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

COS 30 - Invasion: Dynamics and Population Processes

Tuesday, August 4, 2009: 8:00 AM-11:30 AM

Grand Pavillion V, Hyatt

Presider:

Kai Ming A. Chan, University of British Columbia

8:00 AM

COS 30-1

Genetic 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 Minnesota; Nancy LaFleur, University of Connecticut; Jane Molofsky, The University of Vermont; John A. Silander, University of Connecticut

8:20 AM

COS 30-2

Using disturbance to control invasions: A case study for two invasive thistles
Rui Zhang, Harvard University; Katriona Shea, The Pennsylvania State University

8:40 AM

COS 30-3

Using the wildlife trade to uncover the mechanisms behind the missing parasites rule
Katherine F. Smith, Brown University; Peter Daszak, EcoHealth Alliance

9:00 AM

COS 30-4

The colonization cliff: A managers guide to threshold dynamics in biological invasions and metapopulations
Mark A. Davis, Macalester College

9:20 AM

COS 30-5

Spatial 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

COS 30-

Break

9:50 AM

COS 30-6

Invasion of legume-rhizobium mutualists across a heterogeneous environment: Microevolution during colonization of a serpentine grassland
Stephanie Porter, University of California, Berkeley; Kevin Rice, University of California, Davis

10:10 AM

COS 30-7

Demographic modeling of the invasive tree Ailanthus altissima
Alyssa B. Hanna, West Virginia University

10:30 AM

COS 30-8

Mechanisms 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 AM

COS 30-9

Ecophysiology 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 AM

COS 30-10

Reproductive 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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