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

Monday, August 3, 2009: 1:30 PM-5:00 PM

Pecos, Albuquerque Convention Center

Presider:

Janice L. Bossart, Southeastern Louisiana University

1:30 PM

COS 2-1

Revisiting Rapoport’s rule and its relationship to the latitudinal diversity gradient in tree species
Xavier Morin, CNRS; Martin J. Lechowicz, McGill University

1:50 PM

COS 2-2

Environment and the local-regional richness relationships in terrestrial vertebrates
Jonathan Belmaker, Tel Aviv University; Walter Jetz, Yale University

2:10 PM

COS 2-3

Regional and local drivers of ant community structure
Jean-Philippe Lessard, University of Tennessee; Nathan J. Sanders, The University of Copenhagen

2:30 PM

COS 2-4

Everything 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, Technische Universität München; Wolfgang W. Weisser, Technical University of Munich

2:50 PM

COS 2-5

Studies on biodiversity and abundance of fishes in floodplain of Bangladesh
Bidhan C. Patra, Vidyasagar University

3:10 PM

COS 2-

Break

3:20 PM

COS 2-6

Hotspots: 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, NMFS, NOAA

3:40 PM

COS 2-7

Connectivity, regional heterogeneity, and their effects on biodiversity of artificial pond metacommunities
Michael T. Pedruski, McGill University; Shelley A. Arnott, Queen's University

4:00 PM

COS 2-8

The value of indigenous forest reserves to biodiversity conservation
Janice L. Bossart, Southeastern Louisiana University

4:20 PM

COS 2-9

CANCELLED - 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 PM

COS 2-10

Patterns of species diversity in relation to site productivity and management
Andrew Gray, USDA Forest Service Pacific Northwest Research Station

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