96th ESA Annual Meeting (August 7 -- 12, 2011)

Tuesday, August 9, 2011: 8:00 AM-11:30 AM

9AB, Austin Convention Center

8:00 AM

'Neutral' Models with Overlapping Niches
Sharon A. Bewick, University of Maryland, College Park; Ryan A. Chisholm, Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute; Erol Akçay, Princeton University; William Godsoe, Lincoln University

8:20 AM

Species diversity, invasibility, and alternative community states in sequentially assembled communities
Lin Jiang, Georgia Institute of Technology; Lauren Brady, Kenyon College

8:40 AM

Evidence of belowground community structuring and niche divergence among coexisting species in a temperate forest
Oscar J. Valverde, Kent State University; Kurt A. Smemo, The Holden Arboretum; Larry M. Feinstein, Kent State University; Mark W. Kershner, Kent State University; Christopher B. Blackwood, Kent State University

9:00 AM

The relative importance of intra- and interspecific trait variation in the maintenance of plant species diversity
Catherine M. Hulshof, University of Arizona; Cyrille Violle, CNRS; Brian J. McGill, University of Maine; Ellen I. Damschen, University of Wisconsin-Madison; Susan P. Harrison, University of California, Davis; Brian J. Enquist, University of Arizona

9:20 AM

Variation in per capital speciation rate and diversity patterns in neutral and niche-structured communities
Shaopeng Wang, Station d'Ecologie Expérimentale du CNRS à Moulis; Anping Chen, Princeton University; Stephen W. Pacala, Princeton University; Jingyun Fang, Institute of Botany, Chinese Academy of Sciences

9:40 AM

Break

9:50 AM

Drift, determinism, and biodiversity persistence in spatial networks: The varied role of connectivity
Evan P. Economo, Okinawa Institute of Science and Technology Graduate University; Eric Treml, University of Queensland

10:10 AM

Disentangling the environmental and historical biogeography effects in island species distributions: A metacommunity phylogenetics approach
Christine E. Parent, University of Texas at Austin; Pedro R. Peres-Neto, University of Quebec at Montreal; Mathew A. Leibold, University of Texas at Austin

10:30 AM

Local-regional richness relationships of metacommunities with local facilitation
Gaku Takimoto, Toho University

10:50 AM

Role of environmental and historical factors in the structure of neotropical primate communities: Taxonomic and phylogenetic perspectives
Maria Mercedes Gavilanez, Louisiana State University; Richard D. Stevens, Louisiana State University

11:10 AM

Plant diversity in heterogeneous landscapes: Implication of landscape context and management in grassland communities
Reto Schmucki, Stockholm University; Regina Lindborg, Stockholm University; Sara A.O. Cousins, Stockholm University

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