Friday, August 7, 2009: 8:30 AM-10:30 AM
Exhibit Hall NE & SE, Albuquerque Convention Center
PS 81 - Latebreaking: Community Pattern and Dynamics
PS 81-59		Trophic interactions in soil affecting plant production Jennifer Adams Krumins, Netherlands Institute of Ecology, Wim H. van der Putten, Netherlands Institute of Ecology
PS 81-60		Extinction-colonization dynamics of a spore-feeding beetle community on long-lived bracket fungi Ganoderma in New Zealand Kohmei Kadowaki, The University of Auckland
PS 81-61		Land-use legacies: Quantifying vegetation dynamics for sustainable shrubsteppe management Julie Ripplinger, Utah State University, Thomas C. Edwards Jr., Utah State University
PS 81-62		Nitrogen and microbial dynamics associated with banded vegetation in a low elevation Chihuahuan Desert grassland K. Haralson, Texas Tech University, V. Acosta-Martinez, USDA-ARS, J. Bennett, National Park Service, J. Zak, Texas Tech University
PS 81-63		Evolutionary game theory and invasive species: An example with endangered and invasive thistles, cirsium pitcheri and c. arvense. Helena Puche, University of Illinois at Chicago, Joel S. Brown, University of Illinois at Chicago
PS 81-64		Veratrum californicum presence structures Sierra Nevada meadow plant communities Jim Alford, California State University
PS 81-65		Effect of canopy phenology on understory plant community structure in a temperate deciduous forest David J. Hicks, Manchester College
PS 81-66		Predator influences on prey community structure in a long-term experimental rodent-plant system Sarah R. Mohlman, Utah State University, S. K. Morgan Ernest, Utah State University
PS 81-67		Links between soil and plant community composition patterns in an urban wildland Liliana Meneses, Universidad Nacional Agraria La Molina, Ildiko C. Pechmann, Rutgers University Newark, Frank Gallagher, Rutgers University, Claus Holzapfel, Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey
PS 81-68		Heterogeneity affects the functional composition and diversity of montane benthic macroinvertebrate communities Matthew D. Faust, University of Wisconsin - Stevens Point, Jeremy A. Carlson, University of Wisconsin Eau Claire, William D. Hintz, Southern Illinois University, Todd Wellnitz, University of Wisconsin - Eau Claire
PS 81-69		Evaluating the role of evolutionary change in the growth of wetland plants over the last century Christopher M. Esber, University of Notre Dame, Gregory E. Snowden, University of Notre Dame, Jason S. McLachlan, University of Notre Dame
PS 81-70		Short-term effects of summer rain pulses on desert shrub leaf quality: Potential consequences for grasshoppers and higher trophic levels Phillip J. Dugger, Western Washington University

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