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

1:30 PM

Are invaders different: comparing performance metrics among some of the world’s worst invaders in their home and away range
John D. Parker, Smithsonian Environmental Research Center; Mark Torchin, Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute; Ruth A. Hufbauer, Colorado State University

1:50 PM

The ecology and evolution of reed canarygrass
Maarten B. Eppinga, Utrecht University; Jane Molofsky, The University of Vermont

2:10 PM

An experimental test of the role of hybridization in the invasion of diffuse knapweed (Centaurea diffusa Lam.)
Amy C. Blair, St. Ambrose University; Dana M. Blumenthal, USDA-ARS; Ruth A. Hufbauer, Colorado State University

2:30 PM

Titrating local and spatial impacts of a biocontrol agent
Katherine M. Marchetto, Cornell University; Katriona Shea, The Pennsylvania State University; Dave Kelly, University of Canterbury; Ronny Groenteman, Landcare Research; Zeynep Sezen, University of Minnesota; Eelke Jongejans, Radboud University Nijmegen

2:50 PM

Multiple hypotheses explain Pinaceae invasion on Isla Victoria, Argentina
Martin A. Nuñez, INIBIOMA-Universidad del Comahue, CONICET

3:10 PM

Break

3:20 PM

Population genetic analysis of an invasive species: Cogongrass (Imperata cylindrica (L.) P. Beauv.) in Mississippi and Alabama
Rima D. Lucardi, Mississippi State University; Gary N. Ervin, Mississippi State University; Lisa E. Wallace, Mississippi State University; Charles T. Bryson, USDA-ARS

3:40 PM

Understanding the large-scale pattern of exotic vine spread: Do power and telephone networks function as corridors aiding exotic vine invasion?
Diana Delgado, University of Puerto Rico-Rio Piedras; Rafael Arce-Nazario, University of Puerto Rico-Rio Piedras; Carla Restrepo, University of Puerto Rico-Rio Piedras

4:00 PM

Population persistence of non-native invasive plants
Guy D. Schmale, Southern Illinois University; Loretta L. Battaglia, Southern Illinois University; David J. Gibson, Southern Illinois University Carbondale

4:20 PM

Invasive Ailanthus altissima displays population and family level differentiation, but no latitudinal cline, for performance traits
Emmi Felker-Quinn, National Center for Envionmental Assessment, US Environmental Protection Agency; Joseph K. Bailey, The University of Tennessee, Knoxville; Jennifer Schweitzer, University of Tennessee

4:40 PM

Passive restoration potential of riparian ecosystems following the manual removal of invasive giant reed (Arundo donax)
Amede Rubio, Texas A&M International University

5:00 PM

CANCELLED - Differential habitat use by two Ponto-Caspian invaders in coastal areas of the Laurentian Great Lakes
Yakuta Bhagat, Grand Valley State University; Andrea Koster, Grand Valley State University; Carl R. Ruetz III, Grand Valley State University

COS 78 - Invasion: Dynamics, Population Processes