Wednesday, August 5, 2009: 1:30 PM-5:00 PM
Grand Pavillion VI, Hyatt
COS 81 - Woodland/Savanna
1:30 PMCOS 81-1Patterns of plant diversity in remnant Oak Openings prairies:  Implications for restoration within a mixed disturbance landscape
Timothy A. Schetter, Metropolitan Park District of the Toledo Area, Timothy L. Walters, Mannik & Smith Group, Inc., Karen V. Root, Bowling Green State University
1:50 PMCOS 81-2Woody plants modulate the temporal dynamics of soil moisture in a semi-arid mesquite savanna
Daniel Potts, Buffalo State College, Russell Scott, United States Department of Agriculture, Agricultural Research Service, Saziye Bayram, Buffalo State College, Joaquin Carbonara, Buffalo State College
2:10 PMCOS 81-3Stop and smell the flowers: Herbaceous understory significantly contributes to woodland carbon and water fluxes in a semi-arid ecosystem
Anna P. Tyler, University of Arizona, Russell L. Scott, USDA-ARS, Travis E. Huxman, University of Arizona
2:30 PMCOS 81-4Recruitment limitation in an endemic California oak: A meta-analysis of planting experiments and surveys of natural populations
Blair C. McLaughlin, University of California at Santa Cruz, Erika Zavaleta, University of California at Santa Cruz, Kristin B. Hulvey, University of California at Santa Cruz
2:50 PMCOS 81-5Assessing movement of white-tailed deer (Odocoileus virginianus) and potential impacts in Oak Openings Metropark
Amanda R. Kuntz, Bowling Green State University, Karen V. Root, Bowling Green State University
3:10 PM Break
3:20 PMCOS 81-6Divergent effects of different ant partners on host trees in a Kenyan ant-plant mutualism
Amelia A. Wolf, Stanford University, Todd M. Palmer, University of Florida, Peter M. Vitousek, Stanford University
3:40 PMCOS 81-7Stand structure of Quercus garryana-dominated woodlands in relation to environment and disturbance history in southwestern Oregon 
Laurie A. Gilligan, Oregon State University, Patricia S. Muir, Oregon State University
4:00 PMCOS 81-8Influences of climate on a two-hundred year history of ponderosa pine woodland expansion in the central Great Plains, USA
Margot W. Kaye, Pennsylvania State University, Connie Woodhouse, University of Arizona, Stephen T. Jackson, University of Wyoming
4:20 PMCOS 81-9Historical disturbance driven dynamics in Central Texas woodlands
Darrel B. Murray, Baylor University, Carl Schwope, Balcones Canyonlands National Wildlife Refuge, Joseph D. White, Baylor University

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