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

1:30 PM

COS 55-1

The diversity of small things: Trophic control and dispersal in Costa Rican bromeliad protists
Jana S. Petermann, Universität Salzburg; Pavel Kratina, Queen Mary University of London; Diane S. Srivastava, University of British Columbia

1:50 PM

COS 55-2

Plant community phylogenetic patterns suggest long-term niche conservatism and incumbency by early-diverging angiosperm lineages along a major diversity gradient in temperate deciduous forests
Jesse Bellemare, Smith College; Nicholas J. Horton, Smith College; Kathryn Aloisio, Smith College; Monica A. Geber, Cornell University

2:10 PM

COS 55-3

Plant community assembly from a trait-based perspective: Modeling stochastic and deterministic processes on Mount St. Helens
Cynthia Chang, University of Washington-Bothell; Jeremy Lichstein, University of Florida

2:30 PM

COS 55-4

Role of environmental, historical and spatial processes in the structure of Neotropical primate communities: Contrasting taxonomic and phylogenetic perspectives
Maria Mercedes Gavilanez, Louisiana State University; Richard D. Stevens, Louisiana State University

2:50 PM

COS 55-5

The role of speciation and introgression in local co-occurrence: Eucalyptus in the Grampians Ranges
Laura Pollock, School of Botany; Peter A. Vesk, The University of Melbourne; Michael Bayly, The University of Melbourne

3:10 PM

COS 55-

Break

3:20 PM

COS 55-6

Neutral vs. niche theory: which one can explain spider diversity within temperate forest canopies?
Samuel Yu-Lung Hsieh, Sun Yat-Sen University

3:40 PM

COS 55-7

A scientific framework for biodiversity research in the mixed coniferous-deciduous forests, North Asia
Hongfang Wang, State Key Laboratory of Earth Surface Processes and Resource Ecology & College of Life Sciences, Beijing Normal University; Tianming Wang, Beijing Normal University; Lei Bao, Beijing Normal University; Pu Mou, Beijing Normal University; Victoria L. Sork, University of California, Los Angeles; Jianguo Wu, Arizona State University; Jianping Ge, Beijing Normal University

4:00 PM

COS 55-8

Patterns of functional beta diversity reveal deterministic assembly processes in North American tree communities
Andrew C. Siefert, Syracuse University; Catherine Ravenscroft, Syracuse University; Michael D. Weiser, University of Oklahoma; Nathan Swenson, Michigan State University

4:20 PM

COS 55-9

Phylogenetic community structure of freshwater macroinvertebrates in the sub-arctic region of Churchill, MB
Elizabeth E. Boyle, University of Guelph; Sarah J. Adamowicz, University of Guelph

4:40 PM

COS 55-10

Faster tree speciation in wet versus dry habitats: Evidence from a rainfall gradient in the Panama Canal watershed
Anping Chen, Princeton University; Shaopeng Wang, Station d'Ecologie Expérimentale du CNRS à Moulis; Stephen W. Pacala, Princeton University

COS 55 - Community Assembly And Neutral Theory III