Community Ecology

Time: 13:20 - 17:10
Location: Salon J

Presentations

13:20 - 13:40: Characterizing species co-occurrence patterns of imperfectly detected stream fishes: informing repatriation of the imperiled Eastern Sand Darter
Lamothe, K.A.*; Drake, D.A.R.; Dextrase, A.J.

13:40 - 14:00: Partitioning fish communities into guilds for ecological analyses: an overview of current approaches and future directions
Benoit, D.M., Jackson, D.A, and Chu, C.

14:00 - 14:20: Hold the shrimp: does extirpation of Mysis alter fish communities?
Rennie, M.D.*, Milling, A., Colvin, T. and Paterson, M.J.

14:20 - 14:40: The use of stable isotopes for examining the base of the food web in Canadian Shield lakes
Barber, E.J.*; Schiff, S.L; Venkiteswaran, J.J; Elgood, R.J; Salk, K.R; Higgins, S.N

14:40 - 15:10: Changes to the zooplankton community in response to the removal of Mysis diluviana from an Ontario lake
Milling, A.*, Rennie, M.D., Paterson, M.J.

15:00 - 15:30: Nutrition Break

15:30 - 15:50: Island biogeography of macroinvertebrates in large marine ecosystems
Stortini, C.H.*

15:50 - 16:10: Drivers of fish occurrence in Arctic lakes
Shuvo, A.*; Sharma, S; Gray, D.

16:10 - 16:30: The use of non-traditional oxygen stable isotopes in delineating trophic ecology and mercury bioaccumulation in freshwater fish
Lescord, G.L.*, T.A. Johnston, A. L. James, B. A. Branfireun, J. M. Gunn

16:30 - 16:50: Are we fishing down the food web in Lake Simcoe?
Dunlop, E.S.*, Goto, D., Jackson, D.