Monday, August 3, 2009: 1:30 PM-5:00 PM
Grand Pavillion III, Hyatt
COS 12 - Niche Relationships and Theory
1:30 PMCOS 12-1The importance of niches for the maintenance of species diversity
Jonathan Levine, University of California, Santa Barbara, Janneke HilleRisLambers, University of Washington
1:50 PMCOS 12-2Niche saturation defines resource-use breadth and overlap
Tobin D. Northfield, Washington State University, Gretchen B Snyder, Washington State University, William E Snyder, Washington State University
2:10 PMCOS 12-3Niche partitioning increases resource exploitation by diverse communities
William E. Snyder, Washington State University, Deborah Finke, Washington State University
2:30 PMCOS 12-4CANCELLED - Niche construction from an eco-evolutionary standpoint
Grigoris Kylafis, McGill University, Michel Loreau, McGill University
2:50 PMCOS 12-5Ecological consequences of niche evolution in willows (Salix) in southeastern Minnesota
J.A. Savage, University of Minnesota, J.M. Cavender-Bares, University of Minnesota
3:10 PM Break
3:20 PMCOS 12-6The scale of resource patchiness and resource use modulates the competitive interaction between clonal and non-clonal plants; model predictions; and experimental results
Donald Schoolmaster, Michigan State University, Katherine L. Gross, Michigan State University, Gary G. Mittelbach, Michigan State University
3:40 PMCOS 12-7Trait-based community assembly in northeast Pacific rockfish
Travis Ingram, University of British Columbia, Jonathan B. Shurin, University of British Columbia
4:00 PMCOS 12-8Ecological divergence among three cytotypes of Solidago altissima L
Matthew L. Richardson, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
4:20 PMCOS 12-9Shifting Competitive Hierarchy? Implications for Restoration of the American chestnut, Castanea dentata
Heather P. Griscom, James Madison University, Beth Napoda, James Madison University
4:40 PMCOS 12-10Terrestrial ecologists ignore aquatic ecological literature: A major impediment to cross-fertilization of ideas in ecology
Bruce A. Menge, Oregon State University, Francis Chan, Oregon State University, Sarah Dudas, Oregon State University, Dafne Eerkes-Medrano, Oregon State University, Kirsten Grorud-Colvert, Oregon State University, Kimberley Heiman, Oregon State University, Margot Hessing-Lewis, Oregon State University, Alison Iles, Oregon State University, Ruth Milston-Clements, Oregon State University, Mae Noble, Oregon State University, Kimberly Page-Albins, Oregon State University, Erin Richmond, Oregon State University, Gil Rilov, Oregon State University, Jeremy Rose, Oregon State University, Joe Tyburczy, Oregon State University, Luis Vinueza, Oregon State University, Phoebe Zarnetske, Oregon State University

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