8:00 AM Cornwell, William^*,1, Ackerly, David^*,1, ¹ Dept. of Biological Sciences, Stanford, CA, USA Assembly of woody plant communities: Patterns of functional trait diversity.

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8:15 AM Cadotte, Marc^*,1, Fukami, Tadashi¹, ¹ Complex Systems Group, Knoxville, Tennessee Community dispersal in a hierarchically-structured landscape and the relationship between local and regional diversity.

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8:30 AM Harpole, W^*,1, Tilman, D¹, ¹ University of Minnesota, St. Paul, MN Non-neutral patterns of species abundance explained by species tradeoffs.

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8:45 AM Horner-Devine, M. Claire^*,1, Bohannan, Brendan¹, ¹ Stanford University, Stanford, CA Phylogenetic diversity and structure of bacterial communities.

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9:00 AM Schwilk, Dylan^*,1, Ackerly, David¹, ¹ Stanford University, Stanford, CA Functional diversity along climatic gradients: A spatial model.

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9:15 AM Stuart, Glenn², Gries, Corinna¹, Hope, Diane^*,1, ² Department of Anthropology, Tempe, AZ, USA¹ Center for Environmental Studies, Tempe, AZ, USA The relationship between pollen and extant vegetation across an arid urban ecosystem and surrounding desert.

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9:30 AM Break.

9:45 AM Angert, Amy^*,1, ¹ Michigan State University, East Lansing, MI Adaptation at geographic range limits of monkeyflowers (Mimulus lewisii and M. cardinalis).

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10:00 AM Chalcraft, David^{*,1, 2}, Williams, Jack¹, Smith, Melinda¹, Willig, Michael², ¹ National Center for Ecological Analysis and Synthesis, Santa Barbara, CA² Texas Tech University, Lubbock, TX Scale dependence in the relationship between diversity and productivity: Assessing the role of spatial and temporal turnover.

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10:15 AM Sears, Anna^*,1, Chesson, Peter¹, ¹ University of California, Davis, CA Spatial storage effect moderates species interactions in diverse ecosystems.

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10:30 AM Orland, Mary^*,1, Kelt, Douglas², ¹ University of California, Davis, Davis, CA, USA² University of California, Davis, Davis, CA, USA Hierarchical resource distribution lowers species diversity in a desert rodent assemblage: Impacts of individual-level processes on community structure.

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10:45 AM McCain, Christy¹, ¹ The University of Kansas, Lawrence, Kansas Species richness patterns of small mammals along an elevational gradient in Costa Rica.

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