Wednesday, August 8, 2007: 1:30 PM-5:00 PM
Almaden Blrm I, San Jose Hilton
COS 91 - Paleoecology, historical ecology, and restoration baselines
1:30 PMCOS 91-1Persistency of native species through the period of early human habitation on Kohala Peninsula, Hawai‘i Island
Marjeta Jeraj, University of Wisconsin, James H. Coil, University of California, Sara C. Hotchkiss, University of Wisconsin, Patrick Kirch, University of California, Michael W. Graves, University of New Mexico, Thegn N. Ladefoged, The university of New Zealand
1:50 PMCOS 91-2Ecological extinction patterns in the avifauna of the tropical Pacific
Alison G. Boyer, University of New Mexico
2:10 PMCOS 91-3Paleoecology and inter-situ restoration on Kaua`i
David A. Burney, National Tropical Botanical Garden, Lida Pigott Burney, Makauwahi Cave Reserve
2:30 PMCOS 91-4Origin of open landscapes in Western Europe revisited by soil wood charcoal analyses
Thierry Dutoit, IMEP UMR-CNRS 6116 & IUT Avignon, Michel Thinon, Université Paul Cézanne, Elise Buisson, IMEP UMR-CNRS 6116 & IUT Avignon, Didier Alard, Université de Bordeaux,
2:50 PMCOS 91-5Extinction as predator removal: Intraguild competitive cascades, mesopredator release, and a paleoecological perspective for conservation biology
Jeffrey V. Yule, Louisiana Tech University
3:10 PM Break
3:20 PMCOS 91-6Comparison of fire history, vegetation history, and cultural change during the past 2000 years to inform management at Effigy Mounds National Monument, Iowa
Sarah McGuire Bogen, University of Wisconsin, Sara C. Hotchkiss, University of Wisconsin
3:40 PMCOS 91-7Reconstruction of past migration rates of Southwestern plant species and their application to future distributions
Kenneth L. Cole, USGS Southwest Biological Science Center
4:00 PMCOS 91-8Paleoecological and historical records of range expansion and invasive tendencies in Typha species of eastern North American wetlands
Sarah Finkelstein, University of Toronto
4:20 PMCOS 91-9Competition between Microtus montanus and M longicaudus in the modern and Holocene Greater Yellowstone Ecosystem
Paula Ann Spaeth, Stanford University, Elizabeth A Hadly, Stanford University

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