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

1:30 PM

COS 89-1

When context matters: Infections by a macroparasite impair the aerobic performance and survival of montane populations of deer mice
Luke Wilde, University of South Carolina; Cole Wolf, University of Montana; Stephanie Porter, Colorado State University; Maria Stager, University of Montana; Zachary Cheviron, University of Montana; Nathan R Senner, University of South Carolina

1:50 PM

COS 89-2

Latitude and protection affect decadal trends in reef trophic structure across a continental gradient
Elizabeth M. P. Madin, University of Hawai'i; Joshua Madin, University of Hawaaii; Aaron Harmer, Massey University; Neville Barrett, University of Tasmania; David Booth, University of Technology, Sydney; M. Julian Caley, Queensland University of Technology; Alistair Cheal, Australian Institute of Marine Science; Graham Edgar, University of Tasmania; Michael Emslie, Australian Institute of Marine Science; Steven D. Gaines, University of California Santa Barbara; Hugh Sweatman, Australian Institute of Marine Science

2:10 PM

COS 89-3

Mechanistic insights into species-area relationships through the lens of coexistence theory
William Petry, ETH Zurich, Princeton University; Gaurav Kandlikar, University of California, Los Angeles; Ewa Merz, ETH Zürich; Nathan J. B. Kraft, University of California, Los Angeles; Jonathan M. Levine, Princeton University

2:30 PM

COS 89-4

Plant-soil feedbacks and intraspecific competition drive mortality in Quercus rubra seedlings
Fiona Jevon, Dartmouth College; Sydne Record, Bryn Mawr College; John M Grady, National Great Rivers Research and Education Center; Ashley K. Lang, Dartmouth College; Matthew P. Ayres, Dartmouth College; Jaclyn Matthes, Wellesley College

2:50 PM

COS 89-5

Landsat TIR-derived relative temperature and spatial temperature variability predict winter bird species richness patterns across the conterminous US
Paul R. Elsen, University of Wisconsin-Madison; Laura S. Farwell, University of Wisconsin-Madison; Anna M. Pidgeon, University of Wisconsin-Madison; Volker C. Radeloff, University of Wisconsin-Madison

3:10 PM

COS 89-

Break

3:20 PM

COS 89-6

Microbial enzyme activity and nutrient demand shifts in response to human impact and season at Natural Bridge Caves, VA, USA
Autumn D. Coleman, Roanoke College; Gretchen Boeren, Heritage High School; J. Megan Steinweg, Roanoke College

3:40 PM

COS 89-7

Does a trade-off between trait plasticity and resource conservatism contribute to the maintenance of alternate stable states?
Simon C Power, University of Cape Town; G. Anthony Verboom, University of Cape Town; William J. Bond, National Research Foundation, University of Cape Town; Michael D. Cramer, University of Cape Town

4:00 PM

COS 89-8

Insect communities are shaped by landscape and local-scale processes functioning across an urban environment
Benjamin J. Adams, Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County; Enjie Li, The Nature Conservancy; Brian Brown, Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County

4:20 PM

COS 89-9

Beyond counts and averages: Relating geodiversity to dimensions of biodiversity
Quentin D. Read, Michigan State University; Phoebe Zarnetske, Michigan State University; Sydne Record, Bryn Mawr College; Kyla Dahlin, Michigan State University; Andrew O. Finley, Michigan State University; John M Grady, Michigan State University; Martina L. Hobi, Swiss Federal Institute for Forest, Snow, and Landscape Research; Sparkle Malone, Florida International University; Jennifer K. Costanza, North Carolina State University; Adam M. Wilson, University at Buffalo; Andrew M. Latimer, University of California Davis; Keith Gaddis, NASA; Stephanie Pau, Florida State University; Scott Ollinger, University of New Hampshire

4:40 PM

COS 89-10

Range-wide variation in common milkweed traits and its effect on larvae of the monarch butterfly
David S. DeLaMater III, Duke University; John J. Couture, Purdue University; Josh R. Puzey, The College of William and Mary; Harmony J. Dalgleish, The College of William and Mary

COS 89 - Communities: Spatial Patterns And Environmental Gradients III