ESA 2013 preview: here’s my itinerary

Here’s my itinerary for the ESA meeting. If you’re looking for ideas on what to see and share my interests, you might find this useful (otherwise, probably not…)

Note that there are a lot of time conflicts. I resolve those on the day. Sadly, there are some things I really want to see that conflict with my own talk; I haven’t listed those. And I haven’t listed many posters because I mostly just pick posters by walking through the poster hall. And there’s nothing listed for Friday (except one poster I added by mistake) as I won’t be there on Friday. 😦

98th ESA Annual Meeting (August 4 — 9, 2013)

Sunday, August 4, 2013	05:00 PM – 06:30 PM Ballroom AB	ESA Opening Plenary Session
	06:30 PM – 07:30 PM Auditorium Lobby	ESA Welcome Reception
Monday, August 5, 2013	08:00 AM – 10:00 AM Auditorium	ESA Scientific Plenary & Awards Session
	01:30 PM L100F	Phylogeny-coexistence relationships in annual plant communities: disentangling the role of species interactions, environment, and biogeography Rachel M. Germain, Benjamin Gilbert
	02:10 PM	Phylogeny, niche differences, and the outcome of competition Oscar Godoy, Nathan J. B. Kraft, Jonathan M. Levine
	02:10 PM L100H	Coexistence and spatial heterogeneity: A theoretical analysis of metacommunity paradigms Lauren G. Shoemaker, Brett A. Melbourne
	02:30 PM	Populations and communities as fluid on a landscape under nonstationary environmental change Peter Chesson, Yi-Jie Wu, Patricia J. Yang
	03:20 PM L100E	Minimum dimensions required for co-occurrence and limiting similarity null models T. Michael (Mike) Lavender, Eric G. Lamb, Brandon S. Schamp
	03:20 PM L100F	A three-way tradeoff maintains functional diversity under variable resource supply Kyle F. Edwards, Christopher A. Klausmeier, Elena Litchman
	03:20 PM M100HC	Predicting patterns of species turnover in response to nutrient addition and herbivory Justin P. Wright, Peter D. Wragg, Elizabeth T. Borer, Daniel S. Gruner, Helmut Hillebrand, Eric M. Lind, Eric W. Seabloom, Louie H. Yang, Nutrient Network
	03:20 PM L100H	Early warning signals of disease emergence and leading indicators of elimination Suzanne M. O’Regan, John M. Drake
	03:40 PM 101H	Why are some species rare?  Mathematical models of plant-soil feedbacks in diverse communities Frederick R. Adler, Richard A. Lankau, Peter B. Adler
	03:40 PM L100F	Traveling between extremes: the shape of temporal variation alters competition and evolution in fluctuating environments Colin T. Kremer, Christopher A. Klausmeier
	04:00 PM	Niche differences and fitness differences drive competitive coexistence and exclusion in a serpentine annual community Janneke Hille Ris Lambers, Jonathan M. Levine
	04:20 PM 101H	Plant species richness increases with soil heterogeneity: Evidence from a field experiment Brandon M., Williams, Gregory R. Houseman
	04:20 PM 101I	Intraspecific competition in temporally autocorrelated environments Daniel J. Wieczynski, David A. Vasseur
	04:20 PM L100H	Trait-based approaches to species abundance distributions Christopher A. Klausmeier
	04:30 PM – 06:30 PM Exhibit Hall B	Spatial variability in the mechanism by which an invasive plant affects native seedlings Pacifica Sommers, Peter Chesson
	04:40 PM L100F	Species coexistence and environmental variation: Not all variation is created equal Galen P. Holt, Peter Chesson
	06:30 PM – 08:00 PM 200A	ESA Aquatic Ecology Section Mixer
	06:30 PM – 08:00 PM 200I	ESA Theoretical Ecology Section Mixer
Tuesday, August 6, 2013	07:00 AM – 08:00 AM 200DE	ESA Graduate Students, Post Docs, and Mentor/Mentee Breakfast with ESA Leadership (Mentees/Mentors)
	08:20 AM M100GD	Evolution of mutualism and diversity in microbial-host (holobiont) systems Pradeep Pillai, Tarik C. Gouhier, Steve Vollmer
	08:20 AM L100J	Continuous size structured lottery model for studying coexistence of forest trees in a variable environment Chi Yuan, Peter Chesson
	08:40 AM 101J	Eight years of selection in a biodiversity experiment leads to differentiation into monoculture and mixture types in 12 grassland species Bernhard Schmid, Debra Zuppinger-Dingley, Varuna Yadav, Dan F.B. Flynn
	09:00 AM L100I	Experimental demography of a woody invasive plant and its native analog; building life histories from short-term datasets using integral projection models Sarah Treanor Bois, Cory Merow, John A. Silander
	09:00 AM L100J	Perennial possibilities: a theory for yield differences between annual and perennial grains Richard Barnes, Clarence Lehman, Michael Kantar, Lee DeHaan, Donald Wyse
	09:20 AM 101I	Alternative prey species lead to prey buffering not apparent competition William W. Fetzer, James R. Jackson, Lars G. Rudstam
	09:50 AM M100GD	Rhizobia mutualists alter competitive dynamics Kane R. Keller
	10:50 AM M100HC	Plant responses to herbivores and their effects on pest outbreaks Christopher R. Stieha, Karen C. Abbott, Katja Poveda
	11:10 AM 101J	Interspecific competition suppresses adaptive radiation Jiaqi Tan, Matthew R. Slattery, Lin Jiang
	01:50 PM 101B	Spatially explicit forest management planning: Putting theory into practice Marie-Josée Fortin, Brian R. Sturtevant
	01:50 PM L100D	Initial colonization constraints on food web assembly Eric Harvey, Andrew S. MacDougall
	02:30 PM M100HC	Parasites can stabilize consumer-resource dynamics, but do they? An evaluation using models, an experiment, and field data Spencer R. Hall, Kelly M. Boatman, Zachary A. Brown, David J. Civitello, Rachel M. Penczykowski, Marta S. Shocket, Meghan A. Duffy, Carla E. Cáceres
	03:20 PM L100B	Linking local and regional metacommunity dynamics to diversity outcomes Eric R. Sokol, John E. Barrett, Bryan L. Brown, Joel C. Trexler
	04:00 PM L100H	Honey bee colony time series analysis: The influence of stationarity assumptions Marcia Snyder, S. Thomas Purucker
	04:10 PM M100EF	Population and community genomics-based insights into eco-evolutionary microbial dynamics Vincent J. Denef
	04:20 PM L100D	The interaction between space and time travel on the assembly of zooplankton communities Lauren C. McCarthy, David R. Chalcraft
	04:20 PM L100C	Positive, negative, or neutral effects of individual variation on coexistence? Simon P. Hart, Jonathan M. Levine
	04:30 PM – 06:30 PM Exhibit Hall B	Trajectories of species and functional change during California serpentine grassland assembly Melissa N. Habenicht, Dave Hooper
		Stochastic vs. deterministic assembly of aquatic invertebrate communities in permanently flooded and intermittently dry wetlands DeShawn J. Johnson, Erika Protos, Nathan Yaussy, Ferenc A. de Szalay
		Effects of diversity on colonization dynamics in newly formed ponds Christopher J. Holmes, Kimberly L. Schulz, Stephanie Figary, Carla E. Càceres
		Stress decreases functional beta diversity and increases the relative stochasticity of taxon-based community assembly in contrasting vegetation types Evan Weiher, Gregory Nelson, Brandon Urhammer, Ilsa Renner, Kaleigh Spickerman, Mariah Quick, Nathan Servey, Dr. David G. Lonzarich
	04:30 PM – 06:30 PM Exhibit Hall B	The influence of metacommunity size on species diversity scaling in protist communities Lauren M. Woods
		Interactive effects of soil fertility and initial community states on small-scale plant species richness Kathy Roccaforte, Bryan L. Foster, Alexander T. Bittel, Gregory R. Houseman
		How species richness and total abundance constrain the distribution of abundance Kenneth J. Locey, Ethan P. White
		Heterospecifics matter: Density dependent survival of seedlings in a tropical forest Edwin Lebrija-Trejos, Joseph S. Wright, Andres Hernandez, Peter B. Reich
Wednesday, August 7, 2013	08:00 AM L100C	Connecting the environment to a maximum entropy prediction of the species-abundance distribution across continents and taxa Daniel J. McGlinn, Ethan P. White
	08:00 AM – 10:00 AM 101E	An overview of outstanding questions in eco-evolutionary dynamics Chad E. Brassil
		Evolutionary effects on population densities in a consumer-resource context; some basic theory Peter A. Abrams
		Eco-evolutionary dynamics in vitro Gregor F. Fussmann
		Navigating the devious course of evolution with mechanistic models: Lessons learned from infectious diseases Katia Koelle, Shishi Luo
		How can we empirically study eco-evo feedbacks? Ronald D. Bassar, David N. Reznick, Joseph Travis
		What’s A Meaningful Eco-Evo Interaction? Joseph Travis, David N. Reznick
		Classifying species interactions for community and coevolutionary dynamics Richard Gomulkiewicz
		Dynamics of range expansion Tom E. X. Miller
	08:40 AM L100E	Interactive effects of dispersal “type” and amount affect population dynamics, disease epidemics, and trait change in a zooplankton metapopulation Christopher J. Dibble, Volker H.W. Rudolf
	09:00 AM	Variation in host resistance and tolerance towards parasites with different exploitation strategies Dylan C. Grippi, Stuart K. J. R. Auld, Meghan A. Duffy
	09:00 AM L100B	Responses to changing environment:  nonstationary environments could promote coexistence Lina LI, Peter Chesson
	09:50 AM 101B	Can the past predict the future? Experimental tests of historically-based population models Peter B. Adler, Kerry M. Byrne, James Leiker
	09:50 AM L100E	Using spatial patterns to infer disease processes in a multi-host, multi-pathogen system Amy E. Kendig, Eric W. Seabloom, Elizabeth T. Borer, Charles E. Mitchell, Alison G. Power
	09:50 AM L100A	Do the indirect effects of climate change decrease with species abundance? Aldo Compagnoni, Peter B. Adler
	10:10 AM M100GD	Limited dispersal drives clustering and reduces coexistence by the storage effect in a spatially explicit lottery model Jacob Usinowicz
	10:10 AM L100E	Trait-based mechanisms for friendly competition and the dilution effect Alex T. Strauss, Spencer R. Hall, Carla E. Cáceres
	10:50 AM M100GD	Contribution of traits and phylogenetic history to plant-pollinator network structure Scott Chamberlain, Ralph V. Cartar, Anne C. Worley, Sarah J. Semmler, Jana C. Vamosi, Elizabeth Elle
	11:10 AM L100C	Quantifying the roles of shade tolerance and successional niches in tree species coexistence Tao Zhang, Jeremy W. Lichstein
	01:30 PM 101A	The metacommunity concept as a framework for predicting patterns of diversity and stability in fragmented freshwater landscapes Jennifer G. Howeth, Mathew A. Leibold
	01:30 PM L100F	Stochastic assembly leads to alternative communities with distinct functions in a bioreactor microbial community Jizhong Zhou, Wenzong Liu, Ye Deng, Yi-Huei Jiang, Kai Xue, Zhili He, Joy D. Van Nostrand, Liyou Wu, Yunfeng Yang, Aijie Wang
	01:30 PM – 03:30 PM 101C	Why constraint based approaches to ecology? S.K. Morgan Ernest
		The feasible set: Putting pattern into perspective Kenneth J. Locey, Ethan P. White
		Evolutionary constraints and information entropy in ecology Andrew J. Rominger
		Liebig is dead; long live Liebig Michael Kaspari, Adam D. Kay, Jennifer S. Powers
		Ecological constraints predict the spatial structure of biodiversity Daniel J. McGlinn, Ethan P. White
	02:10 PM 101A	Resource-dependent dispersal promotes spatial food-web persistence in a rock-pool metacommunity Joseph L. Simonis
	02:30 PM	Spatial synchrony and persistence in fragmented landscapes: Models and experiments Jeremy W. Fox, David A. Vasseur
	03:40 PM L100B	Environmental variability counteracts priority effects to facilitate species coexistence: evidence from nectar microbes Caroline M. Tucker, Rachel L. Vannette, Tadashi Fukami
	04:30 PM – 06:30 PM Exhibit Hall B	Ecological correlates of allelopathy in a successional system Scott J. Meiners
	04:30 PM – 06:30 PM Exhibit Hall B	Assessing the frequency of local adaptation and phenotypic plasticity in plants using a meta-analysis Kattia Palacio-López, Brian Beckage, Samuel Scheiner, Jane Molofsky
	04:30 PM – 06:30 PM Exhibit Hall B	The effect of local adaptation on mycorrhizal fungi-host relationships Megan A. Rúa, Bridget J. Piculell, Jason D. Hoeksema
		Understanding the joint effects of plastic and evolutionary change on demography from time series data Jaime Ashander
	04:40 PM 101A	Metacommunity size and functional diversity in a natural mesocosm landscape Robin M. LeCraw, Diane S. Srivastava
	04:40 PM L100B	Disentangling sampling effects from ecological process in beta diversity analysis Benjamin M. Bolker, Adrian Stier, Craig W. Osenberg
Thursday, August 8, 2013	08:00 AM L100A	The shapes of predator-prey cycles:  Examples and theory of how evolution changes the community dynamics of predator-prey systems Michael Cortez, Joshua S. Weitz
	08:00 AM L100E	Biodiversity–stability relationships: Environmental and biotic effects on community properties Enrica de Luca, Alexandra Weigelt, Bernhard Schmid
	08:00 AM – 10:00 AM 101E	The Value of Philosophy for Ecology Thomas E. Miller, Chelse M. Prather, Thomas E. Miller
		Why and how to put the Ph back into the ecology PhD Chelse M. Prather
		Traffic safety at the intersection of ethics and epistemology Stephen T. Jackson
		Ecology, Environmentalism, and Science Donald R. Strong
		From natural history to solution science – Thinking of our discipline as a right of passage Joshua J. Tewksbury, Carlos Martinez del Rio
		Connecting philosophy, and philosophers, to ecological research Michael P. Nelson, Joseph K. Bump, John A. Vucetich
		Philosophy of science: Peering under the hood of our research race car K. Cuddington
		Blind ecologists and the ecological elephant William A. Reiners, Jeffrey A. Lockwood
	08:20 AM L100E	Detecting tipping points in mutualistic communities Vasilis Dakos, Jordi Bascompte
	08:30 AM Auditorium, Rm 3	Predicting responses to temperature variation: Ecology and Evolution in trophic systems David A. Vasseur
	08:40 AM L100D	Despite spillover, a shared pathogen promotes native plant persistence in a cheatgrass-invaded grassland Erin A. Mordecai
	08:40 AM M100IB	Population diversity in Puget Sound, WA, Pacific herring: Is there a “portfolio effect?” Tessa B. Francis, Daniel E. Schindler, Margaret C. Siple
	09:00 AM L100D	Host genotype determines the future infection success of a virulent parasite Catherine L. Searle, Jessica Housley Ochs, Carla E. Cáceres, Spencer R. Hall, Ping Lee, Sarah A. Duple, Glynn C. Davis, Meghan A. Duffy
	09:00 AM Auditorium, Rm 3	Trophic interactions and temperature change: Using interaction strength to predict stability and productivity Benjamin Gilbert
	09:20 AM L100H	Adaptive foraging stabilizes pollination networks via apparent altruism Fernanda S. Valdovinos, Neo D. Martinez
	09:20 AM L100D	Does infection alter resource consumption by hosts? Trait-mediated indirect effects of disease on resources in a Daphnia-yeast host-parasite system Rachel M. Penczykowski, Jessica Housley Ochs, Hema Sundar, Marta S. Shocket, Brian C. P. Lemanski, Spencer R. Hall, Meghan A. Duffy
	09:20 AM L100A	A robust test of the competition-defense tradeoff in a nitrogen-limited grassland Meredith K. Steck, Elizabeth T. Borer, Eric W. Seabloom
	09:40 AM Auditorium, Rm 3	Linking theory and experiments: A meta-analysis of multi-trophic warming experiments Mary I. O’Connor, Pavel Kratina, Hamish S. Greig, David A. Vasseur, Tyler D. Tunney, Brandon T. Barton, Heather M. Kharouba, Kevin S. McCann, Christopher D.G. Harley, Monika Winder, Van M. Savage, Benjamin Gilbert, Jonathan Shurin, John P. DeLong
	09:50 AM L100J	Power and efficiency: trade-offs in resource use and links to dormancy in a facultative parthenogen, Daphnia pulicaria John Williams Crawford, Matthew Schrader, Spencer R. Hall, Carla E. Cáceres
	09:50 AM L100D	Beyond frequency and density-dependence: An experimental demonstration of the importance of non-linear transmission dynamics in a host-macroparasite system Sarah A. Orlofske, Samuel M. Flaxman, Brett A. Melbourne, Pieter T.J. Johnson
	09:50 AM L100E	Deconstructing complexity: Towards a theory of whole food webs Gabriel Gellner, Kevin S. McCann
	09:50 AM M100IB	Creating a balanced marine portfolio: Relating correlated dispersal fluctuations to oceanographic features to maximize metapopulation growth Robin E. Snyder, Claire B. Paris-Limouzy, Ana C. Vaz
	10:10 AM L100H	HSS revisited: Bottom-up control in detritus food chains facilitates top-down control in grazing chains and greater omnivory across a productivity gradient Colette L. Ward, Neil Rooney, Kevin S. McCann
	10:40 AM Auditorium, Rm 3	Tipping points in temperature-dependent food webs Kevin S. McCann
	10:50 AM L100H	Food web properties persist following amphibian extirpations in a Neotropical stream Thomas Barnum, John M. Drake, Checo Colón-Gaud, Amanda Rugenski, Therese Frauendorf, Susan S. Kilham, Matt R. Whiles, Karen Lips, Catherine M. Pringle
	01:30 PM L100C	Leading—and misleading—indicators of grassland to shrubland regime shifts Zak Ratajczak, Paolo D’Odorico, Jesse B. Nippert, Nathaniel Brunsell, Sujith Ravi, Scott L. Collins
	01:50 PM	Global effects of biodiversity and eutrophication on the stability of natural grassland ecosystems Yann Hautier, Nutrient Network
	01:50 PM L100B	Biodiversity simultaneously enhances the production and stability of community biomass, but the effects are independent Bradley J. Cardinale, Kevin Gross, Keith J. Fritschie, Pedro Flombaum, Jeremy W. Fox, Christian Rixen, Jasper van Ruijven, Peter B. Reich, Michael Scherer-Lorenzen, Brian J. Wilsey
	02:30 PM L100C	Patterns of direct and indirect interactions prior to systemic shifts in ecological networks J. Jelle Lever, Egbert H. van Nes, Jordi Bascompte, Marten Scheffer
	02:30 PM L100B	Can plant-soil feedbacks drive biodiversity-productivity relationships in grasslands? Jane M. Cowles, David Tilman
	03:40 PM L100C	Dispersal generates a trade-off between adaptive capacity to temperature stress and local adaptation to stable conditions Britas Klemens Eriksson, M. Karin de Boer, Vera Caruso, Helen Moor, Helmut Hillebrand, Birte Matthiessen
	03:40 PM M100GD	Feedback between population and evolutionary dynamics determines the ecological fate of social microbial populations Alvaro Sanchez, Andrew Chen, Jeff Gore
	03:40 PM 101H	Multiple non-linear responses to a gradient of nitrogen addition in grasslands W. Stanley Harpole, Nutrient Network
	04:00 PM L100C	Predicting the consequences for stability of connecting ecosystems: What do spatiotemporal patterns of variables tell us? Matthew P. Hammond, Jurek Kolasa
	04:30 PM – 06:30 PM Exhibit Hall B	Consequences of individual growth rate heterogeneity on population dynamics in plants Erin E. Feichtinger, Jamie Gluvna, Bruce E. Kendall, Gordon A. Fox
	04:30 PM – 06:30 PM Exhibit Hall B	Tuning the strength of predation:  effects of an abiotic factor on predator-prey dynamics Alexander Looi, Kathryn Blackley, David Rosenberg
	04:30 PM – 06:30 PM Exhibit Hall B	Energy flux determines stability in generalized food web motifs Joseph S. Phillips, Jean P. Gibert
		Species driving food web stability have lower individual variation Jean P. Gibert
	04:30 PM – 06:30 PM Exhibit Hall B	Effects of phosphorus limitation on viral population dynamics Gabriela M. Blohm
	04:40 PM M100HC	Empirical evidence for a stabilizing “Type 1.5” functional response Caolan Kovach-Orr, Gregor F. Fussmann, Matthijs Vos
Friday, August 9, 2013	08:30 AM – 10:30 AM Exhibit Hall B	Temperature-dependent fitness responses in fluctuating environments Katherine Scranton, David A. Vasseur