96th ESA Annual Meeting (August 7 -- 12, 2011)

1:30 PM

Associations between the invasive shrub Lonicera maackii and native tree species influence the soil microbial community
Megan M. Poulette, University of Kentucky; Mary A. Arthur, University of Kentucky; Rebecca L. McCulley, University of Kentucky; Jim A. Nelson, University of Kentucky

1:50 PM

Sudden oak death impacts on soil and litterfall N dynamics
Richard C. Cobb, University of Califorina Davis; Valerie T. Eviner, University of California Davis; Daivd M. Rizzo, University of Califorina Davis

2:10 PM

Legacies of plant invasion on ecosystem processes and microbial community structures
Ylva Lekberg, University of Montana; Sean M. Gibbons, MPG Ranch; Dan L. Mummey, MPG Ranch; Philip W. Ramsey, MPG Ranch

2:30 PM

Potential for pathogen facilitated invasiveness: Differential responses of oomycete pathogens to native and non-native Phragmites australis
Ellen V. Crocker, Cornell University; Mary Ann Karp, Cornell University; Eric B. Nelson, Cornell University

2:50 PM

How the seed bank pathogen Pyrenophora semeniperda kills non-dormant cheatgrass seeds
Heather Finch, Brigham Young University; Susan E. Meyer, USDA Forest Service, Rocky Mountain Research Station; Phil S. Allen, Brigham Young University

3:10 PM

Break

3:20 PM

Dispersal alone is not enough: Environmental conditions predict presence of an invasive harmful alga
Richard M. Zamor, University of Oklahoma; Karen L. Glenn, University of Oklahoma Biological Station; K. David Hambright, University of Oklahoma

3:40 PM

The role of plasticity, genetic variation and maternal effects in the tolerance to salinity in the invasive plant Baccharis halimifolia
Lidia Caño, University of California Davis; Mahewa Tens, University of the Basque Country; Teresa Fuertes-Mendizabal, University of the Basque Country; M. Begoña González-Moro, University of the Basque Country; Mercedes Herrera, University of the Basque Country

4:00 PM

Phenology as a niche mechanism of community resistance to invasion
Oscar Godoy, Instituto de Recursos Naturales y Agrobiología de Sevilla (IRNAS); Jonathan M. Levine, ETH Zurich

4:20 PM

Phenotypic variation and local site adaptation in native and introduced ranges: Varying responses of two woody ornamentals with similar invasion histories
Sarah Treanor Bois, Institute for Applied Ecology; Jenica M. Allen, University of Connecticut; Matthew A. Kaproth, University of Minnesota; Jane Molofsky, The University of Vermont; Kent E. Holsinger, University of Connecticut; John A. Silander, University of Connecticut

4:40 PM

Spotted knapweed growth, reproduction, and seed banks: A synthesis of the constraints imposed by resource limitation, competition, and biological control
David G. Knochel, University of Colorado at Boulder; Timothy R. Seastedt, University of Colorado at Boulder

COS 11 - Invasion I