COS 124 - Communities: Spatial Patterns And Environmental Gradients 6

Presentations:

• 3:30 PM – 3:45 PM PDT

  Mortality agents driving forest turnover in eastern US forests
  

  Presenting Author: Daniel J. Johnson, PhD – University of Florida

  Coauthor: Lukas Magee, MS – University of Florida

  Coauthor: Kristina Anderson-Teixeira, PhD – Smithsonian’s National Zoo and Conservation Biology Institute & Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute

  Coauthor: Sergio Marconi, PhD – University of Florida

  Coauthor: James A. Lutz, PhD – Department of Wildland Resources, Utah State University
• 3:45 PM – 4:00 PM PDT

  Spatial associations of tree seedlings and other forest plants form complex interaction networks along climate-edaphic gradients of the northeastern United States.
  

  Presenting Author: Martin Dovciak, PhD – SUNY-ESF

  Coauthor: Jordon C. Tourville – Appalachian Mountain Club

  Coauthor: Jay W. Wason – University of Maine
• 4:00 PM – 4:15 PM PDT

  Mesophotic communities: diel patterns and environmental vertical gradients of fish sounds
  

  Presenting Author: Xavier Raick – University of Liege

  Coauthor: Lucia Di Iorio – University of Perpignan Via Domitia

  Coauthor: David Lecchini – Centre de Recherches Insulaires et Observatoire de l’Environnement (CRIOBE)

  Coauthor: Expeditions Under The Pole – Expeditions "Under The Pole"

  Coauthor: Frédéric Bertucci – Institut de recherche pour le developpement (IRD)

  Coauthor: Eric Parmentier – University of Liege
• 4:15 PM – 4:30 PM PDT

  Effects of human presence on mammal occupancy at Hawk Mountain Sanctuary, Pennsylvania
  

  Presenting Author: Shannon M. Keller – Kutztown University

  Coauthor: Andrew Mashintonio – Kutztown University
• 4:30 PM – 4:45 PM PDT

  Interaction specialization and turnover across scales in a tropical-subtropical plant-insect mutualism
  

  Coauthor: Lianjie Zhang – South China National Botanical Garden

  Presenting Author: David Hembry – University of Texas Permian Basin

  Coauthor: Gang Yao – South China Agricultural University

  Coauthor: Shixiao Luo – South China National Botanical Garden
• 4:45 PM – 5:00 PM PDT

  Plant defenses and Conspecific Density-Dependence: Examining patterns in secondary metabolite similarity as an indicator of CDD mechanisms along an elevation gradient
  

  Presenting Author: Ethan D. Torres – Marquette University

  Coauthor: Brian E. Sedio, Ph.D. – University of Texas - Austin

  Coauthor: Joseph A. LaManna – Marquette University