Wednesday, August 8, 2007: 8:00 AM-11:30 AM
J3, San Jose McEnery Convention Center
COS 62 - Community and metacommunity dynamics
8:00 AMCOS 62-1The effects of ecosystem engineers on plant diversity and dynamics at multiple spatial scales
Rebecca A. Bartel, North Carolina State University, Nick M. Haddad, North Carolina State University
8:20 AMCOS 62-2Bottom-up forces affecting arthropod community diversity through space and time
Adrian C. Stone, Northern Arizona University, Brandon Scott, Northern Arizona University, Thomas Whitham, Northern Arizona University
8:40 AMCOS 62-3Vegetative context and spatial arrangement independently explain turnover in caterpillar assemblages sharing a riparian host plant in central Maryland
Eric M. Lind, University of Maryland
9:00 AMCOS 62-4Bird metacommunities in the temperate forests of South America: Direct and indirect effects of vegetation structure, area and climate
Christine N. Meynard, Universidad Austral de Chile
9:20 AMCOS 62-5Community assembly in the presence of disturbance: A microcosm experiment
Lin Jiang, Georgia Institute of Technology, Shivani N. Patel, Georgia Institute of Technology
9:40 AM Break
9:50 AMCOS 62-6Assembly history matters for metacommunity
Zhichao Pu, Georgia Institute of Technology, Lin Jiang, Georgia Institute of Technology
10:10 AMCOS 62-7Physical ecosystem engineering influences temporal variability in community structure
Katie K. Arkema, University of California, Santa Barbara
10:30 AMCOS 62-8Using traits to predict benthic macroinvertebrate community assembly processes at multiple scales
Eric R. Sokol, Virginia Tech, E. F. Benfield, Virginia Tech
10:50 AMCOS 62-9Macroinvertebrate communities in ephemeral ponds: Effects of competition, landscape, and hydroperiod on species diversity
Edmund M. Hart, University of Vermont
11:10 AMCOS 62-10Understanding the effects of seasonal macroalgal blooms on the seagrass community: Implications for habitat structure and fish foraging
Suzanne V. Olyarnik, University of California - Davis, John J. Stachowicz, University of California, Davis

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