Printed Program (PDF) - Ecological Society of America

WEDNESDAY
8 am-11:30 am
Intermountain West.
9:20 AM COS 77-5 Ettinger, AK and J HilleRisLambers,
University of Washington. Testing the limits: Effects of
climate and competition on conifer distributions.
9:40 AM Break
9:50 AM COS 77-6 Way, DA 1 , JC Domec 2 and RB Jackson 3 ,
(1)University of Western Ontario, (2)North Carolina
State University, (3)Duke University. Elevated growth
temperatures alter hydraulic characteristics in trembling
aspen (Populus tremuloides) seedlings: Implications for
tree drought tolerance.
10:10 AM COS 77-7 Jongen, M, S Unger, X Lecomte and JS
Pereira, Instituto Superior de Agronomia, Universidade
Técnica de Lisboa. The impact of changes in the timing
of precipitation on the herbaceous understorey of
Mediterranean evergreen oak woodlands.
10:30 AM COS 77-8 Prasad, A 1 , L Iverson 1 , SN Matthews 2 and
MP Peters 1 , (1)Northern Research Station, USDA Forest
Service, (2)The Ohio State University. Evaluating future
colonizable habitats of four oak species in the eastern
United States using decision-tree based ensemble and
cellular simulation models.
10:50 AM COS 77-9 Fisher, DM, University of Oregon. Postglacial
dynamics of Olympic Peninsula forests: Comparing
predictions and observations.
11:10 AM COS 77-10 Vandegrift, AW, BA Roy, LE Pfeifer-Meister,
TE Tomaszewski, BR Johnson and SD Bridgham,
University of Oregon. Climate change and Epichloë
endophyte infection influences arbuscular mycorrhizal
colonization rates in grasses.
COS 78 - Community Pattern And Dynamics IV
F151, Oregon Convention Center
8:00 AM COS 78-1 Czekanski-Moir, JE, University of Oklahoma.
The geometry of coexistence: Resource configuration
alters richness and limiting similarity in an ant assemblage.
8:20 AM COS 78-2 Flügge, AJ, SC Olhede and DJ Murrell,
University College London. The memory of spatial
patterns – Using information from spatial pattern to
detect changes in the abundance of tropical tree species.
8:40 AM COS 78-3 Craven, DJ1 , M van Breugel2 , J Hall2 ,
MS Ashton1 and GP Berlyn1 , (1)Yale University, (2)
Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute. Coordination of
plant functional traits in predicting relative abundance of
42 tropical tree species during secondary succession in
Central Panama.
9:00 AM COS 78-4 Richgels, KLD, JT Hoverman and PT
Johnson, University of Colorado. Evaluating community
structure and the role of regional and local processes in
larval trematode metacommunities of Helisoma trivolvis.
9:20 AM COS 78-5 Lampert, A, Weizmann Institute. Resonance-
Induced Multimodal Body-Size Distributions.
9:40 AM Break
9:50 AM COS 78-6 Zhang, J1 , WD Kissling2 and F He1 , (1)
University of Alberta, (2)Aarhus University. Local forest
structure, climate, and human land cover determine
broad-scale gradients of boreal bird species richness.
10:10 AM COS 78-7 Grönroos, MM1 , JM Heino1 , LM Bini2 , T
Siqueira3 , VL Landeiro2 and JA Kotanen4 , (1)Finnish
Environment Institute, (2)Federal University of Goiás, (3)
Universidade Estadual Paulista, (4)Centre for Economic
Development, Transport and the Environment for South
Savo. Does the importance of environmental and spatial
variables in structuring stream macroinvertebrate
metacommunities depend on dispersal mode?.
10:30 AM COS 78-8 Fresquez, CC, University of California,
Santa Cruz. Distributional boundaries of salt marsh
ecotone plant community are influenced by competitive
interactions at both harsh and benign ends of an
environmental gradient.
10:50 AM COS 78-9 Cornell, SJ 1 , J O’Dwyer 2 and O al Hammal 1 ,
(1)University of Leeds, (2)Santa Fe Institute. Linking
species area curves to spatially explicit community
models.
11:10 AM COS 78-10 D’Amato, AW 1 , M Reinikainen 1 , S Fraver 2 ,
BJ Palik 3 and K Gill 1 , (1)University of Minnesota, (2)
USDA Forest Service, (3)USDA Forest Service, Northern
Research Station. Stand dynamics and structure of oldgrowth
Fraxinus nigra systems: Critical baselines for a
foundation species in peril.
COS 79 - Conservation Management IV
D136, Oregon Convention Center
8:00 AM COS 79-1 Henareh Khalyani, A, AL Mayer, CR Webster
and MJ Falkowski, Michigan Technological University.
Protection impact assessment at two scales in the Bozin
and Marakhil protected area, Iran.
8:20 AM COS 79-2 Connors, B 1 , D Braun 1 , R Peterman 1 ,
A Cooper 1 , J Reynolds 1 , L Dill 1 , G Ruggerone 2 and
M Krkosek 3 , (1)Simon Fraser Univeristy, (2)Natural
Resources Consultants, (3)University of Otago. Migration
links ocean-scale competition and local climate with
exposure to farmed salmon to shape wild salmon
dynamics.
8:40 AM COS 79-3 Knowlton, JL 1 , DJ Flaspohler 1 and T
Fukami 2 , (1)Michigan Technological University, (2)
Stanford University. Interactive effects of invasive rats
and forest fragmentation on nest survival and behavior of
native Hawaiian birds.
9:00 AM COS 79-4 Fordham, DA 1 , HR Akcakaya 2 , BW Brook 1 ,
MJ Watts 1 , A Rodriguez 3 and M Araújo 4 , (1)University
of Adelaide, (2)Stony Brook University, (3)Estación
Biológica de Doñana (CSIC), (4)Museo Nacional de
Ciencias Naturales. Climate change, prey availability
and managed relocations: Mitigating extinction risk for
Iberian Lynx, the world’s most threatened cat.
9:20 AM COS 79-5 Oo, WP, Yokohama National University.
Conservation prioritization of dry forest community
types, and species in the central dry of Myanmar.
9:40 AM Break
9:50 AM COS 79-6 Bierzychudek, P 1 and K Warner 2 , (1)
Lewis & Clark College, (2)Colorado State University.
Understanding caterpillar movement to guide habitat
restoration for the Oregon Silverspot Butterfly, Speyeria
zerene hippolyta.
10:10 AM COS 79-7 Randall, LA 1 , DHV Smith 1 , BL Jones 1 , DRC
Prescott 2 and A Moehrenschlager 1 , (1)Calgary Zoo, (2)
Alberta Sustainable Resource Development. No evidence
of non-assisted northern leopard frog (Lithobates pipiens)
recovery in southern Alberta, Canada.
10:30 AM COS 79-8 Freed, S, EF Granek and V Dujon, Portland
State University. Influence of resource use and
management on coral reef health in the Comoros.
10:50 AM COS 79-9 Veloz, SD 1 , N Nur 1 , L Salas 1 , D Stralberg 2 ,
D Jongsomjit 1 , J Wood 1 , L Liu 1 and G Ballard 1 , (1)
PRBO Conservation Science, (2)University of Alberta.
Prioritizing tidal marsh conservation and restoration
efforts given high uncertainty due to future environmental
change.
11:10 AM COS 79-10 Kurle, CM 1 , ME Finkelstein 2 , J Aukema 3 ,
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