COS 127 - Communities: Disturbance And Recovery 1

Presentations:

• 8:00 AM – 8:15 AM EDT

  Biological soil crusts as ecosystem engineers on mining-disturbed substrates in the low Arctic
  

  Presenting Author: Katherine M. Standen – Plant Sciences, University of Saskatchewan

  Coauthor: Phaedra Cowden – University of Saskatchewan

  Coauthor: Steven Siciliano – University of Saskatchewan

  Coauthor: Eric G. Lamb – Plant Sciences, University of Saskatchewan

  Coauthor: Katherine J. Stewart – Soil Science, University of Saskatchewan
• 8:15 AM – 8:30 AM EDT

  Experimental evidence of matrix effects interacting across scales and altering populations’ responses to landscape change.
  

  Presenting Author: Thomas A. Smith – University of Florida

  Coauthor: Emilio Bruna – University of Florida

  Coauthor: Robert D. Holt – University of Florida

  Coauthor: Robert J. Fletcher – University of Florida
• 8:30 AM – 8:45 AM EDT

  Investigating the effects of temperature variability and heatwaves on pond zooplankton communities
  

  Presenting Author: Christine Bonadonna – University of California, Irvine

  Coauthor: Celia C. Symons – University of California, Irvine

  Coauthor: Emma R. Moffett – University of California, Irvine
• 8:45 AM – 9:00 AM EDT

  Community assembly of the human piercing microbiome
  

  Presenting Author: Charles Xu – Redpath Museum & Department of Biology, McGill University

  Coauthor: Juliette Lemoine – Department of Ecology and Evolution, University of Lausanne

  Coauthor: Avery Albert – Department of Molecular Genetics & Microbiology, University of Toronto

  Coauthor: Élise Mac Whirter – Tattoo Lounge

  Coauthor: Rowan Barrett – Redpath Museum & Department of Biology, McGill University
• 9:00 AM – 9:15 AM EDT

  After the fire: understory plant community dynamics in a post-fire landscape
  

  Presenting Author: Cole J. Doolittle – Marquette University

  Coauthor: Joseph A. LaManna – Marquette University