Monday, August 2, 2010: 1:30 PM-5:00 PM
407, David L Lawrence Convention Center
COS 15 - Community Assembly and Neutral Theory I
1:30 PMCOS 15-1Global analysis of shifts in plant trait distributions under land-use change
John Morgan, La Trobe University, Jessie Wells, University of Queensland, Loïc Chalmandrier, École Normale Supérieure de Paris, Fabrice DeClerck, CATIE, Alana L. Burley, The University of Queensland, Stephen Bonser, University of New South Wales, Carla P. Catterall, Griffith University, Etienne LaLiberte, University of Cantebury, Daniel J. Metcalfe, CSIRO, Peter Vesk, The University of Melbourne, Margaret M. Mayfield, The University of Queensland
1:50 PMCOS 15-2Summer drought as a filter to seedling establishment in the restoration of Mediterranean-climate ecosystems
Lauren M. Hallett, University of Western Australia, Rachel J. Standish, University of Western Australia, Richard J. Hobbs, University of Western Australia
2:10 PMCOS 15-3FOOD-WEB architecture in neutral trophic networks
Elsa Flore Canard, Institut des Sciences de l'Evolution de Montpellier, Lucile Marescot, Centre d'Ecologie Fonctionnelle et Evolutive, Dominique Gravel, Université du Québec à Rimouski, Nicolas Mouquet, Université Montpellier 2, CNRS, David Mouillot, Université Montpellier 2
2:30 PMCOS 15-4Resource-disturbance interactions influence community assembly in species-rich pine savannas
Jonathan A. Myers, Washington University, Kyle E. Harms, Louisiana State University
2:50 PMCOS 15-5Traits patterns indicate that changes in productivity and geographic isolation will impact functional diversity in the alpine
Marko J. Spasojevic, University of California Irvine, Katharine N. Suding, University of California at Berkeley
3:10 PM Break
3:20 PMCOS 15-6Distance decay in bird community similarity: Investigating predictions of neutral theory and niche-assembly theory
Tracy A. Pinney, Baylor University, Kevin J. Gutzwiller, Baylor University
3:40 PMCOS 15-7Community assembly of bombus: Relatedness, tongue length and competition
Alexandra N. Harmon-Threatt, University of California, Berkeley, David D. Ackerly, University of California, Berkeley
4:00 PMCOS 15-8Point patterns of tree distribution determined by habitat heterogeneity and dispersal limitation
Yiching Lin, Tunghai University, Li-Wan Chang, Taiwan Forestry Research Institute, Kuoh-Cheng Yang, Providence University, Hsiang-Hua Wang, Taiwan Forestry Research Institute
4:20 PMCOS 15-9Disentangling pre- and post-colonization processes operating in a simple insect community associated with a spatially patchy resource
Myra C. Hughey, Boston University, Michael W. McCoy, Boston University, James R. Vonesh, Virginia Commonwealth University, Karen M. Warkentin, Boston University
4:40 PMCOS 15-10More closely related species are more ecologically similar: an experimental test
Jean H. Burns, University of California, Davis, Sharon Y. Strauss, University of California, Davis

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