COS 6 - Community Assembly And Neutral Theory I

Monday, August 6, 2012: 1:30 PM-5:00 PM
F150, Oregon Convention Center
1:30 PM Cancelled
 Colonization-extinction dynamics in protist metacommunities
Kayoko Fukumori, National Institute for Environmental Studies; George Livingston, University of Texas at Austin; Mathew A. Leibold, University of Texas at Austin
1:50 PM
 Occupancy-based null-model for species area relationship
Yoni Gavish, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev; Yaron Ziv, Ben-Gurion University
2:10 PM
 The grimy side of Grime's CSR theory: How we can use life history strategy to better understand mycorrhizal ecology
Pierre-Luc Chagnon, Université de Sherbrooke; Robert L. Bradley, Université de Sherbrooke; John Klironomos, University of British Columbia; Hafiz Maherali, University of Guelph
2:30 PM
 Biogeographic variation in species turnover across environmental gradients: A meta-analysis of wetland invertebrate communities
Hamish S. Greig, University of Canterbury; Scott A. Wissinger, Rocky Mountain Biological Laboratory; Russell Death, Massey University
2:50 PM
 Dispersal limitation and habitat connectivity drive patterns of genetic and species diversity of invertebrate metacommunities in river systems
Florian Altermatt, University of Zürich; Mathew Seymour, Eawag: Swiss Federal Institute of Aquatic Science and Technology
3:10 PM
3:20 PM
 Ecological determinism increases with organism size
Vinicius F. Farjalla, Federal University of Rio de Janeiro; Diane S. Srivastava, University of British Columbia; Nicholas AC Marino, University Federal of Rio de Janeiro; Fernanda D. Azevedo, University Federal of Rio de Janeiro; Viviane Dib, University Federal of Rio de Janeiro; Paloma L. Marinho, Federal University of Rio de Janeiro; Alexandre S. Rosado, University Federal of Rio de Janeiro; Reinaldo L. Bozelli, Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro; Francisco A. Esteves, Federal University of Rio de Janeiro/UFRJ
3:40 PM
 The co-assembly of tropical plant communities and their vertebrate seed dispersers
Lydia Beaudrot, Conservation International; Marcel Rejmánek, University of California, Davis; Andrew J. Marshall, University of California-Davis
4:00 PM
 Assembly of endosymbiont communities shaped by within-host species interactions
Aaron S. David, University of Minnesota; Sarah M. Emery, University of Louisville; Georgiana May, University of Minnesota; Jennifer A. Rudgers, University of New Mexico; Eric W. Seabloom, University of Minnesota
4:20 PM
 Experimental investigation of the origin of fynbos plant community structure after fire
Jonathan Silvertown, The Open University; Yoseph Araya, The Open University
4:40 PM
 The impact of the invasive Argentine ant (Linepithema humile) on association network structure of native ant species in Northern California
Lis Castillo Nelis, Stanford University; Joshua Ladau, Gladstone Institutes, University of California San Francisco; Nathan J. Sanders, The University of Copenhagen; Katherine Fitzgerald, Stanford University; Nicole E. Heller, Duke University; Jessica Shors Appel, San Francisco Public Utilities Commission; Deborah M. Gordon, Stanford University