COS 39
Community Pattern And Dynamics I

Tuesday, August 6, 2013: 1:30 PM-5:00 PM
L100C, Minneapolis Convention Center
1:30 PM
 Context-dependent effects of sedimentation on top-down and bottom-up control of tropical algae
Rachel J. Clausing, UCLA; Sarah Joy Bittick, UCLA; Caitlin Fong, University of California Santa Barbara; Peggy Fong, UCLA
1:50 PM
 Influence of soil disturbance, seed pressure, aridity, and burn history on community structure of winter annuals in North American deserts
Marjolein Schat, Rutgers University; Jennifer L. Schafer, North Carolina State University; Erika L. Mudrak, Iowa State University; Hadas A. Parag, Rutgers University; Kirk A. Moloney, Iowa State University; Claus Holzapfel, Rutgers University
2:10 PM
2:30 PM
 A comparison of functional trait distributions among riparian floodplain landforms
Molly Van Appledorn, University of Maryland Baltimore County; Matthew E. Baker, University of Maryland Baltimore County
2:50 PM
3:10 PM
3:20 PM
 Assessing the importance of arthropod abundance, community composition, and habitat structure as determinants of habitat quality for Cactus Wren (Campylorhynchus brunneicapillus
Riley T. Pratt, University of California, Irvine; Kathleen Treseder, University of California Irvine; Jutta C. Burger, Irvine Ranch Conservancy; Kristine Preston, US Geological Survey; Kailen A. Mooney, University of California, Irvine
3:40 PM
 Effects of hemlock logging on forest properties in hemlock-dominated stands free of hemlock woolly adelgid
Erika F. Latty, Unity College; Amy Arnett, Unity College; Alysa J. Remsburg, Unity College; Kathleen Dunckel, Unity College
4:00 PM
 Environmental factors are more effective at explaining differences in tropical fungal endophyte communities than distance
Naupaka Zimmerman, University of Arizona; Peter M. Vitousek, Stanford University
4:20 PM
 Positive, negative, or neutral effects of individual variation on coexistence?
Simon P. Hart, ETH Zurich; Jonathan M. Levine, ETH Zurich
4:40 PM
 Temporal and spatial variation of exotic earthworm communities established across a north temperate forest undergoing secondary succession
Jasmine Crumsey, University of Michigan; James LeMoine, University of Michigan; Christoph S. Vogel, University of Michigan; Knute J. Nadelhoffer, University of Michigan