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

PS 50-15

The contributions of container age and seasonal turnover of adult insect populations to changes in aquatic insect communities
Ebony Murrell, University of Wisconsin-Madison; Steven A. Juliano, Illinois State University

PS 50-16

Using network analysis to assess connectivity for ant communities in a fragmented landscape
Julian Resasco, University of Colorado at Boulder; Miguel A. Acevedo, Louisiana State University; Robert J. Fletcher Jr., University of Florida; Douglas J. Levey, National Science Foundation

PS 50-17

Forging an alliance: Linking taxonomy, phylogeny and community ecology in terrestrial insects
Terry A. Wheeler, McGill University; Christopher J. Borkent, McGill University; Valerie Levesque-Beaudin, McGill University; Julia Mlynarek, McGill University

PS 50-18

Chamaecrista fasciculata and Silphium integrifolium show divergence in genetic structure when grown in a background of wild collected versus cultivars of the dominant grasses
Dewitt Jones, The Citadel; Danny J. Gustafson, The Citadel; David J. Gibson, Southern Illinois University Carbondale; Sara G. Baer, Southern Illinois University Carbondale

PS 50-19

Seasonal priority effects: Implications for invasion and restoration in California coastal sage scrub
Claire E. Wainwright, The University of Queensland; Elsa Cleland, University of California - San Diego

PS 50-20

Temporal and spatial turnover in phytoplankton (meta-)communities in a natural coastal system
Sandra Meier, Institute for chemistry and biology of the marine environment; Helmut Hillebrand, Carl von Ossietzky University of Oldenburg

PS 50-21

Effects of genetic diversity of foundation species on community diversity: Predictions tested by simulation modeling
David J. Gibson, Southern Illinois University Carbondale; Andrew J. Allstadt, University of Wisconsin; Sara G. Baer, Southern Illinois University Carbondale

PS 50-22

Environmental determinants of the distribution of body size in bird communities
Allen H. Hurlbert, University of North Carolina; Katherine M. Thibault, National Ecological Observatory Network (NEON); Ethan P. White, University of Florida; S. K. Morgan Ernest, Utah State University

PS 50-23

Plasticity in leaf functional traits in a Michigan hardwood forest
Carlin Ziska, University of Michigan; Jeffrey K. Lake, Adrian College; Annette M. Ostling, University of Michigan; Zachary T. Brym, Utah State University; Andrea Maguire, Michigan State University

PS 50-24

Coexistence in a Florida ant assemblage: Spatial, temporal, and dietary constraints
Philipp T. Wiescher, University of Utah; Donald H. Feener Jr., University of Utah; Elizabeth High, University of Notre Dame

PS 50-25

Demographic correlates of tree recruitment, growth and mortality in a protected Neotropical savannaRaimundo P. B. Henriques and Willam A. Hoffmann Universidade de Brasília, Brasília, DF, BrazilSavannas cover approximately 30% of the ear
Raimundo PB Henriques, Universidade de Brasília; William A. Hoffmann, North Carolina State University

PS 50-26

Recent increase in earthworm abundance in Mid-Atlantic deciduous forests
Chih-Han Chang, Johns Hopkins University; Katalin Szlavecz, Johns Hopkins University; Scott Pitz, Johns Hopkins University; Csaba Csuzdi, Hungarian Natural History Museum; Melissa K. McCormick, Smithsonian Environmental Research Center; Timothy R. Filley, Purdue University

PS 50-27

Effects of intraspecific genetic diversity on ecological communities are context-dependent
Michael F. Benard, Case Western Reserve University; Sarah R. Carrino-Kyker, The Holden Arboretum; David J. Burke, The Holden Arboretum

PS 50-28

Invertebrate biodiversity patterns in a hemlock-dominated forest: Effects of vegetation, woody debris, and light
Amy Arnett, Unity College; Erika F. Latty, Unity College; Alysa J. Remsburg, Unity College; Kathleen Dunckel, Unity College

PS 50-29

Ecosystem engineers as a source of landscape heterogeneity: Plateau pika (Ochotona curzoniae) burrows on the Tibetan Plateau
Brigitte W. Hogan, Arizona State University; Yan Ming Zhang, Northwest Plateau Institute of Biology; Andrew T. Smith, Arizona State University

PS 50-30

Understory phenotypic plasticity and functional diversity may buffer inter-annual variation in overstory soil resource uptake
Lauren Ducas, Utah State University; Ronald J. Ryel, Utah State University

PS 50-31

Restoration of a coastal sandplain grassland: Reducing biotic and abiotic barriers to native plant establishment in a former agricultural field
Annalisa Weiler, University of Central Florida; Christopher Neill, Marine Biological Laboratory; Betsy Von Holle, National Science Foundation

PS 50-32

Matreshka – a new model for scaling of forest dynamics from individual trees to the landscape level
Nikolay Strigul, Washington State University Vancouver

PS 50-33

Factors influencing the spatial distribution of the Red-backed salamander, Plethodon cinereus
Christopher J. Dibble, Rice University

PS 50-34

The role of seasonal moisture variability in structuring testate amoebae assemblages in Sphagnum peatlands
Maura E. Sullivan, Lehigh University; Robert K. Booth, Lehigh University

PS 50-35

Network structure is linked to the community stability of canopy arthropods associated with Populus angustifolia
Matthew K. Lau, Northern Arizona University; Arthur R. Keith, Northern Arizona University; Thomas G. Whitham, Northern Arizona University

PS 50 - Community Pattern and Dynamics