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

8:00 AM

Drought-stress shapes macroscale patterns of lineage diversity in tropical tree communities
Danilo Neves, University of Arizona; Kyle G. Dexter, University of Edinburgh; Toby Pennington, Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh; Timothy Baker, University of Leeds; Fernanda Coelho de Souza, University of Leeds; Ary T. Oliveira-Filho, Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais

8:20 AM

COS 175-2

Tree cover response to rainfall intensity in African savannas varies with soil texture
Madelon F. Case, Yale University; Carla Staver, Yale University

8:40 AM

COS 175-3

Detecting spatial regimes in ecosystems
Shana M. Sundstrom, University of Nebraska; Tarsha Eason, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency; R. John Nelson, University of Victoria; David Angeler, Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences; Chris Barichievy, Zoological Society of London; Ahjond Garmestani, US Environmental Protection Agency; Nicholas A.J. Graham, Lancaster University; Dean Granholm, U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service; Lance Gunderson, Emory University; Melinda Knutson, Region 3 U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service; Kirsty Nash, University of Tasmania; Trisha Spanbauer, US Environmental Protection Agency; Craig Stow, National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration; Craig R. Allen, University of Nebraska

9:00 AM

COS 175-4

Variation in plant soil feedbacks correlate to spatial variation in long term community stability in the field
Y. Anny Chung, University of New Mexico; Jennifer Rudgers, University of New Mexico

9:20 AM

COS 175-5

Anticipating effects of climate change in Hawaiian national parks: Defining plant community and climatic variation across the treeline ecotone
Alison Ainsworth, National Park Service; Donald R. Drake, University of Hawai'i at Manoa

9:40 AM

COS 175-

Break

9:50 AM

COS 175-6

Tiny epiphytes on tall trees: What factors drive epiphyte community composition?
Rikke Reese Næsborg, Save the Redwoods League; Cameron B. Williams, Franklin and Marshall College

10:10 AM

COS 175-7

Spatial heterogeneity in nutrient transport and propagule dispersal decouples synchrony and stability in trophic metacommunities
Diana L. Townsend, Marine Science Center, Northeastern University; Tarik C. Gouhier, Northeastern University

10:30 AM

COS 175-8

Soil texture modifies effects of ungulate herbivory on sagebrush and bunchgrass density and size/age class distributions
Kyle C. Nehring, Utah State University

10:50 AM

COS 175-9

Community assembly of wood-dwelling fungi: Role of measured and missing drivers
Marissa R. Lee, The George Washington University; Brendan Choat, Hawkesbury Institute for the Environment, Western Sydney University; Will K. Cornwell, University of New South Wales; Peter B. Reich, University of Minnesota; Jessica Rigg, University of Western Sydney; Brad Oberle, New College of Florida; Jeff R. Powell, University of Western Sydney; Amy Zanne, The George Washington University

11:10 AM

COS 175-10

Beta-diversity and shared species in permanent and ephemeral wetland plant communities
Amanda Little, University of Wisconsin-Stout; James Church, La Salle University

COS 175 - Communities: Spatial Patterns And Environmental Gradients V