Monday, August 4, 2008: 1:30 PM-5:00 PM
201 A, Midwest Airlines Center
COS 9 - Historical Ecology and Survey Records
1:30 PMCOS 9-1Using original land survey records and soils to map the pre-settlement distribution of tamarack in southeastern Wisconsin
Anne H. Reis, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, James A. Reinartz, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee
1:50 PMCOS 9-2History and latitudinal gradients in mammal species diversity
Michael D. Weiser, North Carolina State University
2:10 PMCOS 9-3Spatial reconstruction of western spruce budworm outbreak dynamics in the central western Cascades of Oregon since AD 1600
Alan J. Tepley, Oregon State University
2:30 PMCOS 9-4Climate change and elevational shifts in the spatial pattern of larch budmoth outbreak: Evidence from 300 years of tree ring data
Derek M. Johnson, University of Louisiana at Lafayette, Ulf Buentgen, Swiss Federal Research Institute WSL, Kyrre L. Kausrud, University of Oslo, David C. Frank, Swiss Federal Research Institute WSL, Jon Olav Vik, University of Oslo, Tristan Rouyer, University of Oslo, Kyle J. Haynes, University of Louisiana at Lafayette, Andrew M. Liebhold, USDA Forest Service, Nils Christian Stenseth, University of Oslo, Jan Esper, Swiss Federal Research Institute WSL
2:50 PMCOS 9-5Preindustrial forests in the balsam fir-yellow birch bioclimatic zone in eastern Canada - CANCELLED
Sébastien X. Dupuis, Université du Québec à Rimouski, Dominique Arseneault, Université du Québec à Rimouski, Luc Sirois, Université du Québec à Rimouski
3:10 PM Break
3:20 PMCOS 9-6Changes in organic matter flux and phytoplankton community structure in two northern Wisconsin lakes at the time of logging
Jennifer E. Schmitz, University of Wisconsin - Madison, Sara C. Hotchkiss, University of Wisconsin, Randy Calcote, University of Minnesota, James A. Rusak, University of Wisconsin - Madison
3:40 PMCOS 9-7The history and ecology of jack pine budworm populations in northwestern Wisconsin: Shift in insect disturbance regimes following European-American settlement of a pine-dominated forest
Michael A. Tweiten, University of Wisconsin - Madison, Sara C. Hotchkiss, University of Wisconsin
4:00 PMCOS 9-8Land-use legacies in northern Great Lakes forests: Vegetation changes in and around Pictured Rocks National Lakeshore since pre-settlement
Urs Gimmi, University of Wisconsin-Madison, David J. Mladenoff, University of Wisconsin-Madison, Volker C. Radeloff, University of Wisconsin-Madison

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