Community Ecology I

Session 15 (Contributed)
Thursday, May 29, 8:00 AM-9:45 AM, Athena IJ
Moderator: Hart

8:00 (97) The diversity of Mediterranean climate rivers in Spain: lessons from the Guadalmed project.
N. Prat. Department of Ecology, University of Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain

8:15 (98) Sieve retention probabilities of stream benthic invertebrates.
A. Morin¹, J. Stephenson¹, J. Strike¹, and A. Solimini². ¹Ottawa-Carleton Institute of Biology, Department of Biology, University of Ottawa, 30 Marie Curie, Ottawa, K1N 6N5, Canada, ²Laboratory of Experimental Ecology and Aquaculture, Department of Biology, University of Rome Tor Vergata, Via della Ricerca Scientifica, 00133 Rome,

8:30 (99) Inter-annual variation of a benthic macroinvertebrate community in a southern Appalachian stream.
D.A. Wymer¹ and S.B. Cook². ¹Department of Biological and Environmental Sciences, University of West Alabama, Livingston, AL, 35470, USA, ²Department of Biology, Tennessee Technological University, Cookeville, TN, 38505, USA

8:45 (100) Water speed influences natural and colonization densities of net-spinning, larval caddisflies.
S.E. May¹ and A. Gordillo². ¹UCLA Department of Organismic Biology, Ecology and Evolution, ²Pomona College, Pomona, CA

9:00 (101) Lateral dispersal and weather-mediated flight activity of adult alpine stream insects.
D.S. Finn and N.L. Poff. Department of Biology, Colorado State University, Fort Collins, CO, USA 80523

9:15 (102) Small-scale dispersal in aquatic insects. Do adult and larval aquatic insects have conflicting requirements?
S. Flint¹, M. Dobson¹, and S.S.C. Harrison². ¹Department of Environmental and Geographical Sciences, Manchester Metropolitan University, Chester Street, Manchester, M1 5GSD, U.K., ²Department of Zoology and Animal Ecology, University College Cork, Lee Maltings, Prospect Row, Cork, Ireland.

9:30 (103) Understanding links between larval transport and settlement in benthic stream communities.
D.D. Hart, J.R. Thomson, and J.N. McNair. Patrick Center for Environmental Research, Academy of Natural Sciences, Philadelphia PA 19103