Session: Community Pattern And Dynamics IV (101st ESA Annual Meeting (August 7 -- 12, 2016))

1:30 PM

COS 53-1

Experimental community assembly with and without dominant grasses in tallgrass prairie. I: Effect on plant community structure at multiple scales
Mark J. McKone, Carleton College; Jared J. Beck, University of Wisconsin-Madison; Daniel L. Hernandez, Carleton College

1:50 PM

COS 53-2

Experimental community assembly with and without dominant grasses in tallgrass prairie. II: Ecosystem consequences
Daniel L. Hernandez, Carleton College; Jared J. Beck, University of Wisconsin-Madison; Mark J. McKone, Carleton College

2:10 PM

COS 53-3

Plant evolutionary history determines the strength of plant-soil feedback
Kerri M. Crawford, University of Houston; Jonathan Bauer, NA; Liza S. Comita, Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute; Maarten Eppinga, Utrecht University; Daniel Johnson, Yale University; Scott A. Mangan, Washington University in St. Louis; Allan E. Strand, College of Charleston; Katharine N. Suding, University of Colorado; James Umbanhowar, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill; James D. Bever, University of Kansas; Simon A. Queenborough, Yale University

2:30 PM

COS 53-4

Pelagic microbial community dynamics in northern Gulf of Mexico
Cole Easson, Nova Southeastern University; Jose Lopez, Nova Southeastern University

2:50 PM

COS 53-5

Comparing traits of winners and losers in Wisconsin forests
Grégory Sonnier, Archbold Biological Station, University of Wisconsin; Lauren Dériaz, University of Wisconsin; Sarah E. Johnson, Northland College; Donald M. Waller, University of Wisconsin

3:10 PM

COS 53-

Break

3:20 PM

COS 53-6

The influence of soil heterogeneity on the spatial structure of an assembling prairie plant community
Olivia S. Schouten, Wichita State University; Gregory Houseman, Wichita State University

3:40 PM

COS 53-7

Observed and simulated patchiness in a two-state ecological mosaic: Can small scale interactions predict large scale patchiness?
Amy K. Henry, University of Chicago; J. Timothy Wootton, The University of Chicago

4:00 PM Cancelled

COS 53-8

Broad-scale patterns and drivers of functional diversity in a key-stone plant group (palms, Arecaceae) (widthdrawn)
Jens-Christian Svenning, Aarhus University; Bastian Göldel, Aarhus University; W. Daniel Kissling, University of Amsterdam

4:20 PM

COS 53-9

Combining ecohydrologic and transition probability-based modeling to simulate vegetation dynamics in a semi-arid rangeland
Elizabeth King, University of Georgia; Trenton E. Franz, University of Nebraska-Lincoln

COS 53 - Community Pattern And Dynamics IV