Tuesday, August 3, 2010: 8:00 AM-11:30 AM
407, David L Lawrence Convention Center
COS 30 - Community Assembly and Neutral Theory II
8:00 AMCOS 30-1Metacommunity assembly and sorting in novel lake communities
Michael R. Allen, National Oceanographic and Atmospheric Administration, Carla E. Cáceres, University of Illinois, Jessica VanDyke, University of Illinois
8:20 AMCOS 30-2Breaking the link between species diversity and ecosystem function: asymptotic equivalence of niche and neutral theory
Ryan A. Chisholm, Princeton University, Stephen W. Pacala, Princeton University
8:40 AMCOS 30-3A simple generalisation of neutral biodiversity theory resolves many of its problems
James Rosindell, University of Leeds, Stephen J. Cornell, University of Leeds, Stephen P. Hubbell, University of California, Los Angeles, Rampal S. Etienne, University of Groningen
9:00 AMCOS 30-4Plant-pollinator community assembly: What is the role of generalists?
Suann Yang, The Pennsylvania State University, Colin E. Campbell, The Pennsylvania State University, Reka Albert, The Pennsylvania State University, Katriona Shea, The Pennsylvania State University
9:20 AMCOS 30-5Demographic signature of niche partitioning as a mechanism maintaining species diversity
Adam M. Siepielski, Dartmouth College, Andrew N. Mertens, Dartmouth College, Brianna L. Wilkinson, Dartmouth College, Mark A. McPeek, Dartmouth College
9:40 AM Break
9:50 AMCOS 30-6Anthropogenic land use change shifts freshwater aquatic community composition: Parasites and their hosts response to cattle grazing
Katherine L. Dosch, University of Colorado at Boulder, Pieter T. J. Johnson, University of Colorado at Boulder
10:10 AMCOS 30-7The assembly of ecological communities inferred from taxonomic and functional composition
Eric R. Sokol, Florida International University, E. F. Benfield, Virginia Tech, Lisa K. Belden, Virginia Tech, H. Maurice Valett, University of Montana
10:30 AMCOS 30-8Alternative community compositional and dynamical states: The dual consequences of assembly history
Lin Jiang, Georgia Institute of Technology, Hena Joshi, Georgia Institute of Technology, Sooyung K. Flakes, Georgia Institute of Technology
10:50 AMCOS 30-9Assembly history alters exotic-native proportions and species diversity of restored prairie plant communities
Leanne M. Martin, Iowa State University, Brian J. Wilsey, Iowa State University
11:10 AMCOS 30-10Resource limitation and community structure: the importance of priority effects in competition and coexistence within the Calliphorid family
Jennifer Y. Rosati, University of Windsor, Sherah L. VanLaerhoven, University of Windsor

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