Session: Communities: Assembly And Neutral Theory I (2019 ESA Annual Meeting (August 11 -- 16))

1:30 PM

COS 32-1

Substrate texture mediates vascular epiphyte establishment: Experimental evidence from a Panamanian cloud forest
Michelle Elise Spicer, University of Pittsburgh; Walter P. Carson, University of Pittsburgh

1:50 PM

COS 32-2

Understanding assembly of low-diversity plant communities within hyperdiverse ecosystems
Carrie A. Barker, Louisiana State University; Kyle Harms, Louisiana State University

2:10 PM

COS 32-3

Dispersal is more important for exotic than for native species during native to novel ecosystem conversion
Brian J. Wilsey, Iowa State University; H. Wayne Polley, USDA, Agricultural Research Service

2:30 PM

COS 32-4

Priority effects in the amphibian microbiome alter defense against Batrachochytrium dendrobatidis
Elle Barnes, Fordham University; Sereene Kurzum, Fordham University; J.D. Lewis, Fordham University

2:50 PM

COS 32-5

Priority effects and their reflection in the seedbank of a restored temperate grassland
Kirstin A. Staiger, University of Maryland; Douglas E. Gill, University of Maryland; Nathan G. Swenson, University of Maryland

3:10 PM

COS 32-

Break

3:20 PM

COS 32-6

Scale-dependent patterns of ant and spider diversity in the tree canopy of eastern deciduous forest
Michael B. Mahon, Miami University; Hannah Penn, Louisiana State University; Kaitlin U. Campbell, University of North Carolina at Pembroke; Thomas O. Crist, Miami University

3:40 PM

COS 32-7

Patterns and drivers of stability in long-term metacommunity data
Nathan I. Wisnoski, Indiana University; Eric R. Sokol, Batelle, National Ecological Observatory Network (NEON); Riley Andrade, Arizona State University; Max C. N. Castorani, University of Virginia; Christopher P. Catano, Washington University in St. Louis; Aldo Compagnoni, Martin Luther University Halle-Wittenberg; Thomas Lamy, University of California, Santa Barbara; Nina K. Lany, Michigan State University; Luca Marazzi, Florida International University; Sydne Record, Bryn Mawr College; Annie C. Smith, Michigan State University; Christopher M. Swan, University of Maryland, Baltimore County; Jonathan D. Tonkin, University of Canterbury; Nicole M. Voelker, University of Maryland, Baltimore County; Phoebe Zarnetske, Michigan State University

4:00 PM

COS 32-8

Applying modern coexistence theory to priority effects
Tess N. Grainger, Princeton University; Andrew D. Letten, ETH Zurich; Benjamin Gilbert, University of Toronto; Tadashi Fukami, Stanford University

4:20 PM

COS 32-9

Coordinated community structure among five taxonomic groups in Amazonian rainforests
Jason Vleminckx, CNRS; Heidy Schimann, INRA-UMR ECOFOG; Thibaud Decaëns, Laboratoire ECODIV, Université de Rouen; Mélanie Fichaux, CNRS, UMR Ecologie des Forêts de Guyane; Vincent Vedel, INRA, UMR Ecologie des Forêts de Guyane; Gaelle Jaouen, AgroParisTech; Mélanie H. Roy, CEFE CNRS; Emmanuel Lapied, Taxonomia International Foundation; Julien Engel, AMAP, IRD, CIRAD, CNRS, Université de Montpellier, INRA; Pascal Petronelli, CIRAD, UMR Ecologie des Forêts de Guyane; Jerome Orivel, CNRS; Christopher Baraloto, UMR EcoFOG

4:40 PM

COS 32-10

Drivers of recent deforestation and degradation in the Teesta River Basin of the Eastern Himalaya in India
Robert John, Indian Institute of Science Education and Research, Kolkata; Radhika Kanade, Ashoka Trust for Research in Ecology and the Environment; Netra Bhandari, Indian Institute of Science Education and Research, Kolkata

COS 32 - Communities: Assembly And Neutral Theory I