95th ESA Annual Meeting (August 1 -- 6, 2010)

Thursday, August 5, 2010: 8:00 AM-11:30 AM

335, David L Lawrence Convention Center

Presider:

Volker Bahn, Wright State University

8:00 AM

COS 81-1

Evaluating changes in Chicago-area bird diversity using the Audubon Society’s Christmas Bird Count data
Kathleen A. Degnan, Chicago State University; Eric L. Peters, Chicago State University; Timothy J. Bell, Chicago State University; Devi Prasad V. Potluri, Chicago State University

8:20 AM

COS 81-2

Assessing the conservation value of farmland ponds: Use of predictive techniques to identify surrogate groups
Margherita Gioria, University College Dublin; Giovanni Bacaro, University of Siena; Andre' Schaffers, Wageningen University

8:40 AM

COS 81-3

Linking nested and non-nested patterns of species turnover: Exploring the limits of the relationship
Daniel J. McGlinn, Utah State University; Allen H. Hurlbert, University of North Carolina

9:00 AM

COS 81-4

A test for the effect of invasion success: Merging clone library techniques with experimental community ecology
Sarah M. Gray, University of Fribourg

9:20 AM

COS 81-5

Visualizing species diversity changes in communities: A different approach
Liette Vasseur, Brock University; M. You, Fujian University of Forestry and Agriculture; Jacques Régnière, Canadian Forest Service; Yunkai Zheng, Fujian University of Forestry and Agriculture

9:40 AM

COS 81-

Break

9:50 AM

COS 81-6

Density-dependent singing behavior and the reliability of population estimates for passerine birds
Christopher C. Warren, Texas State University; James R. Ott, Texas State University-San Marcos; Floyd W. Weckerly, Texas State University

10:10 AM

COS 81-7

Modeling effects of rare taxa in community ecotoxicology
Nathaniel P. Hitt, USGS Leetown Science Center; David R. Smith, Smithsonian Institution; Craig Snyder, USGS Leetown Science Center; Jonathan Daily, USGS Leetown Science Center

10:30 AM

COS 81-8

Commonness and rarity of species: Does species' rank influence contribution to ecosystem function?
Meha Jain, Columbia University; Georgia M. Hart, University of Hawaii at Manoa; Caroline M. Devan, New Jersey's Science and Technology University; Case M. Prager, Columbia University; Dan Flynn, University of Zurich; Farshid S. Ahrestani, Columbia University; Daniel E. Bunker, New Jersey Institute of Technology; Matthew I. Palmer, Columbia University; Sean M. Smukler, Columbia University; Jason Sircely, Columbia University; Shahid Naeem, Columbia University

10:50 AM

COS 81-9

Phylogenetic structure, co-occurrence, and abundance in Psychotrieae (Rubiaceae) species assemblages in Costa Rica
John R. Paul, Colorado State University; Stephen J. Tonsor, Carnegie Museum of Natural History

11:10 AM

COS 81-10

New perspectives on species abundance distributions and diversity metrics
Brian J. McGill, University of Maine

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