[UNKNOWN: PRESTIME] McIntyre, Blodwyn^*,1, ¹ University of Redlands, Redlands, CA. The role of spatial scale in neotropical migrant bird habitat selection: A local conservation issue.

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[UNKNOWN: PRESTIME] Jones, Kingsford^*,1, Hansen, Andrew¹, ¹ Montana State University, Bozeman, Montana. Spatial variation in drivers of bird species richness.

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[UNKNOWN: PRESTIME] Rabenold, Kerry^*,1, Jankowski, Jill¹, ¹ Department of Biological Sciences, West Lafayette, IN. Spatial organization of diversity in tropical montane forest avifaunas: implications for persistence of endemic species.

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[UNKNOWN: PRESTIME] Dunn, Robert^*,1, ¹ Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, University of Connecticut, Storrs, CT. Does disturbance affect beta diversity? Neotropical bird responses to forest disturbance at two spatial scales.

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[UNKNOWN: PRESTIME] Kark, Salit^*,1, Alnutt, Tom², Brooks, Tom³, Manne, Lisa⁴, ¹ Stanford University, Stanford, CA² World Wildlife Fund-US Conservation Science Program, Washington, DC³ Conservation International Center for Applied Biodiversity Science, Washington, DC⁴ Natural History Museum, London. Ecotones as diversity centers: Richness and rarity patterns in New World passerines.

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[UNKNOWN: PRESTIME] MELBOURNE, BRETT^*,1,3, DAVIES, KENDI^1,3, CUNNINGHAM, ROSS², JAMES, CRAIG³, GRIFFIN, GRAHAM³, ¹ University of California, Davis³ CSIRO Centre for Arid Zone Research, Alice Springs, Australia² Australian National University, Canberra. Change in bird populations in the Australian arid zone over 25 years.

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[UNKNOWN: PRESTIME] DAVIES, KENDI^*,1, MELBOURNE, BRETT¹, CUNNINGHAM, ROSS², JAMES, CRAIG³, GRIFFIN, GRAHAM³, ¹ University of California, Davis, CA² Australian National University, Australia³ CSIRO Sustainable Ecosystems, Australia. Traits of birds predict their responses to increasing pastoralism: a 25-year, continent-scale study.

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[UNKNOWN: PRESTIME] Bossart, Janice^*,1, Opuni-Frimpong, Emmanuel², ¹ The College of New Jersey, Ewing, NJ² Forestry Research Institute of Ghana, Kumasi, Ghana. Temporal diversity of frugivorous butterflies in Ghana's sacred forest .

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[UNKNOWN: PRESTIME] Tooker, John^*,1, Hanks, Lawrence¹, ¹ Department of Entomology, Urbana, IL. Cryptic species of gall wasps (Hymenoptera: Cynipidae: Antistrophus rufus) specialized in prairie forbs (Asteraceae: Silphium).

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[UNKNOWN: PRESTIME] Lyon, David^*,1, Moran, Matthew¹, ¹ Hendrix College, Conway, AR. Patterns of arthropods inhabiting epiphytes in a temperate deciduous forest.

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[UNKNOWN: PRESTIME] Buchmann, Stephen^*,1, Donovan, Arthur^1,2, Rabe, Michael³, Minckley, Robert⁴, ¹ The Bee Works, Tucson, AZ² University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ³ Arizona Game and Fish Department, Phoenix, AZ⁴ University of Utah, Salt Lake City, UT. Assessing native bee and other pollinator diversity on theYuma Proving Grounds and Kofa Wildlife Refuge in SW Arizona.

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