93rd ESA Annual Meeting (August 3 -- August 8, 2008)

Thursday, August 7, 2008: 8:00 AM-11:30 AM

103 DE, Midwest Airlines Center

8:00 AM

COS 81-1

Competition and recruitment limitation in high-diversity pine savanna: Mechanistic effects of dominant species
Jonathan A. Myers, Washington University in St. Louis; Kyle Harms, Louisiana State University

8:20 AM

COS 81-2

Fine-scale environmental heterogeneity promotes coexistence without niche specialization
Sarah M. Pinto, Universtiy of Montana; Andrew S. MacDougall, University of Guelph

8:40 AM

COS 81-3

Trait-based community ecology of phytoplankton
Elena Litchman, Michigan State University; Christopher A. Klausmeier, Michigan State University

9:00 AM

COS 81-4

Plant genetic variation determines metacommunity structure of gall inquiline communities
Gregory M. Crutsinger, University of British Columbia; Marc Cadotte, University of Toronto - Scarborough; Nathan J. Sanders, The University of Copenhagen

9:20 AM

COS 81-5

Phylogenetic patterns in community composition: Estimating the effects of species traits, environmental characteristics, and species interactions
Anthony R. Ives, University of Wisconsin-Madison; Mathew R. Helmus, University of Wisconsin - Madison

9:40 AM

COS 81-

Break

9:50 AM

COS 81-6

Community inferences from single-species data
Karen C. Abbott, Case Western Reserve University; Jorgen Ripa, Lund University; Anthony R. Ives, University of Wisconsin-Madison

10:10 AM

COS 81-7

Ant-hemipteran mutualism and the persistence and spatial distribution of a predatory ladybeetle in a coffee agroecosystem
Heidi Liere, University of Wisconsin - Madison; John Vandermeer, University of Michigan; Ivette Perfecto, University of Michigan

10:30 AM

COS 81-8

Regional, landscape, and local scale factors influencing the community assemblage of diadromous fauna in tropical island river networks
Catherine Hein, Umeå University; Todd A. Crowl, Florida International University

10:50 AM

COS 81-9

Bottom-up regulation of top-down effects: Host plant structure mediates arthropod community composition along a habitat edge
Gina Marie Wimp, Georgetown University; Shannon M. Murphy, University of Denver; Robert F. Denno, University of Maryland

11:10 AM

COS 81-10

Trophic omnivory and the structure, strength, and non-linear nature of species interactions across a productivity gradient
Mark Novak, Oregon State University

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