COS 38
Community Assembly And Neutral Theory III

Tuesday, August 6, 2013: 1:30 PM-5:00 PM
L100B, Minneapolis Convention Center
1:30 PM
 Fungal community assembly in a long-term glacial chronosequence
Lauren C. Cline, University of Michigan; Donald R. Zak, University of Michigan
1:50 PM
 Does environmental variation structured by plant-soil feedbacks interact with species life history to influence invasibility?
Jean H. Burns, Case Western Reserve University; Angela J. Brandt, Landcare Research
2:10 PM
 Confronting contingency in restoration: Management and site history determine outcomes of assembling prairies
Emily Grman, Michigan State University; Tyler Bassett, Michigan State University; Lars A. Brudvig, Michigan State University
2:30 PM
 Roles of environmental gradients and host identity in structuring fungal endophyte communities
Aaron S. David, University of Minnesota; Georgiana May, University of Minnesota; Eric W. Seabloom, University of Minnesota
2:50 PM
 Spatial turnover of taxonomic, functional, and phylogenetic tree diversity across broad environmental gradients in Puerto Rico
Bob Muscarella, Columbia University; Maria Uriarte, Columbia University; David L. Erickson, Smithsonian Institution; W. John Kress, Smithsonian Institution; Nathan Swenson, Michigan State University; Jess K. Zimmerman, University of Puerto Rico - Rio Piedras
3:10 PM
3:20 PM
 Linking local and regional metacommunity dynamics to diversity outcomes
Eric R. Sokol, Virginia Tech; John E. Barrett, Virginia Tech; Bryan L. Brown, Virginia Tech; Joel C. Trexler, Florida International University
3:40 PM
 Community assembly in naturally regenerating wet tropical forests
Vanessa Boukili, Earthwatch Institute; Natalia Norden, Pontificia Universidad Javeriana; Robin L. Chazdon, University of Connecticut
4:00 PM
 Influence of stochastic and deterministic community assembly on beta-diversity in a long-term grassland experiment
Alexander T. Bittel, University of Kansas; Bryan L. Foster, University of Kansas; Gregory R. Houseman, Wichita State University
4:20 PM
 Multiple niche components predict the strength of priority effects
Rachel L. Vannette, Stanford University; Tadashi Fukami, Stanford University
4:40 PM
 Using multiple spatial scales to understand community responses to spatially and structurally shifting ecological landscapes
Cora A. Johnston, University of Maryland; Daniel S. Gruner, University of Maryland