Monday, August 6, 2007: 1:30 PM-5:00 PM
J3, San Jose McEnery Convention Center
COS 3 - Community ecology: General theory and models
1:30 PMCOS 3-1Shade tolerance, gap dynamics, and coexistence of forest trees
Dominique Gravel, Université du Québec à Montréal, Charles D. Canham, Institute of Ecosystem Studies, Marilou Beaudet, Université du Québec à Montréal, Christian Messier, Université du Québec à Montréal
1:50 PMCOS 3-2When will environmental variation most influence species coexistence?
Robin E. Snyder, Case Western Reserve University
2:10 PMCOS 3-3Intra-specific variability and fecundity: Potential impact on competition interactions and species coexistence in plant communities
Benoit Courbaud, Cemagref, Georges Kunstler, Cemagref, Ghislain Vieilledent, Cemagref
2:30 PMCOS 3-4Changing vegetation and trend analysis
Jay Bai, MDSM Data Analysis Service LLC
2:50 PMCOS 3-5Ecological guilds can generate repeatable indicator values and realistic patterns of habitat partitioning: Insights from metacommunity simulations
Jason Pither, University of Arizona
3:10 PM Break
3:20 PMCOS 3-6Contrasts between habitat generalist and specialists: A challenge to metacommunity models
Shubha Pandit, McMaster University, Jurek Kolasa, McMaster University, Karl Cottenie, University of Guelph
3:40 PMCOS 3-7A flexible spatial modeling approach for the analysis of metacommunities
Pedro R. Peres-Neto, University of Quebec at Montreal
4:00 PMCOS 3-8Meta-community phylogenetics: Evolutionary ecology at regional and biogeographic scales
Mathew A. Leibold, University of Texas at Austin
4:20 PMCOS 3-9Threshold strength and diagonality: Quantitative measures of response pattern shape for modeling method evaluation and progress toward ecological understanding
Heather E. Lintz, Oregon State University, Andrew Gray, USDA Forest Service Pacific Northwest Research Station, Bruce McCune, Oregon State University

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