2018 ESA Annual Meeting (August 5 -- 10)

COS 78 - Communities: Spatial Patterns And Environmental Gradients V

Wednesday, August 8, 2018: 1:30 PM-5:00 PM
356, New Orleans Ernest N. Morial Convention Center
2:10 PM
Spider biodiversity in eastern deciduous forest is dictated by scale, tree species, and habitat
Hannah Penn, Louisiana State University; Michael B. Mahon, Miami University; Thomas O. Crist, Miami University
2:30 PM
Effects of environmental heterogeneity on beta diversity of breeding birds across spatial scales
Chia Hsieh, Academia Sinica; Mao-Ning Tuanmu, Academia Sinica
2:50 PM
Diversity and distribution of Solenopsis (Hymenoptera: Formicidae) thief ants belowground
Leo Ohyama, University of Central Florida; Joshua R. King, University of Central Florida; David Jenkins, University of Central Florida
3:10 PM
3:20 PM
The influence of coarse-scale environmental and anthropongenic gradients on the functional diversity and beta diversity of headwater fish assemblages within a southeastern river system
Joshua Hubbell, University of Southern Mississippi; Jake Schaefer, University of Southern Mississippi; Peter J. Flood, Florida International University
3:40 PM
Divergent character displacement of germination patterns along a fluctuating environmental gradient
Nicholas Kortessis, University of Arizona; Peter Chesson, University of Arizona
4:00 PM
Bioenergetics predict species coexistence: A framework for linking size-based constraints with species-area relationships
Ignasi Arranz, Concordia University; Bertrand Fournier, Concordia University; Brian J. Shuter, University of Toronto; Nigel Lester, Ontario Ministry of Natural Resources; Pedro R. Peres-Neto, Concordia University
4:20 PM
Topography, energy, history and broad-scale patterns of vertebrate rarity-weighted richness
Fabio Albuquerque, Arizona State University; Yaiyr Astudillo-Scalia, Arizona State University
4:40 PM
Quantifying long-term stability in changing Swedish boreal lakes
Hannah Fried-Petersen, Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences; Martyn N. Futter, Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences; Yimen G. Araya-Ajoy, Norwegian University of Science and Technology; David G. Angeler, Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences
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