8:00 AM: Legendre, Pierre^*,1, Borcard, Daniel¹, ¹ Département de sciences biologiques, Montréal, Québec, Canada, Partitioning spatial and temporal dynamics at multiple scales.

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8:20 AM: Houlahan, Jeff^*,1, on Data Sharing, NCEAS Working Group, ¹ University of New Brunswick at Saint John, Saint John, Are diverse natural communities more stable or are stable natural communities more diverse?

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8:40 AM: Cumming, Graeme^*,1, Houlahan, Jeff², Fuhlendorf, Sam³, ¹ Department of Wildlife Ecology and Conservation, Gainesville, FL, USA² Department of Biology, Saint John, New Brunswick, Canada³ Department of Plant and Soil Sciences, Stillwater, OK, USA, Linking spatial and temporal variability: Do dynamic feedbacks exist?

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9:00 AM: Ernest, Morgan^*,1, Gaedke, Ursula², Muldavin, Esteban ³, Stevens, Richard⁴, Willis, Theodore⁵, Woiwod, Ian⁶, ¹ Utah State University, Logan, UT² Universitat Potsdam, Potsdam, Germany³ University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, NM⁴ Louisianna State University, Baton Rouge, LA⁵ University of Toronto, Toronto, Canada⁶ Rothamsted Research, Harpenden, United Kingdom, The temporal dynamics of community structure.

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9:20 AM: Cottenie, Karl^*,1, Ernest, Morgan², Fuhlendorf, Samuel³, Stevens, Richard⁴, ¹ University of California, Santa Barbara, Santa Barbara² Utah State University, Logan³ Oklahoma State University, Stillwater⁴ Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge, Dispersal through time: Temporal metacommunity dynamics of annual desert plant communities.

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9:50 AM: Findlay, C. Scott^*,1, Houlahan, Jeff², ¹ University of Ottawa, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada² University of New Brunswick Saint John, Saint John, New Brunswick, Canada, Incentives and disincentives to data sharing among ecologists.

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10:10 AM: Woiwod, Ian^*,1, Currie, David², Fuhlendorf , Sam³, Gaedke , Ursula⁴, Houlahan, Jeff⁵, Willis, Theo⁶, ¹ Rothamsted Research, Harpenden, Hertfordshire, UK² University of Ottawa, Ottawa, Canada³ Oklahoma State University, Stillwater⁴ University of Potsdam, Potsdam, Germany⁵ University of New Brunswick, Saint John, Canada⁶ University of Toronto, Toronto, Canada, A test of the 'neutral model' assumption of stochastic zero-sum communities.

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10:30 AM: Gaedke, Ursula^*,1, ¹ Institute for Biochemistry and Biology, Potsdam, Germany, Compensatory dynamics among populations influence community variability more strongly than diversity in plankton populations.

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10:50 AM: Russell, Roly^*,1, Wood, Spencer², Fuhlendorf, Sam³, Muldhavin , Esteban⁴, Woiwod, Ian⁵, ¹ Oregon State University, Corvallis, Oregon, U.S.A.² University of British Columbia, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada³ Oklahoma State University, Stillwater, Oklahoma, U.S.A.⁴ University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, New Mexico, U.S.A.⁵ Rothamsted Research, Harpenden, Hertfordshire, U.K., Why empirical tests of theory mandate more attention to ecological context: Using local versus regional drivers of local species richness as a case-study.

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