COS 107 - Communities: Spatial Patterns And Environmental Gradients 2

Presentations:

• 3:30 PM – 3:45 PM EDT

  Taxonomic biotic homogenization between winter and breeding bird communities in the northeastern United States
  

  Presenting Author: Shannon R. Curley – The College of Staten Island, City University of New York

  Coauthor: Jose R. Ramirez-Garofalo – Rutgers University

  Coauthor: Marlan Acosta – The College of Staten Island, City University of New York

  Coauthor: Julie L Lockwood – Ecology, Evolution and Natural Resources and Institute of Earth, Ocean and Atmospheric Science, Rutgers University

  Coauthor: Richard R. Veit – The College of Staten Island, City University of New York

  Coauthor: Lisa L. Manne – The College of Staten Island, City University of New York
• 3:45 PM – 4:00 PM EDT

  CANCELLED - Seed banks in metacommunities: when and how do they maintain biodiversity?
  

  Presenting Author: Nathan I. Wisnoski, n/a – University of Wyoming

  Coauthor: Lauren G. Shoemaker – University of Wyoming
• 4:00 PM – 4:15 PM EDT

  CANCELLED - Structuration of habitat-species associations resulting from low environmental gradients effect in a semi-deciduous tropical rainforest in eastern Cameroon
  

  Presenting Author: Jules Christian Zekeng – Department of Environmental Science, Faculty of Science, Copperbelt University

  Coauthor: Marguerite Marie Abada Mbolo – Department of Plant Biology, Faculty of Science, University of Yaounde I

  Coauthor: Jean Louis Fobane – Department of Biology, Higher Teachers’ Training College, University of Yaounde I

  Coauthor: Maginot Ngangyo Heya – Facultad de Agronomía, Universidad Autónoma de Nuevo León (UANL)

  Coauthor: Rozane WANDJI SAKOU – Department of Plant Biology, Faculty of Science, University of Yaounde I

  Coauthor: Wanda N. Mphinyane – Department of Environmental Science, Faculty of Science, University of Botswana

  Coauthor: Reuben Sebego – Department of Environmental Science, Faculty of Science, University of Botswana
• 4:15 PM – 4:30 PM EDT

  Spatial turnover overrides temporal turnover in two plant-pollinator communities
  

  Presenting Author: Ainhoa Magrach – Basque Centre for Climate Change-BC3
• 4:30 PM – 4:45 PM EDT

  Shifts in optimal trait values rather than plasticity underpin ant community structuring in extremely cold and dry environments
  

  Presenting Author: Javier Ibarra-Isassi, n/a – Concordia University

  Coauthor: I. Tanya Handa – Université du Québec à Montréal

  Coauthor: Jean-Philippe Lessard, n/a – Concordia University
• 4:45 PM – 5:00 PM EDT

  Climate variability, not predation pressure, drives interspecific variation of butterfly eyespots globally.
  

  Presenting Author: Chia-Hsuan Wei – Department of Life Sciences, National Cheng Kung University

  Coauthor: Shin-Hung Jiang – Department of Life Sciences, National Cheng Kung University

  Coauthor: I-Ching Chen – Department of Life Sciences, National Cheng Kung University