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PARENT SESSION
Wednesday, August 9, 8:00-11:30 am
Symposium 10 - Niche versus neutral: a look at an iconic idea in community ecology, its challenger, and the middle ground, Part I
Ballroom B, Ballroom Level, Cook Convention Center
Organized by: AM Ostling (aostling@princeton.edu), N Sanders, and J Lake

In this symposium and accompanying organized oral session, we will explore the latest advances in our understanding of how communities assemble, focusing on the ongoing debate over niches versus neutrality and keeping an eye towards finding the middle ground.

8:00 AMOstling, Annette*,, Sanders, Nathan*,, , Introduction.

8:05 AMHubbell, Stephen*,1, Lake, Jeffrey1, 1 University of Georgia, Athens, GA, Symmetric neutrality and the evolution of functional equivalence.

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8:30 AMSimberloff, Daniel *,1, Collins, Michael1, Connor, E2, 1 University of Tennessee, Knoxville, TN2 San Francisco State University, San Francisco, CA, Overdrafts at the Entangled Bank: should this account finally be closed?

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8:55 AMAckerly, David*,1, Cornwell, W2, 1 University of California, Berkeley, Berkeley, CA2 Stanford University, Stanford, CA, A trait-based approach to community assembly: linking niche breadth, plasticity, and functional diversity.

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9:20 AMFargione, Joseph*,1, Tilman, David2, 1 University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, NM2 University of Minnesota, St. Paul, MN, Functional groups and community assembly: assumptions, predictions, and empirical tests.

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9:45 AM, Break.

9:55 AMChesson, Peter*,1, 1 University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ, Stabilizing and equalizing mechanisms and the variety of niche assembly processes.

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10:20 AMBell, Graham*,1, Lechowicz, Martin 1, Waterway, Marcia1, 1 McGill University, Montreal, Quebec, Canada, Ecological phylogenetics.

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10:45 AMGillespie, Rosemary*,1, 1 University of California, Berkeley, Berkeley, CA, Evolution in island communities of spiders: opportunity, chance, and determinism.

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11:10 AM, Discussion.

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