COS 166 - Communities: Disturbance And Recovery 8

Presentations:

• 10:00 AM – 10:15 AM PDT

  Tropical urban bees and their response to Hurricane Fiona
  

  Presenting Author: Emily G. Morris – Saint Louis University

  Coauthor: Elvia Melendez-Ackerman – University of Puerto Rico Rio Piedras

  Coauthor: Gerardo R. Camilo – Saint Louis University
• 10:15 AM – 10:30 AM PDT

  Quantifying compositional variability in microbial communities
  

  Presenting Author: Maike Morrison – Stanford University

  Coauthor: Katherine Xue – Stanford University

  Coauthor: Noah Rosenberg – Stanford University
• 10:30 AM – 10:45 AM PDT

  Experimental field trials for multi-species responses to anthropogenic light and noise
  

  Presenting Author: Phoebe Parker-Shames, PhD – University of California, Berkeley

  Coauthor: Alison Smith – Hopland Research and Extension Center

  Coauthor: Peter Oboyski, PhD – Essig Museum of Entomology, UC Berkeley

  Coauthor: Kendall L. Calhoun – University of California, Berkeley

  Coauthor: Christopher J. Schell, PhD – University of California, Berkeley

  Coauthor: Chelsea L. Andreozzi, PhD – UC Davis Institute of the Environment and USDA California Climate Hub

  Coauthor: Mary Power, PhD – University of California, Berkeley

  Coauthor: Justin S. Brashares, PhD – University of California, Berkeley
• 10:45 AM – 11:00 AM PDT

  Novel population cycles in a keystone species cause drastic community-level changes at a grassland-sagebrush ecotone
  

  Presenting Author: Courtney Duchardt – Oklahoma State University

  Coauthor: Jacob Hennig – Oklahoma State University

  Coauthor: Lauren M. Porensky, Rangeland Resources and Systems Research Unit – USDA-ARS

  Coauthor: David Augustine, Ph.D – USDA ARS - Rangeland Resources and Systems Research Unit
• 11:00 AM – 11:15 AM PDT

  The effects of long-term grazing cessation and grazing legacies on vegetation composition, productivity and soil properties in dry Mediterranean grassland
  

  Presenting Author: Renana Lavi – University of Haifa

  Coauthor: Avi Bar-Massada – University of Haifa at Oranim

  Coauthor: Guy Dovrat – Agricultural Research Organization – Volcani Institute
• 11:15 AM – 11:30 AM PDT

  CANCELLED - Temporal resource variability and its constituent effects on aquatic biodiversity: tests with protist communities from pitcher plants
  

  Presenting Author: Amelia Weiss – Cornell University

  Coauthor: Alexander S. Flecker – Cornell University

  Coauthor: Jed P. Sparks – Cornell University