8:00 AM

Jenkins, David*,1, 1 University of Central Florida, Orlando, FL, In search of quorum effects in metacommunity structure: species co-occurrence analyses.

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8:20 AM

Weiher, Evan*,1, Lee, Tali1, Fell, Michael1, Dahlheimer, Christine1, Buffington, Kevin1, Kliinker, Mary Jo1, Welin, Alison1, Stefanski, Artur1, 1 University of Wisconsin - Eau Claire, Eau Claire, WI, Multiple controls on grassland plant community assembly and diversity: history, mycorrhizal fungi, and nitrogen.

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8:40 AM

Ladau, Joshua*,1, 1 Santa Fe Institute, Santa Fe, NM, USA, Robust null model tests for detecting effects of competition on communities.

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9:00 AM

Kelly, Colleen*,1, Bowler, Michael1, 1 University of Oxford, Oxford, UK, Differential sensitivity storage dynamics, phylogeny, and community structure: resource partitioning in congeneric and noncongeneric forest tree species.

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9:20 AM

Lake, Jeffrey*,1, Hubbell, Stephen1, 1 University of Georgia, Athens, GA, USA, Community assembly in a temperate forest tree community: testing limiting similarity, environmental filtering, and functional equivalence with leaf functional traits.

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9:40 AM

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9:50 AM

Sokol, Eric*,1, Benfield, E1, 1 Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, Blacksburg, VA, Resolving influences on macroinvertebrate community assembly in headwater streams in the southern Appalachians.

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10:30 AM

Willis, Charles*,1, Cavender-Bares, Jeannine1, 2, Lehman, Clarence1, Halina, Marta1, Keen, Adrianne1, McCarthy, Shawn1, Reich, Peter1, Tilman, David1, 1 Unversity of Minnesota, Twin Cities, Saint Paul, MN, USA2 cavender@umn.edu, Saint Paul, MN, USA, Phylogenetic structure and community assembly of two long-term experimental plant communities.

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10:50 AM

Jackson, Donald*,1, 1 University of Toronto, Toronto, ON, Canada, Is species occurrence predictable from community composition? Assembly rules revisited.

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11:10 AM

Cleland, Elsa*,1, Suding, Katharine2, Clark, Christopher3, Collins, Scott4, Fargione, Joe4, Gough, Laura5, Grace, James6, Gross, Katherine8, Pennings, Steven7, 1 National Center for Ecological Analysis and Synthesis, Santa Barbara, CA2 University of California, Irvine, CA3 University of Minnesota, St. Paul, MN4 University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, NM5 University of Texas, Arlington, TX6 USGS National Wetlands Research Center, Lafayette, LA8 Michigan State University, Hickory Corners, MI7 University of Houston, Houston, TX, Crashing the party: non-native plant species have different traits than native species in a cross-site synthesis of fertilization studies.

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