Wednesday, August 8, 2007: 1:30 PM-5:00 PM
Willow Glen I, San Jose Marriott
COS 82 - Community ecology: Environmental drivers plant community pattern
1:30 PMCOS 82-1Changes in species cover due to interannual variation in temperature and precipitation in a tallgrass prairie experiment
Rebecca A. Sherry, University of Oklahoma, Linda L. Wallace, University of Oklahoma, Yiqi Luo, University of Oklahoma, Jay Arnone, Desert Research Institute,, David S. Schimel, National Ecological Observatory Network
1:50 PMCOS 82-2Amount or pattern? Grassland responses to the heterogeneity and availability of two key resources
Fernando T. Maestre, Universidad Rey Juan Carlos, James F. Reynolds, Duke University
2:10 PMCOS 82-3Evaluating seed and microsite limitation to the establishment of a native forb in a non-native pasture grass
Anne L. Frances, University of Florida/ IFAS, Carrie Reinhardt Adams, University of Florida/ IFAS, Jeffrey G. Norcini, University of Florida/ IFAS
2:30 PMCOS 82-4Microtopography and centimeter-scale patterns of plant community structure in fens of the New Jersey Pine Barrens
Matthew I. Palmer, Rutgers University, Joan Ehrenfeld, Rutgers University
2:50 PMCOS 82-5Response of arid shrubland to nitrogen and potassium additions over 9 years at Tierberg Karoo LTER, South Africa
Suzanne J. Milton, University of Stellenbosch, W. Richard J. Dean, University of Cape Town
3:10 PM Break
3:20 PMCOS 82-6Effects of altered flows in the Congaree River on the floodplain forests of the Congaree National Park, SC
Peter R. Minchin, Southern Illinois University Edwardsville, Rebecca R. Sharitz, University of Georgia
3:40 PMCOS 82-7Spatial variation in solar irradiance and the recruitment of rainforest trees at Khao Yai National Park, Thailand
David B. Greenberg, University of California, Warren Y. Brockelman, BIOTEC Central Research Unit, Anuttara Natalang, BIOTEC Central Research Unit
4:00 PMCOS 82-8Seedling habitat associations and the maintenance of diversity in Amazonian Ecuador
Margaret R. Metz, University of California, Berkeley
4:20 PMCOS 82-9Soil-based habitat associations in understory palms
Kelly M. Andersen, University of Illinois-Champaign/Urbana, James W. Dalling, University of Illinois-Champaign/Urbana

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