COS 40 - Invasion: Community Effects II

Tuesday, August 5, 2008: 1:30 PM-5:00 PM
201 A, Midwest Airlines Center
1:30 PM
 Interactive effects of white-tailed deer and invasive plants on temperate deciduous forest native plant communities
Norman A. Bourg, Smithsonian Institution - National Zoological Park; William J. McShea, Smithsonian Conservation Biology Institute at the National Zoological Park; Chad M. Stewart, Indiana Department of Natural Resources
2:30 PM
 Does removal of an invasive species restore the disturbance regime and native community on coastal dunes?
Phoebe Zarnetske, Michigan State University; Eric Seabloom, Oregon State University; Sally D. Hacker, Oregon State University
2:50 PM
 Increased net primary production and shifts in community grazing regimes on phytoplankton in Green Bay, Lake Michigan following invasion by dreissenid mussels
Bart T. DeStasio, Lawrence University; Michael B. Schrimpf, Lawrence University; Erik Hoyer, Lawrence University; Ashley E. Beranek, Lawrence University
3:10 PM
3:40 PM
 Between a rock and a hard place: Effects of invasive rusty crayfish and Chinese mystery snails on freshwater communities
Pieter TJ Johnson, University of Colorado at Boulder; Christopher T. Solomon, McGill University & University of Montreal; Julian Olden, University of Washington; M. Jake Vander Zanden, University of Wisconsin-Madison
4:00 PM
 Disentangling homogenization, pseudohomogenization, and cryptic homogenization: Application of a null model for invasive species’ effects on similarity
Kevin G. Smith, Washington University in St. Louis; Jonathan M. Chase, Biodiversity Synthesis Laboratory
4:20 PM
 Native fish diversity alters the effect of an invasive species on ecosystem properties
Michael P. Carey, Michigan State University; David H. Wahl, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
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