COS 172 - Abundance And Rarity

Friday, August 10, 2012: 8:00 AM-11:30 AM
A103, Oregon Convention Center
8:00 AM
 The shrinking footprint of longleaf pine (Pinus palustris) in the southeastern United States
Christopher M. Oswalt, USDA Forest Service - Southern Research Station; Horace W. Brooks, USDA Forest Service
8:20 AM
 Rarity in sequestrate fungi (truffles): A function of niche width or productivity
Darlene Southworth, Southern Oregon University; Jonathan L. Frank, Southern Oregon University
8:40 AM
 Hierarchical frameworks for distributional and life history data: Implementation of a new ecoinformatics tool
Deborah Reusser, USGS; Henry Lee II, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency; Emily Saarinen, University of Michigan-Dearborn
9:00 AM
 The historical demography of geographic range limits
John R. Paul, Colorado State University; Amy L. Angert, University of British Columbia
9:20 AM
 Measuring biodiversity: The importance of species similarity
Christina Cobbold, University of Glasgow; Tom Leinster, University of Glasgow
9:40 AM
9:50 AM
 Dispersal limits rare species establishment in restored habitats more than competition or stress
Steve J. Kroiss, University of Washington; Tiffany M. Knight, Washington University in St. Louis
10:30 AM
 Predicting endangered species recovery objectives using biological traits and patterns of decline
Maile C. Neel, University of Maryland; Judy P. Che-Castaldo, National Socio-Environmental Synthesis Center (SESYNC)
10:50 AM
 Plant-soil feedbacks provide an additional explanation for diversity-productivity relationships
Andrew Kulmatiski, University of Alaska Anchorage; Karen H. Beard, Utah State University; Justin Heavilin, Utah State University