COS 48 - Communities: Assembly And Neutral Theory 3

Presentations:

• 8:00 AM – 8:15 AM EDT

  Diversity and resilience of simulated evolving plasmid communities
  

  Presenting Author: Martin Zwanzig – Technische Universität Dresden

  Coauthor: Uta Berger – Technische Universität Dresden
• 8:15 AM – 8:30 AM EDT

  Disparity in phylogenetic and trait similarity patterns suggests differences in assembly mechanisms for dominant and non-dominant plant species across biomes
  

  Presenting Author: Carlos Alberto Arnillas Merino – University of Toronto — Scarborough

  Coauthor: Risto Virtanen – University of Oulu

  Coauthor: Marta Carboni – University of Rome Tre

  Coauthor: Francesco Maria Sabatini – Università di Bologna

  Coauthor: George Arhonditsis – University of Toronto — Scarborough

  Coauthor: Marc William Cadotte, PhD – University Of Toronto

  Coauthor: sPlot Consortium – iDiv
• 8:30 AM – 8:45 AM EDT

  CANCELLED - Spatial patterns of seed arrival and soil heterogeneity alter plant community assembly in a tallgrass prairie
  

  Presenting Author: Adrian M. Bethel – Wichita State University

  Coauthor: Esben L. Kjaer – School of Natural Resource Sciences - North Dakota State University

  Coauthor: Gregory R. Houseman, PhD – Wichita State University

  Coauthor: Bryan L. Foster – Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology and Kansas Biological Survey, University of Kansas

  Coauthor: Lauri Laanisto – Institute of Agricultural and Environmental Sciences, Estonian University of Life Sciences, Tartu

  Coauthor: Antonio Golubski – Department of Biological Sciences, Delaware State University
• 8:45 AM – 9:00 AM EDT

  Character displacement or priority effects: Immigration timing can affect community assembly with rapid evolution
  

  Presenting Author: Keiichi Morita – SOKENDAI, the Graduate University for Advanced Studies

  Coauthor: Masato Yamamichi – The University of Queensland
• 9:00 AM – 9:15 AM EDT

  Repeatability of conspecific tree neighborhoods from the temperate zone to the tropics
  

  Presenting Author: Nathan Swenson – University of Notre Dame
• 9:15 AM – 9:30 AM EDT

  The impact of small vertebrate consumers on community assembly in degraded California sage scrub
  

  Presenting Author: Taylor N. Edwards – California State Polytechnic University, Pomona

  Coauthor: Ashley L. Bartling – California State Polytechnic University, Pomona

  Coauthor: Maddison R. Mejia – California State Polytechnic University, Pomona

  Coauthor: Sandra C. Dansereau – California State Polytechnic University, Pomona

  Coauthor: Anthony W. Rondon – California State Polytechnic University, Pomona

  Coauthor: Erin J. Questad – California State Polytechnic University, Pomona