Session: Community Assembly And Neutral Theory (101st ESA Annual Meeting (August 7 -- 12, 2016))

1:30 PM

COS 80-1

Differences in nitrogen cycling among N-fixing trees in Hawai‘i affect community composition
Elizabeth M. August-Schmidt, University of California Santa Barbara; Carla D'Antonio, University of California Santa Barbara

1:50 PM Cancelled

COS 80-2

Evidence that dispersal drives ant community assembly in human-altered ecosystems (widthdrawn)
Joshua R. King, University of Central Florida; Walter R. Tschinkel, Florida State University

2:10 PM

COS 80-3

Novel and old plant interactions: Do good borders make good neighbors?
Claus Holzapfel, Rutgers University; Hadas A. Parag, Rutgers University; Mark June-Wells, Aquatic Ecosystem Research; Rüdiger Prasse, Leibniz Universität Hannover

2:30 PM

COS 80-4

Phylogenetic and taxonomic responses of Diptera communities to wetland habitats
Amelie Gregoire Taillefer, McGill University; Terry A. Wheeler, McGill University

2:50 PM

COS 80-5

Testing the roles of niche differences and rhizobial mutualists in stabilizing coexistence of congeneric legumes
Andrew Siefert, University of California, Davis; Kenneth Zillig, University of California, Davis; Maren L. Friesen, Michigan State University; Sharon Y. Strauss, University of California, Davis

3:10 PM

COS 80-

Break

3:20 PM

COS 80-6

How to be happy when your data are SAD
Andrew J. Rominger, University of California Berkeley; John Harte, University of California

3:40 PM

COS 80-7

Disentangling the effects of dispersal limitation, stochasticity, and ecological filtering on community assembly over plant life stages
John Guittar, Michigan State University; Vigdis Vandvik, University of Bergen; Kari Klanderud, Norwegian University of Life Sciences; Astrid Berge, University of Bergen; Marta Ramírez Boixaderes, University of Bergen; Eric Meineri, Stockholm University; Joachim Topper, University of Bergen; Deborah Goldberg, University of Michigan

4:00 PM

COS 80-8

Seasonal changes in the functional community assembly of tropical fishes
Daniel B. Fitzgerald, Texas A&M University; Kirk O. Winemiller, Texas A&M University; Mark H. Sabaj Peréz, Academy of Natural Sciences; Leandro M. Sousa, Universidade Federal do Para

4:20 PM

COS 80-9

Habitat connectivity and dispersal limitation across an urban landscape
Bianca E. Lopez, University of North Carolina; Dean Urban, Duke University; Peter S. White, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

4:40 PM Cancelled

COS 80-10

Assembly mechanisms of periphytic diatom spatial and temporal beta diversity across a subsidy-stress gradient in a coastal wetland (widthdrawn)
Nicholas Schulte, Florida International University; Evelyn Gaiser, Florida International University

COS 80 - Community Assembly And Neutral Theory