Session: Communities: Spatial Patterns And Environmental Gradients (2019 ESA Annual Meeting (August 11 -- 16))

PS 5-35

Effects on soil-fungal network structure from urbanization
Steve Kutos, Fordham University; Elle Barnes, Fordham University; Marissa Mesko, Fordham University; J.D. Lewis, Fordham University

PS 5-36

Effects of spatial patterns in Candida albicans hyphal growth on Staphylococcus aureus growth and dispersal
Helen M. Kurkjian, Boston College; Babak Momeni, Boston College

PS 5-37

Physical complexity as a control on the diversity and function of gut microbiomes
Emmi Mueller, Indiana University; Jay T. Lennon, Indiana University

PS 5-38

Habitat selection by ovipositing Hyla chrysoscelis and Culex restuans across temperature and nutrient gradients
Sarah C. McNamara, The University of Mississippi; William J. Resetarits Jr., The University of Mississippi

PS 5-39

Drivers of fine-scale spatial patterns in understory plant species diversity in wet-mesic longleaf pine woodlands
Phoebe Judge, Jones Center at Ichauway; O. Stribling Stuber, Jones Center at Ichauway; Alex Gordon, Jones Center at Ichauway; Anke Hildebrandt, Friedrich Schiller University Jena; Steven Brantley, Jones Center at Ichauway; John Van Stan, Georgia Southern University

PS 5-40

Occupancy modelling of three woodpecker species in Florida scrub
Keara L. Clancy, Doris Duke Conservation Scholars Program Collaborative; Karl E. Miller, Florida Fish & Wildlife Conservation Commission; Wesley W. Boone IV, University of Florida; Christina Romagosa, University of Florida; Raymond R. Carthy, U.S. Geological Survey; Meghan Beatty, University of Florida

PS 5-41

Quantifying alpine treeline spatial structure using critical transition theory
Ali McGarigal, Colorado College; Hayes Henderson, Colorado College; Crispy Su, Colorado College; Kathryn Kummel, Palmer Highschool; Miroslav Kummel, Colorado College

PS 5-42

Topographic influences on canopy height in northwestern Belize
Sara Eshleman, University of Texas at Austin; Timothy Beach, University of Texas at Austin

PS 5-43

A changing ecosystem: Exploring the relationship between dreissenid mussels and Cladophora in the Great Lakes
Kaylee Picard, USGS; Emily Wimmer, USGS; Meredith B. Nevers, U.S. Geological Survey; Mary Anne Evans, USGS

PS 5-44

Ant community’ composition, interactions and distribution across environmental gradients in Central Texas Hill Country
Julymar Rodríguez López, University of Puerto Rico at Humacao; Thomas L. Arsuffi, Texas Tech University

PS 5-45

Effects of air pollution on cuticular conductance and gas exchange in Sequoiadendron giganteum trees in an urban environment
Erica E. Bull, Reed College; Claire Hunsberger, The Marylhurst School; Mark DeGuzman, Reed College; Aaron Ramirez, Reed College

PS 5-46

Using LiDAR to assess transitions in riparian vegetation structure along a rural-to-urban land use gradient in western North America
Noortje Grijseels, University of Utah; Diane Pataki, University of Utah; Martin P. Buchert, Metropolitan Research Center; Paul D. Brooks, University of Utah

PS 5-47

Effects of flooding on community structure of riverine rock pools
C. Ryland Stunkle, Virginia Commonwealth University; William J. Shuart, VCU; Andy Davidson, Virginia Commonwealth University; James R. Vonesh, Virginia Commonwealth University

PS 5-48

Relating abiotic factors to microbial diversity across gradients of land use
Marissa Mesko, Fordham University; Elle Barnes, Fordham University; J.D. Lewis, Fordham University

PS 5-49

Examining regional and global paleoecological trends in Middle Devonian biostrome builders
Aspen A. Burman, Bellarmine University; Katherine V. Bulinski, Bellarmine University

PS 5-50

Trends in microclimatic and floristic variability 30 years after the 1988 Yellowstone fires
Andrew J. Andrade, University of Colorado Denver; Diana F. Tomback, University of Colorado Denver

PS 5-51

Testing ecological hypotheses in Darwin’s finches
Jose M. Barreiro, University of Cincinnati; Lucinda P. Lawson, University of Cincinnati; Kenneth Petren, University of Cincinnati

PS 5-52

Partitioning at what scale? Exploring species differences in mycorrhizal colonization across genus Lobelia
Christopher Blackwood, Kent State University; Jessica Nowjack, Kent State University; J Miller, Kent State University; Andrea L Case, Kent State University

PS 5-53

Environmental gradients of woody riparian species across montane and lowland riparian communities in the southwest U.S.: Does the U.S. National Classification reflect their distribution?
Esteban Muldavin, University of New Mexico; John P. Leonard, University of New Mexico; Elizabeth Milford, University of New Mexico

PS 5-54

Depth-related spatial distribution of microbial composition in marginal soils
Xiaoling Wan, Institute for Environmental Genomics; Jialiang Kuang, University of Oklahoma; Lauren Hale, University of Oklahoma; Liyou Wu, University of Oklahoma; Peter Nico, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory; Malay Saha, The Samuel Roberts Noble Foundation; Kelly Craven, The Samuel Roberts Noble Foundation; Jennifer Pett-Ridge, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory; Jizhong Zhou, University of Oklahoma; Mary Firestone, University of California Berkeley

PS 5 - Communities: Spatial Patterns And Environmental Gradients