97th ESA Annual Meeting (August 5 -- 10, 2012)

Thursday, August 9, 2012: 1:30 PM-5:00 PM

Portland Blrm 257, Oregon Convention Center

1:30 PM

COS 165-1

Robustness analysis of communities of structured populations
György Barabás, University of Chicago; Annette M. Ostling, University of Michigan

1:50 PM

COS 165-2

Defining plant functional types for xeric habitats with disturbance regimes
David M. Medvigy, Princeton University; Karina VR Schafer, Rutgers University Newark; Kenneth L. Clark, USDA Forest Service; Nicholas Skowronski, USDA Forest Service

2:10 PM

COS 165-3

Predicting food-web structure with metacommunity models
Benjamin Baiser, University of Florida; Hannah L. Buckley, Lincoln University; Nicholas J. Gotelli, University of Vermont; Aaron M. Ellison, Harvard University

2:30 PM

COS 165-4

Predictive occurrence models for coastal wetland plant communities: Delineating hydrologic response surfaces with multinomial logistic regression
Gregg A. Snedden, U.S. Geological Survey; Gregory D. Steyer, U.S. Geological Survey

2:50 PM

COS 165-5

Resilience as a community-level property in coral reefs
Marissa L. Baskett, University of California, Davis; Nicholas S. Fabina, University of California, Davis; Kevin Gross, North Carolina State University

3:10 PM

COS 165-

Break

3:20 PM

COS 165-6

Simulating future climate and management effects on fire and vegetation to inform conservation
Jennifer K. Costanza, North Carolina State University; Adam Terando, Biodiversity and Spatial Information Center; Todd S. Earnhardt, North Carolina State University; Alexa McKerrow, United States Geological Survey

3:40 PM

COS 165-7

Effects of gypsy moth on forest composition and structure in the Midwest United States
Ryan D. DeSantis, University of Missouri Department of Forestry and USDA Forest Service Northern Research Station; W. Keith Moser, USDA Forest Service

4:00 PM

COS 165-8

Estimated biomass and carbon committed to decomposition in a north Georgia 2011 tornado swath
Chris J. Peterson, University of Georgia; Luke J. Snyder, University of Georgia

4:20 PM

COS 165-9

Evaluating model predictions of carbon fluxes for Amazonian rainforests under chronic and severe drought
Thomas Powell, Harvard University; David Galbraith, University of Leeds; Bradley J. Christoffersen, University of Arizona; Anna Harper, Colorado State University; Hewlley Imbuzeiro, Universidade Federal de Viçosa; Lucy Rowland, University of Edinburgh; Paulo M. Brando, Instituto de Pesquisa Ambiental da Amazônia (IPAM); ACL da Costa, Federal University of Para; Marcos H. Costa, Universidade Federal de Viçosa; Naomi M. Levine, Harvard University; Yadvinder Malhi, University of Oxford; Scott R. Saleska, University of Arizona; Mat Williams, University of Edinburgh; Patrick Meir, University of Edinburgh; Paul R. Moorcroft, Harvard University

4:40 PM

COS 165-10

Modeling forest dynamics across diverse ecoprovinces in the eastern U.S
Tao Zhang, University of Florida; Jeremy Lichstein, University of Florida

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