Thursday, August 6, 2009: 1:30 PM-5:00 PM
Dona Ana, Albuquerque Convention Center
COS 102 - Community Disturbance and Recovery II
1:30 PMCOS 102-1Assembly of a twig-nesting ant community: Disturbance as a window to non-neutral processes
Stacy M. Philpott, University of Toledo
1:50 PMCOS 102-2Species and functional group attrition hypotheses: Assessing disassembly with fire absence in midwestern oak woodland habitats
John Taft, Illinois Natural History Survey
2:10 PMCOS 102-3Untangling the relative importance of fire regimes, habitat characteristics, and resource gradients for plant community composition in a mountainous ecosystem
Lyndsey M. Vivian, The Australian National University, Geoffrey J. Cary, The Australian National University, A. Malcolm Gill, The Australian National University, Ross A. Bradstock, University of Wollongong, Emlyn R. Williams, The Australian National University
2:30 PMCOS 102-4Tree demography and carbon fixation in a regenerating tropical secondary forest
Diane M. Thomson, Claremont Colleges, Leah Almeida, Claremont Colleges, Keala Cummings, Claremont Colleges, Christopher Gurney, Claremont Colleges, Ashley Scott, Claremont Colleges, Juliet Shih, Claremont Colleges
2:50 PMCOS 102-5Scat happens: Local influences of elk on primary succession, Mount St. Helens, WA
Michael P. Fleming, University of Washington, Roger del Moral, University of Washington
3:10 PM Break
3:20 PMCOS 102-6Growth and reproduction decline with willow (Salix sp.) clipping for ski trail maintenance
Catherine Kleier, Regis University, Audrey Hoffa, Metropolitan State College of Denver, Christy A. Carello, Metropolitan State College of Denver
3:40 PMCOS 102-7The importance of plateau pika (Lagomorpha: Ochotona curzoniae) disturbance in ecosystem functioning on the Tibetan plateau: Evidence from alpine meadow vegetation and soil
Brigitte W. Hogan, Arizona State University, Yan Ming Zhang, Northwest Plateau Institute of Biology, Andrew T. Smith, Arizona State University
4:00 PMCOS 102-8The role of disturbance and species pool in determining sand prairie community structure
Molly B. McNicoll, University of Illinois
4:20 PMCOS 102-9Effects of disturbance frequency, species traits and resprouting on directional succession in an individual-based model of forest dynamics
Paul Caplat, University of Guelph, Madhur Anand, University of Guelph
4:40 PMCOS 102-10The long term impact of physical treatments and seed additions on succession in the New Jersey Piedmont region
Alexandra EC Fowler, Rutgers the State University of New Jersey, Jean Marie Hartman, Rutgers University

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