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

Tuesday, August 3, 2010: 8:00 AM-11:30 AM

407, David L Lawrence Convention Center

Presider:

Michael R. Allen, National Oceanographic and Atmospheric Administration

8:00 AM

COS 30-1

Metacommunity assembly and sorting in novel lake communities
Michael R. Allen, National Oceanographic and Atmospheric Administration; Carla E. Cáceres, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign; Jessica VanDyke, University of Illinois

8:20 AM

COS 30-2

Breaking the link between species diversity and ecosystem function: asymptotic equivalence of niche and neutral theory
Ryan A. Chisholm, Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute; Stephen W. Pacala, Princeton University

8:40 AM

COS 30-3

A 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, Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute; Rampal S. Etienne, University of Groningen

9:00 AM

COS 30-4

Plant-pollinator community assembly: What is the role of generalists?
Suann Yang, Presbyterian College; Colin E. Campbell, The Pennsylvania State University; Reka Albert, The Pennsylvania State University; Katriona Shea, The Pennsylvania State University

9:20 AM

COS 30-5

Demographic signature of niche partitioning as a mechanism maintaining species diversity
Adam M. Siepielski, University of San Diego; Andrew N. Mertens, Dartmouth College; Brianna L. Wilkinson, Dartmouth College; Mark A. McPeek, Dartmouth College

9:40 AM

COS 30-

Break

9:50 AM

COS 30-6

Anthropogenic land use change shifts freshwater aquatic community composition: Parasites and their hosts response to cattle grazing
Katherine L. Dosch, University of Colorado; Pieter T. J. Johnson, University of Colorado at Boulder

10:10 AM

COS 30-7

The assembly of ecological communities inferred from taxonomic and functional composition
Eric R. Sokol, Virginia Tech; E. F. Benfield, Virginia Tech; Lisa K. Belden, Virginia Tech; H. Maurice Valett, University of Montana

10:30 AM

COS 30-8

Alternative 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 AM

COS 30-9

Assembly 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 AM

COS 30-10

Resource 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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