PS 64 - Community Pattern and Dynamics

Thursday, August 6, 2009: 5:00 PM-6:30 PM
Exhibit Hall NE & SE, Albuquerque Convention Center
 Incorporation of density dependence and spatial configuration in modeling woody plant encroachment in a semiarid savanna
Ana V. González, University of Texas at Austin; Norma L. Fowler, University of Texas at Austin; Norma L. Fowler, University of Texas at Austin
 Microbial community composition along an estuarine salinity gradient
Kathryn Samantha Nichols, Bowdoin College; John Lichter, Bowdoin College; Keirnan Willett, Bowdoin College; Bruce Kohorn, Bowdoin College
 Effects of different vegetation cover types on sediment deposition in the tidal freshwater marsh Tivoli North Bay, Hudson River, New York
Elizabeth Loaiza, University of Costa Rica; Stuart E.G. Findlay, Cary Institute of Ecosystem Studies
 Phylogenetic scale of soil resource partitioning in tropical trees
Claire A. Baldeck, Carnegie Institution for Science; James W. Dalling, University of Illinois
 Liana impacts on tree growth in an early successional temperate forest system
Laura M. Ladwig, University of Wisconsin - Madison; Scott J. Meiners, Eastern Illinois University
 Bog vegetation from oceanic to continental climate zone
Anna M. Laine, University of Oulu; Edgar Karofeld, University of Tartu; Jari Oksanen, University of Oulu; Pirita O. Oksanen, University of Bristol; Ülle Sillasoo, Tallinn University; Minna Väliranta, University of Helsinki; Eeva-Stiina Tuittila, University of Helsinki
 Plant community dynamics and evidence for non-linear succession in Bergen Swamp, a rich mineotrophic mire (NY, USA)
Aaron M. Hall, Defenders of Wildlife; Paul A. Shipman, Rochester Institute of Technology; Elizabeth N. Hane, Rochester Institute of Technology
 Biotic and abiotic factors related to the spatial distribution of the endangered cacti Ariocarpus kotschoubeyanus
Axini Sánchez-Gregorio, Universidad Autónoma de Querétaro; Humberto Suzán-Azpiri, Universidad Autónoma de Querétaro
 Succession of dipterans in container communities:  Is the IFC hypothesis supported in an animal community?
Ebony Murrell, University of Wisconsin-Madison; Steven A. Juliano, Illinois State University
 Location, location, (local) location: A quantification of microhabitat requirements for eight Florida Scrub herbs
Timothy J. Miller, NOAA NMFS Northeast Fisheries Science Center; Eric S. Menges, Archbold Biological Station
 David and Goliath: ant symbionts force demographic trade-offs in host trees and buffer against megaherbivore-driven landscape change in an African savanna
Jacob R. Goheen, University of Wyoming; Todd M. Palmer, University of Florida; Janet E. Maclean, University of British Columbia
 Ground-dwelling arthropods and environmental factors in two semi-arid habitats: Data from 1992-2004
Sandra Brantley, University of New Mexico; Amaris L. Swann, University of New Mexico, Sevilleta LTER; David C. Lightfoot, University of New Mexico; Julieta Bettinelli, University of New Mexico
 A decade of change in a 4 ha Crosstimbers stand in Oklahoma
Kelly A. DeRennaux, Oklahoma State University; José Ramón Arévalo, Universidad de La Laguna; Daniel J. McGlinn, Utah State University; Matthew S. Allen, Oklahoma State University; Michael W. Palmer, Oklahoma State University
 Structure and dynamics of a tropical forest along a rainfall gradient in Mudumalai, southern India
Handanakere. S. Dattaraja, Indian Institute os Science; Suresh H.S, Indian Institute os Science; Raman Sukumar, Indian Institute of Science
 The assembly pattern of ephemeral plant communities in semiarid coastal Chile: Interactive effects of shrubs, herbivores, and precipitation
Jaime Madrigal, Instituto de Ecologia y Biodiversidad; Peter L. Meserve, University of Idaho; Douglas A. Kelt, University of California; Francisco A. Squeo, Universidad de La Serena; Julio R. Gutierrez, Instituto de Ecología y Biodiversidad, Universidad de La Serena
 Does livestock grazing promote woody plant encroachment in drylands?
Katharine Predick, University of Arizona; Steve Archer, University of Arizona
 Seeds banks of desert annuals in an aridity gradient in the southern Atacama Desert
Diego A. Sotomayor, York University; Julio R. Gutiérrez, Universidad de La Serena
 The History of Vegetation Ecology in The American Midland Naturalist
Scott B. Franklin, University of Northern Colorado; James E. Moore, Christian Brothers University
 Quantifying the complex ecological role of the invasive thistle Carduus acanthoides
Laura A. Russo, Cornell University; Katriona Shea, The Pennsylvania State University; Suann Yang, Presbyterian College
 The effects of habitat loss from woody plant encroachment on plant species richness across spatial and temporal scales
Karen M. Alofs, University of Toronto; Norma L. Fowler, University of Texas at Austin
 Fifty years of woodland dynamics, Chisos Mountains, Big Bend National Park, Texas
Steven M. Wondzell, US Forest Service; Esteban H. Muldavin, Natural Heritage New Mexico; John A. Ludwig, CSIRO Ecosystems Science
 Multimodality in avian size distributions across spatial scales
Katherine M. Thibault, National Ecological Observatory Network (NEON); Ethan P. White, University of Florida; S. K. Morgan Ernest, Utah State University; Allen H. Hurlbert, University of North Carolina
 Density dependent mortality and changes in species diversity among germinating seeds and first-year seedlings during and following general flowering events in a lowland dipterocarp forest
Yuyun Chen, Tsinghua University; I-Fang Sun, National Dong Hwa University; S. Joseph Wright, Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute; Nur Supardi Md. Noor, Forest Research Institute Malaysia; Stephen P. Hubbell, Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute
 Spatial patterns and species interactions in a diverse Great Basin (USA) shrub community
Andrew P. Rayburn, River Partners; Eugene W. Schupp, Utah State University
 Genetic diversity of colonizing species increases likelihood of establishment, especially in low competition communiites
Kane R. Keller, Michigan State University; Jennifer A. Lau, Michigan State University
 Prevalence and climatic correlates of caulifory in tropical forests
David Kenfack, Center for Tropical Forest Science & Smithsonian Global Earth Observatory; Duncan Thomas, Oregon State University; George B. Chuyong, University of Buea
 Spatial processes and tree fall disturbance affect understory plant community composition in Hawaiian montane rainforests
Michael A. Tweiten, University of Wisconsin - Madison; Sara C. Hotchkiss, University of Wisconsin
 Bottom-up and top-down effects on algal community dynamics in an aridland river: the Middle Rio Grande, New Mexico
Ayesha S. Burdett, University of New Mexico; Rebecca J. Bixby, University of New Mexico
 The effect of dispersal disruption and altered disturbance regimes on riverine metacommunities
Daniel A. Auerbach, Colorado State University; N.L. Poff, Colorado State University
 Does benthic current velocity establish a critical threshold for algal removal by stream grazers?
Todd A. Wellnitz, University of Wisconsin - Eau Claire; William Hintz, University of Wisconsin-Eau Claire
 Niches, Body Sizes, and the Disassembly of Island Mammal Faunas
Jordan Okie, Arizona State University; James H. Brown, University of New Mexico
 Effects of experimental stream diversions on algal-grazer dynamics
Nia A. Gipson, Swarthmore College; Todd A. Wellnitz, University of Wisconsin - Eau Claire
 CANCELLED - Landscape diversity and its effects on agricultural pests
Suzanne Langridge, University of California Santa Cruz
See more of: Posters
Copyright © . All rights reserved.
Banner photo by Flickr user greg westfall.