8:00 AM: Rowe, Rebecca ^{*,1, 2}, ¹ Committee on Evolutionary Biology, Chicago, IL, USA² Division of Mammals, Chicago, IL, USA, Land use or climate: what's driving changes in small mammal community composition over time?

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8:20 AM: Hurlbert, Allen^*,1, White, Ethan^{1, 2}, ¹ University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, NM² Utah State University, Logan, UT, Exploring the Swiss Cheese Effect: causes and consequences of patchily occupied geographic ranges.

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8:40 AM: Bruzgul, Judsen^*,1, Hadly, Elizabeth¹, ¹ Stanford University, Stanford, CA, USA, Regional effects on the assembly of the Yellowstone mammalian species pool.

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9:00 AM: Mitchell, Kendra^*,1, Reyesenbach, Anna-Louise², Rodman, Ann³, Nordstrom, D. Kirk⁴, Shanks, W. C. Pat⁵, Takacs-Vesbach, Cristina¹, ¹ University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, NM² Portland State University, Portland, OR³ Yellowstone National Park, YNP, WY⁴ US Geological Survey, Boulder, CO⁵ US Geological Survey, Denver, CO, Ecology of thermophilic microbes in Yellowstone National Park: Small and medium scale spatial distribution.

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9:20 AM: Thum, Ryan^*,1, Derry, Alison², ¹ Cornell University, Ithaca, NY, USA² Queens University, Kingston, Ontario, Canada, Dispersal history and community assembly of diaptomid copepods.

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9:50 AM: McGarvey, Daniel^*,1, ¹ The University of Alabama, Tuscaloosa, AL, U.S.A., Spatial scaling effects on nested subset structure within Oregon fish assemblages.

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10:10 AM: Hines, Jes^*,1, Denno, Robert¹, ¹ University of Maryland, College Park, MD, USA, Large-scale spatial variation in community composition: Local and latitudinal changes in salt marsh food webs.

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10:30 AM: Gilman, Sarah^*,1, Helmuth, Brian¹, Wethey, David¹, ¹ University of South Carolina, Columbia, SC, USA, Spatial variation in body temperature of the intertidal mussel Mytilus californianus: local and latitudinal patterns.

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10:50 AM: Stillwell, Craig^*,1, Morse, Geoff², Fox, Charles, ¹ Department of Entomology, Lexington, KY, USA² Department of Entomology, Davis, CA, USA, Ecological factors producing geographic variation in body size of the seed beetle Stator limbatus.

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11:10 AM: Lyons, S. Kathleen^*,1, Lyons, , ¹ National Center for Ecological Analysis and Synthesis, Santa Barbara, CA, BODY SIZE AND LOCAL COMMUNITY STRUCTURE OF MAMMALS ACROSS TIME AND SPACE.

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