93rd ESA Annual Meeting (August 3 -- August 8, 2008)

COS 49 - Community Disturbance and Recovery

Wednesday, August 6, 2008: 8:00 AM-11:30 AM

103 AB, Midwest Airlines Center

8:00 AM

COS 49-1

Compositional convergence and forest architecture following windstorm in two Minnesota forests
Matthew S. Allen, Oklahoma State University; Vaskar Thapa, Oklahoma State University; Michael W. Palmer, Oklahoma State University

8:20 AM

COS 49-2

Native shrub recovery nine years after reduction of extensive grazing on Santa Rosa Island, California
Julie A. Christian, University of Wisconsin-Madison; Paul H. Zedler, University of Wisconsin; Kathryn McEachern, US Geological Survey - Western Ecological Research Center

8:40 AM

COS 49-3

Effects of sudden oak death on plant community structure and regeneration in the Big Sur ecoregion of California
Margaret R. Metz, University of California, Davis; Kerri M. Frangioso, University of California, Davis; Allison C. Wickland, University of Califorina Davis; Ross K. Meentemeyer, NC State; David M. Rizzo, University of California, Davis

9:00 AM

COS 49-4

Temporal change in forest plant communities in historically logged and unlogged areas of Great Smoky Mountains National Park
Windy A. Bunn, National Park Service; Claire B. Brown, University of Tennessee; Michael Jenkins, United States Department of Agriculture; Nathan J. Sanders, The University of Copenhagen

9:20 AM

COS 49-5

Tree-ring reconstructions of spruce bark beetle outbreaks in Lake Clark National Park and Preserve, Alaska
Rosemary L. Sherriff, Humboldt State University; Edward E. Berg, U.S. FIsh and Wildlife Service; Amy E. Miller, National Park Service

9:40 AM

COS 49-

Break

9:50 AM

COS 49-6

Born of fire: Chaparral age structure as a clue to disturbance regimes and vegetation community change in southwest Oregon
O. C. Duren, Oregon State University; P. S. Muir, Oregon State University

10:10 AM

COS 49-7

How EAB facilitates a secondary spread of invasive plant species: Impacts of EAB eradication and tree mortality
Constance E. Hausman, Cleveland Metroparks; John F. Jaeger, Metropolitan Park District of the Toledo Area; Oscar J. Rocha, Kent State University

10:30 AM

COS 49-8

Nutrient loading and benthic native-invasive species dynamics
Heidi W. Weiskel, Environmental Law Alliance Worldwide; Edwin D. Grosholz, University of California, Davis

10:50 AM

COS 49-9

Impact of an experimental disturbance on food-chain length
Annika W. Walters, USGS Wyoming Cooperative Fish and Wildlife Research Unit; David Post, Yale University

11:10 AM

COS 49-10

Collective decision-making in nest relocation in Argentine ants and odorous house ants
Daniel R. Scholes, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign; Andrew V. Suarez, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

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