COS 128 - Community Disturbance And Recovery II

Thursday, August 9, 2012: 8:00 AM-11:30 AM
D136, Oregon Convention Center
8:00 AM
 Long-term tree and stand biomass increment patterns derived from tree rings in multiple temperate and sub-boreal forest systems in northeastern Minnesota, USA
Jane R. Foster, University of Minnesota; Anthony W. D'Amato, University of Minnesota; John B. Bradford, U.S. Geological Survey
8:40 AM
 Interactions between woodpeckers, elk, and drought lead to the collapse of riparian willow communities
Kristen M. Kaczynski, Colorado State University; David J. Cooper, Colorado State University
9:00 AM
 Harvest-related disturbance effects on species richness and community composition in Lake States aspen-dominated forests
Miranda T. Curzon, University of Minnesota; Anthony W. D'Amato, University of Minnesota; Brian J. Palik, USDA Forest Service
9:20 AM
 Effects of remnant trees on secondary forest regeneration in the Osa Peninsula, Costa Rica
Manette E. Sandor, University of Connecticut; Robin L. Chazdon, University of Connecticut
9:40 AM
9:50 AM
 Comparing chamber and eddy covariance estimates of ecosystem respiration during bark beetle mortality in a subalpine spruce-fir forest
Heather N. Scott, USDA Forest Service; William J. Massman, Rocky Mountain Research Station, U.S. Forest Service; John M. Frank, Rocky Mountain Research Station, U.S. Forest Service; Brianna L. Miles, USDA Forest Service; Michael G. Ryan, Colorado State University
10:10 AM
 Relative influences of biotic and abiotic factors on coral reef fish biomass in the Anthropocene
Marc Nadon, University of Hawaii; Julia Baum, University of Victoria; Robert Schroeder, NOAA Fisheries, Hawaii, USA; Jana M. McPherson, Calgary Zoo; Ivor D. Williams, NOAA Pacific Islands Fisheries Science Center; Benjamin L. Richards, NOAA Fisheries; Brian J. Zgliczynski, Scripps Institution of Oceanography; Rusty Brainard, NOAA Fisheries
10:30 AM
 Fire severity affects community assemly through filters on regeneration traits in Alaska boreal forests
Teresa N. Hollingsworth, Pacific Northwest Research Station; Jill F. Johnstone, University of Saskatchewan; F. Stuart Chapin III, University of Alaska Fairbanks; Emily Bernhardt, Duke University
10:50 AM Cancelled
 High mortality levels observed in old-growth spruce stands of west-central British Columbia
Philip J. Burton, University of Northern British Columbia, Canadian Forest Service
11:10 AM Cancelled
 Impacts of drying and crayfish invasion on stream ecosystem structure and function 
Daniel D. Magoulick, USGS, Arkansas Cooperative Fish and Wildlife Research Unit