COS 58 - Communities: Spatial Patterns And Environmental Gradients I

Wednesday, August 14, 2019: 1:30 PM-5:00 PM
M109/110, Kentucky International Convention Center
Presider:
Rebecca Finger Higgens
1:30 PM
Ecological process in pattern generation in tropical coral-seagrass reefscapes: Is grazing sufficient to form grazing halos?
Stephanie M. Bilodeau, Wake Forest University; Austin W. H. Schwartz, Wake Forest University; Gregory P. Asner, Arizona State University; Miles R. Silman, Wake Forest University
2:10 PM
Exploring spatial and temporal variation in plant-microbe interactions within Populus trees
Melissa Cregger, Oak Ridge National Laboratory; Allison M. Veach, Oak Ridge National Laboratory; Christopher Schadt, Oak Ridge National Laboratory
2:30 PM
The effects of environment, space and history on the structure of North American amphibian communities
Lucie J Kuczynski, University of Oklahoma; Rasmus S. Larsen, University of Copenhagen; Jean-Philippe Lessard, Concordia University; Katharine M. Marske, University of Oklahoma
2:50 PM
Geographical variation in terrestrial mammal food webs
Lydia Beaudrot, Rice University; Miguel Acevedo, University of Florida; Jean-Philippe Lessard, Concordia University; Nyeema C. Harris, Applied Wildlife Ecology (AWE) Lab, Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, University of Michigan
3:10 PM
3:20 PM Cancelled
COS 58-6
3:40 PM
Insects see the big picture: flying insect communities respond to ecosystem type but not trees or soil
Colleen Cosgrove, Kent State University; Christopher Blackwood, Kent State University; Mark W. Kershner, Kent State University
4:00 PM
Landscape-scale relationship between tropical forest ANPP and leaf area
K.C. Cushman, Brown University; James R. Kellner, Brown University
4:20 PM
Assessing the magnitude of compositional change in two arid ecosystems over 80 years
Tyler Annetts, Northern Arizona University; Rachel M. Mitchell, Northern Arizona University; Margaret M. Moore, Northern Arizona University; Daniel Laughlin, University of Wyoming; Jackson M. Leonard, US Forest Service, Rocky Mountain Research Station; Kevin C. Grady, Northern Arizona University
4:40 PM
Loss of alternative savanna and forest stable states due to historic and modern land-use
Kelly Heilman, University of Notre Dame; Jason McLachlan, University of Notre Dame; Carla Staver, Yale University; John W. (Jack) Williams, University of Wisconsin-Madison; Simon J. Goring, University of Wisconsin-Madison; David J. Mladenoff, University of Wisconsin-Madison; John Tipton, University of Arkansas
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