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

8:00 AM

COS 58-1

Genetic diversity and gene flow of freshwater invertebrates varying in dispersal capacity in contrasting hydrological landscapes
Paolo Ruggeri, Natural History Museum; Beth Okamura, Natural History Museum London

8:20 AM

COS 58-2

Environment-host-microbial interactions shape the Sarracenia purpurea microbiome at the continental scale
Zachary Freedman, West Virginia University; Alicia McGrew, University of Florida; Benjamin Baiser, University of Florida; Dominique Gravel, University of Sherbrooke; Timothée Poisot, Québec Centre for Biodiversity Sciences; Sydne Record, Bryn Mawr College; Lauren Trotta, University of Florida; Nicholas J. Gotelli, University of Vermont

8:40 AM

COS 58-3

Uncovering ecosystem heterogeneity across spatial scales using a new fractal-based sampling design
Elizabeth G. Simpson, Utah State University; William D. Pearse, Utah State University

9:00 AM

COS 58-4

Cutaneous bacterial communities of Plethodon cinereus along an urban-to-rural gradient
Elle Barnes, Fordham University; Erin Carter, Fordham University; Nina Naghshineh, Fordham University; J.D. Lewis, Fordham University

9:20 AM

COS 58-5

Species and trait diversity of an insular tropical Lepidoptera assemblage across space and time
Catherine Hulshof, Virginia Commonwealth University; Oscar Ojeda Cana, University of Puerto Rico Mayaguez; Akito Y. Kawahara, University of Florida; Neil S. Cobb, Northern Arizona University; James D. Ackerman, University of Puerto Rico Rio Piedras; Rosa A. Franqui Rivera, Universidad de Puerto Rico Mayaguez; Carla Restrepo, University of Puerto Rico Rio Piedras

9:40 AM

COS 58-

Break

9:50 AM

COS 58-6

Integrating area of cover to refine point-pattern analyses of spatial distributions: Implications for localized plant interactions
Ryan McCarthy, The Ohio State University; Maria N. Miriti, The Ohio State University

10:10 AM

COS 58-7

The roles of host tree genetics and environment in structuring arthropod communities: A macrosystems approach to community ecology
Helen M. Bothwell, Northern Arizona University; Arthur R. Keith, Northern Arizona University; Julia B. Hull, Northern Arizona University; Samuel A. Cushman, US Forest Service; Tom Whitham, Northern Arizona University; Gerard J. Allan, Northern Arizona University

10:30 AM

COS 58-8

The mechanistic underpinnings of latitudinal directionality in ectotherm invasion success
Margaret Simon, University of Florida; Priyanga Amarasekare, University of California, Los Angeles

10:50 AM

COS 58-9

Heterogeneity in competitors affects patch preference in the same extrinsic environment
Ellen K. Bledsoe, University of Florida; S.K. Morgan Ernest, University of Florida

11:10 AM

COS 58-10

Are bunchgrasses self organizing? Examining Aristida stricta spatial patterning in a restored pine savanna chronosequence
Katherine A. Hovanes, Louisiana State University; Kyle Harms, Louisiana State University

COS 58 - Communities: Spatial Patterns And Environmental Gradients IV