COS 33 - Community Assembly And Neutral Theory II

Tuesday, August 7, 2012: 8:00 AM-11:30 AM
F151, Oregon Convention Center
8:00 AM
 How powerful are tests of neutral theory? Detecting density dependence in ecological communities
Omar al Hammal, University of Leeds; David Alonso, Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Cientificas; Stephen J. Cornell, University of Leeds
8:20 AM
 Plant nitrogen acquisition strategies and community assembly in a tropical montane forest
Kelly M. Andersen, San Diego Zoo Global; Benjamin L. Turner, Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute
8:40 AM
 Beta-diversity, gamma diversity, and community assembly along a tropical elevational gradient
J. Sebastian Tello, Missouri Botanical Garden; Iván Jiménez, Missouri Botanical Garden; Peter Jorgensen, Missouri Botanical Garden; Jonathan A. Myers, Washington University in St. Louis; Manuel J. Macia, Universidad Autónoma de Madrid; Alfredo F. Fuentes-Claros, Herbario Nacional de Bolivia; Leslie Cayola-Pérez, Herbario Nacional de Bolivia; Gabriel Arellano, Real Jardín Botánico; Maritza Cornejo-Mejía, Herbario Nacional de Bolivia; M. Isabel Loza-Rivera, Herbario Nacional de Bolivia; Javier Quisbert-Quispe, Herbario Nacional de Bolivia; Vania W. Torrez, Herbario Nacional de Bolivia
9:00 AM
 Opposing trait drivers of phylogenetic community assembly across a subalpine elevational gradient
Christine A. Lamanna, University of Maine; Lindsey L. Sloat, University of Arizona; Amanda N. Henderson, University of Arizona; Brian J. Enquist, University of Arizona
9:20 AM
 Exploring stochastic and niche-based community assembly dynamics in a long-term grassland field experiment
Alexander T. Bittel, University of Kansas; Bryan L. Foster, University of Kansas; Gregory R. Houseman, Wichita State University
9:40 AM
9:50 AM
 Evaluating the importance of spatiotemporal variation in plant establishment
Jonathan D. Bakker, University of Washington; Eric G. Delvin, The Nature Conservancy; Peter W. Dunwiddie, University of Washington
10:10 AM
 Biogeographic history determines local scale community structure in a hyperdiverse clade of Neotropical plants
Brian E. Sedio, University of Michigan; John R. Paul, Colorado State University; Charlotte M. Taylor, Missouri Botanical Garden; Christopher W. Dick, University of Michigan
10:30 AM
 Components of stochastic niche dynamics and their influence on the species abundance distribution
Rosalyn C. Rael, Tulane University; Rafael D'Andrea, University of Michigan; Gyorgy Barabas, University of Michigan; Annette M. Ostling, University of Michigan
10:50 AM
 The utility of C-score analysis for examining bacterial co-occurrence patterns in large sequencing datasets
Lee F. Stanish, University of Colorado; Teresa M. Legg, University of Colorado; Diana R. Nemergut, University of Colorado; Sean P. O'Neill, University of Colorado at Boulder; Antonio Gonzalez-Pena, University of Colorado
11:10 AM
 Making and breaking a new ecological theory: Does maximum information entropy predict community structure in evolving ecosystems?
Andrew J. Rominger, University of California Berkeley; Daniel S. Gruner, University of Maryland; John Harte, University of California; Rosemary G. Gillespie, University of California, Berkeley