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

Thursday, August 9, 2007: 1:30 PM-5:00 PM

J2, San Jose McEnery Convention Center

1:30 PM

COS 124-1

Vermetid snails reduce growth and survival of corals and shift coral species composition
Craig W. Osenberg, University of Florida; Jeffrey S. Shima, Victoria University of Wellington; Adrian Stier, Northwest Fisheries Science Center

1:50 PM

COS 124-2

Relationships between coral quality and parrotfish corallivory: A long-term predator-exclusion experiment on the Belizean barrier reef
Randi D. Rotjan, Harvard University / New England Aquarium; James L. Dimond, Marine Biological Laboratory; Sara M. Lewis, Tufts University

2:10 PM

COS 124-3

Effects of the alga Turbinaria ornata on the growth of the coral Pocillopora verrucosa
Andrea Rivera, University of Hawaii at Manoa; Annie Yau, University of California, Santa Barbara; Hunter Lenihan, University of California, Santa Barbara

2:30 PM

COS 124-4

Assessment and monitoring of the Faganeanea channel for coral reef management
Saneterini Amosa Jr., American Samoa Community College; Sina Gogo, American Samoa Community College

2:50 PM

COS 124-5

3:10 PM

COS 124-

Break

3:20 PM

COS 124-6

Phase shift of larval release by pocilloporid corals in a semi-enclosed embayment with spring tide induced upwelling
Tung-Yung Fan, National Museum of Marine Biology and Aquarium; Ke-Han Lin, National Sun Yat-Sen University; Fu-Wen Kuo, National Museum of Marine Biology and Aquarium; Lee-Shing Fang, National Museum of Marine Biology and Aquarium

3:40 PM

COS 124-7

Invasives and MPAs: Effective or not?
Julie B. Kellner, Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution; Alan Hastings, University of California, Davis

4:00 PM

COS 124-8

Recruitment of coastal fishes and oceanographic variability in central California
Jono R. Wilson, UCSB; Bernardo R. Broitman, National Center for Ecological Analysis and Synthesis

4:20 PM

COS 124-9

Population structure of the purple sea urchin and the giant kelp at the southern end of their range in the Northern Hemisphere
Rodrigo Beas, Centro de Investigacion y Estudios Superiores de Ensenada; Lydia Ladah, Centro de Investigacion y Estudios Superiores de Ensenada

4:40 PM

COS 124-10

Spatial scales of mixing of salmon populations in the coastal ocean detected by genetic and isotopic signatures of origin
Rachel Barnett-Johnson, University of California Santa Cruz; Frank C. Ramos, Central Washington University; J. Carlos Garza, National Marine Fisheries Service; Churchill B. Grimes, NOAA Fisheries; R. Bruce MacFarlane, National Marine Fisheries Service

COS 124 - Ecology of marine ecosystems and reefs