Session: Latebreaking: Community Ecology (100th ESA Annual Meeting (August 9 -- 14, 2015))

PS 88-76

Vegetation pattern determines the soil moisture dynamics in re-vegetation watershed in semi-arid regions
Lei Yang, Research Center for Eco-Environmental Sciences, Chinese Academy of Sciences; Liding Chen, Research Center for Eco-Environmental Sciences, Chinese Academy of Sciences; Wei Wei, Research Center for Eco-Environmental Sciences, Chinese Academy of Sciences

PS 88-77

Patterns of plant trait–environment relationships along a forest succession gradient in tropical dry forest Florida Keys
suresh C Subedi, Florida International University; Michael S. Ross, Florida International University; Rosario Valdes, Florida International University

PS 88-78

The response of biogenic reef communities to freshet perturbations across estuarine scale environmental gradients
Maxwell L. Tice-Lewis, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill; Y. Stacy Zhang, Duke University; S. Gray Redding, Chesapeake Biological Laboratory; F. Joel Fodrie, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

PS 88-79

A comparison of statistical methods for detecting species interactions from short, noisy time series data
Can Zhou, Texas A&M University; Masami Fujiwara, Texas A&M University

PS 88-80

The second law of thermodynamics predicts constraints on the size structure of plant communities
Brian A. Maurer, Michigan State University; Andrea Dechner, Michigan State University; Andrew Dennhardt, Michigan State University; Lindsay E. F. Hunt, Michigan State University

Cancelled

PS 88-81

Multi-dimensional metrics for use with compound specific analyses of food webs (widthdrawn)
Rachel E. Bowes, Kansas Biological Survey; Daniel C Reuman, University of Kansas; James H. Thorp, University of Kansas

PS 88-82

Investigating stopover habitat usage by songbirds at Tommy Thompson Park, a man-made urban peninsula
Bronwyn K. Dalziel, University of Toronto, Toronto and Region Conservation Authority; Donald A. Jackson, University of Toronto; F. Helen Rodd, University of Toronto; Karen McDonald, Toronto and Region Conservation Authority

PS 88-83

Habitat structural complexity determines the importance of landscape setting on survivorship of intertidal oysters
Michelle C. Brodeur, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill; F. Joel Fodrie, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

PS 88-84

High phylogenetic but low functional turnover of melastomes along an elevational gradient
Gaurav Kandlikar, University of Maryland; Marcel Carita Vaz, University of Maryland; Frank Almeda, California Academy of Sciences; Gerardo Avalos, University of Costa Rica; Roberto Cordero, National University of Costa Rica; Fabián Michelangeli, The New York Botanical Garden; Ricardo Kreibel, University of Wisconson-Madison; German Vargas, National University of Costa Rica; Ned Fetcher, Wilkes University; Nathan J. B. Kraft, University of Maryland

PS 88-85

Phenotypic variability and offspring fertility in Chelymorpha alternans
Donald Windsor, Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute; Lynette R. Strickland, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

PS 88-86

Temporal scales of coupled ecosystem processes provide a benchmark for alternate ecosystem states: Photosynthesis and decomposition in a model micro-ecosystem
Matthew Lau, Harvard University; Aaron Ellison, Harvard University

PS 88-87

The perfect storm: Extreme weather and predators drive phase shift in dominant Chesapeake Bay bivalve
Cassandra N. Glaspie, Virginia Institute of Marine Science; Rochelle D. Seitz, Virginia Institute of Marine Science; Romuald N. Lipcius, Virginia Institute of Marine Science

PS 88-88

Evolutionary trade-offs between opaque and clear egg masses in spotted salamanders (Ambystoma maculatum)
Carl D. Jacobsen, Appalachian State University; Kevin M. Burnette, Appalachian State University; Katelyn G. Pollock, Appalachian State University; M. Worth Pugh, Appalachian State University; Lynn M. Siefferman, Appalachian State University; Micheal M. Gangloff, Appalachian State University; Micheal S. Osbourn, Appalachian State University

PS 88-89

Functional type changes over a disturbance gradient of overwash sites on a Virginia barrier island
Ashley M. Moulton, Virginia Commonwealth University; Julie Zinnert, Virginia Commonwealth University

PS 88-90

Patterns of liana abundance in oak-hickory forest in southwestern Illinois
Peter R. Minchin, Southern Illinois University Edwardsville; Savanna R. Stabenow, Southern Illinois University Edwardsville; Elizabeth J. Esselman, Southern Illinois University Edwardsville

PS 88-91

Contrasting species and phylogenetic composition of harvestmen between different sides of a geographic barrier in the atlantic forest hotspot
Tiago N. Bernabé, Universidade Estadual Paulista “Júlio de Mesquita”; Thiago Gonçalves-Souza, Rural Federal University of Pernambuco; Adriano B. Kury, Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro; Gustavo Q. Romero, State University of Campinas

PS 88-92

Fire and herbivory at the chaparral-grassland ecotone: What conditions maintain these habitat boundaries?
Lindsey Hendricks-Franco, U.C. Berkeley

PS 88-93

Community-wide impacts of interactive trait-mediated interactions
Hsun-Yi Hsieh, Michigan State University; Ivette Perfecto, University of Michigan

PS 88-94

Soil microbial communities influence ecosystem development in Great Lakes sand dunes
Kerri M. Crawford, University of Houston

PS 88 Latebreaking: Community Ecology

PS 88
Latebreaking: Community Ecology