B34A:
How Do Species Interactions, Connectivity, and the Environment Drive the Biodiversity and Assembly of Marine Metacommunities? III Posters


Session ID#: 28311

Session Description:
Recent advances in our understanding of community assembly and biodiversity have been catalyzed by a recognition of the interplay between local and regional processes that contribute to metacommunity dynamics. We encourage studies that explore this interplay between environmental factors (resource availability and physical/chemical parameters), species interactions (e.g., competition, predation, symbiosis), and population connectivity (e.g., larval dispersal, spawning behavior, migration) in the context of biogeographic factors (microscale, mesoscale or basin-scale oceanographic features and/or dispersal barriers).

These processes are expected to influence community assembly, food web complexity, local diversity, and biogeography across a broad spectrum of communities (e.g., microbes to megafauna) and habitats (intertidal to deep sea). This session will showcase investigations of metacommunity dynamics across a range of spatial and temporal scales using a variety of experimental, observational, and modeling techniques. This approach has applications to predicting the effects of disturbance (natural or human-caused), identifying locations for protection (MPAs), and providing input to management of ocean resources (fisheries, mineral extraction).

Primary Chair:  Julie Kellner, Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, Woods Hole, MA, United States
Co-chairs:  Lauren S Mullineaux, Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, Woods Hole, MA, United States, Craig Nelson, University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa, Department of Oceanography, School of Ocean and Earth Science and Technology, Honolulu, HI, United States and Adrian Craig Stier, University of California, Santa Barbara, Santa Barbara, CA, United States
Moderators:  Julie Kellner, Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, Woods Hole, MA, United States and Lauren S Mullineaux, Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, Woods Hole, MA, United States
Student Paper Review Liaisons:  Craig Nelson, University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa, School of Ocean and Earth Science and Technology, Honolulu, HI, United States and Adrian Craig Stier, University of California, Santa Barbara, Santa Barbara, CA, United States
Index Terms:

4815 Ecosystems, structure, dynamics, and modeling [OCEANOGRAPHY: BIOLOGICAL AND CHEMICAL]
4817 Food webs, structure, and dynamics [OCEANOGRAPHY: BIOLOGICAL AND CHEMICAL]
4858 Population dynamics and ecology [OCEANOGRAPHY: BIOLOGICAL AND CHEMICAL]
Cross-Topics:
  • EP - Ecology and Physical Interactions
  • F - Fisheries
  • ME - Marine Ecosystems
  • MM - Microbiology and Molecular Ecology

Abstracts Submitted to this Session:

Tracing Multi-Habitat Support of Coastal Fishes (321943)
Michael Sierszen, Organization Not Listed, Duluth, MN, United States
Genetic diversity of the broadcast spawning coral Galaxea fascicularis and population connectivity within the Gulf of Thailand (325588)
Otis Davey Brunner1, Patricia H. Wepfer1, Yuichi Nakajima1, Makamas Sutthacheep2, Thamasak - Yeemin2 and Satoshi Mitarai1, (1)Okinawa Institute of Science and Technology, Onna-son, Japan, (2)Ramkhamhaeng University, Department of Biology, Bangkok, Thailand
Growth Experiments Reveal “Exotic” Propagule Assemblages of Benthic Foraminifera in the Chalikiopoulou Lagoon, Corfu (Greece) – A Glimpse of Future Community Structures? (310871)
Anna E Weinmann1, Susan T Goldstein2, Maria V Triantaphyllou3 and Martin R Langer1, (1)University of Bonn, Bonn, Germany, (2)University of Georgia, Athens, GA, United States, (3)National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, Athens, Greece
Temporal Changes in Spatial Coverage and Benthic Community Composition within Amathia verticillata Colonies in Mission Bay, San Diego, CA in Late Summer and Fall. (324621)
Michel Andre Boudrias, Elizabeth Anne Barker and Kristen Garcia, University of San Diego, Environmental and Ocean Sciences, San Diego, CA, United States
In Depth Analyses of Phytoplankton Community in Northern Pacific During the Sea2Space Particle Investigation (317053)
Zrinka Ljubešić1, Suncica Bosak1, Luka Šupraha2, Aimee Renee Neeley3, Colleen A Durkin4, Margaret L Estapa5, Melissa M Omand6, Maja Mejdandžić1, Ana Barešić1, Zuzanna Karwowska1, Ivona Cetinic7 and Hrvoje Višić8, (1)University of Zagreb, Faculty of Science, Department of Biology, Zagreb, Croatia, (2)University of Oslo, The Faculty of Mathematics and Natural Sciences, Department of Biosciences, Oslo, Norway, (3)NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, United States, (4)Moss Landing Marine Laboratories, Moss Landing, CA, United States, (5)Skidmore College, Saratoga Springs, NY, United States, (6)University of Rhode Island, Graduate School of Oceanography, Narragansett, RI, United States, (7)NASA Goddard Space Flight Center/USRA, Ocean Ecology Laboratory, Greenbelt, MD, United States, (8)University of Zagreb, Faculty of Science, Zagreb, Croatia
Plankton interactions from randomly recomposed communities in seawater culture (314097)
Quinn Lucas Washburn1, Zachary Landry1, Stephen J Giovannoni2 and Thomas Sharpton1, (1)Oregon State University, Corvallis, OR, United States, (2)Oregon State University, Department of Microbiology, Corvallis, OR, United States
Phytoplankton Community Size Structure in the North Atlantic and Arctic Oceans: Comparing Multiple Analysis Approaches and Relationships with Physical Parameters (320656)
Alison Chase1, Emmanuel Boss2, Lee Karp-Boss1, Jason Graff3 and Nils Haentjens4, (1)University of Maine, School of Marine Sciences, Orono, ME, United States, (2)University of Maine, School of Marine Science, Orono, ME, United States, (3)Oregon State University, Department of Botany & Plant Pathology, Corvallis, OR, United States, (4)University of Maine, ME, United States
Why do coccolithophores calcify? The potential of the calcium carbonate shell to serve as protection against grazers (322279)
Mathias Haunost, GEOMAR Helmholtz Centre for Ocean Research Kiel, United States
Comparative genomics of seep-dwelling tubeworm (Siboglinidae: Annelida) endosymbionts (322651)
Yuanning Li, Auburn University, Auburn, AL, United States
Linking Prey Availability to Recent Unusual Mortality Events of California Sea Lions (321268)
Stephanie E. Nehasil1,2, Mark S. Lowry2, Alan R. Jackson2, Robert Holland3 and Carolyn M. Kurle1, (1)University of California San Diego, Ecology, Behavior, and Evolution, La Jolla, CA, United States, (2)NOAA Southwest Fisheries Science Center, Marine Mammal and Turtle Division, La Jolla, CA, United States, (3)NOAA Southwest Fisheries Science Center, La Jolla, CA, United States
Patchiness of sediment communities in the deep Gulf of Mexico across several spatial scales indicate a diversity of microscale habitats differences that drive diversity (320710)
Clifton Charles Nunnally1, Chase Landry1, Sara Gholson2 and Craig R McClain1, (1)Louisiana Universities Marine Consortium, Chauvin, LA, United States, (2)Eckerd College, St. Petersburg, FL, United States
Biogeographic and Bathymetric Patterns of Benthic Mollusks in the Gulf of Mexico (319953)
Arvind Karthik Shantharam, Florida State University, Earth, Ocean, Atmospheric Science, Tallahassee, FL, United States and Amy Baco-Taylor, Florida State University, Earth, Ocean, Atmospheric Sciences, Tallahassee, FL, United States
The trouble with stress: A flexible method for the evaluation of nonmetric multidimensional scaling of ecological community data (312935)
Eric David Dexter1, Stephen M Bollens2 and Gretchen Rollwagen-Bollens2, (1)Washington State University Vancouver, Portland, OR, United States, (2)Washington State University Vancouver, Vancouver, WA, United States
Geographic Variation in Copepod Communities in the Transition Area of North Pacific Ocean (306188)
Hiroomi Miyamoto1, Kazuaki Tadokoro2, Hiroshi Itoh3, Vijai Dharmamony4, Satoshi Suyama4 and Hideaki Kidokoro5, (1)Tohoku National Fisheries Research Institute, Japan Fisheries Research and Education Agency, Hachinobe, Japan, (2)Tohoku National Fisheries Research Institute, Japan Fisheries Research and Education Agency, Shiogama, Japan, (3)Suidosha.Co., Japan, (4)Tohoku National Fisheries Research Institute, Japan Fisheries Research and Education Agency, Japan, (5)Tohoku National Fisheries Research Institute, Japan Fisheries Research and Education Agency, Hachinohe, Japan
Relationships in the composition and size structure of North Atlantic plankton (309016)
Stephanie Allen, National Oceanography Centre, Southampton, United Kingdom, Stephanie Henson, National Oceanography Center, Southampton, United Kingdom, Anna E Hickman, University of Southampton, Southampton, United Kingdom, Claudie Beaulieu, University of Southampton, Ocean and Earth Science, United Kingdom and David Johns, The Sir Alister Hardy Foundation for Ocean Science, The Laboratory, Citadel Hill, Plymouth, Devon, PL1 2PB, UK, Plymouth, United Kingdom

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