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

Monday, August 6, 2007: 1:30 PM-5:00 PM

J3, San Jose McEnery Convention Center

1:30 PM

COS 3-1

Shade tolerance, gap dynamics, and coexistence of forest trees
Dominique Gravel, Université du Québec à Rimouski; Charles D. Canham, Cary Institute of Ecosystem Studies; Marilou Beaudet, Université du Québec à Montréal; Christian Messier, Université du Québec à Montréal

1:50 PM

COS 3-2

When will environmental variation most influence species coexistence?
Robin Snyder, Case Western Reserve University

2:10 PM

COS 3-3

Intra-specific variability and fecundity: Potential impact on competition interactions and species coexistence in plant communities
Benoit Courbaud, Cemagref - Grenoble; Georges Kunstler, Cemagref - Grenoble; Ghislain Vieilledent, Cemagref - Grenoble

2:30 PM

COS 3-4

Changing vegetation and trend analysis
Jay Bai, MDSM Data Analysis Service LLC

2:50 PM

COS 3-5

Ecological guilds can generate repeatable indicator values and realistic patterns of habitat partitioning: Insights from metacommunity simulations
Jason Pither, University of British Columbia, Okanagan Campus

3:10 PM

COS 3-

Break

3:20 PM

COS 3-6

Contrasts 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 PM

COS 3-7

A flexible spatial modeling approach for the analysis of metacommunities
Pedro R. Peres-Neto, University of Quebec at Montreal

4:00 PM

COS 3-8

Meta-community phylogenetics: Evolutionary ecology at regional and biogeographic scales
Mathew A. Leibold, University of Texas at Austin

4:20 PM

COS 3-9

Threshold strength and diagonality: Quantitative measures of response pattern shape for modeling method evaluation and progress toward ecological understanding
Heather E. Lintz, Oregon Climate Change Research Institute; Andrew Gray, USDA Forest Service Pacific Northwest Research Station; Bruce McCune, Oregon State University

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