Wednesday, August 6, 2008: 8:00 AM-11:30 AM
103 C, Midwest Airlines Center
COS 50 - Dispersal and Colonization
8:00 AMCOS 50-1High soil nickel enhances seed weight and seedling growth in Alyssum murale, a nickel-hyperaccumulator
Iman Sylvain, Howard University, Mary A. McKenna, Howard University
8:20 AMCOS 50-2Trees in motion: Ponderosa pine expansion into the Bighorn Basin, Wyoming
Mark R. Lesser, University of Wyoming, Stephen T. Jackson, University of Wyoming
8:40 AMCOS 50-3Seedling limitation and spatial scale in a wet tropical forest
Richard K. Kobe, Michigan State University, Corine F. Vriesendorp, Field Museum of Natural History
9:00 AMCOS 50-4The spread of Microstegium vimineum (Japanese stiltgrass), an invasive weed
Emily S. J. Rauschert, The Pennsylvania State University, David Mortensen, The Pennsylvania State University, Ottar N. Bjornstad, The Pennsylvania State University, Andrea Nord, The Pennsylvania State University
9:20 AMCOS 50-5Seedling establishment of Rocky Mountain bristlecone and limber pine: Contrasting patterns of post-fire regeneration, latitudinal variation, stem clusters, and nurse objects
Jonathan D. Coop, Mountain Studies Institute & Rocky Mountain Research Station, Anna W. Schoettle, Rocky Mountain Research Station
9:40 AM Break
9:50 AMCOS 50-6Tumbling: An overlooked mechanism of dispersal
Dirk V. Baker, Washington University in St. Louis, John R. Withrow, Rocky Mountain Research Station, USFS, Cynthia Brown, Colorado State University, K. George Beck, Colorado State University
10:10 AMCOS 50-7Extinction risk in dendritic ecological networks
Evan H. Campbell Grant, US Geological Survey, Patuxent Wildlife Research Center/ MEES Program, University of Maryland, College Park
10:30 AMCOS 50-8Phenotype dependent breeding dispersal in male blue dasher dragonflies (Pachydiplax longipennis)
Shannon J. McCauley, University of Toronto
10:50 AMCOS 50-9The interacting effects of sociality and habitat conditions on dispersal behavior
Heather Bird Jackson, Louisiana State University, James T. Cronin, Louisiana State University
11:10 AMCOS 50-10Landscape dispersal value estimated by the movement behaviors of rare butterflies
Daniel C. Kuefler, University of Guelph, Nick M. Haddad, North Carolina State University, Brian Hudgens, Institute for Wildlife Studies, William F. Morris, Duke University, Nicole Thurgate, North Carolina State University

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