Contributed Oral and Poster Abstracts

 
Monday, August 6, 2007

1:30 PM-5:00 PM
COS 1 - Biodiversity patterns: Gradients and biogeography  
COS 2 - Climate change and carbon cycling I  
COS 3 - Community ecology: General theory and models  
COS 4 - Conservation ecology and ecosystem management: Planning and policy  
COS 5 - Ecology education  
COS 6 - Ecology of boreal and temperate forest habitats  
COS 7 - Ecosystem and community stability and resilience  
COS 8 - Evolution and life history theory: Animals  
COS 9 - Food webs I: Structure and stability  
COS 10 - Habitat connectivity and fragmentation I  
COS 11 - Invasion: Community and ecosystem consequences  
COS 12 - Invasion: Population process and theory  
COS 13 - Mycorrhizae: Plant-fungus relationships and ecosystem function  
COS 14 - Niche relationship and theory I  
COS 15 - Nutrient cycling and ecosystem function in aquatic systems  
COS 16 - Population modeling I: General and theory  
COS 17 - Restoration ecology: Wildlife restoration, wildlife response  
COS 18 - Species interactions  
COS 19 - Statistical theory and methods  

5:00 PM-6:30 PM
PS 1 - Aquatic-terrestrial linkages  
PS 2 - Aquatic ecology  
PS 3 - Arid and semi-arid systems  
PS 4 - Biodiversity  
PS 5 - Coastal  
PS 6 - Community disturbance, recovery  
PS 7 - Community pattern and dynamics  
PS 8 - Estuary  
PS 9 - Forest canopy  
PS 10 - Forest habitats  
PS 11 - Grasslands  
PS 12 - Habitat  
PS 13 - Landscape ecology  
PS 14 - Marine systems  
PS 15 - Rhizophere  
PS 16 - Riparian  
PS 17 - Species-area relationship  
PS 18 - Shrublands  
PS 19 - Urban ecology  
PS 20 - Wetland habitats  
 
Tuesday, August 7, 2007

8:00 AM-11:30 AM
COS 20 - Aquatic-terrestrial linkages: Behavior to biogeochemistry  
COS 21 - Climate change and carbon cycling II  
COS 22 - Community assembly and neutral theory  
COS 23 - Ecology of riparian habitats  
COS 24 - Ecology of tropical and subtropical forest habitats  
COS 25 - Ecosystem function: Carbon, energy, and NPP  
COS 26 - Evolution and life history theory: Plants  
COS 27 - Herbivory: Community and ecosystem patterns and effects  
COS 28 - Interspecific competition  
COS 29 - Invasion: Community invasibility and controls on invasion  
COS 30 - Invasion: Population regulation and interactions  
COS 31 - Niche relations and theory II  
COS 32 - Pollination: Ecology and evolution  
COS 33 - Population dynamics and regulation: Plants  
COS 34 - Population modeling II: Animals, including humans  
COS 35 - Restoration ecology in forest habitats: Concepts and case studies  
COS 36 - Restoration ecology in grassland habitats  
COS 37 - Soil ecology  
COS 38 - Species-area relationships and abundance and rarity  

1:30 PM-5:00 PM
COS 39 - Carbon cycling  
COS 40 - Climate change: Effects on ecosystem function and biogeochemistry  
COS 41 - Climate change: Phenology and population responses  
COS 42 - Community dynamics and diversity  
COS 43 - Community ecology: Modeling and applications  
COS 44 - Conservation biology, ecosystem management, and sustainability  
COS 45 - Disease and epidemiology  
COS 46 - Ecology education: Extended audiences  
COS 47 - Ecology of created and restored wetlands  
COS 48 - Evolution: Population genetics and population differentiation  
COS 49 - Food webs II: Analytic methods, applications  
COS 50 - Habitat connectivity and fragmentation II: Case studies  
COS 51 - Invasion: Genetics and evolutionary processes  
COS 52 - Invasion: Interactions with ecosystem properties  
COS 53 - Matrix models: Methods and applications  
COS 54 - Mycorrhizae: Community-level relationships  
COS 55 - Pollination: Ecology and management  
COS 56 - Restoration ecology in forest habitats: Methods and approaches  
COS 57 - Restoration ecology in western grassland and arid habitats  
COS 58 - Statistical ecology: Applications  

5:00 PM-6:30 PM
PS 21 - Behavior  
PS 22 - Community assembly  
PS 23 - Competition  
PS 24 - Decompostition  
PS 25 - Disease  
PS 26 - Dispersal  
PS 27 - Distribution  
PS 28 - Fire ecology  
PS 29 - Herbivory  
PS 30 - Invasion  
PS 31 - Life history  
PS 32 - Mutualism  
PS 33 - Niche  
PS 34 - Parasitism  
PS 35 - Plant/insect interactions  
PS 36 - Pollination  
PS 37 - Predation  
PS 38 - Seeds  
PS 39 - Species interactions  
 
Wednesday, August 8, 2007

8:00 AM-11:30 AM
COS 59 - Amphibian ecology and decline  
COS 60 - Biodiversity and ecosystem function I  
COS 61 - Carbon cycling: Soil processes  
COS 62 - Community and metacommunity dynamics  
COS 63 - Community pattern: Environmental gradients and spatial variation  
COS 64 - Disease ecology: Plant pathogens and vectors  
COS 65 - Ecology of fresh-water wetlands  
COS 66 - Ecology of grassland habitats  
COS 67 - Food webs III: Aquatic and marine systems  
COS 68 - Forest communities: Pattern and dynamics  
COS 69 - Herbivory: Patterns and population responses  
COS 70 - Invasion: Diversity relationships  
COS 71 - Invasion: Trophic relationships  
COS 72 - Modeling ecosystem dynamics and climate change  
COS 73 - Predation and predator-prey interactions  
COS 74 - Restoration ecology in riparian habitats: Case studies and methods: I  
COS 75 - Rhizoshpere: root function and root interactions  
COS 76 - Sampling theory, methods, and assessment  
COS 77 - Seed ecology: Production, predation, and dispersal  
COS 78 - Spatial analysis and geostatistics  

1:30 PM-5:00 PM
COS 79 - Behavioral ecology: Foraging and diet  
COS 80 - Biodiversity and ecosystem function II  
COS 81 - Climate change: community response  
COS 82 - Community ecology: Environmental drivers plant community pattern  
COS 83 - Conservation ecology and ecosystem management: Case studies I  
COS 84 - Ecology and evolution of mutualism  
COS 85 - Ecology of the freshwater habitats I  
COS 86 - Fire ecology I  
COS 87 - Food webs IV: Terrestrial systems  
COS 88 - Forest canopy ecology  
COS 89 - Life history theory, resource allocation, and sex allocation  
COS 90 - Nitrogen cycling  
COS 91 - Paleoecology, historical ecology, and restoration baselines  
COS 92 - Parasites, pathogens, and hosts  
COS 93 - Plant physiological ecology: Water relations  
COS 94 - Plant-insect interactions  
COS 95 - Population modeling III  
COS 96 - Restoration ecology in riparian habitats: Case studies and methods II  
COS 97 - Restoration ecology in wetlands I: Coastal and created  
COS 98 - Spatial patterns: Description and analysis  

5:00 PM-6:30 PM
PS 40 - Cycling - carbon  
PS 41 - Cycling - nitrogen  
PS 42 - Cycling - nutrients, water  
PS 43 - Climate change  
PS 44 - Ecosystem function  
PS 45 - Ecosystem stability  
PS 46 - Environment gradient  
PS 47 - Modeling  
PS 48 - Mycorrhizae  
PS 49 - Phenotypic plasticity  
PS 50 - Physiological ecology  
PS 51 - Population dynamics  
PS 52 - Resource allocation  
PS 53 - Soil ecology  
PS 54 - Succession  
PS 55 - Trophic dynamics  
 
Thursday, August 9, 2007

8:00 AM-11:30 AM
COS 99 - Agricultural ecology I: Biogeochemistry management  
COS 100 - Behavioral ecology: Movement and social interaction  
COS 101 - Biodiversity patterns and processes  
COS 102 - Climate change: Range change  
COS 103 - Disease ecology: Models and human disease  
COS 104 - Distributions and range limits  
COS 105 - Ecology of alpine, Arctic, and Antarctic systems  
COS 106 - Ecology of freshwater habitats II  
COS 107 - Environmental philosophy, socioeconomic connections, and traditional ecological knowledge  
COS 108 - Fire ecology II  
COS 109 - Historical ecology, paleoecology, and land-use legacies I  
COS 110 - Mycorrhizae III  
COS 111 - Nitrogen cycling across systems  
COS 112 - Nutrient cycling and ecosystem function in forest ecosystems  
COS 113 - Parasitism: theory, evolution, and ecology  
COS 114 - Plant physiological ecology: light and water relations  
COS 115 - Plant-insect interactions: Chemical defenses and induction  
COS 116 - Population biology: Metapopulations  
COS 117 - Remote sensing and image analysis  
COS 118 - Restoration ecology in riparian habitats: Assessment  
COS 119 - Restoration ecology in wetlands II: Freshwater  

1:30 PM-5:00 PM
COS 120 - Agricultural ecology II: Agricultural systems as habitat, diversity  
COS 121 - Community ecology: Succession  
COS 122 - Conservation ecology and ecosystem management case studies: II  
COS 123 - Ecology of arid and semiarid habitats: I  
COS 124 - Ecology of marine ecosystems and reefs  
COS 125 - Fire ecology III  
COS 126 - Historical ecology, paleoecology, and land-use legacies II  
COS 127 - Invasion: Competitive dynamics  
COS 128 - Invasion: Management approaches and assessment  
COS 129 - Invasion: Population processes and invasiveness  
COS 130 - Microbial ecology I  
COS 131 - Migration, dispersal, and colonization  
COS 132 - Nitrogen cycling and enrichment in forests  
COS 133 - North American vegetation classification  
COS 134 - Phenotypic plasticity: Animals and protists  
COS 135 - Plant physiological ecology: Respiration and transpiration  
COS 136 - Plant-insection interactions: Defenses against herbivory  
COS 137 - Population and metapopulation dynamics: Terrestrial  
COS 138 - Restoration ecology: Methods  
COS 139 - Selection and adaptation I: Plants under environmental selection  
COS 140 - Urban ecology  

5:00 PM-6:30 PM
PS 56 - Agriculture  
PS 57 - Conservation  
PS 58 - Ecology education  
PS 59 - Ecological management  
PS 60 - Forest management  
PS 61 - Evolutionary ecology  
PS 62 - Genetics  
PS 63 - Land use  
PS 64 - Paleoecology  
PS 65 - Rapid assessments  
PS 66 - Remote sensing  
PS 67 - Restoration ecology  
PS 68 - Restoration methods  
PS 69 - Spatial analysis and GIS  
PS 70 - Sustainable management  
PS 71 - Waste management  
 
Friday, August 10, 2007

8:00 AM-11:30 AM
COS 141 - Agroforestry and agricultural policy and conservation  
COS 142 - Climate change: Physiological and population response  
COS 143 - Community disturbance and response  
COS 144 - Detritus and decomposition  
COS 145 - Disease ecology: Lyme disease and other mammalain diseases  
COS 146 - Dispersal and colonization  
COS 147 - Ecology of arid and semi-arid habitats: II  
COS 148 - Ecology of estuarine, coastal, and intertidal systems  
COS 149 - Forest management  
COS 150 - Invasion: Models of process and management  
COS 151 - Invasion: Population processes and interactions  
COS 152 - Microbial ecology II  
COS 153 - Nutrient cycling: Limiting resources, interactions, and ecosystem restoration  
COS 154 - Phenotypic plasticity: Plants  
COS 155 - Plant physiological ecology: Temperature effects, growth relations  
COS 156 - Pollution, waste management, rehabilitation  
COS 157 - Population and meta-population dynamics: Aquatic and marine  
COS 158 - Restoration and conservation: Planning, policy, and theory  
COS 159 - Restoration ecology: Urban ecosystems  
COS 160 - Scaling and allometry: From body size to ecosystem function  
COS 161 - Selection and adaptation II: Animals and interacting populations  
COS 162 - Stable isotope and tracer applications  
COS 163 - Urban ecosystems: Design, management, and evaluation  

8:30 AM-10:30 AM
PS 72 - Latebreaking and newsworthy posters  

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