COS 101 - Communities: Spatial Patterns And Environmental Gradients IV

Friday, August 16, 2019: 8:00 AM-11:30 AM
M109/110, Kentucky International Convention Center
Presider:
Nina K. Lany
8:00 AM
Complimentary strengths of spatially-explicit vs. multi-species distribution models
Nina K. Lany, Michigan State University; Phoebe Zarnetske, Michigan State University; Andrew O. Finley, Michigan State University; Deborah G. McCullough, Michigan State University
8:20 AM
Grazer behavior can regulate larger-scale patterns of community states
Vadim Karatayev, University of Guelph; Marissa L. Baskett, University of California, Davis; David J. Kushner, National Park Service; Nicholas T. Shears, University of Auckland; Jennifer E. Caselle, University of California, Santa Barbara; Carl Boettiger, U.C. Berkeley
8:40 AM
Livestock grazing reduces grass cover but does not affect richness or composition in big sagebrush communities
Samuel Jordan, Arizona State University; Kyle A. Palmquist, University of Wyoming; Ingrid C. Burke, Yale University; William K. Lauenroth, Yale University
9:00 AM
Natural enemies affect plant diversity and density dependence along a tropical precipitation gradient
Robert Bagchi, University of Connecticut; Lars Markesteijn, University of Bangor; Owen Lewis, University of Oxford
9:40 AM
9:50 AM
Variation of understory vegetation along a larch tree density gradient in northeastern Siberia
Alison Paulson, Mississippi State University; Homero Pena III, Mississippi State University; Heather D. Alexander, Mississippi State University; Sergey Davydov, Pacific Geographical Institute, Far East Branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences; Michael M. Loranty, Colgate University; Michelle Mack, Northern Arizona University; Susan M. Natali, Woods Hole Research Center
10:10 AM Cancelled
COS 101-7
Multi-scale constraints on the spatial dynamics of a pathogen and its consumer: Insights from a network approach (widthdrawn)
Zachary Hajian-Forooshani, University of Michigan; John Vandermeer, University of Michigan
10:30 AM
Assessing macroecological patterns in ecological networks: Interaction diversity, turnover, and specialization in plant-frugivore interactions
Evan C. Fricke, National Socio-Environmental Synthesis Center; Jens-Christian Svenning, Aarhus University
10:50 AM
Resource requirements at local and landscape scales underlie trade-offs for conserving diverse pollinators
Elinor M. Lichtenberg, University of Texas at Austin; Jaclyn Heiser, The University of Texas at Austin; Kristen A. Baum, Oklahoma State University; Shalene Jha, University of Texas at Austin
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