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COS 38 - Species-area relationships and abundance and rarity

Tuesday, August 7, 2007: 8:00 AM-11:30 AM
Santa Clara II, San Jose Hilton
8:00 AM
COS 38-1
 Comparing theory to data: What, when, and how we explain the species-area relationship
Adam Smith, Missouri Botanical Garden; John Harte, University of California
8:20 AM
COS 38-2
 Does the similarity of the species-time and species-area relationships depend on the spatial dimension of the sample?
Daniel J. McGlinn, Utah State University; Michael W. Palmer, Oklahoma State University
8:40 AM
COS 38-3
 Predator-dependent species-area relationships
Wade A. Ryberg, Texas A&M University; Jonathan M. Chase, Biodiversity Synthesis Laboratory
9:00 AM
COS 38-4
 Why does habitat size affect predators more than prey? Tests of three mechanisms using bromeliad insects
Diane S. Srivastava, University of British Columbia; Barbara Richardson, Luquillo Experimental Forest LTER, Puerto Rico; M. Kurtis Trzcinski, Fisheries and Oceans Canada; Benjamin Gilbert, University of Toronto
9:20 AM
COS 38-5
 Soil properties influence plant species abundance and diversity in a California serpentine grassland
Cristina Castanha, Berkeley Lab; Adam Smith, Missouri Botanical Garden; Susan Carey, xxx
9:40 AM
COS 38-
 Break
9:50 AM
COS 38-6
 When rarity fuels species exploitation: Linking consumer demand, hunting effort, and population dynamics with a bioeconomic model
Richard J. Hall, University of Georgia; E. J. Milner-Gulland, Imperial College London; Franck Courchamp, Université Paris-Sud
10:10 AM
COS 38-7
 Taxonomic rarity along latitudinal gradients: The distribution of fossil organisms through space and time
Katherine V. Bulinski, University of Cincinnati; Devin P. Buick, University of Cincinnati; Chad A. Ferguson, University of Cincinnati; Austin J.W. Hendy, University of Cincinnati; Arnold I. Miller, University of Cincinnati
10:30 AM
COS 38-8
 Rare and common Dudleya species in the Santa Monica Mountains
Ann E. Dorsey, California State University, Northridge
10:50 AM
COS 38-9
 Ecological bases for the genetic structure of Dirca occidentalis, a winter-blooming shrub endemic near San Francisco
William R. Graves, Iowa State University; David Ackerly, University of California
11:10 AM
COS 38-10
 Effects of microhabitat on the distribution and abundance of a rare understory plant, Actaea elata
Rachel J. Mayberry, Simon Fraser University; Elizabeth Elle, Simon Fraser University
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