8:00 AM: , INTRODUCTION: J. D. WITMAN AND K. ROY.

8:05 AM: Roy, Kaustuv^*,1, Valentine, James², Hunt, Gene¹, ¹ University of California, San Diego, La Jolla, CA, USA² University of California, Berkeley, Berkeley, CA, USA, Historical underpinnings of marine macroecological relationships.

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8:25 AM: Li, William^*,1, ¹ Bedford Institute of Oceanography, Dartmouth, Nova Scotia, Canada, A large scale perspective of the abundance and distribution of marine phytoplankton.

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8:45 AM: Santelices, Bernabe^*,1, Bolton, John², Meneses, Isabel¹, ¹ Pontificia Universidad Catolica de Chile, Santiago, Chile² University of Cape Town, Cape Town, South Africa, Macroecological patterns in macroalgae.

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9:05 AM: Connell, Sean, , The ecology of Australasia's kelp forests and forest dwellers at local and biogeographic scales.

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9:45 AM: McClain, Craig^*,1, Rex, Michael², Etter, Ron², ¹ Department of Biology, Albuquerque, NM, USA² Department of Biology, Boston, MA, USA, Macroecological Patterns in the Deep Sea: General Implications for Ecological Systems.

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10:05 AM: Connolly, Sean^*,1, Hughes, Terry¹, Bellwood, David, ¹ Centre for Coral Reef Biodiversity, Townsville, QLD, Australia, Null models, environmental gradients, and the biodiversity of Indo-Pacific coral reefs.

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10:25 AM: Leichter, James^*,1, Witman, Jon², ¹ Scripps Institution of Oceanography / University of California at San Diego, La Jolla, CA² Brown University, Providence, RI, Vertical and horizontal transport in the coastal oceans: Macroecological consequences of oceanographic forcing.

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10:45 AM: Sagarin, Raphael^*,1, Gaines, Steven², Gaylord, Brian³, Kinlan, Brian², Lester, Sarah², ¹ University of California Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA² University of California Santa Barbara, Santa Barbara, CA³ University of California Davis, Bodega, CA, The impacts of dispersal on marine macroecology.

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11:05 AM: Myers, Ransom^*,1, Tittensor, Derek ¹, Worm, Boris, ¹ Biology Department, Halifax, NX, Canada, Macroecological changes in exploited marine systems.

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11:25 AM: Witman, Jon^*,1, Etter, Ron², Smith, Franz¹, ¹ Brown University, Providence, RI² University of Massachusetts, Boston, MA, Macroecological diversity patterns: A marine-terrestrial comparison.

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