Friday, August 10, 2007: 8:00 AM-11:30 AM
F1, San Jose McEnery Convention Center
COS 148 - Ecology of estuarine, coastal, and intertidal systems
8:00 AMCOS 148-1Comparison of species composition in two contrasting open-coast, rocky-intertidal habitats: California and Hawaii
Chela J. Zabin, Smithsonian Environmental Research Center, John S. Pearse, University of California, Santa Cruz, Eric M. Danner, National Marine Fisheries Service, Erin P. Baumgartner, University of Hawaii, Manoa
8:20 AMCOS 148-2Immersion affects intertidal invertebrate assemblages of coralline algae
Kylee A. Pawluk, University of Alberta, Heather C. Proctor, University of Alberta
8:40 AMCOS 148-3The temporal scale of environmental forcing in intertidal communities along the West Coast of the United States
Tarik C. Gouhier, McGill University, Frederic Guichard, McGill University, Bruce A. Menge, Oregon State University, Carl Schoch, University of Alaska Fairbanks, Gary W. Allison, The Ohio State University
9:00 AMCOS 148-4Coastal marine invertebrates locally enhance primary production
Catherine A. Pfister, University of Chicago
9:20 AMCOS 148-5Influence of elevation and inundation on tidal wetland vegetation distributions in the northern San Francisco Bay Estuary
Lisa M. Schile, San Francisco State University, Tim Carson, Wetlands and Water Resources, John C. Callaway, University of San Francisco, Philip Bachand, Wetlands and Water Resources, V. Thomas Parker, San Francisco State University, Jeremy P. Lowe, Philip Williams and Associates, Michael Vasey, San Francisco State University, Stuart Siegel, Wetlands and Water Resources
9:40 AM Break
9:50 AMCOS 148-6Changing eelgrass (Zostera marina) distribution in a Maine estuary over the last half century: Rates of decline and potential causes
Laurie J. Osher, University of Maine, Tara Goodrich, University of Maine, Seth Barker, State of Maine
10:10 AMCOS 148-7Evidence of the use of brackish marsh habitat by the endangered salt marsh harvest mouse in South San Francisco Bay
Mary C. Orland, H. T. Harvey & Associates, Ronald R. Duke, H. T. Harvey & Associates, Howard S. Shellhammer, H. T. Harvey & Associates, Dave S. Johnston, H. T. Harvey & Associates
10:30 AMCOS 148-9“Terrestrialization” of coastal wetland ecosystems by a riparian invader
Christine R. Whitcraft, San Francisco State University, Drew Talley, San Francisco State University, Jeff Crooks, Tijuana River National Estuarine Research Reserve, John Boland, EcoSystems Restoration Associates, Lisa A. Levin, Scripps Institution of Oceanography
10:50 AMCOS 148-10Photosynthetic differences between native and non-native haplotypes of Phragmites australis
Thomas J. Mozdzer, University of Virginia, J.C. Zieman, University of Virginia

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