Printed Program (PDF) - Ecological Society of America

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Service, (2)USDA, ARS, AFSRC, (3)University of Wisconsin.
Vegetation responses and tephra characteristics following
the 2008 eruption of Chaiten volcano, Chile.
PS 27-99 McCune, JL1 and M Vellend2, (1)University of British
Columbia, (2)Université de Sherbrooke. Long-term changes
in plant community diversity in the human-dominated
landscape of southeastern Vancouver Island, Canada.
PS 27-100 Azevedo, FD1, PM Lopes2, AS Rosado1 and VF Farjalla1,
(1)University Federal of Rio de Janeiro, (2)Federal University
of Rio de Janeiro. Spatial turnover drives bacterial beta
diversity in bromeliads tank.
PS 27-101 Fulton, MR, Bemidji State University. Predictability of
fine-scale dynamics in a mixed forest stand: The effect of
abundance measures.
PS 27-102 Zimmermann, CR1, L Green1, JC Zak2, BM Noblitt1 and R
Hart1, (1)Rogers State University, (2)Texas Tech University.
Using phytolith assemblages to reconstruct the history of a
degraded desert grassland in Big Bend National Park.
PS 27-103 Hokkanen, MM, BL Dows, JC Zinnert and DR Young, Virginia
Commonwealth University. Sex and shrub expansion: The
interplay of sex ratio, seed production, and environmental
filtering in shrub expansion patterns on an Atlantic coast
barrier island.
PS 27-104 Resetarits, EJ1, KA Hubbard2, CH Ellis3, MS Parker3, EV
Armbrust3 and DM Anderson2, (1)Columbia University, (2)
Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, (3)University of
Washington. Co-occurrence of Pseudo-nitzschia species
and the neurotoxin domoic acid in the Gulf of Maine during
2008 and 2010.
PS 27-105 Hédl, R1, M Svátek2, D Volařík2, RS Sukri3 and F Metali3,
(1)Institute of Botany of the Czech Academy of Sciences,
(2)Mendel Univesity, (3)Universiti Brunei Darussalam. Big
tree fall as driving factor in the gap dynamics in a mixed
Dipterocarp forest.
PS 27-106 Ferrari-Hoeinghaus, AP1, DJ Hoeinghaus1, RM Takemoto2
and GC Pavanelli2, (1)University of North Texas, (2)
Universidade Estadual de Maringá. Island biogeography
and fish endoparasite diversity.
PS 27-107 Reed, J1, L Souza2, AT Classen3 and NJ Sanders1, (1)
University of Tennessee, (2)University of Oklahoma, (3)
University of Tennessee, Knoxville. Do hemiparasites shape
alpine plant community structure? An observational and
experimental test with Castilleja in the Rocky Mountains,
Colorado.
PS 27-108 Powell, S1, RJ Marquis2, HL Vasconcelos3, F Camarota4
and GV Priest2, (1)The George Washington University, (2)
University of Missouri - St. Louis, (3)Universidade Federal
de Uberlândia, (4)Universidade de Uberlandia. On the
importance of ecosystem engineers in the Neotropical
canopy: How beetle-produced cavities influence community
composition in cavity-nesting arboreal ants.
PS 27-109 Bambrick, E and J Pither, University of British Columbia
Okanagan. Identifying regional influences on beta diversity
of vascular plants within and among British Columbia
ecosystems.
PS 27-110 Hoeinghaus, DJ1, KB Gido2 and WK Dodds2, (1)University
of North Texas, (2)Kansas State University. Assemblagelevel
diversity of life-history strategies along longitudinal
gradients of river systems.
PS 27-111 Vert, JC, CC Walton, S Dunken, RA Gill and ZT Aanderud,
Brigham Young University. From juniper woodlands to
mountain meadows: Impacts of rainfall intensity on soil
bacteria and CO2 pulses.
PS 27-112 Ebert-May, D1, DR Johnson2, PJ Webber1 and CE
Tweedie2, (1)Michigan State University, (2)University of
Texas at El Paso. A new 40-year analysis of plant community
change on Niwot Ridge, Colorado shows increases in shrub
cover and change along soil moisture gradient.
PS 28 - Competition
Exhibit Hall DE, Oregon Convention Center
PS 28-113 Wang, P and PP Mou, Beijing Normal University. Effects
of root plastic responses to spatial and temporal nutrient
heterogeneity on plant inter- and intra-specific competition.
PS 28-114 Esposito, RMM1, B Bedrosian2 and D Craighead2, (1)
University of Louisiana at Lafayette, (2)Craighead Beringia
South. Competition and cooperation in three species of
sympatric corvids.
PS 28-115 Swanson, AB and C Packer, University of Minnesota. Finescale
spatiotemporal partitioning facilitates coexistence
between lions and cheetah in the Serengeti.
PS 28-116 Gosselin, JL and JJ Anderson, University of Washington.
Competition for resources can increase the survival rate of
a population.
PS 28-117 Boyden, SB1, RA Montgomery2, PB Reich2, BJ Palik3
and CC Canham4, (1)Clarion University, (2)University of
Minnesota, (3)USDA Forest Service, Northern Research
Station, (4)Cary Institute of Ecosystem Studies. Resource
gradients affect competitive interactions of tree seedlings
under a heterogeneous canopy.
PS 28-118 Statwick, JM1 and HE Braker2, (1)University of Denver,
(2)Occidental College. The effects of aeolian nitrogen
deposition gradients on sexual reproduction and competitive
relationships of yucca (Hesperoyucca whipplei).
PS 28-119 Yin, J and RO Teskey, University of Georgia. Effect of root
competition between loblolly pine and cherrybark oak
seedlings on root hydraulic conductance under different
rates of fertilization.
PS 28-120 Rehm, JC1, PJ Meyers1, MC Belk1 and C Creighton2, (1)
Brigham Young University, (2)Purdue University, Calumet.
Temporal niche partitioning in two sympatric species of
burying beetles.
PS 29 - Mutualism And Facilitation
Exhibit Hall DE, Oregon Convention Center
PS 29-121 Warkus, EL, DK Nakase, JK Learned and SJ Hall, Arizona
State University. Spatial associations between surface
rocks and succulents in the Agua Fria National Monument.
PS 29-122 Nishi, AH1, J Vasconcellos-Neto2 and GQ Romero2, (1)
Graduate course in Animal Biology, State University of
Sao Paulo (UNESP), (2)State University of Campinas
(UNICAMP). The role of multiple partners in the digestive
mutualism with a protocarnivorous plant.
PS 29-123 Kim, YO1, SH Kim1, RS Redman1, M Tercek2 and R
Rodriguez1, (1)University of Washington, (2)Walking Shadow
Ecology. Fungal endophytes from yellowstone CO2 hot
springs enhance plant growth due to elevated CO2 .
PS 29-124 Bell-Dereske, L, Rice University. Facilitative effects of dune
ecosystem engineer Ammophila breviligulata increase with
density and association with an aboveground symbiont.
PS 29-125 Kuhn, KM, University of Connecticut. Ontogenetic variation
in the benefits of ants to their host plants in an obligate
mutualism.
PS 29-126 Ness, JH1 and JL Bronstein2, (1)Skidmore College, (2)
University of Arizona. Ants on Plants: Distribution of
visitation across plant taxa and plant reproductive condition.
PS 30 - Parasitism And Host-Parasite Interactions
Exhibit Hall DE, Oregon Convention Center
PS 30-127 Frankel, VM1, AP Hendry2 and M Torchin3, (1)McGill
University & Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute,
(2)McGill University, (3)Smithsonian Tropical Research
Institute. A community of biological invaders facilitates
the emergence of a melting-pot of exotic parasites in the
Panama Canal.
PS 30-128 Mocker, DM and ME Gompper, University of Missouri.
Understanding spatial and temporal variation in the
site of attachment by the parasitic copepod Salmincola
californiensis on rainbow trout.
PS 30-129 Mlynarek, JJ, Carleton University. Parasite resistance
due to host habitat specialization in damselfly-water mite
associations.
PS 30-130 Kerr, KT and RL Burke, Hofstra University. Tick-host
ecology in the southeastern U.S. and its implications for
Lyme disease.
PS 30-131 Flanagan, S, AR Black and P Bhuta, Eastern Washington
University. Parasite load, morphology, fecundity, and
genetic structure of the salmon louse, Lepeophtheirus
salmonis, parasitizing three species of pacific salmon.
94 ESA 97th Annual Meeting, August 5 - 10, 2012, Oregon Convention Center