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

Tuesday, August 7, 2007: 8:00 AM-11:30 AM

J3, San Jose McEnery Convention Center

8:00 AM

COS 22-1

Species-area relationships from a spatially explicit neutral model in an infinite landscape
James Rosindell, Imperial College London; Stephen J. Cornell, University of Leeds

8:20 AM

COS 22-2

Effect of the spatial structure on relative species abundance distribution for neutral theory in ecology
Kazunori Sato, Shizuoka University; Tomoka Hasegawa, Shizuoka University

8:40 AM

COS 22-3

Neutral and niche-based processes driving species turnover at large spatial scales
Hélène Morlon, École Normale Supérieure; Jessica Bryant, University of Oregon; Brendan Bohannan, University of Oregon; Jessica Green, University of Oregon

9:00 AM

COS 22-4

Traits, habitats, and clades: Identifying traits involved in the environmental filtering of coexisting plant species
Margaret M. Mayfield, The University of Queensland; Maciej F. Boni, Resources for the Future; David Ackerly, University of California

9:20 AM

COS 22-5

Niche and neutral controls over the coexistence of serpentine annual plants
Jonathan M. Levine, ETH Zurich; Janneke Hille Ris Lambers, University of Washington

9:40 AM

COS 22-

Break

9:50 AM

COS 22-6

Leaf functional trait variation in New World tree communities across a latitudinal and diversity gradient: Implications for coexistence
Jeffrey Lake, Adrian College; Stephen P. Hubbell, UCLA

10:10 AM

COS 22-7

Functional trait distributions, phylogenetic structure, and the assembly of a Neotropical tree community in Amazonian Ecuador
Nathan Kraft, University of Maryland; David Ackerly, University of California; Renato Valencia, Pontificia Universidad Católica del Ecuador; Richard Condit, The field museum; Consuelo Hernandez, Pontificia Universidad Catolica del Ecuador; Gorky F. Villa M., Pontificia Universidad Catolica del Ecuador; Robin Foster, The Field Museum

10:30 AM

COS 22-8

Dispersal dynamics affect the distribution, but not the abundance, of tropical trees: A study of tropical tree communities in Amazonian Peru
Kyle G. Dexter, University of Edinburgh

10:50 AM

COS 22-9

What shapes tropical seedling community structure? Seed dispersal versus environmental conditions
C. E. Timothy Paine, University of Stirling; Kyle Harms, Louisiana State University

11:10 AM

COS 22-10

Dispersal, determinism, and the structure of a desert grassland grasshopper community
Andrew J. Rominger, University of California Berkeley; Thomas Miller, Rice University; Scott Collins

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