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

Wednesday, August 8, 2012: 1:30 PM-5:00 PM

Portland Blrm 254, Oregon Convention Center

1:30 PM

COS 114-1

Assessing competitive potential of native forbs from cheatgrass dominated habitats
Rebecca Barak, Chicago Botanic Garden/Northwestern University; Krissa Skogen, Chicago Botanic Garden; Jeremie Fant, Northwestern University

1:50 PM

COS 114-2

Biocontrol attack exacerbates resource- and pollen- limitation in its target weed (Centaurea solstitialis) across a soil moisture gradient
Sarah M. Swope, Mills College

2:10 PM

COS 114-3

Impacts of Lepidium latifolium on food web structure of Suisun song sparrows in a brackish marsh
R.D. Wigginton, University of California Davis; L. Grenier, State Coastal Conservancy; H. Spautz, California Department of Fish and Game; C.R. Whitcraft, CSU Long Beach

2:30 PM

COS 114-4

Mechanisms of competitive suppression of native grasses by Johnsongrass
Heather M. Meckel, Texas State University; Susan Schwinning, Texas State University; Philip A. Fay, USDA, Agricultural Research Service

2:50 PM

COS 114-5

Microtopography mediates competition between an native and an introduced seagrass
Michael Patrick Hannam, University of Washington

3:10 PM

COS 114-

Break

3:20 PM

COS 114-6

An analysis of year-to-year changes in native and non-native vegetation abundance in response to climate and soil variability
William Preston Cumming, The University of British Columbia

3:40 PM

COS 114-7

The effects of soil nutrients on foliar herbivory and disease on native and exotic old field species
Robert W. Heckman, University of North Carolina; Justin P. Wright, Duke University; Charles E. Mitchell, UNC-Chapel Hill

4:00 PM

COS 114-8

Invasion of mangroves by Spartina alterniflora: Interspecific interactions across latitudinal gradient in southeast China
Yihui Zhang, Key Laboratory of the Ministry of Education for Coastal and Wetland Ecosystems, College of the Environment and Ecology, Xiamen University; Qing Fang, Key Laboratory of the Ministry of Education for Coastal and Wetland Ecosystems, Xiamen University; Luzhen Chen, Key Laboratory of the Ministry of Education for Coastal and Wetland Ecosystems, Xiamen University; Wenqing Wang, Key Laboratory of the Ministry of Education for Coastal and Wetland Ecosystems, Xiamen University

4:20 PM

COS 114-9

Do altered biotic interactions drive invasion?
Elizabeth H. Schultheis, Michigan State University; Jennifer A. Lau, Michigan State University

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