Monday, August 3, 2009: 1:30 PM-5:00 PM
Pecos, Albuquerque Convention Center
COS 2 - Biodiversity: Landscape Structure and Environmental Gradients
1:30 PMCOS 2-1Revisiting Rapoport’s rule and its relationship to the latitudinal diversity gradient in tree species
Xavier Morin, CNRS, Martin J. Lechowicz, McGill University
1:50 PMCOS 2-2Environment and the local-regional richness relationships in terrestrial vertebrates
Jonathan Belmaker, University of California, Walter Jetz, University of California
2:10 PMCOS 2-3Regional and local drivers of ant community structure
Jean-Philippe Lessard, University of Tennessee, Nathan J. Sanders, University of Tennessee
2:30 PMCOS 2-4Everything is possible! How to measure land-use effects on arthropod diversity and ecosystem functions?
Martin M. Goßner, Institute of Ecology, Friedrich-Schiller-University, Esther Kowalski, Institute of Ecology, Friedrich-Schiller-University, Markus Lange, Institute of Ecology, Friedrich-Schiller-University, Manfred Türke, Institute of Ecology, Friedrich-Schiller-University, Wolfgang W. Weisser, Institute of Ecology, Friedrich-Schiller-University
2:50 PMCOS 2-5Studies on biodiversity and abundance of fishes in floodplain of Bangladesh
Bidhan C. Patra, Vidyasagar University
3:10 PM Break
3:20 PMCOS 2-6Hotspots: Density and species richness for cetaceans in the oceanic eastern tropical Pacific
Lisa T. Ballance, Southwest Fisheries Science Center, Jessica Redfern, Southwest Fisheries Science Center, Robert L. Pitman, Southwest Fisheries Science Center, Tim Gerrodette, Southwest Fisheries Science Center
3:40 PMCOS 2-7Connectivity, regional heterogeneity, and their effects on biodiversity of artificial pond metacommunities
Michael T. Pedruski, McGill University, Shelley A. Arnott, Queen's University
4:00 PMCOS 2-8The value of indigenous forest reserves to biodiversity conservation
Janice L. Bossart, Southeastern Louisiana University
4:20 PMCOS 2-9CANCELLED - Promotion of biodiversity in logged landscapes with experimental canopy gaps
Paul Alaback, University of Montana, Michael Ausman, USDA Forest Service, Tongass National Forest
4:40 PMCOS 2-10Patterns of species diversity in relation to site productivity and management
Andrew Gray, USDA Forest Service Pacific Northwest Research Station

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