Tuesday, August 7, 2007: 8:00 AM-11:30 AM
J3, San Jose McEnery Convention Center
COS 22 - Community assembly and neutral theory
8:00 AMCOS 22-1Species-area relationships from a spatially explicit neutral model in an infinite landscape
James Rosindell, University of Leeds, Stephen J. Cornell, University of Leeds
8:20 AMCOS 22-2Effect of the spatial structure on relative species abundance distribution for neutral theory in ecology
Kazunori Sato, Shizuoka University, Tomoka Hasegawa, Shizuoka University
8:40 AMCOS 22-3Neutral and niche-based processes driving species turnover at large spatial scales
Hélène Morlon, University of California, Merced, Jessica Bryant, University of California, Merced, Brendan Bohannan, University of Oregon, Jessica Green, University of California, Merced
9:00 AMCOS 22-4Traits, habitats, and clades: Identifying traits involved in the environmental filtering of coexisting plant species
Margaret M. Mayfield, University of Queensland, Maciej F. Boni, Resources for the Future, David D. Ackerly, University of California, Berkeley
9:20 AMCOS 22-5Niche and neutral controls over the coexistence of serpentine annual plants
Jonathan M. Levine, UC Santa Barbara, Janneke Hille Ris Lambers, University of Washington
9:40 AM Break
9:50 AMCOS 22-6Leaf functional trait variation in New World tree communities across a latitudinal and diversity gradient: Implications for coexistence
Jeffrey K. Lake, University of Georgia, Stephen P. Hubbell, University of Georgia
10:10 AMCOS 22-7Functional trait distributions, phylogenetic structure, and the assembly of a Neotropical tree community in Amazonian Ecuador
Nathan Jared Boardman Kraft, University of California, Berkeley, David D. Ackerly, University of California, Berkeley, Renato Valencia, Pontificia Universidad Catolica del Ecuador, Richard Condit, Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute, Consuelo Hernandez, Pontificia Universidad Catolica del Ecuador, Gorky F. Villa M., Pontificia Universidad Catolica del Ecuador, Robin Foster, The Field Museum
10:30 AMCOS 22-8Dispersal dynamics affect the distribution, but not the abundance, of tropical trees: A study of tropical tree communities in Amazonian Peru
Kyle G. Dexter, Duke University
10:50 AMCOS 22-9What shapes tropical seedling community structure? Seed dispersal versus environmental conditions
C. E. Timothy Paine, Louisiana State University, Kyle E. Harms, Louisiana State University
11:10 AMCOS 22-10Dispersal, determinism, and the structure of a desert grassland grasshopper community
Andrew J. Rominger, Stanford University, Tom E. X. Miller, University of Nebraska, Lincoln, Scott Collins, University of New Mexico

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