COS 48 - Restoration Ecology II

Tuesday, August 7, 2012: 8:00 AM-11:30 AM
C120, Oregon Convention Center
8:00 AM
 Quantifying and restoring stand-level spatial pattern in dry mixed-conifer forests of Eastern Washington
Derek J. Churchill, University of Washington; Andrew J. Larson, University of Montana
8:20 AM
 Does restoring tropical forest using an applied nucleation approach enhance habitat heterogeneity and seedling recruitment?
Karen D. Holl, University of California, Santa Cruz; Rakan A. Zahawi, Organization for Tropical Studies; Victoria M. Stout, University of California, Santa Cruz; J. Leighton Reid, Missouri Botanical Garden
8:40 AM
 Variability of understory response to ecological thinning and gap creation in Douglas-fir/hemlock forests
Douglas G. Sprugel, University of Washington; Charles B. Halpern, University of Washington; Rolf Gersonde, Seattle Public Utilities; Shelley A. Evans, University of Washington
9:00 AM
 Artificial bat roosts do not accelerate tropical forest recovery in abandoned pastures
J. Leighton Reid, Missouri Botanical Garden; Ellen K. Holste, Michigan State University; Rakan A. Zahawi, Organization for Tropical Studies
9:20 AM
 Can variable-retention harvesting help reduce fuel loads and restore mixed-pine forest ecosystems?
Priscilla A. Nyamai, The Ohio State University; P. Charles Goebel, The Ohio State University; David M. Hix, The Ohio State University; R. Gregory Corace III, US Fish and Wildlife Service
9:40 AM
9:50 AM
 Investigating the role of host plants in recovering golden paintbrush (Castilleja levisecta)
Eric G. Delvin, The Nature Conservancy; Jonathan D. Bakker, University of Washington; Peter W. Dunwiddie, University of Washington
10:10 AM
 Plant-soil feedbacks in remnant and restored tallgrass prairie
Jonathan T. Bauer, Indiana University; James D. Bever, Indiana University
10:30 AM
 Restoring a pine in decline: Foraging ecology of Clark's nutcracker and red squirrel in whitebark pine forests
Monika E. Maier, Utah State University; Kimberly A. Sullivan, Utah State University
10:50 AM
 Rehabilitation forestry and carbon market access on overharvested, former industrial northern hardwood-conifer forests
Emily T. Russell-Roy, University of Vermont; William S. Keeton, University of Vermont; Jennifer A. Pontius, University of Vermont; Charles D. Kerchner, University of Vermont