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

Tuesday, August 7, 2007: 8:00 AM-11:30 AM

Almaden Blrm II, San Jose Hilton

8:00 AM

COS 33-1

Predicting habitat models of six rare montane plant taxa of northern California
Mark W. Schwartz, University of California, Davis; John N. Willliams, University of California - Davis; Julie K. Nelson, US Forest Service; Susan Erwin, US Forest Service

8:20 AM

COS 33-2

A hierarchical Bayesian model of time-since-fire effects on the demography of the Florida scrub endemic, Dicerandra frutescens ssp frutescens (Lamiaceae)
Margaret E. K. Evans, University of Arizona; Kent E. Holsinger, University of Connecticut; Eric S. Menges, Archbold Biological Station

8:40 AM

COS 33-3

The role of seed limitation and microsite trait in seedling establishment: Harvester ants and fire alter recruitment of perennial forbs in a semi-arid savanna
Nancy Nicolai, University of New Mexico; Fred E. Smeins, Texas A&M University

9:00 AM

COS 33-4

Shrubland patchiness succession in mesic versus arid Mediterranean sites
Orna Reisman-Berman, Bar-Ilan University; Moshe Shachak, Blaustein Institutes for Desert Research, Ben Gurion University; Zalmaen Henkin, Agricultural Research Organization, The Volcani Center Bet Dagan; Ronen Kadmon, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem

9:20 AM

COS 33-5

Vascular plant metapopulation dynamics and metacommunity structure within prairie-like forest openings in southern Illinois
Michael K. Delong, Southern Illinois University Carbondale; David J. Gibson, Southern Illinois University Carbondale

9:40 AM

COS 33-

Break

9:50 AM

COS 33-6

Climatic and biotic stochasticity: Disparate causes of convergent demographies in rare, sympatric plants
Laurel R. Fox, University of California

10:10 AM

COS 33-7

Seven millennia of population dynamics in a high-altitude population of bristlecone pine
Adelia Barber, University of California Santa Cruz; Thomas Harlan, University of Arizona, Tucson; Roderick Bale, University of Wales Swansea

10:30 AM

COS 33-8

Population dynamics and environmental variation across the geographic range of a California annual plant
Monica A. Geber, Cornell University; Vincent M. Eckhart, Grinnell College; David A. Moeller, University of Minnesota; Peter Tiffin, University of Minnesota; Emily C. Looney, Cornell University; Indrani Singh, Grinnell College; Allison Louthan, University of Colorado- Boulder

10:50 AM

COS 33-9

A 19-year study of the Mead's milkweed (Asclepias meadii): Insights on detection of individual plants and on population ecology
Helen M. Alexander, University of Kansas; Norman A. Slade, University of Kansas; W. Dean Kettle, University of Kansas; G. L. Pittman, University of Kansas

11:10 AM

COS 33-10

Dendroecology of two liana species in an old-growth floodplain forest in South Carolina, USA
Bruce P. Allen, Ohio State University; P. Charles Goebel, The Ohio State University; Rebecca R. Sharitz, University of Georgia

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