96th ESA Annual Meeting (August 7 -- 12, 2011)

Monday, August 8, 2011: 1:30 PM-5:00 PM

8, Austin Convention Center

1:30 PM

Phylogenetic species-area curves
Matthew R. Helmus, University of Chicago; Anthony R. Ives, University of Wisconsin-Madison

1:50 PM

How can we test neutral theory robustly in ecology?
Annette M. Ostling, University of Michigan; Rosalyn C. Rael, Tulane University; Rafael D'Andrea, University of Michigan

2:10 PM

Community succession patterns - a function of trophic position, sampling method, and depth of sampling?
Sarah M. Gray, University of Fribourg

2:30 PM

CANCELLED - Evaluating the effects of poorly inferred trees on phylogenetic community structure
J. Sebastian Tello, Missouri Botanical Garden; Lorelei Patrick, Louisiana State University; Noah Reid, Louisiana State University

2:50 PM

The interaction between the effects of habitat heterogeneity and isolation on beta diversity suggest the nature of community assembly in river networks
Christopher M. Swan, University of Maryland, Baltimore County; Bryan L. Brown, Virginia Tech

3:10 PM

Break

3:20 PM

Spatial variability in granivory determines the strength of stochastic community assembly
Rachel M. Germain, University of Toronto; Laura Johnson, University of Guelph; Andrew S. MacDougall, University of Guelph; Karl Cottenie, University of Guelph; Elizabeth Gillis, Vancouver Island University

3:40 PM

Disentangling regional, environmental, and spatial influences on β-diversity in temperate and tropical forests
Jonathan A. Myers, Washington University in St. Louis; Jonathan M. Chase, Biodiversity Synthesis Laboratory; Iván Jiménez, Missouri Botanical Garden; Peter M. Jørgensen, Missouri Botanical Garden; Alejandro Araujo-Murakami, Museo de Historia Natural Noel Kempff Mercado; Narel Paniagua, Herbario Nacional de Bolivia; Renate Seidel, Universidad Mayor de San Andrés

4:00 PM

Investigating niche and neutral processes in bird community assembly: Regression with spatial eigenvectors can be more informative than regression on distance matrices
Tracy A. Pinney, Baylor University; Kevin J. Gutzwiller, Baylor University

4:20 PM

Assembly history dynamics of a pitcher-plant protozoan community in experimental microcosms
Kohmei Kadowaki, Kyoto University; Brian D. Inouye, Rocky Mountain Biological Laboratory; Thomas E. Miller, Florida State University

4:40 PM

The statistical mechanics of community assembly and species distribution
Colleen K. Kelly, University of Oxford; Stephen J. Blundell, University of Oxford; Michael G. Bowler, University of Oxford; G. A. Fox, University of South Florida; Paul H. Harvey, University of Oxford; Mark R. Lomas, University of Sheffield; F. Ian Woodward, University of Sheffield

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