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

Thursday, August 7, 2008: 1:30 PM-5:00 PM

104 D, Midwest Airlines Center

1:30 PM

COS 98-1

The influence of small-scale environmental factors on early stages of Microstegium vimineum (Japanese stiltgrass) population growth
Andrea N. Nord, The Pennsylvania State University; David A. Mortensen, The Pennsylvania State University

1:50 PM

COS 98-2

Ten years of Acer platanoides and Acer saccharum seedling bank dynamics: Masting, growth, and survival
Sara L. Webb, Drew University; Rema Hazuri, Drew University; Lucy Rubino, University of Missouri - Columbia; Tiffany Mauro, U.S. Department of Agriculture (APHIS-PPQ); Elena Tartaglia, Rutgers University

2:10 PM

COS 98-3

Enemy release and plant invasion: Patterns of leaf damage and defensive allocation in Hawai‘i
Jennifer Funk, Chapman University; Heather L. Throop, New Mexico State University

2:30 PM

COS 98-4

Clonal integration facilitates the proliferation of smooth brome clones invading northern fescue prairies
Rafael Otfinowski, University of Winnipeg; Norm C. Kenkel, University of Manitoba

2:50 PM

COS 98-5

Facilitation of an invasive plant by native shrubs
Alden Griffith, Wellesley College; Michael Loik, University of California

3:10 PM

COS 98-

Break

3:20 PM

COS 98-6

Nile perch and cichlids in Lake Victoria: Does fishing on prey promote predator invasion?
Reinier Hille Ris Lambers, Wageningen IMARES (Institute for Marine Resources & Ecosystem Studies); Kees Goudswaard, Wageningen IMARES (Institute for Marine Resources & Ecosystem Studies); Adriaan Rijnsdorp, Wageningen IMARES (Institute for Marine Resources & Ecosystem Studies); Marten Scheffer, Wageningen University

3:40 PM

COS 98-7

Variable impacts of an invasive marine predator on a threatened native prey: The role of non-linear species interactions
Eric R. Buhle, NOAA Northwest Fisheries Science Center; Kathleen D. Henson, University of Washington

4:00 PM

COS 98-8

Indirect effects of an invasive grass via its associated soil on populations of a coexisting native plant
Adrianna A. Muir, University of California, Davis; Anna Deck, University of California Davis; Sharon Y. Strauss, University of California, Davis

4:20 PM

COS 98-9

Propagule pressure, insect herbivory, and spatio-temporal variation in the establishment of an exotic thistle
James O. Eckberg, University of Minnesota; Svata M. Louda, University of Nebraska-Lincoln; Brigitte Tenhumberg, University of Nebraska-Lincoln; Andrew J. Tyre, University of Nebraska-Lincoln

4:40 PM

COS 98-10

Interspecific hybridization as a stimulus for invasion?: A case study with spotted and diffuse knapweed in North America
Amy Blair, St. Ambrose University; Ruth A. Hufbauer, Colorado State University

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COS 98 - Invasion: Dynamics and Population Processes