COS 78 - Community Pattern And Dynamics IV

Wednesday, August 8, 2012: 8:00 AM-11:30 AM
F151, Oregon Convention Center
8:20 AM
 The memory of spatial patterns – Using information from spatial pattern to detect changes in the abundance of tropical tree species
Anton J. Flügge, University College London; Sofia C. Olhede, University College London; David J. Murrell, University College London
8:40 AM
 Coordination of plant functional traits in predicting relative abundance of 42 tropical tree species during secondary succession in Central Panama
Dylan James Craven, German Centre for Integrative Biodiversity Research (iDiv); Michiel van Breugel, Smithsonian Tropical Research Institution; Jefferson Hall, Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute; Mark S. Ashton, Yale University; Graeme P. Berlyn, Yale University
9:00 AM
 Evaluating community structure and the role of regional and local processes in larval trematode metacommunities of Helisoma trivolvis
Katherine L. D. Richgels, University of Colorado; Jason T. Hoverman, Purdue University; Pieter TJ Johnson, University of Colorado at Boulder
9:20 AM
 Resonance-Induced Multimodal Body-Size Distributions
Adam Lampert, University of California, Davis
9:40 AM
9:50 AM
 Local forest structure, climate, and human land cover determine broad-scale gradients of boreal bird species richness
Jian Zhang, University of Alberta; W. Daniel Kissling, Aarhus University; Fangliang He, Sun Yat-sen University
10:10 AM
 Does the importance of environmental and spatial variables in structuring stream macroinvertebrate metacommunities depend on dispersal mode?
Mira M. Grönroos, Finnish Environment Institute; Jani M. Heino, Finnish Environment Institute; Luis M. Bini, Federal University of Goiás; Tadeu Siqueira, Universidade Estadual Paulista (Unesp); Victor L. Landeiro, Federal University of Goiás; Juho A. Kotanen, Centre for Economic Development, Transport and the Environment for South Savo
10:50 AM
 Linking species area curves to spatially explicit community models
Stephen J. Cornell, University of Leeds; James O'Dwyer, Santa Fe Institute; Omar al Hammal, University of Leeds
11:10 AM
 Stand dynamics and structure of old-growth Fraxinus nigra systems: Critical baselines for a foundation species in peril
Anthony W. D'Amato, University of Minnesota; Mike Reinikainen, University of Minnesota; Shawn Fraver, University of Minnesota; Brian J. Palik, USDA Forest Service; Kyle Gill, University of Minnesota