[UNKNOWN: PRESTIME] THYGERSON, TONYA^*,1, SMITH, BRUCE¹, HANSEN, LEE¹, PENDLETON, ROSEMARY², BOOTH, D. TERRANCE³, ¹ Brigham Young University, Provo, UT² Forestry Sciences Laboratory, Albuquerque, NM³ High Plains Grassland Research Station, Cheyenne, WY. Calorimetric studies of several populations of winterfat (Krascheninnikovia lanata) with different metabolic responses to temperature.

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[UNKNOWN: PRESTIME] Manne, Lisa^*,1,2, ¹ Natural History Museum, London, England² Centre for Biodiversity Research, Vancouver, Canada. More – or less – similarity between cultural and biological diversity in South America?

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[UNKNOWN: PRESTIME] Palmer, Michael^*,1, Earls, Peter¹, White, Peter², Wade, Gary³, Withers, Mark⁴, ¹ Oklahoma State University, Stillwater, OK² University of North Carolina - Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, NC³ USDA Forest Service - Northeastern Research Station, Burlington, VT⁴ University of Washington, WA. How many species? An analysis of North American floras.

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[UNKNOWN: PRESTIME] Pither, Jason^*,1, ¹ Department of Biology, Kingston, ON, Canada. Explaining the variation in range size in North American tree species.

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[UNKNOWN: PRESTIME] SMITH, BRUCE^*,1, CRIDDLE, RICHARD¹, CHURCH, JOHN², HANSEN, LEE¹, ¹ Brigham Young University, Provo, Utah² University of California at Davis, Davis, California. Fundamental causes of the global patterns of species range and richness.

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[UNKNOWN: PRESTIME] Allen, Andrew^*,1, Brown, James¹, Gillooly, James¹, ¹ University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, NM. Global biodiversity, biochemical kinetics, and the energetic-equivalence rule.

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[UNKNOWN: PRESTIME] Harding, Karin^*,1,2, McNamara, John³, ¹ Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, Woods Hole, MA² Swedish Museum of Natural History, Stockholm, Sweden³ University of Bristol, Bristol, England. A generalized framework of metapopulation dynamics.

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[UNKNOWN: PRESTIME] Lehtinen, Richard^*,1, ¹ University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI. Metapopulation dynamics in a natural microcosm.

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[UNKNOWN: PRESTIME] LEVINE, JONATHAN^*,1,2, REES, MARK², ¹ University of California, Los Angeles² Imperial College, London. Coexistence and relative abundance in annual plant assemblages: the roles of competition and colonization.

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[UNKNOWN: PRESTIME] Boyle, Owen^*,1,2, Menges, Eric², Waller, Donald¹, ¹ University of Wisconsin, Madison, WI² Archbold Biological Station, Lake Placid, FL. Metapopulation dynamics at two scales in Polygonella basiramia (Polygonaceae), a Florida scrub endemic plant.

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[UNKNOWN: PRESTIME] GARCIA-RAMOS, GISELA^*,1, STIEHA, CHRISTOPHER¹, MCLETCHIE, NICHOLAS¹, CROWLEY, PHILIP¹, ¹ Center for Ecology, Evolution and Behavior, University of Kentucky, Lexington, KY. Maintenance of sexes under metapopulation dynamics: Modeling a liverwort case.

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[UNKNOWN: PRESTIME] Lopez, Jorge^*,1, Gallinot, Lauren¹, Wade, Michael¹, ¹ Indiana University, Bloomington, IN. Metapopulations and the spread and prevalence of parasites.

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