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

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

Almaden Blrm I, San Jose Hilton

8:00 AM

COS 31-1

What controls spatial niches? Testing theory with tarweeds
Howard V. Cornell, University of California, Davis; Susan P. Harrison, University of California, Davis

8:20 AM

COS 31-2

Disturbance response strategies open coexistence opportunities in fire-prone heathlands
Adam David Miller, The Pennsylvania State University; Peter Chesson, University of Arizona

8:40 AM

COS 31-3

Deterministic niche processes are responsible for the patchy distribution of the native annual Lupinus nanus in California grasslands
Kara A. Moore, University of California, Davis

9:00 AM

COS 31-4

How similar are coexisting species? Evidence from early spring herbaceous communities in logged and old growth Southern Appalachian cove forests
Julie L. Wyatt, Wake Forest University; Miles R. Silman, Wake Forest University

9:20 AM

COS 31-5

Testing for belowground resource partitioning in experimental grassland communities
Stefanie von Felten, ETH Zurich; Nina Buchmann, Institute of Agricultural Science, ETH Zurich; Andrew Hector, University of Zürich; Pascal Niklaus, University of Zurich; Bernhard Schmid, University of Zurich; Michael Scherer-Lorenzen, University of Freiburg

9:40 AM

COS 31-

Break

9:50 AM

COS 31-6

Coexistence of specialist and generalist plants in variable environments
Donald R. Schoolmaster Jr., U.S. Geological Survey

10:00 AM

COS 31-7

Competition, nitrogen partitioning, and plant coexistence
Isabel W. Ashton, National Park Service; Amy E. Miller, National Park Service; William D. Bowman, University of Colorado; Katharine N. Suding, University of California at Berkeley

10:20 AM

COS 31-8

Demographic variability, scale, and evaluation of niche theory
Jeffrey M. Diez, University of California, Riverside; H. Ronald Pulliam, University of Georgia

10:40 AM

COS 31-9

Modeling the effect of resource conversion efficiency on community invasibility and habitat specialization
William A. Mitchell, Indiana State University

11:00 AM

COS 31-10

Predictions and postdictions from the hierarchical representation of habitat
Jurek Kolasa, McMaster University; Craig R. Allen, University of Nebraska-Lincoln; Craig Stow, National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration; Jan Sendzimir, International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis

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