Wednesday, August 5, 2009: 1:30 PM-5:00 PM
Dona Ana, Albuquerque Convention Center
COS 69 - Community Assembly and Neutral Theory II
1:30 PMCOS 69-1Mechanisms of assembly within the sarcosaprophytic guild of the carrion insect community: the importance of neutral and non-neutral effects
Jennifer Y. Rosati, University of Windsor, Sherah L. VanLaerhoven, University of Windsor
1:50 PMCOS 69-2Component models of assembly in a metacommunity of tropical arboreal ants
George F. Livingston, University of Texas, Stacy M. Philpott, University of Toledo
2:10 PMCOS 69-3Experimental evidence for neutral community dynamics governing an insect assemblage
Adam M. Siepielski, Dartmouth College, Keng-Lou Hung, Dartmouth College, Eben E.B. Bein, Dartmouth College, Mark A. McPeek, Dartmouth College
2:30 PMCOS 69-4The effects of time averaging on temporal turnover in species composition and tests of metacommunity models
Adam Tomašových, University of Chicago, Susan M. Kidwell, University of Chicago
2:50 PMCOS 69-5Transient patterns in the assembly of vernal pool plant communities
Sharon K. Collinge, University of Colorado, Chris Ray, University of Colorado
3:10 PM Break
3:20 PMCOS 69-6Limited dispersal, priority effects, and nutrient availability determine alternative  community states in an old-field grassland succession
Pedro M. Tognetti, IFEVA - Facultad de Agronomía, Universidad de Buenos Aires, Enrique J. Chaneton, IFEVA - Facultad de Agronomía, Universidad de Buenos Aires
3:40 PMCOS 69-7Scale-dependent contributions of environmental and spatial processes to beta diversity of a subtropical forest community scale-dependent contributions of environmental and spatial processes to beta diversity of a subtropical forest community
Xiangcheng Mi, Institute of Botany, the Chinese Academy of Sciences, Pierre Legendre, Université de Montréal, Haibao Ren, Institute of Botany, the Chinese Academy of Sciences, Keping Ma, Institute of Botany, the Chinese Academy of Sciences, Mingjian Yu, Zhejiang University, Jianhua Chen, Zhejiang Normal University
4:00 PMCOS 69-8Consistency of species-area relationship, and neutrality or non-neutrality in a scale context in subtropical forest of China
Haibao Ren, Institute of Botany, the Chinese Academy of Sciences, Xiangcheng Mi, Institute of Botany, the Chinese Academy of Sciences, Keping Ma, Institute of Botany, the Chinese Academy of Sciences
4:20 PMCOS 69-9CANCELLED - Testing genetic control of grassland assembly rules
Danny J. Gustafson, The Citadel, Charles Major, The Citadel, Dewitt Jones, The Citadel, David J. Gibson, Southern Illinois University, Sara Baer, Southern Illinois University Carbondale
4:40 PMCOS 69-10Patterns of phylogenetic dispersion in tropical dry forest trees and implications for community assembly
John N. Williams, University of California, Davis, Colleen K. Kelly, University of Oxford

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