Final Program Listing

Organized Oral Session


Monday, August 4, 2008
1:30 PM-5:00 PM
OOS 1 - Investigating Your Own Teaching: Ecology Faculty as Research Practitioners
OOS 2 - Soil, Water, and Plants: Linking Physical Processes in Water-Controlled Ecosystems
OOS 3 - Insect Disturbance Ecology: A Forest's Perspective
OOS 4 - The Landscape-Scale Ecology of Pollinators and Pollination: Mechanisms, Patterns, and Processes

Tuesday, August 5, 2008
8:00 AM-11:30 AM
OOS 5 - Have Microbes Read the Book? Theoretical Ecology for Microbial Communities
OOS 6 - Integrating Modern Instrumentation Into Undergraduate Ecology Education: Case Studies and Strategies
OOS 7 - Ecological Exploration of Plant Elemental Defenses
1:30 PM-5:00 PM
OOS 8 - Size and Reproduction in Plant Populations
OOS 9 - Ecological Literacy in Public Audiences: Building Upon Successful Strategies and Defining the Research Agenda
OOS 10 - Linkages Between Ecosystem Disturbance and Exotic Species Invasions in Forested Ecosystems
OOS 11 - Frontiers in the Ecology of Plant-Fungal Interactions

Wednesday, August 6, 2008
8:00 AM-11:30 AM
OOS 12 - Ecohydrological Consequences of Aeolian Processes: Local- to Global-Scale Perspectives
OOS 13 - Towards a Synthetic Theory of Tree-Grass Coexistence in Savannas
OOS 14 - Ecological Education Furthering Environmental Justice
1:30 PM-5:00 PM
OOS 15 - Theoretical Perspectives in Agroecology
OOS 16 - Grinnellian Niches or Just Statistical Correlates? Opportunities for Ecological Inference From Species Distribution Models
OOS 17 - Training Biology Teachers in Ecological Research

Thursday, August 7, 2008
8:00 AM-11:30 AM
OOS 18 - Ecohydrology: Integrating Current Knowledge of Water Flux Along the Soil-Plant-Atmosphere Continuum
OOS 19 - Approaches for Linking Vegetation Classification, Vegetation Mapping, and Remote Sensing Technologies
1:30 PM-5:00 PM
OOS 20 - Shake-up in Timing in Ecological Communities: Understanding the Complexity and the Role of Citizen Science
OOS 21 - Building Research and Monitoring Networks For Population and Ecosystem Ecology
OOS 22 - Plant Pathogen Ecology: The Effects of Plant Pathogens on Individuals, Populations, Communities, and Ecosystems

Friday, August 8, 2008
8:00 AM-11:30 AM
OOS 23 - Mentoring Future Ecologists at Small Liberal Arts Colleges Through Research
OOS 24 - Biology of Weedy and Invasive Species in Agroecosystems: Case Studies
OOS 25 - Changing Times: The Impact of Variability in Plant Phenology at Multiple Scales