community assembly
Maud Bernard-Verdier, Bio-Protection Research Center; Marie L. Navas, INRA- SupAgro; Emmy Libois, Centre D'Ecologie Fonctionnelle et Evolutive; Carole Madiou, Centre d'Ecologie Fonctionnelle et Evolutive; Eric Garnier, Centre d'Ecologie Fonctionnelle et Evolutive, CNRS
10:10 AM
COS 22-7
The strength of evolutionary priority effects changes along environmental gradients in forest communities
Angela J. Brandt, Landcare Research; Devin R. Leopold, Stanford University; Andrew J. Tanentzap, University of Cambridge; Peter B. Heenan, Landcare Research; Tadashi Fukami, Stanford University; William G. Lee, Landcare Research
10:30 AM
COS 22-8
Intra- and interspecific soil feedback as a driver of coexistence and ecosystem function
Jana S. Petermann, Freie Universität Berlin
10:50 AM Cancelled
COS 22-9
Functional composition of grassland communities: The interplay of regional climate and local land management (widthdrawn)
Jessy Loranger, Université de Sherbrooke; Eric Garnier, Centre d'Ecologie Fonctionnelle et Evolutive, CNRS; Bill Shipley, University of Sherbrooke; Cyrille Violle, CNRS
11:10 AM
COS 22-10
How do differences in species hatching phenology and the presence of predators affect population and ecosystem level properties of aquatic food webs?
Lauren C. McCarthy, East Carolina University; David R. Chalcraft, East Carolina University
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