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

Thursday, August 6, 2009: 1:30 PM-5:00 PM

Dona Ana, Albuquerque Convention Center

Presider:

Michael P. Fleming, University of Washington

1:30 PM

COS 102-1

Assembly of a twig-nesting ant community: Disturbance as a window to non-neutral processes
Stacy M. Philpott, University of California, Santa Cruz

1:50 PM

COS 102-2

Species and functional group attrition hypotheses: Assessing disassembly with fire absence in midwestern oak woodland habitats
John Taft, Illinois Natural History Survey

2:10 PM

COS 102-3

Untangling the relative importance of fire regimes, habitat characteristics, and resource gradients for plant community composition in a mountainous ecosystem
Lyndsey M. Vivian, The Australian National University; Geoffrey J. Cary, The Australian National University; A. Malcolm Gill, The Australian National University; Ross A. Bradstock, University of Wollongong; Emlyn R. Williams, The Australian National University

2:30 PM

COS 102-4

Tree demography and carbon fixation in a regenerating tropical secondary forest
Diane M. Thomson, Claremont McKenna, Pitzer and Scripps Colleges; Leah Almeida, Claremont McKenna, Pitzer and Scripps Colleges; Keala Cummings, Claremont Colleges; Christopher Gurney, UC Berkeley; Ashley Scott, Claremont Colleges; Juliet Shih, Claremont Colleges

2:50 PM

COS 102-5

Scat happens: Local influences of elk on primary succession, Mount St. Helens, WA
Michael P. Fleming, University of Washington; Roger del Moral, University of Washington

3:10 PM

COS 102-

Break

3:20 PM

COS 102-6

Growth and reproduction decline with willow (Salix sp.) clipping for ski trail maintenance
Catherine Kleier, Regis University; Audrey Hoffa, Metropolitan State College of Denver; Christy A. Carello, Metropolitan State College of Denver

3:40 PM

COS 102-7

The importance of plateau pika (Lagomorpha: Ochotona curzoniae) disturbance in ecosystem functioning on the Tibetan plateau: Evidence from alpine meadow vegetation and soil
Brigitte W. Hogan, Arizona State University; Yan Ming Zhang, Northwest Plateau Institute of Biology; Andrew T. Smith, Arizona State University

4:00 PM

COS 102-8

The role of disturbance and species pool in determining sand prairie community structure
Molly B. McNicoll, Luther College

4:20 PM

COS 102-9

Effects of disturbance frequency, species traits and resprouting on directional succession in an individual-based model of forest dynamics
Paul Caplat, Lund University; Madhur Anand, University of Guelph

4:40 PM

COS 102-10

The long term impact of physical treatments and seed additions on succession in the New Jersey Piedmont region
Alexandra EC Fowler, Rutgers the State University of New Jersey; Jean Marie Hartman, Rutgers University

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