94th ESA Annual Meeting (August 2 -- 7, 2009)

COS 70 - Ecosystem Stability and Resilience

Wednesday, August 5, 2009: 1:30 PM-5:00 PM

Cinnarron, Albuquerque Convention Center

Presider:

Mark Novak, Oregon State University

1:30 PM

COS 70-1

Storm and stress: Balancing intertidal eelgrass recovery with repeated hydrodynamic disturbance
Sylvia Yang, University of Washington

1:50 PM

COS 70-2

Stability, disturbance and resilience in two alternate soft-sediment communities
Christy M. Bowles, American River College; Edwin D. Grosholz, University of California

2:10 PM

COS 70-3

Self-organized patterns of wildfire sizes in California: Implications for landscape resilience
Nicholas A. Povak, USDA-FS, Pacific Southwest Research Station; Paul F. Hessburg, USDA-FS, Pacific Northwest Research Station

2:30 PM

COS 70-4

Potential role of Ca in the response of paper birch (Betula papyrifera) to ice storm-induced decline in Vermont, USA
Joshua M. Halman, University of Vermont; Paul G. Schaberg, USDA Forest Service; Gary J. Hawley, University of Vermont; Christopher F. Hansen, University of Vermont

2:50 PM

COS 70-5

Recovery after drought in a diverse temperate grassland under elevated CO₂
Tamara Hochstrasser, University College Dublin; Claudia Kammann, Justus-Liebig-University Giessen; Christoph Mueller, University College Dublin

3:10 PM

COS 70-

Break

3:20 PM

COS 70-6

An experiment exploring the controls of alternative community states in pond producer communities
Sigrid D.P. Smith, University of Michigan

3:40 PM

COS 70-7

Long-term fertilization with calcium or aluminum highlights the influence of anthropogenic cation disruption on the physiology and carbon sequestration of sugar maple trees at the Hubbard Brook Experimental Forest, NH
Paul G. Schaberg, USDA Forest Service; Gary J. Hawley, University of Vermont; Homer L. Elliott, University of Vermont; Paula F. Murakami, USDA Forest Service; Brett A. Huggett, Harvard University; Joshua M. Halman, University of Vermont; Christopher Eagar, USDA Forest Service, NRS

4:00 PM

COS 70-8

Spatial correlation as an early warning signal for transitions in ecosystems
Vasilis Dakos, Estación Biológica de Doñana, CSIC; Egbert H. van Nes, Wageningen University; Marten Scheffer, Wageningen University

4:20 PM

COS 70-9

CANCELLED - Patchiness, pollinators, and people: Theorizing community gardens and feedbacks in urban social-ecological systems
Keith G. Tidball, Cornell University; Marianne Krasny, Cornell University

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