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

8:00 AM

Asymmetric sensitivities in environmental responses: Its role in creating temporal niche partitioning for species coexistence
Chi Yuan, University of Arizona; Peter Chesson, University of Arizona

8:20 AM

Assessing interactions among species in high richness communities using Diversity-Interaction modelling combined with random effects
Aine Dooley, National University of Ireland, Maynooth.; Caroline Brophy, Maynooth University; John Connolly, University College Dublin; Laura Kirwan, Waterford Institute of Technology; Thomas Bell, University of Oxford; Alexandra Weigelt, German Centre for Integrative Biodiversity Research (iDiv) Halle-Jena-Leipzig; Jan Harndorf, University of Kassel

8:40 AM

Mediterranean cork oak savannas require human use to sustain biodiversity and ecosystem services
Miguel Nuno Bugalho, Technical University of Lisbon; Maria C. Caldeira, Technical University of Lisbon; João S. Pereira, Instituto Superior de Agronomia, Universidade de Lisboa; James Aronson, Centre d'Ecologie Fonctionnelle et Evolutive, Montpellier, France, and Missouri Botanical Garden, St Louis, MO; Juli Pausas, Centro de Investigación sobre Desertificación, Spanish National Research Council, Valencia, Spain

9:00 AM

Host range and the diversity enhancing role of seedling pathogens in a neotropical forest
Rachel Gallery, University of Arizona; Robert Bagchi, ETH Zürich; Sarah Gurr, University of Exeter; Owen Lewis, University of Oxford

9:20 AM

Hierarchical decomposition of the species-energy relationship by scale
Kathrine D. Behrman, USDA-ARS; Timothy H. Keitt, The University of Texas at Austin

9:40 AM

Break

9:50 AM

CANCELLED - Primary productivity and the richness of ant assemblages in arid and semiarid ecosystems of Sonora, Mexico
Kimberly A. Franklin, University of Arizona

10:10 AM

Occupancy and extinction probability: Are locally restricted species disproportionately extinction-prone?
Kevin G. Smith, Washington University in St. Louis; Karen Lips, University of Maryland; Jonathan M. Chase, Biodiversity Synthesis Laboratory; Alison G. Boyer, Oak Ridge National Laboratory

10:30 AM

Island biogeography theory as a predictor of species diversity in tropical premontane forest fragments
Luanna B. Prevost, University of South Florida; Chris J. Peterson, University of Georgia

10:50 AM

Volatility of clade-specific random walks evolves across lineages and drives complex diversification patterns through geologic time
Andrew J. Rominger, University of California Berkeley; Miguel A. Fuentes, Centro Atómico Bariloche; Pablo A. Marquet, Santa Fe Institute

11:10 AM

Climatic regulation of environmental heterogeneity and its effects on plant beta diversity
Timothy A. Fotinos, Texas State University; Michael A. Huston, Texas State University

COS 54 - Biodiversity II