1:30 PM: Yee, Donald^*,1, Juliano, Steven ¹, ¹ Department of Biological Sciences, Normal, Il, USA, It's not easy being brown: Linking productivity, nutrients, and species richness across spatial scales in ephemeral aquatic detritus-based microcosms.

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1:50 PM: Caceres, Carla^*,1, Paczolt, Kimberly¹, Smith, Sigrid¹, Steiner, Christopher¹, ¹ University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Urbana, IL, USA, Local population persistence in zooplankton assemblages: The role of history and interspecific interactions.

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2:10 PM: Crist, Thomas^*,1, ¹ Miami University, Oxford, OH, USA, Scale dependence in beta diversity among open communities: Insights from additive diversity partitions.

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2:30 PM: Cuddington, Kim^*,1, Haydon, Dan ², ¹ Department of Biological Sciences/ Quantitative Biology Institute, Athens, Ohio, USA² Division of Environmental and Evolutionary Biology, Glasgow, UK, Using state transitions to evaluate community stability.

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2:50 PM: Miller, Thomas^*,1, ¹ Florida State University, Tallahassee, FL, Metacommunity succession: The age-structure of invertebrate communities determines patterns of community structure at local and regional scales.

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3:20 PM: Guthrie, Carla^*,1, ¹ Integrative Biology, Austin, Tx, USA, Succession in Heliconia phytotelmata: Spatial structure of the metacommunity impacts local versus regional processes in community development.

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3:40 PM: Johnson, Derek^*,1, ¹ 505 ASI Building, University Park, PA, USA, A gravity model of metapopulation dynamics: Implications for conservation of communities.

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4:00 PM: Matthiessen, Birte^*,1, Hillebrand, Helmut², ¹ Leibniz-Institute of Marine Sciences (IFM-Geomar), Kiel, Germany² University of Cologne, Cologne, Germany, Dispersal rate affects local productivity by controlling local diversity.

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4:20 PM: Chase, Jonathan¹, ¹ Washington University in St. Louis, St. Louis, MO, USA, Regional processes alter predator community structure and the strengths of food web interactions in small ponds.

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4:40 PM: Mouquet, Nicolas^*,1, Miller, Thomas², Daufresne, Tanguy³, Kneitel, Jamie⁴, ¹ ISEM - CNRS - Université de Montpellier, Montpellier, France² Department of Biological Science, Florida State University, Tallahassee, USA³ Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, Princeton University, Princeton, USA⁴ Department of Biological Sciences, California State University, Sacramento, USA, Consequences of varying regional heterogeneity in source-sink metacommunities.

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