Session: Communities: Spatial Patterns And Environmental Gradients III (2018 ESA Annual Meeting (August 5 -- 10))

1:30 PM

COS 42-1

Using joint species distribution modelling to understand factors that influence the distribution of a key ecological indicator group
Elizabeth H Raine, University of Oxford; Nicholas Deere, University of Kent; Matthew Struebig, University of Kent; Oliver Wearn, Zoological Society of London; Eleanor Slade, University of Oxford

1:50 PM

COS 42-2

Are mountain passes more dangerous in the tropics? Interannual community stability along elevation and disturbance gradients in temperate and tropical streams
Erin I. Larson, Alaska Pacific University; Andrea C. Encalada, Universidad San Francisco de Quito; N. LeRoy Poff, Colorado State University; Alexander Flecker, Cornell University

2:10 PM

COS 42-3

Augmenting Research Grounded On NEON (ARGON): Using new data compilation techniques to contextualize NEON site diversity
William D. Pearse, Utah State University; Michael G. Branstetter, Utah State University; Jonathan Bravo, Utah State University; Scott Franklin, University of Northern Colorado; Mallory A. Hagadorn, Utah State University; Sylvia Kinosian, Utah State University; Megan Licht, Utah State University; Spencer Hudson, Utah State University; Ryan J. R. McCleary, Stetson University; Emily H. Mooney, University of Colorado at Colorado Springs; Elizabeth G. Simpson, Utah State University; Konrad Hafen, University of Idaho; K. Bodie Weedop, Utah State University; Hannah Wilson, Utah State University; Matthew R. Helmus, Temple University

2:30 PM

COS 42-4

Environmental factors influencing amphibian community assemblage in dune wetlands on the Lake Michigan coast
Alex H Jouney, Grand Valley State University; Eric Snyder, Grand Valley State University

2:50 PM

COS 42-5

The response of the mosquito (Diptera: Culicidae) community in a tropical forest to large disturbance events
Nicole Scavo, University of Southern Mississippi; Joseph Nelsen, University of Southern Mississippi; Donald A. Yee, University of Southern Mississippi

3:10 PM

COS 42-

Break

3:20 PM

COS 42-6

Abiotic conditions and seagrass host characteristics determine the structure of the microbial communities found on Thalassia testudinum blades
Margaret A Vogel, Florida State University; Thomas E. Miller, Florida State University; Olivia U. Mason, Florida State University

3:40 PM

COS 42-7

Modeled climate-growth relations and changing tree species distribution in mixed conifer forest across a biophysical gradient
Laura A. Marshall, University of Arizona; Donald A. Falk, The University of Arizona

4:00 PM

COS 42-8

Inhibition or facilitation of dune development on barriers: The influence of back-beach vegetation on barrier island stable states
Reuben Biel, University of North Carolina Chapel Hill; Laura J. Moore, University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill

4:20 PM

COS 42-9

Soil water availability shapes plant species richness in big sagebrush communities
Samuel E. Jordan, Yale University; Kyle A. Palmquist, University of Wyoming; John B. Bradford, U.S. Geological Survey; William K. Lauenroth, University of Wyoming

4:40 PM

COS 42-10

Understanding spatial structure in herbaceous layer plant communities
Samantha Catella, Case Western Reserve University; Kristen Buse, Mentor High School; Karen C. Abbott, Case Western Reserve University

COS 42 - Communities: Spatial Patterns And Environmental Gradients III