B33A:
How Do Species Interactions, Connectivity, and the Environment Drive the Biodiversity and Assembly of Marine Metacommunities? II


Session ID#: 36907

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:  Craig Nelson, University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa, School of Ocean and Earth Science and Technology, Honolulu, HI, United States and Lauren S Mullineaux, Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, Woods Hole, MA, United States
Student Paper Review Liaison:  Julie Kellner, Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, Woods Hole, MA, United States
Index Terms:

4804 Benthic processes, benthos [OCEANOGRAPHY: BIOLOGICAL AND CHEMICAL]
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:

Climate, species distributions, and increasing species richness in North American marine communities (319631)
Malin L. Pinsky and Ryan D Batt, Rutgers University, Department of Ecology, Evolution, and Natural Resources, New Brunswick, NJ, United States
Fishing, environment, and the erosion of a fishery portfolio (321137)
Adrian Craig Stier, University of California, Santa Barbara, Santa Barbara, CA, United States, Andrew Olof Shelton, Conservation Biology Division, Northwest Fisheries Science Center, National Marine Fisheries Service, United States, Jameal Samhouri, NOAA/Northwest Fisheries Science Center, Seattle, WA, United States, Blake Edward Feist, NOAA Seattle, Northwest Fisheries Science Center, Seattle, WA, United States and Phil Levin, University of Washington, WA, United States
Comparative Metatranscriptomics of Coral Bleaching (312998)
Monica Medina1, Viridiana Avila2, Bishoy Kamel3, Michael DeSalvo4 and Roberto Iglesias-Prieto2, (1)Penn State University, Department of Biology, University Park, PA, United States, (2)Penn State University, University PARK, PA, United States, (3)University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, NM, United States, (4)University of California Merced, Merced, CA, United States
Microbial metabolic transitions drive benthic competition outcomes and community structure in coral reef ecosystems (323731)
Ty N.F. Roach1, Linda Wegley Kelly2, Andreas Haas3, Mark JA Vermeij4, Cynthia Silveira1, Mark Little5, Ben Knowles6, Forest Rohwer1, Emma E George1, Cameron Smurthwaite7 and Maria L Abieri8, (1)San Diego State University, Biology, San Diego, CA, United States, (2)London, United Kingdom, (3)Royal NIOZ, the Netherlands Institute for Sea Research, Marine Microbiology & Biogeochemistry, Texel, Netherlands, (4)Carmabi Foundation, Netherlands Antilles, (5)SDSU, San Diego, CA, United States, (6)Rutgers University, New Brunswick, NJ, United States, (7)San Diego State University, Biology, CA, United States, (8)Federal University of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
Trophic Structure of Reef Fish Assemblages in Simunul Island, Tawi-Tawi, Philippines - Implication of Effective Management? (325448)
Lucas Ramada Felix Jr, University of the Philippines, Miagao, Philippines and Wilfredo L. Campos, University of the Philippines Visayas, Division of Biological Sciences, College of Arts and Sciences, Iloilo City, Philippines
Biodiversity and community structure of bacillariophyceae (diatom) in surface layer of the western North Pacific Ocean (306137)
Kazuaki Tadokoro, Fisheries Research Agency, Shiogama, Japan, Sachihiko Itoh, Atmos. & Ocean Res. Institute, Kashiwa, Japan and Tsuyoshi Watanabe, Tohoku National Fisheries Research Institute, Japan Fisheries Research and Education Agency, Shiogama, Japan

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