COS 139
Niche Relationships And Theory

Friday, August 15, 2014: 8:00 AM-11:30 AM
Compagno, Sheraton Hotel
8:00 AM
COS 139-1
 Climatic niche shifts from the Last Glacial Maximum to present in North American mammals
Kaitlin Clare Maguire, University of California Merced
8:20 AM
COS 139-2
 A typically specialist predator, the greater short-horned lizard (Phrynosoma hernandesi), reveals variable diet across its geographic range, obscuring constraints that most limit distribution
Reilly R. Dibner, Program in Ecology, University of Wyoming; Daniel F. Doak, University of Colorado
8:40 AM
COS 139-3
 Closely related plant species have similar soil fungal communities in their rhizosphere
Jean H. Burns, Case Western Reserve University; Brian L. Anacker, University of California, Davis; Sharon Y. Strauss, University of California, Davis; David J. Burke, The Holden Arboretum
9:00 AM
COS 139-4
 Niche partitioning in Hawaiian web-building Tetragnatha spiders
Susan Kennedy, University of California, Berkeley; Joanne Clavel, Université Paris 6, CNRS, Muséum National d'Histoire Naturelle; Rosemary G. Gillespie, University of California, Berkeley
9:20 AM Cancelled
COS 139-5
 How light and temperature interact to determine growth in phytoplankton: A synthesis
Kyle F. Edwards, University of Hawaii; Mridul K. Thomas, Michigan State University; Christopher A. Klausmeier, Michigan State University; Elena Litchman, Michigan State University
9:40 AM
COS 139-
 Break
9:50 AM
COS 139-6
 Patterns of ecological specialization in coral reef surgeonfishes
Simon Johannes Brandl, ARC Centre of Excellence for Coral Reef Studies, James Cook University; David Roy Bellwood, ARC Centre of Excellence for Coral Reef Studies
10:10 AM
COS 139-7
 Environment and evolutionary history determine the global biogeography of phytoplankton temperature traits
Mridul K. Thomas, Michigan State University; Colin T. Kremer, Yale University; Elena Litchman, Michigan State University
10:30 AM
COS 139-8
 Niche theory to everywhere: the mathematically sound approach
Géza Meszéna, Eötvös University; György Barabás, University of Chicago; Liz Pásztor, Eötvös University
10:50 AM
COS 139-9
 Competition avoidance: The role of spatial and temporal niche partitioning for desert scorpions
Jesse D. Walker, Utah State University; James A. MacMahon, Utah State University
11:10 AM
COS 139-10
 Optimal investment in a multi-mutualist system: Tree maintenance of ectomycorrhizal fungal diversity
Holly V. Moeller, Stanford University; Michael G. Neubert, Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution
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