Friday, August 8, 2008: 8:30 AM-10:30 AM
Exhibit Hall CD, Midwest Airlines Center
PS 74 - Latebreaking: Community Ecology
Fifty years of vegetation change in a desert grassland in Big Bend, Texas: Will shrubs take over?
Esteban H. Muldavin, University of New Mexico, Steven M. Wondzell, Pacific Northwest Research Station, John A. Ludwig, CSIRO
Non-native mule deer drive post-fire resprout failure of chaparral vegetation on Santa Catalina Island
Aaron R. Ramirez, California State University Bakersfield
Evidence for compensatory dynamics: Negative species covariances predominate in early and mid-successional old-fields, among but not within plant functional groups
Emily Grman, Kellogg Biological Station, Michigan State University, Jennifer A. Lau, Michigan State University, Donald R. Schoolmaster Jr., Michigan State Univesity, Katherine L. Gross, Michigan State University
Convex hulls illustrate habitat filtration in the forests of French Guiana
C. E. Timothy Paine, UMR EcoFoG, Chris Baraloto, UMR EcoFoG, Jerome Chave, Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique
Distribution of leaf shape variability in a tropical forest
Andrea J. Maguire, University of Michigan, Jeffrey K Lake, University of Michigan, Annette M Ostling, University of Michigan, David G. Campbell, Grinnell College
The effects of fire, ephemeral, and intermittent streams on Gambel's oak distribution and abundance in a semi-arid ponderosa pine forest
Darin J. Law, USDA Forest Service, Deborah M. Finch, USDA Forest Service
Interactive effects of changes in atmospheric CO2, temperature and precipitation on microarthropod communities in an old field ecosystem
William Nicholas Reynolds, University of Tennessee, Aimée T. Classen, Oak Ridge National Laboratory
Ecological gradients versus ecological drift in phytoplankton community dynamics
Beth Davis Bowles, Missouri State University, Edward C. Theriot, University of Texas at Austin
Distribution, population dynamics, and functional role of Habrotrocha rosa in Sarracenia purpurea pitcher metacommunities
D. Liane Cochran-Stafira, Saint Xavier University
Community reassembly potential following proposed thinning in a mixed conifer forest: Lessons from the seedbank
Gabrielle Snider, Oregon State University, Becky Kerns, Western Wildlands Environmental Threat Assessment Center, USFS, Michelle Buonopane, Pacific Northwest Research Station, USFS

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