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

8:00 AM

COS 15-1

Effects of grain and spatial extent in anuran beta diversity in different ecoregions in Brazilian Atlantic Forest
Lara G. Melchior, Universidade Estadual Paulista; Denise C. Rossa-Feres, State University of São Paulo; Fernando R. da Silva, Universidade Federal de São Carlos

8:20 AM

COS 15-2

Grassland-shrubland state transitions in arid lands: Competition matters
Nathan Pierce, University of Arizona; Steve R. Archer, University of Arizona; Brandon T. Bestelmeyer, USDA Agricultural Research Service

8:40 AM

COS 15-3

The effect of soil cultivation length by plants on soil microbial community structure
Po-Ju Ke, Stanford University; Tadashi Fukami, Stanford University

9:00 AM

COS 15-4

Do plants display "optimum" traits in optimal habitats?
Rachel M. Mitchell, Duke University; Justin P. Wright, Duke University

9:20 AM

COS 15-5

Tip-up mounds influence tree regeneration in and out of recent blowdown areas
Christel C. Kern, USDA Forest Service; John Schwarzmann, Wisconsin Board of Commissioners of Public Lands; John M. Kabrick, USDA Forest Service; Kathryn Gerndt, Private Consultant; Suzanne B. Boyden, Clarion University; John S. Stanovick, USDA Forest Service

9:40 AM

COS 15-

Break

9:50 AM

COS 15-6

A dominant plant (Caesalpinia spinosa) drives plant-pollinator interactions for an understory species in arid Southern Peru
Diego A. Sotomayor, York University; Christopher Lortie, York University

10:10 AM

COS 15-7

Macroevolution structure of functional tradeoffs that determine long-term species coexistence in a desert winter annual plant system
Xing-Yue M. Ge, University of Arizona; Joshua P. Scholl, University of Arizona; Ursula Basinger-Walholm, University of Arizona; D. Lawrence Venable, University of Arizona

10:30 AM

COS 15-8

Disentangling the drivers of species synchrony in natural plant communities: Environmental forcing, demographic stochasticity, and interspecific interactions
Andrew T. Tredennick, Utah State University; Claire de Mazancourt, Theoretical and Experimental Ecology Station (CNRS); Michel Loreau, Station d'Ecologie Expérimentale du CNRS à Moulis; Peter Adler, Utah State University

10:50 AM

COS 15-9

Distance-dependent seedling mortality and the long-term spacing dynamics of a tropical tree community
Stephen J. Murphy, The Ohio State University; Thorsten Wiegand, Helmholtz Center for Environmental Research - UFZ; Liza S. Comita, Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute

11:10 AM

COS 15-10

Biogenic habitat: Propagule redirection and patch occupants create spatial patterns
Elizabeth A. Hamman, University of Georgia; Scott A. McKinley, Tulane University; Adrian Stier, Northwest Fisheries Science Center; Craig W. Osenberg, University of Georgia

COS 15 - Community Pattern And Dynamics II