Tuesday, August 5, 2008: 1:30 PM-5:00 PM
103 DE, Midwest Airlines Center
COS 36 - Community Ecology: Experiments and Disturbance
1:30 PMCOS 36-1Catastrophic mortality of experimental plantings in an extended tropical dry season
Cristina Martinez-Garza, Universidad Autonoma del Estado de Morelos, Wolke Tobon, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, Julio Campo, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, Henry F. Howe, University of Illinois-Chicago
1:50 PMCOS 36-2Influence of fallen coarse woody debris on spiders inhabiting the leaf litter of a deciduous forest
Alberto Castro, Sociedad de Ciencias Aranzadi, David H. Wise, University of Illinois at Chicago
2:10 PMCOS 36-3Vegetative assemblage distribution and long-term guild trajectories in a metal contaminated brownfield
Frank Gallagher, Rutgers University, Ildiko Pechmann, Rutgers University, Alexander Marti, Rutgers University, Claus Holzapfel, Rutgers University
2:30 PMCOS 36-4Decoupling of herbaceous layer composition from the abiotic environment after long-term recovery from large-scale disturbance
Julie L. Wyatt, Wake Forest University, Miles R. Silman, Wake Forest University
2:50 PMCOS 36-5An experimental test of source-sink dynamics in a multitrophic metacommunity
Sarah C. Lee, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Zachary T. Long, McGill University, Jennifer Adams Krumins, University of Pennsylvania, Peter J. Morin, Rutgers University
3:10 PM Break
3:20 PMCOS 36-6Changes in natural enemy assemblages across an urban to rural landscape gradient
Ashley B. Bennett, University of Wisconsin, Claudio Gratton, University of Wisconsin
3:40 PMCOS 36-7An experimental examination of the strength of interspecific interactions in small mammal communities in forests of the Northeast
Jesse Brunner, SUNY College of Environmental Science and Forestry, Richard S. Ostfeld, Institute of Ecosystem Studies
4:00 PMCOS 36-8Community and ecosystem dynamics: Insights gained by comparing natural ponds, pond mesocosms, and pond enclosures
Amy L. Downing, Ohio Wesleyan University, Lauren M. Woods, Washington University, Adrienne E. Mock, Ohio Wesleyan University, Mathew A. Leibold, University of Texas at Austin
4:20 PMCOS 36-9Predator effects on aquatic community assembly: Disentangling the role of habitat selection and post-colonization processes
Johanna M. Kraus, Virginia Commonwealth University, James R. Vonesh, Virginia Commonwealth University, Shoshana Rosenberg, Washington University in Saint Louis, Jonathan M. Chase, Washington University in St. Louis

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