Thursday, August 7, 2008: 8:00 AM-11:30 AM
203 C, Midwest Airlines Center
COS 87 - Invasion: Species Interactions
8:00 AMCOS 87-1Climate affects response of an island endemic plant to removal of invasive herbivores
Kathryn McEachern, U. S. Geological Survey - Western Ecological Research Center, Diane M. Thomson, Claremont Colleges, Katherine A. Chess, Northern Arizona University and USGS-WERC
8:20 AMCOS 87-2Insect herbivory and competition limit regeneration of an introduced thistle more than a co-occurring native thistle
Tomomi Suwa, Michigan State University, Svata Louda, University of Nebraska - Lincoln
8:40 AMCOS 87-3Natural enemies and fitness in common ragweed
A. Andrew M. MacDonald, University of Toronto, Peter M. Kotanen, University of Toronto
9:00 AMCOS 87-4The role of genetic variation and allelopathy in competitive effects of Ailanthus altissima on Liriodendron tulipifera
Alyssa B. Hanna, West Virginia University, James B. McGraw, West Virginia University
9:20 AMCOS 87-5Local extinction of a native prairie grass is due to the spread of the competitively dominant invasive smooth brome (Bromus inermis)
Forrest P. Dillemuth, Louisiana State University, James T. Cronin, Louisiana State University
9:40 AM Break
9:50 AMCOS 87-6Functional dissimilarity between invaders and residents controls community invasibility in a grassland
Alexander J. Fergus, University of Zurich, Jana S. Petermann, University of Zurich, Lindsay A. Turnbull, University of Zurich, Bernhard Schmid, University of Zurich
10:10 AMCOS 87-7Invasive ants and honeydew-producing Hemiptera: Partners in crime?
David A. Holway, University of California, San Diego
10:30 AMCOS 87-8Abiotic and biotic drivers of exotic ascidian populations in the northeast Pacific
Erin Grey, University of Chicago
10:50 AMCOS 87-9An alternative hypothesis for invasional meltdown in the Great Lakes:  General facilitation by Dreissena
Jonathan M. Bossenbroek, University of Toledo, Betsy Bodamer, University of Toledo, Kristen DeVanna, University of Toledo, Erin Hammer, University of Toledo, Colleen Wellington, University of Toledo, Chris M. Mayer, University of Toledo
11:10 AMCOS 87-10The importance of belowground gaps in roots of perennials in sagebrush steppe: Does the belowground neighborhood matter?
Michael D. Reisner, Oregon State University, Paul S. Doescher, Oregon State University, David A. Pyke, U.S. Geological Survey

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