94th ESA Annual Meeting (August 2 -- 7, 2009)

Tuesday, August 4, 2009: 8:00 AM-11:30 AM

Grand Pavillion III, Hyatt

Presider:

Leslie Ries, University of Maryland

8:00 AM

COS 28-1

Use of shallow lakes by arctic grayling in summer: growth or refuge
Chris Luecke, Utah State University; Cody R. Johnson, Utah State University

8:20 AM

COS 28-2

Trade-offs between nutrient and predator effects in human-modified habitats
Clifton B. Ruehl, Columbus State University; Joel C. Trexler, Florida International University

8:40 AM

COS 28-3

A conceptual framework to study the effects of habitat structure on diversity of benthic assemblages
Miguel G. Matias, School of Biological Sciences - The University of Sydney; A.J. Underwood, School of Biological Sciences - The University of Sydney; R.A. Coleman, School of Biological Sciences - The University of Sydney; D.F. Hochuli, The University of Sydney

9:00 AM

COS 28-4

Emergent properties of fragmentation when edge effects are extrapolated over complex landscapes
Leslie Ries, University of Maryland; Thomas D. Sisk, Northern Arizona University

9:20 AM

COS 28-5

CANCELLED - Edge effects in modified habitats: Brood parasitism and predation on nests of the rufous-and-white wren in an agroforest landscape in Nicaragua
Melissa M. Mark, State University of New York Stony Brook

9:40 AM

COS 28-

Break

9:50 AM

COS 28-6

Landscape matrix mediates avian community stability in fragmented tropical forests in Jamaica
Christina M. Kennedy, The Nature Conservancy; Evan H. Campbell Grant, US Geological Survey; Maile C. Neel, University of Maryland; William F. Fagan, University of Maryland; Peter Marra, Smithsonian Conservation Biology Institute

10:10 AM

COS 28-7

Pollinator diversity and abundance in a fragmented oak-savannah ecosystem
Lisa A. Neame, Simon Fraser University; Elizabeth Elle, Simon Fraser University

10:30 AM

COS 28-8

The effect of forest fragmentation on biodiversity and species composition of forest regeneration in the Central Amazon
Elaine R. Hooper, Yale University; Douglas C. Daly, The New York Botanical Garden; Pierre Legendre, Université de Montréal; Mark S. Ashton, Yale University

10:50 AM

COS 28-9

Predicting the locations of breeding pools to assess landscape connectivity for a rare amphibian
William R. Fields, North Carolina State University; Matthew C. Simon, University of North Carolina

11:10 AM

COS 28-10

Community and ecosystem-level interactions within fragmented mussel beds
César O. Largaespada, McGill University; Frédéric Guichard, McGill University; Philippe Archambault, Université du Québec à Rimouski

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