Thursday, August 9, 2007: 1:30 PM-5:00 PM
Blrm Salon V, San Jose Marriott
COS 121 - Community ecology: Succession
1:30 PMCOS 121-1Is the establishment of a functioning ecosystem sufficient to restore reptile communities in sites rehabilitated after bauxite mining?
Michael D. Craig, Murdoch University, Mark J. Garkaklis, Department of Environment and Conservation, Giles E. St. J. Hardy, Murdoch University, Andrew H. Grigg, Alcoa World Alumina Australia, Carl D. Grant, Alcoa World Alumina Australia, Patricia A. Fleming, Murdoch University, Richard J. Hobbs, Murdoch University
1:50 PMCOS 121-2Could ecophysiological traits and related ecohydrological processes explain competition and succession trend in warm-temperate broadleaved forests?
Mei Yu, Institute of Botany, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Qiong Gao, College of Resources Sciences, Beijing Normal University
2:10 PMCOS 121-3Spawning salmon alleviate terrestrial nitrogen limitation by fertilizing early succession in a large river floodplain
Michael R. Morris, The University of Montana, Jack A. Stanford, The University of Montana
2:30 PMCOS 121-4Rodent-mediated secondary succession in tidal marshes
Keryn D. Bromberg, Brown University, Caitlin Mullan Crain, University of California, Santa Cruz, Mark D. Bertness, Brown Unversity
2:50 PMCOS 121-5Primary succession to forest on some island and continental Pacific volcanoes
Bruce D. Clarkson, University of Waikato, Beverley R. Clarkson, Landcare Research NZ, James O. Juvik, University of Hawaii-Hilo, Lawrence R. Walker, University of Nevada Las Vegas
3:10 PM Break
3:20 PMCOS 121-6Establishment history of mature Douglas-fir forests in the southwest Washington Cascade Range
James A. Freund, University of Washington, Jerry F. Franklin, University of Washington
3:40 PMCOS 121-7Abandoned agricultural lands: An opportunity for the expansion of native forest?
Cibele F. Queiroz, Stockholm University / Technical University of Lisbon, Henrique Miguel Pereira, Instituto Superior Tecnico, Carl Folke, Stockholm University
4:00 PMCOS 121-8The roles of plant persistence and lifespan in restoration and community ecology
Truman P. Young, University of California
4:20 PMCOS 121-9Early-successional dynamics of tree species growth in response to nitrogen and phosphorus fertilization in abandoned pasture in eastern Amazonia
Ilyas Siddique, The University of Queensland, Ima C. G. Vieira, Museu Paraense Emílio Goeldi, Brazil, Susanne Schmidt, The University of Queensland, David Lamb, The University of Queensland, Cláudio J. R. de Carvalho, Embrapa Amazônia Oriental, Brazil, Ricardo de O. Figueiredo, Embrapa Amazônia Oriental, Brazil, Simon Blomberg, The University of Queensland, Eric A. Davidson, The Woods Hole Research Center, Massachusetts
4:40 PMCOS 121-10Facilitating succession on abandoned pasture in Costa Rica using an aluminum-hyperaccumulating tree, Vochysia guatemalensis (Vochysiaceae)
Kristin C. Young, University of California, Irvine, F. Lynn Carpenter, University of California, Irvine, David Parker, University of California, Riverside

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