95th ESA Annual Meeting (August 1 -- 6, 2010)

Tuesday, August 3, 2010: 1:30 PM-5:00 PM

321, David L Lawrence Convention Center

Presider:

Weimin Xi, Texas A&M University-Kingsville

1:30 PM

COS 44-1

Prescribed fire in shrublands: Is time since fire a good indicator of fire hazard and behavior
Neal J. Enright, Murdoch University; Joseph B. Fontaine, Murdoch University

1:50 PM

COS 44-2

Severe 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 PM

COS 44-3

Top 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 PM

COS 44-4

Interacting 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, North Carolina State University; Dave M. Rizzo, University of California, Davis

2:50 PM

COS 44-5

Willow 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

COS 44-

Break

3:20 PM

COS 44-6

The 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 PM

COS 44-7

A 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 - Rio Piedras; Alonso Ramírez, University of Puerto Rico, Rio Piedras; Grizelle González, International Institute for Tropical Forestry; D. Jean Lodge, USDA-Forest Service; Whendee Silver, University of California; Michael R. Willig, University of Connecticut; Timothy D. Schowalter, Louisiana State University; William H. McDowell, University of New Hampshire; Aaron Shiels, USDA, APHIS, National Wildlife Research Center; Nicholas Brokaw, Institute for Tropical Ecosystem Studies University of Puerto Rico-Río Piedras

4:00 PM

COS 44-8

Characteristics 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, U.S. Geological Survey, Maine Cooperative Fish and Wildlife Research Unit

4:20 PM

COS 44-9

Changes 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 PM

COS 44-10

Storms 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, California State Lands Commission; Jeffrey A. Crooks, Tijuana River National Estuarine Research Reserve; Gregory M. Ruiz, Smithsonian Environmental Research Center

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