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THURSDAY
8 am-11:30 am
plant communities?: Linking gradients of temperature,
precipitation, and available soil nitrogen to plant growth
and chemistry.
COS 124 - Behavior: Migration And Movement
B114, Oregon Convention Center
8:00 AM COS 124-1 Breckheimer, I1 , NM Haddad2 , WF Morris3 ,
B Hudgens4 , RT Jobe5 , AM Trainor6 , WR Fields2 , JR
Walters7 and A Moody1 , (1)University of North Carolina,
Chapel Hill, (2)North Carolina State University, (3)Duke
University, (4)Institute for Wildlife Studies, (5)University
of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, NC, (6)Yale University,
(7)Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University.
Connectivity flagships and umbrellas: Evaluating
8:20 AM
surrogate species for the conservation of landscape
connectivity.
COS 124-2 Hoch, JM, MR Bush and JC Trexler, Florida
International University. Inferring directional migration of
fish in a seasonally varying wetland.
8:40 AM COS 124-3 Cumming, GS1 , N Gaidet2 and M Ndlovu3 ,
(1)University of Cape Town, (2)Cirad, (3)Percy FitzPatrick
Institute. Linking movement ecology and biogeography:
The fascinating case of afrotropical ducks.
9:00 AM COS 124-4 Kölzsch, A1 , A Alzate2 , F Bartumeus3 and
J Van de Koppel4 , (1)Netherlands Institute of Ecology
(NIOO-KNAW), (2)University of Groningen, (3)Centre
d’Estudis Avancats de Blanes (CEAB-CSIC), (4)Royal
Netherlands Institute for Sea Research (NIOZ). Mud
snails move with fat tails: Experimental evidence for
intrinsic Lévy signatures.
9:20 AM COS 124-5 Laidre, K1 , EW Born2 , E Gurarie1 , Wiig3 , R
Dietz4 and H Stern1 , (1)University of Washington, (2)
Greenland Institute of Natural Resources, (3)University
of Oslo, (4)Aarhus University. Females roam while males
patrol: Divergence in large-scale movements of polar
bears during the spring pack-ice breeding season.
9:40 AM Break
9:50 AM COS 124-6 Niebuhr, BBS1 , EP Raposo2 , GM
Viswanathan3 , MGE da Luz1 and MR Pie1 , (1)
Universidade Federal do Paraná, (2)Universidade
Federal de Pernambuco, (3)Universidade Federal de
Alagoas. Using spatially explicit random walk models of
animal movement as a tool for the outline of conservation
areas.
10:10 AM COS 124-7 Bush, MR and JC Trexler, Florida International
University. Landscape factors affecting movement
decisions by large predators in an aquatic ecosystem.
10:30 AM COS 124-8 Armstrong, JB1 , D Schindler2 , CP Ruff1 , CE
Torgersen3 , GE Brooks4 and KE Bentley1 , (1)University
of Washington School of Aquatic and Fisheries Science,
(2)University of Washington, (3)U.S. Geological Survey,
(4)National Oceanic and Atmospheric Association. Dine
and dash: Juvenile coho salmon eliminate trade-offs
between thermal and trophic resources during a pulsed
subsidy.
10:50 AM COS 124-9 Cooney, SA1 , EM Schauber1 and EC
Hellgren2 , (1)Southern Illinois University Carbondale, (2)
Southern Illinois University. Quantifying edge and matrix
permeability for a terrestrial wetland specialist.
11:10 AM COS 124-10 LovellFord, RM1 , RL Flitcroft2 , MV
Santelmann1 , GE Grant2 , SL Lewis1 , M Safeeq1 and LS
Jackson3 , (1)Oregon State University, (2)US Department
of Agriculture Forest Service, (3)Oregon Department
of Fish and Wildlife. Different cues at different scales:
Hydrologic regimes cue upstream migration of coho
salmon (Oncorhynchus kisutch) at different locations
within the stream network of the Umpqua River Basin.
COS 125 - Biodiversity III
B115, Oregon Convention Center
8:00 AM COS 125-1 Lopez, BE1 , KR Burgio2 , MB Carlucci3 ,
KA Palmquist1 , A Parada4 , PA Wilfahrt1 and VP
Weinberger5 , (1)University of North Carolina, (2)
University of Connecticut, (3)Universidade Federal do
Rio Grande do Sul, (4)Pontificia Universidad Católica,
(5)Pontificia Universidad Catolica de Chile, Instituto de
Ecología y Biodiversidad. A novel conceptual framework
for using functional and phylogenetic diversity to identify
community assembly processes along environmental
gradients.
8:20 AM COS 125-2 Liu, X, M Liang and S Yu, Sun Yat-sen
University. Host functional traits can explain withinspecies
variation of the Janzen-Connell effect.
8:40 AM COS 125-3 Coyle, JR, P Wilfahrt, BE Lopez, K Palmquist,
FW Halliday, K Becraft, C Fieseler, C Hakkenberg, CJ
Payne, K Peck, D Tarasi, C Urbanowicz, C Mitchell,
RK Peet and AH Hurlbert, University of North Carolina.
Inference of ecological processes structuring tree
communities in eastern North America using functional
and phylogenetic diversity.
9:00 AM COS 125-4 Lefcheck, J, A Bucheister, S Chak, T Clardy,
KM Laumann, PL Reynolds, K Sobocinski, M Stratton
and JE Duffy, Virginia Institute of Marine Science, The
College of William & Mary. Components of biodiversity
in a Chesapeake Bay groundfish assemblage: A highresolution
analysis of patterns and drivers.
9:20 AM COS 125-5 Janousek, CN and CL Folger, US
9:40 AM
Environmental Protection Agency. High plant diversity
in Oregon tidal wetlands and multiple threats to its
persistence.
Break
9:50 AM COS 125-6 Podgaiski, LR1 , F Joner1 , S Lavorel2 , M
Moretti3 , S Ibanez3 , M Mendonça Jr. 1 and VD Pillar1 ,
(1)Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul, (2)
Université Joseph Fourier, (3)Swiss Federal Research
Institute WSL. Resilience of spider functional diversity to
fire in South Brazilian Grasslands.
10:10 AM COS 125-7 Marín, L1 , B Connor Berrie1 , KK Ennis2 ,
DJ Gonthier3 , HY Hsieh3 , A Iverson1 , J Remfert1 , BJ
Cardinale3 and I Perfecto3 , (1)University of Mchigan, (2)
University of Toledo, (3)University of Michigan. Tradeoffs
and synergies of ecosystem services in diverse and nondiverse
agroecosystems.
10:30 AM COS 125-8 Anacker, BL and SP Harrison, University of
California, Davis. Historical and ecological controls on
phylogenetic diversity in Californian plant communities.
10:50 AM COS 125-9 Ebeling, A1 , N Eisenhauer2 , ST Meyer3 ,
A Vogel1 and WW Weisser4 , (1)Friedrich Schiller
University, (2)University of Minnesota, (3)TU Munich, (4)
TUM Munich. Plant diversity enhances the density and
diversity of aboveground arthropods and the ecosystem
processes they govern.
11:10 AM COS 125-10 Yuan, C and P Chesson, University
of Arizona. The role of asymmetric sensitivities in
environmental responses on promoting species
coexistence in variable environment.
COS 126 - Biogeochemistry: Biogeo Patterns Along
Environmental Gradients I
F150, Oregon Convention Center
8:00 AM COS 126-1 Moon-Nielsen, LG and CH Orr, Washington
State University. Improving estimates of in-stream
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