2018 ESA Annual Meeting (August 5 -- 10)

COS 5 - Communities: Spatial Patterns And Environmental Gradients I

Monday, August 6, 2018: 1:30 PM-5:00 PM
356, New Orleans Ernest N. Morial Convention Center
1:30 PM
What controls tree susceptibility to conspecific negative density dependence?
Alissa Brown, University of North Carolina; Robert K. Peet, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill; Peter S. White, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
1:50 PM
Weak impacts of climatic factors on intraspecific body size variation in endothermic species
Kristina Riemer, University of Florida; Narayani Barve, Florida Museum of Natural History; Brian Stucky, Florida Museum of Natural History; Stephen J. Mayor, Ontario Ministry of Natural Resources and Forestry; Robert P. Guralnick, Florida Museum of Natural History; Ethan P. White, University of Florida
2:10 PM
Moving in tandem or mere coincidence: Searching for evidence of community cohesion in microbial coalescence experiments
Jennifer D. Rocca, North Carolina State University; Marie Simonin, Duke University; Alex Washburne, Duke University, Montana State University; Justin Wright, Duke University; Emily Bernhardt, Duke University
2:30 PM
Scale-dependent responses of avian feeding guilds to forest fragmentation in Costa Rica
Cody M. Cox, University of Georgia; Nathan P. Nibbelink, University of Georgia
2:50 PM
Temporal changes in interspecific abundance-occupancy relationships
Lisa L. Manne, City University of New York; Richard R. Veit, College of Staten Island
3:10 PM
3:20 PM
Negative intraspecific abundance-occupancy relationships in North American terrestrial bird species
Elizabeth Dluhos, Cuny/College of Staten Island; Lisa L. Manne, City University of New York
3:40 PM
The distribution of epiphytes in temperate rainforest trees
Carrie Woods, University of Puget Sound; L. McKinley Nevins, University of Puget Sound
4:00 PM
Mangrove aboveground biomass: A revision of global budgets and implications for blue carbon mitigation strategies
Andre Rovai, Louisiana State University; Robert R. Twilley, Louisiana State University
4:20 PM
A naïve approach to a longstanding question: Using ordination to identify gradients in ecological data
Matthew J Michalska-Smith, University of Chicago; Zachary Miller, University of Chicago; Nutrient Network, Multiple Institutions; Stefano Allesina, University of Chicago
4:40 PM
Soil heterogeneity and plant diversity: Influence of soil versus plant sources of spatial structure
Gregory Houseman, Wichita State University; Brandon M., Williams, Wichita State University; Olivia S. Schouten, Wichita State University
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