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

COS 81 - Woodland/Savanna

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

Grand Pavillion VI, Hyatt

Presider:

Anna Mosser, University of Minnesota

1:30 PM

COS 81-1

Patterns 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 PM

COS 81-2

Woody 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 PM

COS 81-3

Stop 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 California, Irvine

2:30 PM

COS 81-4

Recruitment limitation in an endemic California oak: A meta-analysis of planting experiments and surveys of natural populations
Blair C. McLaughlin, University of Idaho; Erika Zavaleta, University of California; Kristin B. Hulvey, University of Western Australia

2:50 PM

COS 81-5

Assessing 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

COS 81-

Break

3:20 PM

COS 81-6

Divergent effects of different ant partners on host trees in a Kenyan ant-plant mutualism
Amelia A. Wolf, Columbia University; Todd M. Palmer, University of Florida; Peter M. Vitousek, Stanford University

3:40 PM

COS 81-7

Stand 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 PM

COS 81-8

Influences 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, U.S. Geological Survey

4:20 PM

COS 81-9

Historical 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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