1:30 PM: Pittman, Simon^*,1, Shapiro, Aurelie¹, Caldow, Chris¹, Monaco, Mark¹, ¹ NOAA/NOS/CCMA Biogeography Program, Silver Spring, Maryland, USA, Linking fish assemblages to marine landscape structure at multiple spatial scales.

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1:50 PM: Ruttenberg, Benjamin^*,1, Warner, Robert¹, ¹ University of California, Santa Barbara, CA, A tale of two fishes: Patterns and causes of regional ecological variation in congeneric damselfishes in the Galápagos Islands.

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2:10 PM: Irving, Andrew^*,1, Connell, Sean¹, Gillanders, Bronwyn¹, ¹ Southern Seas Ecology Laboratories, The University of Adelaide, Adelaide, South Australia, Australia, Canopy-understorey associations in kelp forests across temperate Australia: Complexity and consistency from local to regional scales.

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2:30 PM: Altieri, Andrew^*,1, Silliman, Brian ², Bertness, Mark¹, ¹ Brown University, Providence, RI, United States² Virginia Institute of Marine Science, Gloucester Point, VA, United States, Spartina alterniflora facilitates rocky shore mussel reefs through a hierarchy of positive interactions.

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2:50 PM: Kappel, Carrie^*,1, Micheli, Fiorenza¹, Brumbaugh, Daniel², Dahlgren, Craig³, Harborne, Alastair⁴, Holmes, Katherine², ¹ Hopkins Marine Station, Pacific Grove, CA, United States² American Museum of Natural History, New York, NY, United States³ Caribbean Marine Research Center, Lee Stocking Island, The Bahamas⁴ University of Exeter, Exeter, United Kingdom, Spatial scaling of diversity and rarity in coral and fish communities.

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3:20 PM: Cruz-Motta, Juan ^*,1,2, Underwood, A¹, Chapman, M¹, Tolhurst, T¹, ¹ University of Sydney, NSW, Australia² Depto. Estudios Ambientales, Caracas, Miranda, Venezuela, Biotic and abiotic factors controlling recolonization processes in boulder-fields located in highly urbanized estuaries.

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3:40 PM: Pech, Daniel^*,1, Bourget, Edwin², Ardisson, Pedro-Luis³, ¹ Québec-Océan, Québec, Québec, Canada² Vice-rectorat à la recherche, Sherbrooke, Québec, Canada³ CINVESTAV-IPN, Mérida, Yucatan, Mexico, Scale-dependent role of physical factors on abundance patterns of benthic intertidal invertebrates.

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4:00 PM: Boizard, Sophie^*,1, De Wreede, Robert¹, ¹ University of British Columbia, Vancouver, BC, Canada, Substratum-specific facilitation of recruitment in the intertidal kelp Hedophyllum sessile: Topographical complexity and mediation by adult canopy cover.

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4:20 PM: Crain, Caitlin^*,1, Reyna, Vicky², Silliman, Brian³, Bertness, Mark¹, ¹ Department of Biology, Puerto Madryn, Chubut, Argentina² Dept. of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, Providence, RI, USA³ Department of Zoology, Gainesville, FL, USA, Competition between foundation species drives species diversity patterns on western Atlantic Patagonian rocky shores.

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