ESA/SER Joint Meeting (August 5 -- August 10, 2007)

Wednesday, August 8, 2007: 8:00 AM-11:30 AM

Almaden Blrm I, San Jose Hilton

8:00 AM

COS 70-1

The role of spatial autocorrelation in native-exotic plant species richness relationships
Sunil Kumar, Colorado State University; Thomas J. Stohlgren, Natural Resource Ecology Laboratory

8:20 AM

COS 70-2

Most weed families overrepresented with natives have a low proportion of exotic species in Mexico
Francisco J. Espinosa-Garcia, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México; Heike Vibrans, Colegio de Posgraduados en Ciencias Agrícolas; José L. Villaseñor, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México

8:40 AM

COS 70-3

Plant invasion in Pacific grasslands: Is exotic richness a red herring?
Amanda Stanley, Institute for Applied Ecology; Eric Seabloom, Oregon State University; Thomas N. Kaye, Institute for Applied Ecology; Peter W. Dunwiddie, University of Washington

9:00 AM

COS 70-4

Critical resource level and its role in plant species diversity and invasion
Bai-Lian Li, University of California; Amit Chakraborty, University of California, Riverside

9:20 AM

COS 70-5

Positive effect of diversity on a natural invasion in small-scale arid communities
Michele R. Schutzenhofer, McKendree University; Thomas J. Valone, Saint Louis University

9:40 AM

COS 70-

Break

9:50 AM

COS 70-6

The importance of species diversity and dominance in limiting and facilitating invasions
Benjamin Gilbert, University of Toronto; Roy Turkington, University of British Columbia; Diane S. Srivastava, University of British Columbia

10:10 AM

COS 70-7

The influence of productivity and diversity on the invasibility of a phytoplankton community
Erik Sperfeld, University of Potsdam, Institute of Biochemistry and Biology; Ursula Gaedke, University of Potsdam; Guntram Weithoff, University of Potsdam

10:30 AM

COS 70-8

Impact of tropical American invasive species on ecosystem degradation in Himachal Pradesh – Northwestern Indian Himalayas
Ravinder K. Kohli, Panjab University; Daizy R. Batish, Panjab University; Kuldeep S. Dogra, Panjab University; Harminder P. Singh, Panjab University

10:50 AM

COS 70-9

Plant diversity and composition in the absence of the exotic invasive, Microstegium vimineum, at a wetland restoration site in Raleigh, North Carolina
Julie E. DeMeester, Duke University; Daniel D. Richter, Duke University

11:10 AM

COS 70-10

Effects of community diversity and resource availability on invasion in marine fouling communities
Safra Altman, University of Maryland; Gregory M. Ruiz, Smithsonian Environmental Research Center; Anson H. Hines, Smithsonian Environmental Research Center

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