Wednesday, August 5, 2009: 1:30 PM-5:00 PM
Cinnarron, Albuquerque Convention Center
COS 70 - Ecosystem Stability and Resilience
1:30 PMCOS 70-1Storm and stress: Balancing intertidal eelgrass recovery with repeated hydrodynamic disturbance
Sylvia Yang, University of Washington
1:50 PMCOS 70-2Stability, disturbance and resilience in two alternate soft-sediment communities
Christy M. Bowles, UC Davis, Edwin D Grosholz, UC Davis
2:10 PMCOS 70-3Self-organized patterns of wildfire sizes in California: Implications for landscape resilience
Nicholas A. Povak, USDA Forest Service, Paul F. Hessburg, USDA Forest Service
2:30 PMCOS 70-4Potential role of Ca in the response of paper birch (Betula papyrifera) to ice storm-induced decline in Vermont, USA
Joshua M. Halman, University of Vermont, Paul G. Schaberg, USDA Forest Service, Gary J. Hawley, University of Vermont, Christopher F. Hansen, University of Vermont
2:50 PMCOS 70-5Recovery after drought in a diverse temperate grassland under elevated CO2
Tamara Hochstrasser, University College Dublin, Claudia Kammann, Justus-Liebig-University Giessen, Christoph Mueller, University College Dublin
3:10 PM Break
3:20 PMCOS 70-6An experiment exploring the controls of alternative community states in pond producer communities
Sigrid D.P. Smith, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
3:40 PMCOS 70-7Long-term fertilization with calcium or aluminum highlights the influence of anthropogenic cation disruption on the physiology and carbon sequestration of sugar maple trees at the Hubbard Brook Experimental Forest, NH
Paul G. Schaberg, USDA Forest Service, Gary J. Hawley, University of Vermont, Homer L. Elliott, University of Vermont, Paula F. Murakami, USDA Forest Service, Brett A. Huggett, Harvard University, Joshua M. Halman, University of Vermont, Christopher Eagar, USDA Forest Service, NRS
4:00 PMCOS 70-8Spatial correlation as an early warning signal for transitions in ecosystems
Vasilis Dakos, Wageningen University, Egbert H. van Nes, Wageningen University, Marten Scheffer, Wageningen University
4:20 PMCOS 70-9CANCELLED - Patchiness, pollinators, and people: Theorizing community gardens and feedbacks in urban social-ecological systems
Keith G. Tidball, Cornell University, Marianne Krasny, Cornell University

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