COS 34 - Community Pattern And Dynamics II

Tuesday, August 7, 2012: 8:00 AM-11:30 AM
D137, Oregon Convention Center
8:20 AM
 Using aquatic plants to understand community regime shifts
Michael J. McCann, Stony Brook University
8:40 AM
 The consequences of variation among individuals for species coexistence
Simon P. Hart, ETH Zurich; Jonathan M. Levine, ETH Zurich
9:20 AM
 Local and regional constraints on diversity of an experimental urban metacommunity
Katherine Brundrett, University of Maryland, Baltimore County; Christopher M. Swan, University of Maryland, Baltimore County
9:40 AM
9:50 AM
 Avian community assembly processes during primary succession
Elise A. Larsen, University of Maryland; Charlie Crisafulli, US Forest Service; William F. Fagan, University of Maryland
10:10 AM
 Spatial patterns in juvenile steelhead (Oncorhynchus mykiss) resource use, top-down control, and the importance of terrestrial subsidies in river networks
Wendy J. Palen, Simon Fraser University; William I. Atlas, Simon Fraser University; Jacques C. Finlay, University of Minnesota; Brice X. Semmens, UC San Diego; Camille McNeely, Eastern Washington University; Michael P. Limm, University of California, Berkeley; Mary E. Power, University of California Berkeley
10:30 AM
 Bottom-up and direct effects of water availability on an urban food web
Kevin E. McCluney, Bowling Green State University; Christofer Bang, Arizona State University; John L. Sabo, Arizona State University; Stanley H. Faeth, University of North Carolina Greensboro
10:50 AM
 Spatial and temporal understory species turnover in a California foothill oak woodland
Erica N. Spotswood, UC Berkeley; James W. Bartolome, University of California at Berkeley; Barbara Allen-Diaz, University of California
11:10 AM
 Habitat partitioning of epiphytes within tropical tree canopies
Carrie L. Woods, Clemson University; Saara J. DeWalt, Clemson University