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

Wednesday, August 5, 2009: 1:30 PM-5:00 PM

Dona Ana, Albuquerque Convention Center

Presider:

Sharon K. Collinge, University of Colorado

1:30 PM

COS 69-1

Mechanisms of assembly within the sarcosaprophytic guild of the carrion insect community: the importance of neutral and non-neutral effects
Jennifer Y. Rosati, University of Windsor; Sherah L. VanLaerhoven, University of Windsor

1:50 PM

COS 69-2

Component models of assembly in a metacommunity of tropical arboreal ants
George F. Livingston, University of Texas; Stacy M. Philpott, University of California, Santa Cruz

2:10 PM

COS 69-3

Experimental evidence for neutral community dynamics governing an insect assemblage
Adam M. Siepielski, University of San Diego; Keng-Lou J. Hung, University of California, San Diego; Eben E.B. Bein, Dartmouth College; Mark A. McPeek, Dartmouth College

2:30 PM

COS 69-4

The effects of time averaging on temporal turnover in species composition and tests of metacommunity models
Adam Tomašových, University of Chicago; Susan M. Kidwell, University of Chicago

2:50 PM

COS 69-5

Transient patterns in the assembly of vernal pool plant communities
Sharon K. Collinge, University of Colorado; Chris Ray, University of Colorado

3:10 PM

COS 69-

Break

3:20 PM

COS 69-6

Limited dispersal, priority effects, and nutrient availability determine alternative community states in an old-field grassland succession
Pedro M. Tognetti, IFEVA-CONICET, Universidad de Buenos Aires; Enrique J. Chaneton, IFEVA-CONICET, Universidad de Buenos Aires

3:40 PM

COS 69-7

Scale-dependent contributions of environmental and spatial processes to beta diversity of a subtropical forest community scale-dependent contributions of environmental and spatial processes to beta diversity of a subtropical forest community
Xiangcheng Mi, Institute of Botany, Chinese Academy of Sciences; Pierre Legendre, Université de Montréal; Haibao Ren, State Key Laboratory of Vegetation and Environmental Change; Keping Ma, Institute of Botany, Chinese Academy of Sciences; Mingjian Yu, Zhejiang University; Jianhua Chen, Zhejiang Normal University

4:00 PM

COS 69-8

Consistency of species-area relationship, and neutrality or non-neutrality in a scale context in subtropical forest of China
Haibao Ren, State Key Laboratory of Vegetation and Environmental Change; Xiangcheng Mi, Institute of Botany, Chinese Academy of Sciences; Keping Ma, Institute of Botany, Chinese Academy of Sciences

4:20 PM

COS 69-9

CANCELLED - Testing genetic control of grassland assembly rules
Danny J. Gustafson, The Citadel; Charles Major, The Citadel; Dewitt Jones, The Citadel; David J. Gibson, Southern Illinois University Carbondale; Sara Baer, Southern Illinois University Carbondale

4:40 PM

COS 69-10

Patterns of phylogenetic dispersion in tropical dry forest trees and implications for community assembly
John N. Williams, University of California, Davis; Colleen K. Kelly, University of Oxford

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