Tuesday, August 4, 2009: 8:00 AM-11:30 AM
Grand Pavillion V, Hyatt
COS 30 - Invasion: Dynamics and Population Processes
8:00 AMGenetic variance of invasiveness in woody ornamental plants: The role of genotype differences versus phenotypic plasticity
Sarah A. Treanor, University of Connecticut, Jenica M. Allen, University of Connecticut, Matthew A. Kaproth, University of Vermont, Nancy LaFleur, University of Connecticut, Jane Molofsky, University of Vermont, John A. Silander Jr., University of Connecticut
8:20 AMUsing disturbance to control invasions: A case study for two invasive thistles
Rui Zhang, The Pennsylvania State University, Katriona Shea, The Pennsylvania State University
8:40 AMUsing the wildlife trade to uncover the mechanisms behind the missing parasites rule
Katherine F. Smith, Brown University, Peter Daszak, The Consortium for Conservation Medicine
9:00 AMThe colonization cliff: A managers guide to threshold dynamics in biological invasions and metapopulations
Mark A. Davis, Macalester College
9:20 AMSpatial spread of ecosystem engineers: The race is not always to the swift
Alan Hastings, University of California, Davis, K. Cuddington, University of Waterloo
9:40 AMBreak
9:50 AMInvasion of legume-rhizobium mutualists across a heterogeneous environment: Microevolution during colonization of a serpentine grassland
Stephanie Porter, University of California, Davis, Kevin Rice, University of California, Davis
10:10 AMDemographic modeling of the invasive tree Ailanthus altissima
Alyssa B. Hanna, West Virginia University
10:30 AMMechanisms of Phragmites invasion in the Chesapeake Bay: Disentangling the importance of land-use, disturbances, nutrients, genetic diversity, and viable seed production
Karin M. Kettenring, Utah State University, Dennis F. Whigham, Smithsonian Environmental Research Center, Melissa K. McCormick, Smithsonian Environmental Research Center, Heather M. Baron, Oregon State University, Sally K. Gallagher, University of Wisconsin, Andrew H. Baldwin, University of Maryland
10:50 AMEcophysiology of an invasive alien plant species (Erodium cicutarium) in the southern Central Valley, California
Haley P. O'Mara, California State University Bakersfield, R. Brandon Pratt, California State University Bakersfield, Anna L. Jacobsen, California State University, Bakersfield
11:10 AMReproductive output, seed quality, and invasive potential of Asiatic honeysuckle [Lonicera maackii (Rupr.) Herder]
Kurt E. Schulz, Southern Illinois University Edwardsville, Jessica Choudhury, Southern Illinois University Edwardsville

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