Tuesday, August 4, 2009: 8:00 AM-11:30 AM
Grand Pavillion V, Hyatt
COS 30 - Invasion: Dynamics and Population Processes
8:00 AMCOS 30-1Genetic 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 AMCOS 30-2Using 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 AMCOS 30-3Using 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 AMCOS 30-4The colonization cliff: A managers guide to threshold dynamics in biological invasions and metapopulations
Mark A. Davis, Macalester College
9:20 AMCOS 30-5Spatial 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 AM Break
9:50 AMCOS 30-6Invasion 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 AMCOS 30-7Demographic modeling of the invasive tree Ailanthus altissima
Alyssa B. Hanna, West Virginia University
10:30 AMCOS 30-8Mechanisms 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 AMCOS 30-9Ecophysiology 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 AMCOS 30-10Reproductive 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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