1:30 PM

Houseman, Gregory1, Mittelbach, Gary1, Reynolds, Heather1, 2, Gross, Katherine1, 1 Kellogg Biological Station, Hickory Corners, MI2 University of Indiana, Bloomington, IN, Formation of alternative community states in response to fertilization, disturbance, and altered species pools in grassland communities.

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1:50 PM

Wimp, Gina*,1, Finke, Deborah2, Denno, Robert1, 1 University of Maryland, College Park, MD, U.S.A.2 Washington State University, Pullman, WA, U.S.A., Indirect effects of nutrient inputs and detritus on the structure and composition of terrestrial arthropod communities.

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2:10 PM

Finke, Deborah*,1, Snyder, Gretchen1, Snyder, William1, 1 Washington State University, Pullman, WA, Natural-enemy diversity enhances the top-down suppression of herbivore populations.

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2:30 PM

Stone, Adrian1, Whitham, Thomas1, 2, 1 Northern Arizona University, Flagstaff, Arizona2 Meriam Powell Center For Environmental Research, Flagstaff, Arizona, Drought and herbivory interact to affect arthropod community structure on a dominant woodland tree.

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2:50 PM

Vsicido, Steven*,1, Holmes, Elizabeth*,1, 1 National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, Seattle, WA, USA, Multivariate techniques for studying community interaction strengths: using incomplete data to infer process.

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3:10 PM

, Break.

3:20 PM

van Wesenbeeck, Bregje*,1, van de Koppel, Johan1, Bertness, Mark2, van der Wal, Daphne1, Herman, Peter1, Bakker, Jan3, Bouma, Tjeerd1, 1 Netherlands Institute of Ecology, Yerseke, The Netherlands2 Brown University, Providence, Providence, RI, US3 Rijks Universiteit Groningen, Groningen, The Netherlands, Habitat modification at different scales.

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3:40 PM

Shulman, Rachel*,1, 2, Chase, Jonathan1, 1 Washington University in St. Louis, St. Louis, MO2 University of California, Santa Barbara, Santa Barbara, CA, Increasing isolation simplifies the structure of aquatic food webs.

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4:00 PM

Lind, Eric*,1, Barbosa, Pedro1, 1 University of Maryland, College Park, MD, Relative abundance in forest Lepidopteran larval assemblages: trait-based mechanisms and macroecological patterns.

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4:20 PM

Anderson, Kristina*,1, 1 Biology Department, Albuquerque, NM, USA, Temporal patterns in rates of community change during succession.

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4:40 PM

Wang, Yong*,1, Lesak, Adrian1, Felix, Zachary1, Schweitzer, Callie2, 1 Alabama A&M University, Normal, AL2 USDA Forest Service, Normal, AL, Relationship between avian community and forest habitat after canopy cover reduction for oak-hickory forest regeneration at the Southern Cumberland Plateau of Alabama.

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