Thursday, August 5, 2010: 1:30 PM-5:00 PM
320, David L Lawrence Convention Center
COS 104 - Ecosystem Stability and Resilience
1:30 PMCOS 104-1Ecohydrologic feedbacks and topographic pattern in Everglades peatlands: a model of the self-organizing canal hypothesis
Jim Heffernan, Florida International University, Danielle L. Watts, University of Florida, Matthew J. Cohen, University of Florida
1:50 PMCOS 104-2Citizen science in disaster and conflict resilience
Keith G. Tidball, Cornell University, Marianne E. Krasny, Cornell University
2:10 PMCOS 104-3Wetland security: Submerged macrophytes buffer aquatic communities from insecticide effects
William R. Brogan III, University of Pittsburgh, Rick A. Relyea, University of Pittsburgh
2:30 PMCOS 104-4Are forest and savanna alternative states in sub-Saharan Africa?
A. Carla Staver, Princeton University, Sally Archibald, CSIR, Simon A. Levin, Princeton University
2:50 PMCOS 104-5Hydroclimatic variability drives episodic expansion of floating peat mats in glacial kettles
Alex W. Ireland, Lehigh University, Robert K. Booth, Lehigh University
3:10 PM Break
3:20 PMCOS 104-6The role of nutrients in driving multiple community states in the producers of temporary and semipermanent wetlands
Sigrid D.P. Smith, University of Illinois
3:40 PMCOS 104-7Eelgrass & climate change: Storm disturbance erodes ecosystem engineering
Sylvia Yang, University of Washington, Jennifer L. Ruesink, University of Washington, Janneke HilleRisLambers, University of Washington
4:00 PMCOS 104-8Proliferation of a native succulent in semi-arid Kenyan rangelands:  Ecohydrological dynamics and implications for resilience
Elizabeth G. King, Princeton University, Trenton Franz, Princeton University
4:20 PMCOS 104-9Predators maintain ecosystem resilience: A quantitative evaluation of the tropic role of predation using foodweb models
Lyne Morissette, Université du Québec à Rimouski, Kevin S. McCann, University of Guelph, Gabriel Gellner, University of Guelph, France Dufresne, Université du Québec à Rimouski

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