Printed Program (PDF) - Ecological Society of America

8 am-11:30 am
forest regeneration in the Osa Peninsula, Costa Rica.
9:40 AM Break
9:50 AM COS 128-6 Scott, HN 1 , WJ Massman 2 , JM Frank 2 ,
BL Miles 1 and MG Ryan 1 , (1)USDA Forest Service, (2)
Rocky Mountain Research Station, U.S. Forest Service.
Comparing chamber and eddy covariance estimates of
ecosystem respiration during bark beetle mortality in a
subalpine spruce-fir forest.
10:10 AM COS 128-7 Nadon, M 1 , J Baum 2 , R Schroeder 3 , J
McPherson 4 , ID Williams 5 , BL Richards 6 , BJ Zgliczynski 7
and R Brainard 6 , (1)University of Hawaii, (2)University of
Victoria, (3)NOAA Fisheries, Hawaii, USA, (4)Dalhousie
University, (5)NOAA Pacific Islands Fisheries Science
Center, (6)NOAA Fisheries, (7)Scripps Institution of
Oceanography. Relative influences of biotic and abiotic
factors on coral reef fish biomass in the Anthropocene.
10:30 AM COS 128-8 Hollingsworth, TN 1 , JF Johnstone 2 , FS
Chapin 3 and E Bernhardt 4 , (1)Pacific Northwest Research
Station, (2)University of Saskatchewan, (3)University of
Alaska, (4)Forest Inventory and Analysis, PNW Research
Station. Fire severity affects community assemly through
filters on regeneration traits in Alaska boreal forests.
10:50 AM COS 128-9 Burton, PJ, University of Northern British
Columbia, Canadian Forest Service. High mortality levels
observed in old-growth spruce stands of west-central
British Columbia.
11:10 AM COS 128-10 Magoulick, DD, USGS, Arkansas
Cooperative Fish and Wildlife Research Unit. Impacts
of drying and crayfish invasion on stream ecosystem
structure and function .
10:30 AM COS 129-8 Spiesman, BJ and BD Inouye, Florida State
University. The effects of habitat loss, fragmentation,
and matrix quality on metacommunity structure and
ecosystem function.
10:50 AM COS 129-9 Iles, AC, Oregon State University. Towards
predicting community level effects of climate change:
Relative temperature scaling of metabolic and ingestion
rates for a suite of rocky intertidal consumers.
COS 129 - Community Pattern And Dynamics VI
D137, Oregon Convention Center
8:00 AM COS 129-1 Calede, JJ, University of Washington.
Functional diversity of early modern mammalian
communities 30 to 20 million years ago.
8:20 AM COS 129-2 Dahlin, KM
142 ESA 97th Annual Meeting, August 5 - 10, 2012, Oregon Convention Center
1 , GP Asner2 and CB Field2 , (1)
Stanford University, (2)Carnegie Institution for Science.
Ecosystem assembly meets geostatistics: Using airborne
remote sensing and simultaneous autoregression to
understand vegetation patterns in a recently disturbed
landscape.
8:40 AM COS 129-3 Shevtsov, J1 and K Wickings2 , (1)UCLA, (2)
University of New Hampshire. A gradient analysis of
multiple interacting guilds highlights the role of biotic
interactions in structuring communities.
9:00 AM COS 129-4 Beals, SC1 and T Seastedt2 , (1)University
of Colroado, (2)University of Colorado at Boulder. The
effects of prairie dogs (Cynomes spp.) on vegetation
dynamics in Boulder, Colorado.
9:20 AM COS 129-5 Gremer, JR1 , S Kimball2 , KR Keck1 , TE
Huxman1 , AL Angert3 and DL Venable1 , (1)University of
Arizona, (2)University of California, Irvine, (3)Colorado
State University. Water availability, functional trait diversity,
and competitive interactions in Sonoran Desert winter
annuals.
9:40 AM Break
9:50 AM COS 129-6 Paver, SF and A Kent, University of Illinois
at Urbana-Champaign. Context matters: Effects of
phytoplankton on bacterial community composition
change across varying temperature and light conditions.
10:10 AM COS 129-7 Kolasa, J1 , J Kim1 , TN Romanuk2 and
WMA Carscallen2 COS 130 - Conservation Planning, Policy, And Theory I
D138, Oregon Convention Center
8:00 AM COS 130-1 Clements, CF
, (1)McMaster University, (2)Dalhousie
University. Spatial interaction network and species traits
predetermine metacommunity structure and its potential
dynamics.
1 , NT Worsfold2 , PH Warren3 , N
Clark3 , B Collen4 , T Blackburn4 and OL Petchey5 , (1)The
University of Sheffield, (2)University of York, (3)University
of Sheffield, (4)Zoological Society of London, (5)
University of Zurich. Experimentally testing an extinction
predictor.
8:20 AM COS 130-2 Joppa, L1 , D Roberts2 , SL Pimm3 and N
Myers4 , (1)Microsoft Research, (2)University of Kent,
(3)Duke University, (4)Oxford University. Biodiversity
hotspots house most undiscovered plant species.
8:40 AM COS 130-3 Hazarika, AK1 and P Chetry2 , (1)Post
Graduate Department of Zoology, (2)Centre for
9:00 AM
Environment, Education and Economic Development.
Role of stakeholders in conservation of one horned
rhinoceros in the world famous Kaziranga National Park:
An analysis.
COS 130-4 Hansen, A, Montana State University -
Bozeman. A framework for conservation based on
primary productivity and habitat heterogeneity.
9:20 AM COS 130-5 Buenau, KE1 and AJ Tyre2 , (1)Pacific
Northwest National Laboratory, (2)University of Nebraska-
Lincoln. Estimating the value of information for habitat
restoration: Using population models to prioritize research
for the piping plover (Charadrius melodus) on the Missouri
River.
9:40 AM Break
9:50 AM COS 130-6 Foreman, T and G Middendorf, Howard
University. Progressive success of a restored forested
wetland two decades after mitigation.
10:10 AM COS 130-7 Johnson, MF1 , N Kanderian2 , CC Shank2 ,
H Rahmani2 , D Lawson2 and PD Smallwood3 , (1)
Duke University, (2)Wildlife Conservation Society, (3)
University of Richmond. Setting priorities for protected
area planning in a conflict zone: Afghanistan’s National
Protected Area System Plan.
10:30 AM COS 130-8 Swab, R1 , HM Regan1 , DA Keith2 , TJ Regan3 and M Ooi4 , (1)University of California, (2)Department of
Environment and Climate Change New South Wales, (3)
The University of Melbourne, (4)University of Wollongong.
Niche models tell half the story: How life history traits,
fire, and climate change interact.
10:50 AM COS 130-9 Abelson, ES, Stanford University. Relative
brain size as a predictor for mammalian extinction
vulnerability.
11:10 AM COS 130-10 Davies, TD1 and JK Baum2 , (1)Dalhousie
Univerisity, (2)University of Victoria. Extinction risk and
overfishing: Reconciling conservation and fisheries
perspectives on the status of marine fish populations.
COS 131 - Disease And Epidemiology III
D139, Oregon Convention Center
8:00 AM COS 131-1 Buhnerkempe, MG1 , CT Webb1 and M
Boots2 , (1)Colorado State University, (2)University of
Exeter. Asymmetries in dispersal alter coevolutionary
trajectories for host resistance and parasite virulence in a
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