ESA/SER Joint Meeting (August 5 -- August 10, 2007)

COS 62 - Community and metacommunity dynamics

Wednesday, August 8, 2007: 8:00 AM-11:30 AM

J3, San Jose McEnery Convention Center

8:00 AM

COS 62-1

The effects of ecosystem engineers on plant diversity and dynamics at multiple spatial scales
Rebecca A. Bartel, University of Georgia; Nick M. Haddad, North Carolina State University

8:20 AM

COS 62-2

Bottom-up forces affecting arthropod community diversity through space and time
Adrian C. Stone, Northern Arizona University; Brandon Scott, University of Maryland; Thomas Whitham, Northern Arizona University

8:40 AM

COS 62-3

Vegetative context and spatial arrangement independently explain turnover in caterpillar assemblages sharing a riparian host plant in central Maryland
Eric M. Lind, University of Minnesota

9:00 AM

COS 62-4

Bird 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 AM

COS 62-5

Community 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

COS 62-

Break

9:50 AM

COS 62-6

Assembly history matters for metacommunity
Zhichao Pu, Georgia Institute of Technology; Lin Jiang, Georgia Institute of Technology

10:10 AM

COS 62-7

Physical ecosystem engineering influences temporal variability in community structure
Katie K. Arkema, Stanford University

10:30 AM

COS 62-8

Using traits to predict benthic macroinvertebrate community assembly processes at multiple scales
Eric R. Sokol, Virginia Tech; E. F. Benfield, Virginia Tech

10:50 AM

COS 62-9

Macroinvertebrate communities in ephemeral ponds: Effects of competition, landscape, and hydroperiod on species diversity
Edmund M. Hart, University of British Columbia

11:10 AM

COS 62-10

Understanding 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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