COS 87 - Invasion: Community Effects I

Wednesday, August 8, 2012: 8:00 AM-11:30 AM
E146, Oregon Convention Center
8:00 AM
 Interacting disturbances: Unexpected increases in coast redwood mortality from synergistic effects of fire and a non-native pathogen
Margaret R. Metz, University of California, Davis; J. Morgan Varner III, Mississippi State University; Kerri M. Frangioso, University of California, Davis; Ross K. Meentemeyer, North Carolina State University; David M. Rizzo, University of California, Davis
8:20 AM
 Effects of introduced herbivore removal on an island rare and endemic plant community
Emily Schultz, Claremont Colleges; Jennifer Phillips, Claremont McKenna, Pitzer and Scripps Colleges; Acadia Tucker, Claremont McKenna, Pitzer and Scripps Colleges; Kathryn McEachern, US Geological Survey - Western Ecological Research Center; Diane Thomson, Claremont McKenna, Pitzer and Scripps Colleges
8:40 AM
 Garlic mustard’s (Alliaria petiolata) effectiveness as an invader of Eastern North American deciduous forest groundlayers
Roger C. Anderson, Illinois State University; Jonathan T. Bauer, Indiana University; M. Rebecca Anderson, Illinois State University
9:00 AM
 Structural and compositional differences between native and non-native dominated grasslands
Nicole Molinari, University of California Santa Barbara; Carla M. D'Antonio, University of California Santa Barbara
9:20 AM
 Direct and indirect impacts of introduced species on community dynamics
Mariano A. Rodriguez-Cabal, University of British Columbia; M. Noelia Barrios Garcia, University of Tennessee; Guillermo C. Amico, INIBIOMA, CONICET-Universidad Nacional del Comahue; Nathan J. Sanders, The University of Copenhagen
9:40 AM
9:50 AM
 Interactions between herbivory and nitrogen availability alter invasive plant dynamics in forest understory communities
Samantha K. Chapman, Villanova University; Kathryn A. Devine, Villanova University; Rachel O. Jones, University of Nevada-Reno
10:10 AM
 Discovering the belowground causes and consequences of Rhamnus cathartica L. (European buckthorn) invasions
Basil V. Iannone III, University of Illinois; Liam Heneghan, DePaul University; Dev Rijal, University of Illinois at Chicago; David H. Wise, University of Illinois at Chicago
10:30 AM
 Epibenthic jellyfish blooms: Effects of a native-invader on community structure of Bahamian seagrass ecosystems
Elizabeth W. Stoner, Florida International University; Lauren A. Yeager, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill; Craig A. Layman, North Carolina State University
11:10 AM
 Legacies of plant invasions - not always a story of doom and gloom
Ylva Lekberg, University of Montana; Sean Gibbons, MPG Ranch; Soren Rosendahl, Copenhagen University; Philip W. Ramsey, MPG Ranch