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PARENT SESSION
Tuesday, August 8, 1:30-5:00 pm
COS 33 - Metapopulations and metacommunities
Plantation Room, Cook Convention Center
Presiders: J Fox

1:30 PMSinicrope Talley, Theresa*,1, Holyoak, Marcel 1, 1 Dept. of Environmental Science and Policy, Davis, CA, USA, How important are habitat quality and landscape conditions to metapopulations?

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1:50 PMRocha, Oscar 1, Degreef, Jerome2, Macaya, Gabriel 3, 1 Kent State University, Kent, Ohio2 National Botanic Garden of Belgium, Domaine de Bouchout, Belgium, Belgium3 Universidad de Costa Rica, San Pedro, San Jose, Costa Rica, Local extinction and re-colonization in wild populations of lima beans in Costa Rica.

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2:30 PMHoweth, Jennifer*,1, Leibold, Mathew1, 1 University of Texas, Austin, Austin, TX, Dispersal-mediated coexistence in complex food webs drives unimodal diversity in experimental metacommunities.

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2:50 PMBoudell, Jere*,1, Stromberg, Julie2, 1 Clayton State University, Morrow, GA2 Arizona State University, Tempe, AZ, Insurance in the face of rapid spatiotemporal dynamics in a southwestern riparian metacommunity.

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3:10 PM, Break.

3:20 PMMcCoy, Michael*,1, Holt, Robert1, 1 University of Florida, Gainesville, Florida, Predation shadows: complex life histories link the dynamics of aquatic and terrestrial communities.

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3:40 PMElkin, Che*,1, Possingham, Hugh1, 1 The Ecology Center, Brisbane, Queensland, Australia, The role of landscape structure in determining how metapopulations respond to spatially correlated habitat disturbances.

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4:00 PMFox, Jeremy*,1, 1 University of Calgary, Calgary, AB, Canada, Effects of source-sink dynamics on competitive outcomes in a model system.

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