70 Special Session - Metacommunities in Riverine Ecosystems

Wednesday, May 20, 2009: 4:00 PM-5:45 PM
Governor's Room
Moderators:
Christopher Swan and Bryan L. Brown
4:00 PM
467
Getting there is half of the fun: Using species traits to infer mechanisms driving metacommunity patterns in stream networks
Bryan L. Brown, Clemson University; Christopher Swan, University of Maryland, Baltimore County
4:15 PM
468
Ecoregion boundaries affect distance decay of similarity in aquatic communities
Kelly O. Maloney, Smithsonian Environmental Research Center (SERC); Pablo Munguia, University of Texas at Austin
4:30 PM
469
Flow regime, habitat configuration and functional traits influence distribution patterns in dynamic river networks
D.A. Auerbach, Colorado State University; N. LeRoy Poff, Colorado State University
4:45 PM
470
Effects of regional dispersal on local fish-environment relations
Nathaniel P. Hitt, U.S. Geological Survey, Leetown Science Center; Paul L. Angermeier, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University
5:00 PM
471
Disentangling habitat quality from spatial effects in the analysis of stream insect community assembly in multiple watersheds
Christopher J. Patrick, University of Notre Dame; Christopher Swan, University of Maryland, Baltimore County; Nola M. Seta, University of Notre Dame; Audrey A. Marrah, University of Notre Dame
5:30 PM
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