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

Thursday, August 15, 2019: 8:00 AM-11:30 AM

M109/110, Kentucky International Convention Center

Presider:

Rebecca Clement

8:00 AM

COS 74-1

Variation of Florida scrub vegetation along gradients of soil pH and landscape age on a barrier island complex
Paul Schmalzer, Herndon Solutions Group; Tammy E. Foster, Herndon Solutions Group

8:20 AM

COS 74-2

Soil microbial community composition and function both respond to watershed fire and grazing management, but through mechanisms acting at different scales
Lydia Zeglin, Kansas State University; Jaide Allenbrand, Kansas State University; R. Kent Connell, Kansas State University; Priscilla Moley, Kansas State University; Priscila Guzman, Kansas State University; E. Korba Akley, Kansas State University; Christine M. Carson, Kansas State University; Tiffany Carter, Kansas State University; Noortje Notenbaert, Kansas State University

8:40 AM

COS 74-3

Precipitation and tree cover gradients structure avian alpha-diversity in northwestern Costa Rica
Alejandra Echeverri, University of British Columbia

9:00 AM

COS 74-4

Microbial community structure and function in soils at Wild Basin Wilderness Preserve in Austin, TX
Justin Stewart, Villanova University; Amy Ontai, Yale University; Teresa Bilinski, St. Edward’s University

9:20 AM

COS 74-5

The measurement and quantification of generalized gradients of soil fertility relevant to plant community ecology
Laurent Daou, University of Sherbrooke; Bill Shipley, University of Sherbrooke

9:40 AM

COS 74-

Break

9:50 AM

COS 74-6

An integrated approach to community assembly across taxa: Similarity patterns across plant genotypes, epifaunal invertebrate species and root-associated microbial taxa in eelgrass (Zostera marina) communities
Melissa R. Kardish, UC Davis; Zostera Experimental Network Partners, Smithsonian Institution; J. Emmett Duffy, Tennenbaum Marine Observatory Network, Smithsonian Institution; Kevin Hovel, San Diego State University; Jonathan A. Eisen, University of California, Davis; Pamela L. Reynolds, University of California Davis; John J. Stachowicz, University of California, Davis

10:10 AM

COS 74-7

The Australian termite diversity anomaly: the effect of rainfall on termite communities in Queensland, Australia
Rebecca Clement, The George Washington University, George Washington University; Keith A. Crandall, George Washington University; Paul Eggleton, Natural History Museum; Amy Zanne, The George Washington University

10:30 AM

COS 74-8

Ecological forecasting of soil bacteria: Predicting taxonomic and functional groups across the United States
Zoey R. Werbin, Boston University; Colin Averill, ETH Zürich; Michael C. Dietze, Boston University; Jennifer M. Bhatnagar, Boston University

10:50 AM

COS 74-9

Ecosystem engineering by encroaching shrub on local grass community
Lauren K Wood, Virginia Commonwealth University; Julie Zinnert, Virginia Commonwealth University

11:10 AM

COS 74-10

Stream organic matter processing influenced by a terrestrial insect invader, emerald ash borer (Agrilus planipennis)
Courtney Larson, Michigan State University; Patrick Engelken, Michigan State University; Deborah G. McCullough, Michigan State University; M. Eric Benbow, Michigan State University

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