COS 46
Restoration Ecology I

Tuesday, August 6, 2013: 1:30 PM-5:00 PM
L100J, Minneapolis Convention Center
1:50 PM
 Disturbance-based management and changing species composition in sandplain heathlands
Kirsten M. Martin, University of Central Florida; Betsy Von Holle, University of Central Florida; Ernie Steinauer, Mass Audubon; Peter W. Dunwiddie, University of Washington; Robert Buchsbaum, Mass Audubon; Christopher Neill, Marine Biological Laboratory
2:10 PM
 Effectiveness of herbicide, mechanical scraping, and native seed sowing as restoration tools in a disturbed pine rockland
Lisa M. Krueger, University of Tennessee Martin; Jennifer E. Possley, Fairchild Tropical Botanic Garden; Joyce M. Maschinski, Fairchild Tropical Botanic Garden; Jane G. Dozier, Miami-Dade County Park and Recreation, Natural Areas Management Division
2:30 PM
 Arbuscular mycorrhizal inoculum source influences plant survival and growth in an urban prairie restoration
Elizabeth L. Middleton, Missouri Department of Conservation; Zhanna Yermakov, Chicago Parks Department; Corey E. Palmer, Northwestern University; Sarah C. Richardson, DePaul University; Isaiah Cole, DePaul University; Elizabeth Koziol, Indiana University; Katherine Zaiger, Indiana University; Jeremiah A. Henning, University of Tennessee; Keith D. Jones, V3 Companies; Peggy A. Schultz, Indiana University; James D. Bever, Indiana University
2:50 PM
 Source-population characteristics affect switchgrass biomass but not community biodiversity or productivity in establishing prairies
Shelby Flint, University of Minnesota; Ruth G. Shaw, University of Minnesota; Nicholas R. Jordan, University of Minnesota
3:10 PM
3:20 PM
 Gauging macroinvertebrate response to restoration-induced disturbance using recolonization traps in a western Colorado stream
Scot D. Peterson, Murray State University; Howard H. Whiteman, Murray State University
3:40 PM
 Evaluating the importance of spatiotemporal variation in plant establishment
Jonathan D. Bakker, University of Washington; Eric G. Delvin, The Nature Conservancy; Peter W. Dunwiddie, University of Washington
4:20 PM Cancelled
 First reproduction and tropical tree restoration
Henry F. Howe, University of Illinois-Chicago; Marines de la Pena-Domene, University of Illinois-Chicago; Cristina Martínez-Garza, Universidad Autónoma del Estado de Morelos
4:40 PM
 Integrating recent advances in genetic diversity-ecosystem function research to improve ecological restoration
Karin M. Kettenring, Utah State University; Kristin L. Mercer, The Ohio State University; Carrie Reinhardt Adams, University of Florida; Jessica Hines, EAWAG