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

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

103 C, Midwest Airlines Center

8:00 AM

COS 50-1

High soil nickel enhances seed weight and seedling growth in Alyssum murale, a nickel-hyperaccumulator
Iman Sylvain, University of Michigan; Mary A. McKenna, Howard University

8:20 AM

COS 50-2

Trees in motion: Ponderosa pine expansion into the Bighorn Basin, Wyoming
Mark R. Lesser, Syracuse University; Stephen T. Jackson, U.S. Geological Survey

8:40 AM

COS 50-3

Seedling limitation and spatial scale in a wet tropical forest
Richard K. Kobe, Michigan State University; Corine F. Vriesendorp, Field Museum of Natural History

9:00 AM

COS 50-4

The spread of Microstegium vimineum (Japanese stiltgrass), an invasive weed
Emily S. J. Rauschert, St. Mary's College of Maryland; David Mortensen, The Pennsylvania State University; Ottar N. Bjornstad, Pennsylvania State University; Andrea Nord, The Pennsylvania State University

9:20 AM

COS 50-5

Seedling establishment of Rocky Mountain bristlecone and limber pine: Contrasting patterns of post-fire regeneration, latitudinal variation, stem clusters, and nurse objects
Jonathan Coop, Western Colorado University; Anna W. Schoettle, Rocky Mountain Research Station

9:40 AM

COS 50-

Break

9:50 AM

COS 50-6

Tumbling: An overlooked mechanism of dispersal
Dirk Baker, Campbell Scientific, Inc.; John R. Withrow, Rocky Mountain Research Station, USFS; Cynthia Brown, Colorado State University; K. George Beck, Colorado State University

10:10 AM

COS 50-7

Extinction risk in dendritic ecological networks
Evan H. Campbell Grant, US Geological Survey

10:30 AM

COS 50-8

Phenotype dependent breeding dispersal in male blue dasher dragonflies (Pachydiplax longipennis)
Shannon J. McCauley, Cal Poly State University

10:50 AM

COS 50-9

The interacting effects of sociality and habitat conditions on dispersal behavior
Heather Bird Jackson, Louisiana State University; James T. Cronin, Louisiana State University

11:10 AM

COS 50-10

Landscape dispersal value estimated by the movement behaviors of rare butterflies
Daniel C. Kuefler, University of Guelph; Nick M. Haddad, North Carolina State University; Brian Hudgens, Institute for Wildlife Studies; William F. Morris, Duke University; Nicole Thurgate, North Carolina State University

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