2018 ESA Annual Meeting (August 5 -- 10)

COS 4 - Communities: Assembly And Neutral Theory I

Monday, August 6, 2018: 1:30 PM-5:00 PM
333-334, New Orleans Ernest N. Morial Convention Center
1:30 PM
Community structure and assembly in tropical freshwater fish communities: Is stochasticity the new norm?
Trevor Williams, Brigham Young University; Jerald B. Johnson, Brigham Young University
1:50 PM
Moving from co-occurrence to demography: Mechanisms of species interactions in stressful environments
Courtenay Ray, Arizona State University; Benjamin Blonder, Arizona State University
2:10 PM
Keystone predation meets resource ratio theory: Community assembly and coexistence in a freshwater food web module
Ravi Ranjan, Michigan State University; Thomas Koffel, Michigan State University; Christopher Klausmeier, Michigan State University
2:30 PM Cancelled
COS 4-4
Diversity of soil seed bank and above-ground community in Ivesia webberi A. Gray communities (widthdrawn)
Temitope I. Borokini, University of Nevada Reno; Mary M. Peacock, University of Nevada, Reno
2:50 PM
Tree leaf chemistry strongly influences understory plant community composition
Margarete A Dettlaff, University of Alberta; Nadir Erbilgin, University of Alberta; James F. Cahill Jr., University of Alberta
3:10 PM
3:20 PM
From trait variation to community structure: Inferring phenotypic plasticity from functional diversity patterns
Ernesto Gianoli, Universidad de La Serena; VĂ­ctor M. Escobedo, Universidad de La Serena
3:40 PM
The scales of organization in biological communities: Species versus functional diversity
Leila Z Forsyth, University of Toronto; Benjamin Gilbert, University of Toronto
4:00 PM
Trait-environment interactions predict seedling establishment
Chad R. Zirbel, Michigan State University; Lars Brudvig, Michigan State University
4:20 PM
Searching for process: microbial drivers of plant-soil feedbacks in the greenhouse and field
Y. Anny Chung, Utah State University; Ari Jumpponen, Kansas State University; Jennifer Rudgers, University of New Mexico
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