Tuesday, August 4, 2009: 8:00 AM-11:30 AM
Picuris, Albuquerque Convention Center
COS 22 - Community Pattern and Dynamics: Spatial Patterns
8:00 AMCOS 22-1Role of regional and local factors in population dynamics of rock pools metacommunity along the gradient of species habitat specialization
Shubha Pandit, McMaster University, Jurek Kolasa, McMaster University, Karl Cottenie, University of Guelph
8:20 AMCOS 22-2Climate, disturbance, and seed arrival interact to assemble high-diversity pine savanna groundcover communities
Jonathan A. Myers, Louisiana State University, Kyle E. Harms, Louisiana State University
8:40 AMCOS 22-3Distribution of over-wintering ground beetles in an agricultural landscape and testing for similarity in species response to environmental gradients
Michael C. Russell, Oregon State University
9:00 AMCOS 22-4Interactions between disturbance and dispersal mediate coexistence in a rock pool metacommunity
Bram Vanschoenwinkel, Laboratory of Aquatic Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, Luc Brendonck, Laboratory of Aquatic Ecology and Evolutionary Biology
9:20 AMCOS 22-5Turnover and predictability of flower communities across two deserts and two mountains
Karen R. Wetherill, University of New Mexico, David W. Inouye, University of Maryland, C. David Bertelsen, University of Arizona, Theresa M. Crimmins, USA National Phenology Network, Jessica Forrest, University of Toronto
9:40 AM Break
9:50 AMCOS 22-6The contingencies of ecosystem engineering: Impacts of host plant species and leaf-tying caterpillar species
H. George Wang, University of Missouri - St. Louis, Robert J. Marquis, University of Missouri - St. Louis, Richard A. Lankau, University of Illinois, Christina Baer, University of Missouri - St. Louis
10:10 AMCOS 22-7Post disturbance tree establishment in mature Douglas-fir forests in Washington and Oregon
James A. Freund, University of Washington, Jerry F. Franklin, University of Washington
10:30 AMCOS 22-8Long term structural dynamics of mature Puerto Rican dry forest
Skip J. Van Bloem, University of Puerto Rico at Mayagüez, Ariel Lugo, USDA Forest Service, Peter G. Murphy, Michigan State University
10:50 AMCOS 22-9Local and large-scale species richness relationships in managed longleaf pine savannas
Lars A. Brudvig, Washington University, Ellen I. Damschen, Washington University
11:10 AMCOS 22-10Compositional consistency of alluvial vegetation types across spatial scales
Elizabeth R. Matthews, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, Robert K. Peet, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, Alan S. Weakley, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, Thomas R. Wentworth, North Carolina State University

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