Session: Community Pattern And Dynamics II (100th ESA Annual Meeting (August 9 -- 14, 2015))

8:00 AM

COS 66-1

Differential effects of lianas on population growth rates of tropical forest trees
Marco A. Visser, Radboud University Nijmegen; S. Joseph Wright, Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute; Stefan Schnitzer, University of Wisconsin–Milwaukee; Eelke Jongejans, Radboud University; Helene Muller-Landau, Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute; Hans de Kroon, Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute; Liza S. Comita, Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute

8:20 AM

COS 66-2

Constantly high tree species richness along an elevational gradient of Mt Bokor, a table shaped mountain in southwestern Cambodia
Meng Zhang, Kyushu University; Tetsukazu Yahara, Kyushu University; Shuichiro Tagane, Kyushu University; Toyama Hironori, Kyushu University

8:40 AM

COS 66-3

Revealing beta diversity patterns of breeding bird and lizard communities on inundated land-bridge islands by separating the turnover and nestedness components
Xingfeng Si, Zhejiang University; Andrés Baselga, Universidad de Santiago de Compostela; Ping Ding, Zhejiang University

9:00 AM

COS 66-4

Commonness, rarity and oligarchies of trees in two tropical dry forests of Mexico
John N. Williams, Instituto Politécnico Nacional (Mexico), CIIDIR, Oaxaca; Irma Trejo, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México; Mark W. Schwartz, University of California, Davis

9:20 AM

COS 66-5

Demographic Diversity and Community Dynamics
Masami Fujiwara, Texas A&M University

9:40 AM

COS 66-

Break

9:50 AM

COS 66-6

Spatial patterns of sapling survival and mortality in the neighborhood of conspecific adult trees differ by species abundance in a Neotropical forest over 25 years
Anna Sugiyama, University of California, Los Angeles, Forestry and Forest Products Research Institute; Takashi Masaki, Forestry and Forest Products Research Institute; Stephen P. Hubbell, University of California, Los Angeles, Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute

10:10 AM

COS 66-7

Convergence or divergence: Taxonomic, phylogenetic, and functional beta diversity during a 50-year old-field succession
Shaopeng Li, Georgia Institute of Technology; Marc Cadotte, University of Toronto - Scarborough; Scott Meiners, Eastern Illinois University; Zhichao Pu, Georgia Institute of Technology; Lin Jiang, Georgia Institute of Technology

10:30 AM

COS 66-8

Niche filling limits the accumulation of Himalayan songbirds
Trevor Price, University of Chicago

10:50 AM

COS 66-9

Clonal traits can improve predictions of plant community response to climate change: Evidence from a turf transplant experiment in southern Norway
John Guittar, Michigan State University; Deborah Goldberg, University of Michigan; Kari Klanderud, Norwegian University of Life Sciences; Richard Telford, University of Bergen; Vigdis Vandvik, University of Bergen

11:10 AM

COS 66-10

Community and ecosystem resilience following introduction and eradication of invasive species (Rattus norvegicus)
Michael A. Tabak, United States Department of Agriculture; Sally Poncet, Beaver Island LandCare; Ken Passfield, Beaver Island LandCare; Jacob R. Goheen, University of Wyoming; Carlos Martinez del Rio, University of Wyoming

COS 66 Community Pattern And Dynamics II

COS 66
Community Pattern And Dynamics II