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

Thursday, August 7, 2008: 8:00 AM-11:30 AM

101 A , Midwest Airlines Center

8:00 AM

COS 88-1

Prioritizing invasive plant management and rare species conservation using the relative risks model
Thaddeus K. Miller, University of Nebraska-Lincoln; Craig R. Allen, University of Nebraska-Lincoln; James Merchant, University of Nebraska-Lincoln; Rick Schneider, Nebraska Game and Parks Commission; Wayne Landis, Western Washington University

8:20 AM

COS 88-2

Invasion, disturbance, and competition: Modeling the fate of coastal plant populations
Sharmila Pathikonda, Arizona State University; Azmy S. Ackleh, University of Louisiana at Lafayette; Susan Mopper, University of Louisiana at Lafayette

8:40 AM

COS 88-3

Exploring the spread of a bird-dispersed invasive plant using simulation modeling
Nancy LaFleur, University of Connecticut; Cory Merow, Smithsonian Environmental Research Center; Margaret Rubega, University of Connecticut; John A. Silander, University of Connecticut

9:00 AM

COS 88-4

A spatially explicit model of propagule pressure and invasion in prairie systems
Chad E. Brassil, University of Nebraska; Gregory Houseman, Wichita State University; James O. Eckberg, University of Minnesota; Bryan L. Foster, University of Kansas

9:20 AM

COS 88-5

Evolutionary game theory as a conceptual framework for invasion biology
Lauren M. Pintor, The Ohio State University; Joel Brown, University of Illinois at Chicago; Thomas L. Vincent, University of Arizona

9:40 AM

COS 88-

Break

9:50 AM

COS 88-6

Quantifying and predicting invasiveness using plant traits: A multivariate approach with wetland species
Stephen M. Hovick, Rice University; Chris J. Peterson, University of Georgia

10:10 AM

COS 88-7

Forecasting the distribution of the invasive round goby in Wisconsin tributaries to Lake Michigan
Matthew S. Kornis, U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service; M. Jake Vander Zanden, University of Wisconsin-Madison

10:30 AM

COS 88-8

Who will invade next? Predicting future Great Lakes invasions from shipping traffic and environmental similarity of origin ports
Reuben P. Keller, Loyola University Chicago; John M. Drake, University of Georgia; Mark Drew, University of Notre Dame; David M. Lodge, University of Notre Dame

10:50 AM

COS 88-9

An empirical-based model for predicting scale-dependent shifts in grassland invasibility
Ian J. Renne, Youngstown State University; Benjamin F. Tracy, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University

11:10 AM

COS 88-10

When will invasive species homogenize or differentiate communities? An occupancy-based null model of the effects of species invasions
David J. Harris, UC Davis; Kevin G. Smith, Washington University in St. Louis

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COS 88 - Invasion: Models and Management