94th ESA Annual Meeting (August 2 -- 7, 2009)

Tuesday, August 4, 2009: 8:00 AM-11:30 AM

Picuris, Albuquerque Convention Center

Presider:

Molly B. McNicoll, Luther College

8:00 AM

COS 22-1

Role of regional and local factors in population dynamics of rock pools metacommunity along the gradient of species habitat specialization
Shubha Pandit, McMaster University; Jurek Kolasa, McMaster University; Karl Cottenie, University of Guelph

8:20 AM

COS 22-2

Climate, disturbance, and seed arrival interact to assemble high-diversity pine savanna groundcover communities
Jonathan A. Myers, Washington University in St. Louis; Kyle E. Harms, Louisiana State University

8:40 AM

COS 22-3

Distribution of over-wintering ground beetles in an agricultural landscape and testing for similarity in species response to environmental gradients
Michael C. Russell, Oregon State University

9:00 AM

COS 22-4

Interactions between disturbance and dispersal mediate coexistence in a rock pool metacommunity
Bram Vanschoenwinkel, Vrije Universiteit Brussel (VUB); Luc Brendonck, K.U.Leuven

9:20 AM

COS 22-5

Turnover and predictability of flower communities across two deserts and two mountains
Karen R. Wetherill, University of New Mexico; David W. Inouye, Rocky Mountain Biological Laboratory; C. David Bertelsen, University of Arizona; Theresa M. Crimmins, USA National Phenology Network; Jessica Forrest, University of California, Davis

9:40 AM

COS 22-

Break

9:50 AM

COS 22-6

The contingencies of ecosystem engineering: Impacts of host plant species and leaf-tying caterpillar species
H. George Wang, Smithsonian Institution; Robert J. Marquis, Whitney R. Harris World Ecology Center; Richard A. Lankau, University of Wisconsin; Christina Baer, University of Missouri - St. Louis

10:10 AM

COS 22-7

Post disturbance tree establishment in mature Douglas-fir forests in Washington and Oregon
James A. Freund, University of Washington; Jerry F. Franklin, University of Washington

10:30 AM

COS 22-8

Long term structural dynamics of mature Puerto Rican dry forest
Skip J. Van Bloem, University of Puerto Rico; Ariel Lugo, USDA Forest Service; Peter G. Murphy, Michigan State University

10:50 AM

COS 22-9

Local and large-scale species richness relationships in managed longleaf pine savannas
Lars A. Brudvig, Michigan State University; Ellen I. Damschen, University of Wisconsin-Madison

11:10 AM

COS 22-10

Compositional consistency of alluvial vegetation types across spatial scales
Elizabeth R. Matthews, University of California Santa Barbara; Robert K. Peet, University of North Carolina; Alan S. Weakley, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill; Thomas R. Wentworth, NC State University

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