Session: Communities: Spatial Patterns And Environmental Gradients I (2017 ESA Annual Meeting (August 6 -- 11))

8:00 AM

COS 81-1

Reproducible science case studies in ecology: Lessons learned
Corinna Gries, University of Wisconsin; Matthew B. Jones, Univ; Patricia A. Soranno, Michigan State University; Scott L. Collins, University of New Mexico

8:20 AM

COS 81-2

Establishing a standard for comparison: The development of a quantitative definition of reference for the USEPA’s National Wetland Condition Assessment
Mary E. Kentula, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency; Alan T. Herlihy, Oregon State University

8:40 AM

COS 81-3

Spatial and temporal modelling of wet heathland vegetation
Christian Damgaard, Aarhus University

9:00 AM

COS 81-4

Spatial aggregation at the regional scale dominates β-diversity along latitudinal gradients
Dingliang Xing, University of Alberta; Fangliang He, University of Alberta

9:20 AM

COS 81-5

Determining landscape factors influencing tropical amphibians using a multi-species occupancy model
Jose Wagner Ribeiro Jr., Universidade Estadual Paulista (Unesp), Michigan State University; Tadeu Siqueira, Universidade Estadual Paulista (UNESP); Elise Zipkin, Michigan State University

9:40 AM

COS 81-

Break

9:50 AM

COS 81-6

Causes and consequences of spatial vegetation patterns in dryland ecosystems
Efrat Sheffer, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem; Robert M. Pringle, Princeton University; Juan A. Bonachela, University of Strathclyde, Glasgow; Ryan A. Long, University of Idaho; Jennifer A. Guyton, Princeton University; Tyler C. Coverdale, Princeton University; Corina E. Tarnita, Princeton University

10:10 AM

COS 81-7

Agricultural land-use and individual life history control spatial patchiness in post-agricultural forest communities
Marion Holmes, University of Pittsburgh; Glenn Matlack, Ohio University

10:30 AM

COS 81-8

Impacts of plant diversity on arthropod communities and plant-herbivore network architecture
Ellen Welti, Kansas State Univerisity; Chris Helzer, The Nature Conservancy; Anthony Joern, Kansas State University

10:50 AM

COS 81-9

Self-organized control of key ecosystem services: Water level and flow velocity regulation by submerged aquatic vegetation
Loreta Cornacchia, Royal Netherlands Institute for Sea Research (NIOZ); Geraldene Wharton, Queen Mary University of London; Grieg Davies, Southern Water Services, Southern House; Robert C. Grabowski, Cranfield Water Science Institute, Cranfield University; Stijn Temmerman, University of Antwerpen; Daphne van der Wal, Royal Netherlands Institute for Sea Research (NIOZ); Tjeerd J. Bouma, Royal Netherlands Institute for Sea Research (NIOZ); Johan van de Koppel, NIOZ Royal Netherlands Institute for Sea Research

11:10 AM

COS 81-10

Spatial patterns of emerging mussel reefs in the Laurentian Great Lakes and consequences for ecosystems
Lyubov E. Burlakova, Buffalo State College; Alexander Y. Karatayev, Buffalo State College; Knut Mehler, Buffalo State College; Vadim Karatayev, University of Guelph; Elizabeth K. Hinchey, United States Environmental Protection Agency

COS 81 - Communities: Spatial Patterns And Environmental Gradients I