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

Thursday, August 11, 2011: 8:00 AM-11:30 AM

10A, Austin Convention Center

8:00 AM

Invasion and native species loss through local extinction
Erin J. Questad, USDA Forest Service; Jarrod M. Thaxton, Eastern Kentucky University; Susan Cordell, USDA Forest Service

8:20 AM

Can species functional traits, vegetative traits, and community assembly predict biological resistance to invasion? An experiment with common reed
Chaeho Byun, McGill University; Sylvie de Blois, McGill University; Jacques Brisson, Université de Montréal

8:40 AM

Life-histories, natural disturbance and human land use determine long-term invasion dynamics of forests by exotic invasive tree species
Patrick H. Martin, Colorado State University; Charles D. Canham, Cary Institute of Ecosystem Studies

9:00 AM

Erodium cicutarium, an invasive annual forb in the Colorado Desert, experiences increased benefits of water and nitrogen over native annual forbs
Heather E. Schneider, Univeristy of California, Riverside; Edith B. Allen, University of California, Riverside

9:20 AM

The interaction of soil surface gravel content and nitrogen deposition on the competitiveness of the invasive grasses Schismus arabicus and Schismus barbatus in the northwest Sonoran Desert
Michael D. Bell, University of California, Irvine; Edith B. Allen, University of California, Riverside

9:40 AM

Break

9:50 AM

CANCELLED - Structural differences between fish assemblages in natural and altered major rivers
Michael B. Duncan, Montana Cooperative Fishery Research Unit; Robert G. Bramblett, Montana Cooperative Fishery Research Unit; Alexander V. Zale, Montana Cooperative Fishery Research Unit; Tyler Haddix, Montana Fish, Wildlife & Parks

10:10 AM

Fish community composition influences the establishment of introduced species in Ontario lakes
Karen M. Alofs, University of Toronto; Donald A. Jackson, University of Toronto

10:30 AM

Phylogenetic relatedness between resident and invading species, not phylogenetic diversity of resident communities, affects their invasibility
Jiaqi Tan, Georgia Institute of Technology; Lin Jiang, Georgia Institute of Technology

10:50 AM

Coastal habitats in Islands are less invaded by alien plants than in their mainland counterpart
Pablo González-Moreno, Estación Biológica de Doñana (EBD-CSIC); Joan Pino, Autonomous University of Barcelona; David Carreras, Observatori Socioambiental de Menorca; Corina Basnou, Autonomous University of Barcelona; Montserrat Vilà, Estación Biológica de Doñana (EBD-CSIC)

11:10 AM

Plant invasion influenced by spatial heterogeneity of soil nutrients
Kallin Tea, University of Colorado; William D. Bowman, University of Colorado

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