Session: Communities: Assembly And Neutral Theory II (2017 ESA Annual Meeting (August 6 -- 11))

8:00 AM

COS 31-1

Is there consistency in the assembly of lake fish communities: a null-model examination?
Ruben D Cordero, University of Toronto; Donald A. Jackson, University of Toronto

8:20 AM

COS 31-2

Foliar microbiome community assembly driven by phylogenetic relatedness of Asteraceae hosts in a common garden
Briana K. Whitaker, Indiana University; Natalie S. Christian, Indiana University; Chai Qing, Indiana University, Lanzhou University; Keith Clay, Indiana University

8:40 AM

COS 31-3

Plants shaping their environment: Do dominant plants reduce or promote spatial heterogeneity?
Carlos Alberto Arnillas Merino, University of Toronto, Scarborough; Marc Cadotte, University of Toronto

9:00 AM

COS 31-4

Tropical plants and fungal symbionts: leaf functional traits as drivers of plant-fungal endophyte interactions.
Peter Tellez, Tulane University; Elizabeth A. Arnold, University of Arizona; Sunshine Van Bael, Tulane University

9:20 AM

COS 31-5

Which processes drive ant community assembly in experimentally fragmented forest?
Kendi Davies, University of Colorado; Jeffrey L. McClenahan, University of Colorado at Boulder; Saul Cunningham, The Australian National University; Andrew J. King, CSIRO; Brett Melbourne, University of Colorado; Julian Resasco, University of Colorado; Kika Tuff, University of Colorado at Boulder, Impact Media Lab

9:40 AM

COS 31-

Break

9:50 AM

COS 31-6

Human impact on North American mammal faunas from the Pleistocene
Silvia Pineda-Munoz, NMNH Smithsonian Institution; Advait M. Jukar, George Mason University; S. Kathleen Lyons, University of Nebraska; NMNH ETE working group, NMNH Smithsonian Institution

10:10 AM

COS 31-7

Drought tolerance and dispersal limitation jointly shape community structure in an aseasonal Amazonian forest
Ian R. McFadden, University of California, Los Angeles; Renato Valencia, Pontificia Universidad Católica del Ecuador; Nathan J. B. Kraft, University of California, Los Angeles

10:30 AM

COS 31-8

Weak interspecific interactions in a sagebrush steppe: evidence from observations, models, and experiments
Peter Adler, Utah State University; Andrew R. Kleinhesselink, Utah State University; Giles Hooker, Cornell University; Brittany J. Teller, Utah State University; Stephen Ellner, Cornell University; J. Bret Taylor, USDA

10:50 AM

COS 31-9

Environmental variability and non-linear responses to competition interact to affect species coexistence in nectar yeasts
Andrew D. Letten, Stanford University; Manpreet K. Dhami, Landcare Research; Po-Ju Ke, Stanford University; Tadashi Fukami, Stanford University

11:10 AM

COS 31-10

How do resource use and the resource spectrum determine the structure of competitive communities?
Ravi Ranjan, Michigan State University; Christopher Klausmeier, Michigan State University

COS 31 - Communities: Assembly And Neutral Theory II