COS 152 - Community Pattern And Dynamics VII

Thursday, August 9, 2012: 1:30 PM-5:00 PM
F151, Oregon Convention Center
1:30 PM
 Multiple predators indirectly alter community assembly across ecological boundaries
Jeff S. Wesner, University of South Dakota; Eric J. Billman, Brigham Young University; Mark C. Belk, Brigham Young University
1:50 PM
 Quantifying the effect of stream networks on species coexistence
Galen P. Holt, University of Arizona; Peter Chesson, University of Arizona
2:10 PM
 Seed limitation, seed predation, and competition interact to impact grassland community structure in Montana, USA
Sarah M. Pinto, Universtiy of Montana; John L. Maron, The University of Montana; Dean Pearson, USDA Forest Service, Rocky Mountain Research Station
2:30 PM
 Testing the stress gradient hypothesis at the community level:  Effects of shrub facilitation accross a dune stress gradient
Andrew R. Kleinhesselink, Utah State University; Susan M. Magnoli, Kellogg Biological Station, Michigan State University; J. Hall Cushman, Sonoma State University
2:50 PM
 Dynamics and disturbance in an old-growth forest remnant in western Ohio
Sean M. Goins, University of Dayton; Julia I. Chapman, University of Dayton; Ryan W. McEwan, The University of Dayton
3:10 PM
3:20 PM
 Interannual variation in quantitative plant-pollinator networks
Julian Resasco, University of Colorado at Boulder; Natacha P. Chacoff, Instituto Argentino de Investigaciones de las Zonas Áridas; Diego P. Vázquez, Centro Científico y Tecnológico Mendoza
3:40 PM
 How diversity and invasibility co-evolve along temperature gradients: predictions from eco-evolutionary dynamical models
Regis Ferriere, University of Arizona; James C. Stegen, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory; Brian J. Enquist, University of Arizona
4:00 PM
 The ecology of differences: Integrating trait and evolutionary distances
Marc W. Cadotte, University of Toronto; Steven C. Walker, McMaster University; Cécile H. Albert, McGill University
4:20 PM
 Ungulate urea-nitrogen deposition and spatial patterning of herbaceous-layer vegetation in a temperate forest ecosystem
Bryan D. Murray, Purdue University; Christopher R. Webster, Michigan Technological University; Joseph Bump, Michigan Technological University
4:40 PM
 Shifting mechanisms of biotic resistance across multiple life-history stages reduce the abundance of a non-indigenous marine invertebrate
Marc Rius, University of Southampton & National Oceanography Centre, Southampton; Elaine Potter, University of California, Davis; David Aguirre, University of Queensland; John J. Stachowicz, University of California, Davis