Tuesday, August 3, 2010: 1:30 PM-5:00 PM
321, David L Lawrence Convention Center
COS 44 - Community Disturbance and Recovery I
1:30 PMCOS 44-1Prescribed fire in shrublands:  Is time since fire a good indicator of fire hazard and behavior
Neal J. Enright, Murdoch University, Perth, Joseph B. Fontaine, Murdoch University
1:50 PMCOS 44-2Severe consumer impacts in early succession: Influence of a non-native weevil on willow (Salix sitchensis) colonization on Mount St. Helens volcano
John Bishop, Washington State University, Vancouver
2:10 PMCOS 44-3Top predator response to high-flow disturbance in estuaries
Jill A. Olin, University of Windsor, Michelle R. Heupel, James Cook University, Colin A. Simpfendorfer, James Cook University, Gregg R. Poulakis, Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission, Aaron T. Fisk, University of Windsor
2:30 PMCOS 44-4Interacting disturbances: Stage of disease progression affected wildfire severity
Margaret R. Metz, University of California, Davis, Kerri M. Frangioso, University of California, Davis, Ross K. Meentemeyer, University of North Carolina, Charlotte, Dave M. Rizzo, University of California, Davis
2:50 PMCOS 44-5Willow decline in Rocky Mountain National Park: Examining the interactions of ungulate browsing, drought, sapsuckers, and fungal infection
Kristen Kaczynski, Colorado State University, David J. Cooper, Colorado State University, William Jacobi, Colorado State University
3:10 PM Break
3:20 PMCOS 44-6The effect of changes in pollinator community composition following Hurricanes Frances and Jeanne (2004) on the pollination dynamics of white mangrove (Laguncularia racemosa)
Carol L. Landry, The Ohio State University
3:40 PMCOS 44-7A long-term manipulation experiment to simulate the major hurricane impacts on a Puerto Rican tropical forest
Diana C. Garcia-Montiel, University of Puerto Rico, Jess K. Zimmerman, University of Puerto Rico, Alonso Ramírez, University of Puerto Rico, Rio Piedras and Center for Applied Tropical Ecology and Conservation (CREST-CATEC), Grizelle González, USFS International Institute of Tropical Forestry, D. Jean Lodge, USDA-Forest Service, Whendee Silver, University of California, Berkeley, Michael R. Willig, University of Connecticut, Timothy D. Schowalter, Louisiana State University, William H. McDowell, University of New Hampshire, Aaron Shiels, University of Hawaii, Nicholas Brokaw, University of Puerto Rico-Río Piedras
4:00 PMCOS 44-8Characteristics of a large, infrequent disturbance in a wetland ecosystem:  Fire in the Okefenokee National Wildlife Refuge, Georgia, USA
Paul R. Wetzel, Smith College, Cynthia S. Loftin, US Geological Survey Maine Cooperative Fish and Wildlife Research Unit
4:20 PMCOS 44-9Changes in forest carbon storage following mountain pine beetle outbreaks in the Greater Yellowstone Ecosystem
Daniel M. Kashian, Wayne State University, Rebecca M. Jackson, Wayne State University
4:40 PMCOS 44-10Storms and droughts: Ecological consequences of climate change and fluctuating hydrological cycles in an estuarine ecosystem
Andrew L. Chang, Smithsonian Environmental Research Center, Christopher W. Brown, Smithsonian Environmental Research Center, Jeffrey A. Crooks, Tijuana River National Estuarine Research Reserve, Gregory M. Ruiz, Smithsonian Environmental Research Center

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