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When: August 7 - 12, 2016

Where: Fort Lauderdale, FL

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COS 80 - Community Assembly And Neutral Theory

Thursday, August 11, 2016: 1:30 PM-5:00 PM
Palm B, Ft Lauderdale Convention Center
1:30 PM
COS 80-1
 Differences in nitrogen cycling among N-fixing trees in Hawai‘i affect community composition
Elizabeth M. August-Schmidt, University of California Santa Barbara; Carla M. D'Antonio, University of California Santa Barbara
1:50 PM Cancelled
COS 80-2
 Evidence that dispersal drives ant community assembly in human-altered ecosystems
Joshua R. King, University of Central Florida; Walter R. Tschinkel, Florida State University
2:10 PM
COS 80-3
 Novel and old plant interactions: Do good borders make good neighbors?
Claus Holzapfel, Rutgers University; Hadas A. Parag, Rutgers University; Mark June-Wells, Aquatic Ecosystem Research; Rüdiger Prasse, Leibniz Universität Hannover
2:30 PM
COS 80-4
 Phylogenetic and taxonomic responses of Diptera communities to wetland habitats
Amelie Gregoire Taillefer, McGill University; Terry A. Wheeler, McGill University
2:50 PM
COS 80-5
 Testing the roles of niche differences and rhizobial mutualists in stabilizing coexistence of congeneric legumes
Andrew Siefert, University of California, Davis; Kenneth W. Zillig, University of California, Davis; Maren L. Friesen, Michigan State University; Sharon Y. Strauss, University of California, Davis
3:10 PM
COS 80-
 Break
3:20 PM
COS 80-6
 How to be happy when your data are SAD
Andrew J. Rominger, University of California Berkeley; John Harte, University of California
3:40 PM
COS 80-7
 Disentangling the effects of dispersal limitation, stochasticity, and ecological filtering on community assembly over plant life stages
John Guittar, University of Michigan; Vigdis Vandvik, University of Bergen; Kari Klanderud, Norwegian University of Life Sciences; Astrid Berge, University of Bergen; Marta Ramírez Boixaderes, University of Bergen; Eric Meineri, Stockholm University; Joachim Topper, University of Bergen; Deborah E. Goldberg, University of Michigan
4:00 PM
COS 80-8
 Seasonal changes in the functional community assembly of tropical fishes
Daniel B. Fitzgerald, Texas A&M University; Kirk O. Winemiller, Texas A&M University; Mark H. Sabaj Peréz, Academy of Natural Sciences; Leandro M. Sousa, Universidade Federal do Para
4:20 PM
COS 80-9
 Habitat connectivity and dispersal limitation across an urban landscape
Bianca E. Lopez, University of North Carolina; Dean Urban, Duke University; Peter S. White, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
4:40 PM Cancelled
COS 80-10
 Assembly mechanisms of periphytic diatom spatial and temporal beta diversity across a subsidy-stress gradient in a coastal wetland
Nicholas Schulte, Florida International University; Evelyn Gaiser, Florida International University
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