COS 10 - Invasion: Detection and Invasibility

Monday, August 4, 2008: 1:30 PM-5:00 PM
201 B, Midwest Airlines Center
1:30 PM
 Detecting invasion processes at the landscape and regional scales: Acacia dealbata in Chile
Anibal Pauchard, Universidad de Concepcion, Chile; Mathieu Maheu-Giroux, McGill University; Mauricio Aguayo, Universidad de Concepcion; Jocelyn Esquivel, Universidad de Concepción, Instituto de Ecología y Biodiversidad (IEB)
1:50 PM
 Examining the effects of CO2, N, and diversity on initial establishment of weedy invaders in a grassland ecosystem
Rachel C. Putnam, University of Minnesota; Myla F.J. Aronson, Rutgers University; Peter B. Reich, University of Minnesota
2:10 PM
 Pacific Northwest eelgrass species: Genetic diversity as a predictor for invasibility
Suzanne E. Graham, University of Washington; Jennifer M. Rhode, University of North Carolina at Asheville
2:50 PM
 Community invasibility in old fields: From establishment to distribution across time and space
Lara Souza, University of Oklahoma; Nathan J. Sanders, The University of Copenhagen
3:10 PM
3:20 PM
 Which mechanisms promote success in phylogenetically novel invasive species?
Anna M. Truszczynski, University of California, Davis; Jean H. Burns, Case Western Reserve University; Tiffany M. Knight, Washington University in St. Louis
3:40 PM
 Causes and timing of tamarisk and Russian olive invasion into a southwestern floodplain
Lindsay V. Reynolds, Colorado State University; David J. Cooper, Colorado State University
4:00 PM
 Finding exotic needles in a haystack: Early detection of colonizing invaders when rare
Samir Qureshi, University of Windsor; Chad T. Harvey, University of Windsor; Hugh J. MacIsaac, University of Windsor
4:20 PM
 Using volunteers to monitor plant invasions in large forested areas of the New York-New Jersey Highlands - CANCELLED
Joan G. Ehrenfeld, Rutgers University; Wesley R. Brooks, Rutgers University; Rebecca Jordan, Rutgers University; Edward Goodell, NY-NJ Trail Conference
4:40 PM
 Land division among multiple managers can increase invasion rates by altering managers' control incentives
Rebecca S. Niell, University of California, Davis; James E. Wilen, University of California, Davis; Clare E. Aslan, Arizona-Sonora Desert Museum; Matthew B. Hufford, University of California, Davis; Jason P. Sexton, University of California, Merced; Jeffrey D. Port, University of California, Davis; Timothy M. Waring, University of Maine
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