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

COS 104 - Ecosystem Stability and Resilience

Thursday, August 5, 2010: 1:30 PM-5:00 PM

320, David L Lawrence Convention Center

Presider:

Katherine A. Everard, University of Auckland

1:30 PM

COS 104-1

Ecohydrologic feedbacks and topographic pattern in Everglades peatlands: a model of the self-organizing canal hypothesis
James B. Heffernan, Duke University; Danielle L. Watts, University of Florida; Matthew J. Cohen, University of Florida

1:50 PM

COS 104-2

Citizen science in disaster and conflict resilience
Keith G. Tidball, Cornell University; Marianne E. Krasny, Cornell University

2:10 PM

COS 104-3

Wetland security: Submerged macrophytes buffer aquatic communities from insecticide effects
William R. Brogan III, University of Pittsburgh; Rick A. Relyea, University of Pittsburgh

2:30 PM

COS 104-4

Are forest and savanna alternative states in sub-Saharan Africa?
A. Carla Staver, Princeton University; Sally Archibald, CSIR; Simon A. Levin, Princeton University

2:50 PM

COS 104-5

Hydroclimatic variability drives episodic expansion of floating peat mats in glacial kettles
Alex W. Ireland, The Pennsylvania State University; Robert K. Booth, Lehigh University

3:10 PM

COS 104-

Break

3:20 PM

COS 104-6

The role of nutrients in driving multiple community states in the producers of temporary and semipermanent wetlands
Sigrid D.P. Smith, University of Michigan

3:40 PM

COS 104-7

Eelgrass & 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 PM

COS 104-8

Proliferation of a native succulent in semi-arid Kenyan rangelands: Ecohydrological dynamics and implications for resilience
Elizabeth G. King, University of Georgia; Trenton Franz, University of Arizona

4:20 PM

COS 104-9

Predators 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 California, Davis; France Dufresne, Université du Québec à Rimouski

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