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

PS 63-31

Predicting the cyclic collapse between grassland and juniper woodland
Dirac Twidwell, University of Nebraska; William E. Rogers, Texas A&M University; Samuel D. Fuhlendorf, Oklahoma State University; Charles Taylor Jr., Texas A&M AgriLIFE Research Center; Urs P. Kreuter, Texas A&M University

PS 63-32

Melaleuca quinquenervia litter accumulation, mass loss, and impact on vegetation regeneration: experience from southern Florida
Min Bahadur Rayamajhi, United States Department of Agriculture; Paul D. Pratt, United States Department of Agriculture; Ted D. Center, United States Department of Agriculture: Retired

PS 63-33

Subalpine vegetation pattern three decades after stand-replacing wildfires in the southern Rocky Mountains
Jonathan D. Coop, Western State College of Colorado; Anna W. Schoettle, Rocky Mountain Research Station; Robert T. Massatti, Institute for Applied Ecology

PS 63-34

Successional implications of pioneer species removals on Puerto Rican landslides
Lawrence R. Walker, University of Nevada Las Vegas; Frederick H. Landau, University of Nevada Las Vegas; Eduardo Velazquez, University of Alcala; Aaron Shiels, USDA, APHIS, National Wildlife Research Center; Ashley Sparrow, University of Nevada Reno

PS 63-35

CANCELLED - Grazing effects on plant species diversity and above-ground biomass in desert grassland
Yang Xia, University of New Mexico; Terri L. Koontz, University of New Mexico; Scott L. Collins, University of New Mexico; Michael T. Friggens, University of New Mexico; Douglas I. Moore, University of New Mexico

PS 63-36

Phyllotomid bat assemblages in different succesional stages of tropical rain forest in Chiapas, Mexico
Erika de la Peña-Cuéllar, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México; Kathryn E. Stoner, Texas A&M University - Kingsville; Luis Daniel Avila-Cabadilla, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México; Miguel Martínez-Ramos, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México; Alejandro Estrada, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México

PS 63-37

CANCELLED - Interacting disturbances: Did Sudden Oak Death mortality in Big Sur worsen the impacts of the 2008 Basin Complex wildfire?
Margaret R. Metz, University of California, Davis; Kerri M. Frangioso, University of California, Davis; Ross K. Meentemeyer, North Carolina State University; David M. Rizzo, University of California, Davis

PS 63-38

Stable isotope evidence of oak (Quercus rubra) susceptibility to disturbance events
Alexis S. Reed, University of Kansas; Sharon A. Billings, University of Kansas; Fred M. Stephen, University of Arkansas-Fayetteville

PS 63-39

Smoke-induced seed germination in Texas grassland species
Noelle Zavala, TexasTech University Howard Hughes Medical Institute; Dylan Schwilk, Texas Tech University

PS 63-40

Forest ecology the optimal size of forest gap for restoring seeds and saplings bank: A study of 25 years forest dynamic at 50ha plot of Pasoh Forest, Malaysia
Muhammad Firdaus Abdullah Sani, Forest Research Institute Malaysia

PS 63-41

Two roads diverge: Altered disturbance regime caused indirectly by human activities moves an uncut Vermont forest into an alternate stable state
Aiko Weverka, University of Vermont; Daniel Mann, University of Alaska Fairbanks; Andrea H. Lloyd, Middlebury College; R. Matthew Landis, Middlebury College

PS 63-42

The effects of fire on the plant community in a Chihuahuan Desert grassland
Terri L. Koontz, University of New Mexico; Douglas I. Moore, University of New Mexico; Esteban H. Muldavin, Natural Heritage New Mexico; Burton Pendleton, USDA Forest Service Rocky Mountain Research Station; Scott L. Collins, University of New Mexico

PS 63-43

Does controlling beet leafhopper impact the endangered blunt-nosed leopard lizard (Gambelia sila)
Richard A. Redak, University of California, Riverside; Kathleen A. Campbell, University of California; Thomas R. Prentice, University of California

PS 63-44

Understory stability in second growth, upland forests: Fact or fiction?
James E. Cook, UW-Stevens Point; Linda R. Parker, U. S. Forest Service

PS 63-45

Above-ground net primary production (ANPP) response to prescribed fire in a southwest desert grassland
Douglas I. Moore, University of New Mexico; Esteban H Muldavin, University of New Mexico; Scott L. Collins, University of New Mexico; Karen R Wetherill, University of New Mexico

PS 63-46

Temporal response of the soil microbial community to prescribed fall fire in the tallgrass prairie
Amanda M. Anderson, Emporia State University; Brenda A. Koerner, Emporia State University

PS 63-47

Energy development, fragmentation, and a measure of habitat security
William C. Dunn, University of New Mexico; Bruce T. Milne, University of New Mexico

PS 63-48

Relationship between post-fire soil surface morphology and vegetation recovery in the sagebrush steppe
Amber N. Hoover, Idaho State University; Matthew J. Germino, US Geological Survey; Nancy F. Glenn, Idaho State University; Joel Sankey, Idaho State University

PS 63-49

Disturbance ecology in the human oral ecosystem
Katie M. Shelef, Stanford University; Peter Loomer, University of California, San Francisco; Gary Armitage, University of California, San Francisco; David A. Relman, Stanford School of Medicine

PS 63-50

The influence of a severe ice storm on forest trees and subsequent tree seedling growth at Hawk Mountain Sanctuary, an Appalachian forest
Christopher F. Sacchi, Kutztown University of PA; Laurie Goodrich, Hawk Mountain Sanctuary; William P. Brown, Kutztown University of PA

PS 63-51

Forest understory response to prescribed burning and cattle grazing
Becky Kerns, Pacific Northwest Research Station, Western Wildland Environmental Threat Assessment Center; Michelle Buonopane, USFS Pacific Northwest Research Station; Walt G. Thies, Pacific Northwest Research Station

PS 63-52

Effects of canopy condition and Hurricane Gustav on light transmittance in a longleaf pine savanna
Darin P. Ellair, Louisiana State University; William J. Platt, Louisiana State University

PS 63-53

Degradation of high latitude ecosystems: Vegetation cover-cryoturbation linkages
Johann Thorsson, Texas A&M University; Steve Archer, University of Arizona; Asa Aradottir, Acricultural University of Iceland

PS 63 - Community Disturbance and Recovery