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

Wednesday, August 14, 2019: 8:00 AM-11:30 AM

M109/110, Kentucky International Convention Center

Presider:

Amanda Gallinat

8:00 AM

COS 45-1

Resource addition drives taxonomic divergence and phylogenetic convergence of plant communities
Xian Yang, Georgia Institute of Technology; Shiqiang Wan, Hebei University; Lin Jiang, Georgia Institute of Technology

8:20 AM

COS 45-2

Sorghum mycobiome: Stochasticity, succession and partner selection
Cheng Gao, UC Berkeley

8:40 AM

COS 45-3

Explaining species diversity in a fractal world
Rebecca E. Lester, Deakin University; Jill Lancaster, The University of Melbourne; Stephen P. Rice, Loughborough University; Courtney R. Cummings, Deakin University; Barbara J. Downes, The University of Melbourne

9:00 AM

COS 45-4

Intra- versus interspecific niche variations in mammal communities: Is niche partitioning a valuable assembly rule?
Daryl Codron, University of the Free State; Falko Buschke, University of the Free State; Sinalo Nkqubela Malindie, University of the Free State; Marcus Clauss, University of Zurich

9:20 AM

COS 45-5

Cover crop species differentially alter grassland community composition during assembly
Andrew Kaul, Iowa State Univ.; Brian J. Wilsey, Iowa State University

9:40 AM

COS 45-

Break

9:50 AM

COS 45-6

Modeling the evolution of ecological assembly processes mediated by functional traits across North American mammals, birds, and plants
Amanda S. Gallinat, Utah State University; William D. Pearse, Utah State University

10:10 AM

COS 45-7

A sensory side of community assembly: lessons from frog-biting midges and their frog victims
Brian C. Leavell, Purdue University; Gunnar M. Kvifte, Purdue University; Ximena E. Bernal, Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute, Purdue University

10:30 AM

COS 45-8

Trait based modern coexistence theory as an evolutionary game: A case study with an annual plant model
Gordon G. McNickle, Purdue University

10:50 AM

COS 45-9

Priority effects in the P. trichocarpa leaf microbiome are modulated by genotypic variation in the host
Devin R. Leopold, Oregon State University; Posy E. Busby, Oregon State University

11:10 AM

COS 45-10

Using probabilistic species pools to predict the identities of unsampled species: Integrating species distribution and range models into studies of local communities
Stephen J. Murphy, Missouri Botanical Garden; Kelley Erickson, Missouri Botanical Garden; David Henderson, Washington University in St. Louis, Missouri Botanical Garden; Adam Smith, Missouri Botanical Garden

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