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

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

Willow Glen I, San Jose Marriott

8:00 AM

COS 64-1

Spatial dispersion in agents of forest disease: Populations of beech bark disease-associated organisms in space and time
Jeff Garnas, University of Pretoria; Matthew P. Ayres, Dartmouth College; Celia Evans, Paul Smiths College; David R. Houston, USFS retired; Mark Twery, USDA Forest Service

8:20 AM

COS 64-2

Effects of fungal and oomycete pathogens on seedling recruitment in a temperate mixed hardwood forest
Michelle H. Hersh, Eastern Michigan University; James Clark, Duke University; Rytas Vilgalys, Duke University

8:40 AM

COS 64-3

Spatial and temporal dynamics of rust infection on jewelweed (Impatiens capensis)
Jennifer M. Koslow, Cornell University; Keith Clay, Indiana University

9:00 AM

COS 64-4

Ant-aphid mutualisms and community composition influence the spread of aphid-vectored plant viruses
Caralyn B. Zehnder, Georgia College and State University; Laura B. Coppler, Virginia Tech; Micky D. Eubanks, Texas A&M University

9:20 AM

COS 64-5

Monitoring Puccinia jaceae var solstitialis for biological control of yellow starthistle (Centaurea solstitialis) in California
Alison J. Fisher, USDA-ARS; Lincoln Smith, USDA-ARS; Dale M. Woods, University of Wyoming; William L. Bruckart III, USDA-ARS

9:40 AM

COS 64-

Break

9:50 AM

COS 64-6

Seasonality drives Pierce's disease epidemiology in California vineyards
Matthew P. Daugherty, University of California, Riverside; Rodrigo P. Almeida, University of California, Berkeley

10:10 AM

COS 64-7

Impacts of Sudden Oak Death on forests of the Big Sur Region of California
Allison C. Wickland, University of Califorina Davis; Kerri M. Frangioso, University of California, Davis; Doug A. Shoemaker, University of North Carolina, Charlotte; Chris B. Oneal, University of North Carolina, Charlotte; Ross K. Meentemeyer, NC State; Dave M. Rizzo, University of California, Davis

10:30 AM

COS 64-8

Plants, parasites, and mutualists: The infection process and resource competition
Parviez Hosseini, EcoHealth Alliance (formerly Wildlife Trust); Charles Mitchell, University of North Carolina; Andy P. Dobson, Princeton University

10:50 AM

COS 64-9

Influence of land-cover change on the spread of an invasive forest pathogen
Ross K. Meentemeyer, NC State; Nathan E. Rank, Sonoma State University; Brian L. Anacker, University of California, Davis; J. Hall Cushman, Sonoma State University

11:10 AM

COS 64-10

Pathogen dilution in experimental plant communities
Alison G. Power, Cornell University; Charles E. Mitchell, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

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