COS 128 - Communities: Spatial Patterns And Environmental Gradients 3

Presentations:

• 8:00 AM – 8:15 AM EDT

  Effective island area: Disentangling species-area relationships in the Galápagos Islands
  

  Presenting Author: Ella Martin – McGill University

  Coauthor: Andrew P. Hendry – Redpath Museum and Dept of Biology, McGill University
• 8:15 AM – 8:30 AM EDT

  Misalignments between where species are found vs. where they should be found reveals shape of persistence-area relationships and their drivers
  

  Presenting Author: Megan C. Szojka – University of Wyoming

  Coauthor: Lauren G. Shoemaker – University of Wyoming

  Coauthor: Rachel Germain – University of British Columbia
• 8:30 AM – 8:45 AM EDT

  Intermediate elevations support the highest tropical mammal diversity
  

  Presenting Author: Lydia Beaudrot, PhD – Rice University

  Coauthor: Chia Hsieh – Program in Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, Department of Biosciences, Rice University

  Coauthor: Daniel Gorczynski – Rice University

  Coauthor: Jade Tonos Luciano – University of California Berkeley

  Coauthor: Marion L. Donald – Manaaki Whenua Landcare Research

  Coauthor: Luke Frishkoff – University of Texas at Arlington

  Coauthor: Daniel S. Karp – University of California, Davis

  Coauthor: Rahel Sollmann – University of California Davis

  Coauthor: Jean-Philippe Lessard, n/a – Concordia University

  Coauthor: Jorge Ahumada – Conservation International

  Coauthor: Patricia Alvarez-Loayza – Duke University

  Coauthor: Kelly Boekee – Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute, Balboa, Ancon, Republic of Panama

  Coauthor: Ahimsa Campos-Arceiz – University of Nottingham Malaysia

  Coauthor: Santiago Espinosa – Universidad Autónoma de San Luis Potosí

  Coauthor: Krisna Gajapersad – Conservation International Suriname

  Coauthor: Marcella Guimaraes Moreira Lima – Universidade Federal do Pará

  Coauthor: Mahandry Hugues Andrianarisoa – Centre ValBio

  Coauthor: Johanna Hurtado Asiaiza – Organization for Tropical Studies

  Coauthor: Patrick A. Jansen – Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute, Balboa, Ancon, Republic of Panama; Forest Ecology and Forest Management Group, Wageningen University & Research

  Coauthor: Steig E. Johnson – University of Calgary

  Coauthor: Charles Kayijamahe – International Gorilla Conservation Programme

  Coauthor: Badru Mugerwa – Leibniz Institute for Zoo and Wildlife Research

  Coauthor: Timothy O'Brien – Wildlife Conservation Society

  Coauthor: Francesco Rovero – University of Florence

  Coauthor: Julia Salvador – Wildlife Conservation Society

  Coauthor: Fernanda Santos – Oak Ridge National Laboratory

  Coauthor: Douglas Sheil – Wageningen University

  Coauthor: Wilson Spironello – Instituto Nacional de Pesquisas da Amazônia
• 8:45 AM – 9:00 AM EDT

  A global biogeographic regionalization of gobies (Gobioidei)
  

  Presenting Author: Kendall Johnson – Texas A&M University - Corpus Christi

  Coauthor: Barnabas Daru – Texas A&M University - Corpus Christi
• 9:00 AM – 9:15 AM EDT

  Plant communities as microclimate sensors: a new approach to climate downscaling using North American trees as bioindicators
  

  Presenting Author: Matthew Kling, n/a – University of Vermont

  Coauthor: Kathryn C. Baer – USDA Forest Service Anchorage Forestry Sciences Laboratory

  Coauthor: David D. Ackerly – University of California, Berkeley
• 9:15 AM – 9:30 AM EDT

  Describing herbivorous coral reef fish assemblages across multiple spatial scales
  

  Presenting Author: Scott Miller – Florida State University

  Coauthor: Andrew Rassweiler – Florida State University

  Coauthor: Sally Holbrook – University of California - Santa Barbara