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

COS 63 - Community pattern: Environmental gradients and spatial variation

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

J4, San Jose McEnery Convention Center

8:00 AM

COS 63-1

Spatial scales of variability in temperate reef communities across a gradient of upwelling intensity
Rebecca G. Martone, Stanford University; Alison J. Haupt, Stanford University; Fiorenza Micheli, Stanford University

8:20 AM

COS 63-2

Community richness, diversity, and evenness across rocky intertidal environmental stress gradients in Atlantic Canada
Ricardo A. Scrosati, St. Francis Xavier University; Christine S. Heaven, Saint Francis Xavier University

8:40 AM

COS 63-3

Does geology matter? The relative importance of substrates and their properties to rocky intertidal communities
Elizabeth A. Perotti, University of California, Berkeley; David R. Lindberg, University of California, Berkeley

9:00 AM

COS 63-4

Fish life-history traits predict patterns of occurrence and assemblage composition in prairie streams
David J. Hoeinghaus, University of North Texas; Keith B. Gido, Kansas State University; Walter K. Dodds, Kansas State University

9:20 AM

COS 63-5

Resource distribution drives arthropod community responses to habitat edges
Gina Marie Wimp, Georgetown University; Shannon M. Murphy, University of Denver; Robert F. Denno, University of Maryland

9:40 AM

COS 63-

Break

9:50 AM

COS 63-6

Waterbird use of water hyacinth in Lake Chapala, Mexico: Implications for invasive weed management
Amy M. Villamagna, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University; Brian R. Murphy, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University

10:10 AM

COS 63-7

Removal of woody encroachment restores biophysical gradients in Midwestern oak savannas
Lars Brudvig, Michigan State University; Heidi Asbjornsen, University of New Hampshire

10:30 AM

COS 63-8

Scale-dependent relationships among forest structure, resource levels, and spatial patterning of understory plant diversity: Implications for forest restoration
Julia I. Burton, Oregon State University; David J. Mladenoff, University of Wisconsin - Madison

10:50 AM

COS 63-9

Soil depth affects on plant species richness and community composition in restored tallgrass prairie in central Iowa, USA
Mathew E. Dornbush, University of Wisconsin-Green Bay; Brian J. Wilsey, Iowa State University

11:10 AM

COS 63-10

Spatial heterogeneity of understory light: Linking canopy structure to diversity in three temperate plant communities
Steven T. Brantley, Virginia Commonwealth University; Donald R. Young, Alaska Department of Fish and Game

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