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8 am-11:30 am
9:50 AM COS 178-6 Trebilco, R 1 , JK Baum 2 , AK Salomon 1 and
NK Dulvy 1 , (1)Simon Fraser University, (2)University of
Victoria. Understanding Eltonian biomass pyramids with
size-based ecological theory.
10:10 AM COS 178-7 Morueta-Holme, N 1 , BJ Enquist 2 , BJ McGill 3
and JC Svenning 1 , (1)Aarhus University, (2)University of
Arizona, (3)University of Maine. Patterns and processes
behind the range size distributions of the New World plants.
10:30 AM COS 178-8 Morales-Castilla, I 1 , M Olalla-Tárraga 1 , A
Purvis 2 , B Hawkins 3 and M Rodríguez 1 , (1)Universidad
de Alcalá, (2)Imperial College London, (3)University of
California-Irvine. Cenozoic migrations, extinctions and the
latitudinal gradient in body size of New World mammals.
10:50 AM COS 178-9 Avery, JD 1 , D Fonseca 1 , P Cassey 2 and JL
Lockwood 1 , (1)Rutgers University, (2)University of Adelaide.
Cryptic invasion and the interpretation of island biodiversity.
11:10 AM COS 178-10 Jetz, W 1 and RP Freckleton 2 , (1)Yale
University, (2)University of Sheffield. Predicting species
extinction risk from phylogenetic, spatial and remotely
sensed environmental information.
10:50 AM COS 179-9 Sanchez, Y 1 , W Oechel 1 , D Lipson 1 and E
Troyo Dieguez 2 , (1)San Diego State University, (2)Centro
de Investigaciones Biologicas del Noroeste. Zonal and
tidal effects on trace gas flux in a mangrove ecosystem
in B.C.S, Mexico.
11:10 AM COS 179-10 Black, CK 1 , SC Davis 1 , CJ Bernacchi 2
and EH DeLucia 1 , (1)University of Illinois at Urbana-
Champaign, (2)University of Illinois/USDA-ARS. Elevated
temperature and carbon dioxide prime soil-specific
increases in heterotrophic respiration.
COS 179 - Climate Change: Biogeochem Cycles II
D135, Oregon Convention Center
8:00 AM COS 179-1 McCrackin, M
176 ESA 97th Annual Meeting, August 5 - 10, 2012, Oregon Convention Center
1 , JA Harrison2 and JE
Compton3 , (1)Washington State University, (2)
Washington State University Vancouver, (3)US EPA,
NHEERL, Western Ecology Division. Factors influencing
export of dissolved inorganic nitrogen by major rivers: A
new seasonal, spatially explicit, global model.
8:20 AM COS 179-2 Wood, TE1 , D Matthews2 , KL Vandecar2 and D Lawrence2 , (1)USDA Forest Service, (2)University
of Virginia. Controls on diurnal variation in labile soil
phosphorus of two wet tropical forests.
8:40 AM COS 179-3 Alexander, HD1 , M Mack1 , L Boby-
Sabatinelli1 , TN Hollingsworth2 , S Goetz3 and PSA
Beck3 , (1)University of Florida, (2)Boreal Ecology
Cooperative Research Unit & PNW Research Station
USDA Forest Service, (3)Woods Hole Research Center.
From flames to forests: Carbon dynamics during postfire
succession in Alaskan boreal forests.
9:00 AM COS 179-4 Lichstein, JW1 , N Golaz2 , S Malyshev2 , E
Shevliakova2 , R Birdsey3 and SW Pacala2 , (1)University
of Florida, (2)Princeton University, (3)Forest Service.
Constraining terrestrial biosphere models with forest
inventory data.
9:20 AM COS 179-5 Stoy, PC1 , FA Rains1 , C Welch1 and JG
Evans2 9:40 AM
, (1)Montana State University, (2)Centre for
Ecology and Hydrology. Cold season ecosystem
respiration: The roles of snow and atmosphere in
controlling carbon flux.
Break
9:50 AM COS 179-6 Hicks Pries, CE1 , EF Pegoraro1 , EAG
Schuur1 , MC Mack1 and J DeMarco2 , (1)University of
Florida, (2)New Mexico State University. The effects
of permafrost thaw and climate on decomposition in
subarctic tundra.
10:10 AM COS 179-7 Gray, AN1 , TR Whittier2 and DL Azuma1 , (1)
USDA Forest Service PNW Research Station, (2)Oregon
State University. Improving forest carbon flux estimates
with gain-loss measurements from regional inventories in
Oregon.
10:30 AM COS 179-8 Buckeridge, KM1 , A Baron2 , EAG Schuur3 ,
M Mack3 and JP Schimel1 COS 180 - Community Pattern And Dynamics VIII
D136, Oregon Convention Center
8:00 AM COS 180-1 Miyazono, S and C Taylor, Texas Tech
University. Spatiotemporal metacommunity dynamics in
a desert river system.
8:20 AM COS 180-2 Wondzell, SM
, (1)University of California,
Santa Barbara, (2)Univeristy of Florida, (3)University of
Florida. Soil nutrient cycling response to thermokarst in
northern Alaska.
1 , EH Muldavin2 and JA
Ludwig3 , (1)US Forest Service, (2)University of New
Mexico, (3)CSIRO Ecosystems Science. Longterm
demographics of dominant shrubs in semi-arid
grasslands of the Chihuahuan desert region.
8:40 AM COS 180-3 Pu, Z and L Jiang, Georgia Institute
of Technology. Species colonization history and
environmental heterogeneity
metacommunity assembly.
interact to drive
9:00 AM COS 180-4 Bennett, JA and JF Cahill Jr., University of
Alberta. Linking pollination and plant community ecology:
Decoupled vegetative and reproductive responses.
9:20 AM COS 180-5 Olson, D, KL Metlen and D Borgias, The Nature
Conservancy in Oregon. Gap size through the lens of
understory light environment and shade intolerant species
regeneration: Historic and current tree spatial patterns in
southwestern Oregon mixed conifer/hardwood forests.
9:40 AM Break
9:50 AM COS 180-6 Lake, JK1 , DG Campbell2 , KM Friend1 , JDL
Ferenczi1 , VC Ocampo-Raeder3 , JB Walker4 , J Drury5 and SP Hubbell6 , (1)Adrian College, (2)Grinnell College,
(3)University of Maine, (4)Oklahoma State University,
(5)University of California-Los Angeles, (6)University of
California, Los Angeles. Distribution of functional traits in
Belize forests of varying successional stages.
10:10 AM COS 180-7 van der Plas, F1 , TM Anderson2 and H Olff1 ,
(1)University of Groningen, (2)Wake Forest University.
Trait-based community assembly from a multitrophic
perspective: Bottom-up or top-down regulation?.
10:30 AM COS 180-8 Chesson, P, University of Arizona.
Nonstationary community theory: Rising to the challenge
of long-term environmental change.
10:50 AM COS 180-9 Johnson, AL1 , E Tauzer2 and CM Swan3 ,
(1)University of Maryland Baltimore County, (2)State
University of New York, College of Environmental
Science and Forestry, (3)University of Maryland,
Baltimore County. A metacommunity approach to urban
plant community assembly.
11:10 AM COS 180-10 Muller-Landau, HC1 and FR Adler2 , (1)
Smithsonian Tropical Research Institution, (2)University
of Utah. How the spatial scales of interactions with
natural enemies influence both their contributions to
diversity maintenance and our ability to measure these
contributions – and implications for the interpretation of
Janzen-Connell studies.
COS 181 - Competition II
C124, Oregon Convention Center
8:00 AM COS 181-1 Abrams, PA, University of Toronto. The
population-level consequences of evolutionary
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