| Thursday, 3 August 2006: 1:30 PM-6:00 PM | |||
| Empire (Omni Shoreham Hotel) | |||
| Symposium 14: Ant communities and biodiversity: community ecology | |||
| A central goal of ecology is to understand how interactions among species shape the structure of communities. Due to their abundance in terrestrial habitats, ants have been among the most important subjects for studies of species coexistence, biodiversity, and community organization. This symposium will present recent work from around the world on how biotic interactions and abiotic factors shape the organization of communities in natural and agricultural ecosystems. Particular topics will include the effects of competition on species assemblages, community development, ant-plant interactions, and the causes of numerical dominance. | |||
| Organizer: | Eldridge S. Adams | ||
| 1:30 PM | 140 | Niches not enough: non-equilibrial processes promoting co-existence in ant communities Alan N. Andersen | |
| 1:50 PM | 141 | Linking temperature and invasibility: critical thermal limits and ant community organization Xim Cerda, Elena Angulo, Javier Retana | |
| 2:10 PM | 142 | Microhabitat-dependent effects of a dominant ant on resource use in a patchy habitat H. Gibb | |
| 2:30 PM | 143 | New approaches to the study of tropical rainforest ant mosaics Alain Dejean, Maurice Leponce, Régis Céréghino | |
| 2:50 PM | 144 | Are abundance and opportunism the keys for a successful life in an ant community? Patricia J. Folgarait, Norma, B Gorosito | |
| 3:10 PM | 145 | Ant Community Ecology in the Coffee Agroecosystem Stacy Philpott, Inge Armbrecht, Ivette Perfecto | |
| 3:30 PM | Break | ||
| 4:00 PM | 146 | What causes geographic variation in ant diversity? Nathan J. Sanders, Robert R. Dunn, Jean-Philippe Lessard, Matthew C. Fitzpatrick | |
| 4:20 PM | 147 | A mutualism in context: costs, benefits and conditionality in a multi-species ant-plant symbiosis Todd M. Palmer, Maureen L. Stanton, Truman P. Young | |
| 4:40 PM | 148 | Ecology of New Guinea ants – exploring the unknown fauna Milan Janda | |
| 5:00 PM | 149 | Guild Structure in Ant Communities: a Model Based on Morphology to Predict Community Structure and Its Application at the 1-M2 Scale C. Roberto F. Brandăo, Rogério R. Silva | |
| 5:20 PM | 150 | Fire promotes competitive dominance in a savanna ant assemblage Catherine L. Parr | |
| 5:40 PM | 151 | The fire ant, Solenopsis invicta, does not suppress co-occurring ants: experimental evidence Joshua R. King, Walter R. Tschinkel | |
| Sponsor: | Invited Symposia Presentations | ||
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