97th ESA Annual Meeting (August 5 -- 10, 2012)

8:00 AM

COS 87-1

Interacting disturbances: Unexpected increases in coast redwood mortality from synergistic effects of fire and a non-native pathogen
Margaret R. Metz, University of California, Davis; J. Morgan Varner III, Mississippi State University; Kerri M. Frangioso, University of California, Davis; Ross K. Meentemeyer, North Carolina State University; David M. Rizzo, University of California, Davis

8:20 AM

COS 87-2

Effects of introduced herbivore removal on an island rare and endemic plant community
Emily Schultz, Claremont Colleges; Jennifer Phillips, Claremont McKenna, Pitzer and Scripps Colleges; Acadia Tucker, Claremont McKenna, Pitzer and Scripps Colleges; Kathryn McEachern, US Geological Survey - Western Ecological Research Center; Diane Thomson, Claremont McKenna, Pitzer and Scripps Colleges

8:40 AM

COS 87-3

Garlic mustard’s (Alliaria petiolata) effectiveness as an invader of Eastern North American deciduous forest groundlayers
Roger C. Anderson, Illinois State University; Jonathan T. Bauer, Indiana University; M. Rebecca Anderson, Illinois State University

9:00 AM

COS 87-4

Structural and compositional differences between native and non-native dominated grasslands
Nicole Molinari, University of California Santa Barbara; Carla M. D'Antonio, University of California Santa Barbara

9:20 AM

COS 87-5

Direct and indirect impacts of introduced species on community dynamics
Mariano A. Rodriguez-Cabal, University of British Columbia; M. Noelia Barrios Garcia, University of Tennessee; Guillermo C. Amico, INIBIOMA, CONICET-Universidad Nacional del Comahue; Nathan J. Sanders, The University of Copenhagen

9:40 AM

COS 87-

Break

9:50 AM

COS 87-6

Interactions between herbivory and nitrogen availability alter invasive plant dynamics in forest understory communities
Samantha K. Chapman, Villanova University; Kathryn A. Devine, Villanova University; Rachel O. Jones, University of Nevada-Reno

10:10 AM

COS 87-7

Discovering the belowground causes and consequences of Rhamnus cathartica L. (European buckthorn) invasions
Basil V. Iannone III, University of Illinois; Liam Heneghan, DePaul University; Dev Rijal, University of Illinois at Chicago; David H. Wise, University of Illinois at Chicago

10:30 AM

COS 87-8

Epibenthic jellyfish blooms: Effects of a native-invader on community structure of Bahamian seagrass ecosystems
Elizabeth W. Stoner, Florida International University; Lauren A. Yeager, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill; Craig A. Layman, North Carolina State University

10:50 AM

COS 87-9

Patch expansion and community characteristics associated with Bromus inermis stands in mixed-grass prairie
Paul A. Rabie, WEST, Inc.

11:10 AM

COS 87-10

Legacies of plant invasions - not always a story of doom and gloom
Ylva Lekberg, University of Montana; Sean Gibbons, MPG Ranch; Soren Rosendahl, Copenhagen University; Philip W. Ramsey, MPG Ranch

COS 87 - Invasion: Community Effects I