Friday, August 6, 2010: 8:00 AM-11:30 AM
320, David L Lawrence Convention Center
COS 120 - Niche Relationships and Theory
8:00 AMCOS 120-1Niche requirements of an exotic invader across temperate forest gradients
Robert J. Warren II, Yale University, Volker Bahn, Wright State University, Timothy D. Kramer, Yale University, Yaya Tang, Yale University, Mark A. Bradford, Yale University
8:20 AMCOS 120-2The role of environment, genetic diversity and biotic interactions in the global invasion of Cactoblastis cactorum (Berg)
Christopher P. Brooks, Mississippi State University, Gary N. Ervin, Mississippi State University
8:40 AMCOS 120-3Interspecific synchrony promotes coexistence in competitive systems
David A. Vasseur, Yale University
9:00 AMCOS 120-4Coexistence of perennial plants: An embarrassment of niches
Peter B. Adler, Utah State University, Stephen P. Ellner, Cornell University, Jonathan M. Levine, University of California, Santa Barbara
9:20 AMCOS 120-5Assembly processes revealed by functional traits in grassland plant communities under herbivory in Inner Mongolia, China
Dan F.B. Flynn, Columbia University, Shahid Naeem, Columbia University
9:40 AM Break
9:50 AMCOS 120-6What limits the distribution of woody reseeders and resprouters (Hypericum spp.) along coastal ecoclines in pine savannas of northern Florida?
Raelene M. Crandall, Louisiana State University, William J. Platt, Lousiana State University
10:10 AMCOS 120-7Multivariate tradeoffs, succession, and multiple coexistence mechanisms in a guild of colonial invertebrates
Kyle F. Edwards, University of California, Davis, John J. Stachowicz, University of California, Davis
10:30 AMCOS 120-8Scale-dependent trade-offs interact to determine the scale of species coexistence in protozoan communities
Wade A. Ryberg, Georgia Institute of Technology, Cyrille Violle, University of Arizona, Zhichao Pu, Georgia Institute of Technology, Lin Jiang, Georgia Institute of Technology
10:50 AMCOS 120-9Do unmeasured biotic interactions bias species distribution models?
William Godsoe, University of Tennessee, Luke Harmon, University of Idaho
11:10 AMCOS 120-10How should temporal niche segregation be defined?
György Barabás, University of Michigan, Aaron A. King, University of Michigan, Géza Meszéna, Eötvös University

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