COS 7 - Communities: Assembly And Neutral Theory 1

Presentations:

• 1:30 PM – 1:45 PM EDT

  Historical dispersal and the maintenance of biodiversity in a fluctuating climate
  

  Presenting Author: Jessica Kowalski – University of British Columbia

  Coauthor: Benjamin Gilbert – University of Toronto, Department of Ecology & Evolutionary Biology

  Coauthor: Rachel Germain – University of British Columbia
• 1:45 PM – 2:00 PM EDT

  Relative importance of niches versus immigration in driving the diversity of intertidal communities
  

  Presenting Author: Lynette HL Loke, n/a – Macquarie University

  Coauthor: Ryan A Chisholm – National University of Singapore
• 2:00 PM – 2:15 PM EDT

  105+ years of vegetation change in the Sonoran Desert: the impact of climate on species turnover and demography
  

  Presenting Author: Charlotte Brown – Desert Laboratory on Tumamoc Hill, University of Arizona

  Coauthor: Susana Rodriguez-Buritica – Alexander von Humboldt Biological Resources Research Institute

  Coauthor: Deborah Goldberg – University of Arizona, University of Michigan

  Coauthor: Frank Reichenbacher – Desert Laboratory on Tumamoc Hill, University of Arizona

  Coauthor: Larry Venable – University of Arizona

  Coauthor: Robert H. Webb – University of Arizona

  Coauthor: Benjamin T. Wilder – Desert Laboratory on Tumamoc Hill, University of Arizona
• 2:15 PM – 2:30 PM EDT

  Vegetation community assembly patterns in boreal peatlands: using a spatial hierarchical approach
  

  Presenting Author: Marc-Fr�d�ric Indorf – Centre d’étude de la forêt, Institut de Recherche sur les Forêts (IRF), Université du Québec en Abitibi-Témiscamingue (UQAT)

  Coauthor: Tana Route – Centre d’étude de la forêt, Institut de Recherche sur les Forêts (IRF), Université du Québec en Abitibi-Témiscamingue (UQAT)

  Coauthor: Yves Bergeron, Forest Research Institute – Forest Research Institute, Université du Québec en Abitibi-Témiscamingue

  Coauthor: Nicole J. Fenton – Institut de Recherche sur les Forêts (IRF), Université du Québec en Abitibi-Témiscamingue (UQAT)
• 2:30 PM – 2:45 PM EDT

  Microbes at the center of networks are keystone species during early colonization of a natural ecosystem.
  

  Presenting Author: Amanda Rawstern – University of Miami

  Coauthor: Damian J. Hernandez – University of Miami

  Coauthor: Michelle E. Afkhamii – University of Miami
• 2:45 PM – 3:00 PM EDT

  CANCELLED - A test of the species-sorting hypothesis in avian communities along three latitudinal gradients in North America
  

  Presenting Author: Alessandro Bartolo – California State University Long Beach

  Coauthor: Juan Pablo Gomez – Universidad del Norte

  Coauthor: Ari Martínez – California State University Long Beach