COS 71
Community Pattern And Dynamics III

Wednesday, August 7, 2013: 1:30 PM-5:00 PM
L100B, Minneapolis Convention Center
1:30 PM
 Tree composition differs between public and private tropical secondary forests
Moana L. McClellan, University of Minnesota; Rebecca A. Montgomery, University of Minnesota; Justin M. Becknell, Carleton College; Jennifer S. Powers, University of Minnesota
1:50 PM
 Benthic diatom community assembly and factors driving its structure
Allison M. Veach, Kansas State University; Walter K. Dodds, Kansas State University
2:10 PM
 Food vs. habitat and the assembly of grazer communities: Conflicting evidence from traits, phylogenies, experiments, and field surveys
Rebecca J. Best, University of California, Davis; John J. Stachowicz, University of California, Davis
2:30 PM
 Covariates of cyanobacterial biomass over 1.5 decades in a eutrophic lake
Chelsea A. Weirich, University of Wisconsin - Milwaukee; Todd R. Miller, University of Wisconsin - Milwaukee
2:50 PM
 Interaction of top-down and bottom-up processes facilitate the rapid range expansion of Turbinaria ornata in the South Pacific
Sarah Joy Bittick, UCLA; Rachel J. Clausing, UCLA; Caitlin Fong, University of California Santa Barbara; Peggy Fong, UCLA
3:10 PM
3:20 PM
 Plant-soil feedback and species coexistence: Interactions among pathogens, resources, and species life histories
Sarah McCarthy-Neumann, Michigan State University; Inés Ibáñez, University of Michigan
3:40 PM
 Environmental variability counteracts priority effects to facilitate species coexistence: evidence from nectar microbes
Caroline M. Tucker, University of Colorado, Boulder; Rachel L. Vannette, Stanford University; Tadashi Fukami, Stanford University
4:00 PM
 Disease as a homogenizing process: Tropical stream tadpole community dynamics prior to and following a disease epidemic
Graziella V. DiRenzo, University of California; Roberto Brenes, University of Tennessee; Matt R. Whiles, Southern Illinois University Carbondale; Catherine M. Pringle, University of Georgia; Susan S. Kilham, Drexel University; Karen Lips, University of Maryland
4:20 PM
 Connectivity and metacommunity dynamics: insights from a lake network in Michigan, USA
David J. Janetski, Grand Valley State University; Carl R. Ruetz III, Grand Valley State University
4:40 PM
 Disentangling sampling effects from ecological process in beta diversity analysis
Benjamin M. Bolker, McMaster University; Adrian Stier, Northwest Fisheries Science Center; Craig W. Osenberg, University of Florida