97th ESA Annual Meeting (August 5 -- 10, 2012)

Friday, August 10, 2012: 8:00 AM-11:30 AM

D136, Oregon Convention Center

8:00 AM

COS 180-1

Spatiotemporal metacommunity dynamics in a desert river system
Seiji Miyazono, Texas Tech University; Chris Taylor, Texas Tech University

8:20 AM

COS 180-2

Long-term demographics of dominant shrubs in semi-arid grasslands of the Chihuahuan desert region
Steven M. Wondzell, US Forest Service; Esteban H. Muldavin, Natural Heritage New Mexico; John A. Ludwig, CSIRO Ecosystems Science

8:40 AM

COS 180-3

Species colonization history and environmental heterogeneity interact to drive metacommunity assembly
Zhichao Pu, Georgia Institute of Technology; Lin Jiang, Georgia Institute of Technology

9:00 AM

COS 180-4

Linking pollination and plant community ecology: Decoupled vegetative and reproductive responses
Jonathan A. Bennett, University of Tartu; James F. Cahill Jr., University of Alberta

9:20 AM

COS 180-5

Gap size through the lens of understory light environment and shade intolerant species regeneration: Historic and current tree spatial patterns in southwestern Oregon mixed conifer/hardwood forests
Derek Olson, The Nature Conservancy in Oregon; Kerry L. Metlen, The Nature Conservancy in Oregon; Darren Borgias, The Nature Conservancy in Oregon

9:40 AM

COS 180-

Break

9:50 AM

COS 180-6

Distribution of functional traits in Belize forests of varying successional stages
Jeffrey K. Lake, Adrian College; David G. Campbell, Grinnell College; Kelly M. Friend, Adrian College; Jordenne D-L. Ferenczi, Adrian College; V. Constanza Ocampo-Raeder, University of Maine; Jay B. Walker, Oklahoma State University; JP Drury, University of California-Los Angeles; Stephen P. Hubbell, Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute

10:10 AM

COS 180-7

Trait-based community assembly from a multitrophic perspective: Bottom-up or top-down regulation?
Fons van der Plas, Senckenberg Biodiversity Institute; T. Michael Anderson, Wake Forest University; Han Olff, Centre for Ecological and Evolutionary Studies, University of Groningen

10:30 AM

COS 180-8

Nonstationary community theory: Rising to the challenge of long-term environmental change
Peter Chesson, University of Arizona

10:50 AM

COS 180-9

A metacommunity approach to urban plant community assembly
Anna L. Johnson, University of Maryland Baltimore County; Erica Tauzer, SUNY-ESF; Christopher M. Swan, University of Maryland, Baltimore County

11:10 AM

COS 180-10

How the spatial scales of interactions with natural enemies influence both their contributions to diversity maintenance and our ability to measure these contributions – and implications for the interpretation of Janzen-Connell studies
Helene C. Muller-Landau, Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute; Frederick R. Adler, University of Utah

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