COS 29 - Invasion: Community invasibility and controls on invasion

Tuesday, August 7, 2007: 8:00 AM-11:30 AM
Blrm Salon V, San Jose Marriott
8:00 AM
 Using land-use history in combination with local factors to understand invasion patterns of an exotic grass
Jonathon W. Schramm, Michigan State University; Joan G. Ehrenfeld, Rutgers University
8:20 AM
 The role of climate in the invasion of an exotic species and its impacts on a Chihuahuan Desert ecosystem
Danielle D. Ignace, University of Arizona; Peter L. Chesson, University of Arizona
8:40 AM
 Fortuitous invasions into experimental wetland mesocosms: The effects of nitrogen enrichment and canopy-species composition
Stephen M. Hovick, Rice University; Daniel E. Bunker, New Jersey Institute of Technology; Walter P. Carson, University of Pittsburgh; Chris J. Peterson, University of Georgia
9:00 AM
 Resources limit the invasion of natural communities by Argentine ants
Alexei D. Rowles, North Carolina State University; Jules Silverman, NCSU
9:20 AM
 Dominant plant species affect community structure and control the establishment of an exotic species in an old-field system
Lara Souza, University of Oklahoma; Jake F Weltzin, University of Tennessee; Nathan J Sanders, University of Tennessee
9:40 AM
9:50 AM
 Potential mechanisms underlying the relationship between native forb abundance and invasion resistance in California grasslands
Kristin B. Hulvey, University of Western Australia; Erika Zavaleta, University of California
10:10 AM
 Resource impacts enable invasion resistance by a native shrub community
Leah J. Goldstein, University of California, Irvine; Katharine N. Suding, University of California at Berkeley
10:30 AM
 Biotic resistance to invasion: Indirect interactions in ponderosa pine savannas
Kerry L. Metlen, The Nature Conservancy in Oregon; Ragan M. Callaway, The University of Montana
10:50 AM
 Phylogeny and community resistance to invasion
Steven B. Hill, University of Toronto at Mississauga; Peter M. Kotanen, University of Toronto
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