COS 62
Biogeography And Macroecology II

Wednesday, August 12, 2015: 8:00 AM-11:30 AM
320, Baltimore Convention Center
8:00 AM
 Global warming favours light-coloured insects in Europe
Dirk Zeuss, Philipps-University Marburg; Roland Brandl, Philipps-University Marburg; Martin Brändle, Philipps-University Marburg; Carsten Rahbek, The Natural History Museum of Denmark; Stefan Brunzel, Philipps-University Marburg
8:40 AM
 Linking environmental filtering and disequilibrium to biogeography with a community climate framework 
Benjamin W. Blonder, University of Oxford; D. Nogues-Bravo, University of Copenhagen; Michael Krabbe Borregaard, University of Oxford; John C. Donoghue II, University of Arizona; Peter Jorgensen, Missouri Botanical Garden; Nathan J. B. Kraft, University of Maryland; Jean-Philippe Lessard, Concordia University; Naia Morueta-Holme, University of California Berkeley; Brody Sandel, Aarhus University; Jens-Christian Svenning, Aarhus University; Cyrille Violle, CNRS; Carsten Rahbek, University of Copenhagen; Brian J. Enquist, University of Arizona
9:00 AM
 Testing ideas about herbivory and plant defence on islands versus mainlands
Floret L. Meredith, University of New South Wales; Angela T. Moles, University of New South Wales
9:20 AM
 Causes and consequences of consumer interactions across latitude in a marine ecosystem
Amy L. Freestone, Temple University; Katherine Papacostas, Temple University; Elizabeth W. Rielly, Temple University
9:40 AM
9:50 AM
 Seedling establishment pulses in California forests: Migration versus potential for local persistence
Josep M. Serra-Diaz, Arizona State University; Lynn C. Sweet, University of California, Santa Barbara; Ian McCullough, Unverisity of California, Santa Barbara; Frank Davis, University of California Santa Barbara; John Dingman, USGS; Alan L. Flint, U.S. Geological Survey California Water Science Center; Lorraine E. Flint, U.S. Geological Survey California Water Science Center; Janet Franklin, Arizona State University; Alex Hall, University of California Los Angeles; Lee Hannah, Conservation International; Max A. Moritz, University of California, Berkeley; Kelly Redmon, Desert Research Institute; Helen M. Regan, University of California Riverside; Alexandra D. Syphard, Conservation Biology Institute
10:10 AM
 Correcting bias in the fossil record to improve pooled niche estimation and species distribution model transferability
Diego Nieto-Lugilde, Appalachian Lab. University of Maryland Center for Environmental Science; Kaitlin Clare Maguire, University of California Merced; Jessica L. Blois, University of California - Merced; John W. Williams, University of Wisconsin-Madison; Matthew C. Fitzpatrick, University of Maryland Center for Environmental Science
10:30 AM
 A novel approach to modeling vegetation distribution through trait-climate relationships
Changhui Peng, University of Quebec at Montreal; Yanzheng Yang, College of Forestry, Northwest A&F University; Qiuan Zhu, College of Forestry,Northwest A&F University
10:50 AM
 Deriving spatially-explicit beta diversity metrics from spatially-implicit, plot-based data
Justin A. Kitzes, University of California; John Harte, University of California
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