COS 57
Community Disturbance And Recovery II

Wednesday, August 13, 2014: 8:00 AM-11:30 AM
309/310, Sacramento Convention Center
8:00 AM
COS 57-1
 Disturbance regimes and "thermophilization" of understory plant communities
Jens T. Stevens, University of California; Hugh D. Safford, Regional Ecologist, USDA Forest Service; Susan P. Harrison, University of California, Davis; Andrew M. Latimer, University of California Davis
8:20 AM
COS 57-2
 Impacts of emerald ash borer infestation on forest understory dynamics
Isabelle Aubin, Natural Resources Canada; Krista Ryall, Natural Resources Canada; Craig Zimmerman, Natural Resources Canada; Françoise Cardou, Natural Resources Canada; Dave Kreutzweiser, Natural Resources Canada; Idaline Laigle, Université de Sherbrooke; Taylor Scarr, Ontario Ministry of Natural Resources
8:40 AM
COS 57-3
 Future woodland composition in a changing climate: Abiotic and biotic controls on tree regeneration in piñon-juniper woodlands
Miranda D. Redmond, University of Colorado; Neil S. Cobb, Northern Arizona University; Michael J. Clifford, Lehigh University; Nichole N. Barger, University of Colorado Boulder
9:00 AM
COS 57-4
 Forest resilience and soil dynamics response to anthropogenic disturbances in dry semi-deciduous forests in Puerto Rico
Xavier A. Jaime, North Carolina State University
9:20 AM
COS 57-5
 Response of whitebark pine stands to mountain pine beetle outbreaks in the southern Sierra Nevada, California
Marc D. Meyer, USDA Forest Service; Beverly Bulaon, USDA Forest Service, Forest Health Protection; Martin MacKenzie, USDA Forest Service, Forest Health Protection; Hugh Safford, Regional Ecologist, USDA Forest Service
9:40 AM
COS 57-
 Break
9:50 AM
COS 57-6
 Biodiversity effects on community functioning shift along a toxicity gradient
Jan M. Baert, Ghent University; Colin R. Janssen, Ghent University; Koen Sabbe, Ghent University; Frederik De Laender, University of Namur
10:10 AM
COS 57-7
 Increasing fire frequency effects on butterfly communities of southeastern Amazon forests
Rafael B. Andrade, Universidade Estadual de Campinas (Unicamp); Jennifer K. Balch, University of Colorado-Boulder; Junia Y. O. Carreira, Universidade Estadual de Campinas (Unicamp); André V. L. Freitas, Universidade Estadual de Campinas
10:30 AM
COS 57-8
 Fire and climate interact to foster an expansion of seedling aspen after the 1988 Yellowstone fires
Winslow D. Hansen, University of Wisconsin, Madison; William H. Romme, Colorado State University; Monica G. Turner, University of Wisconsin, Madison
10:50 AM
COS 57-9
 Initial soil amendments, but not seed applications, still affect plant community composition after nine years of succession in a heavy metal contaminated site
Lee H. Dietterich, University of Pennsylvania; Brenda Casper, University of Pennsylvania
11:10 AM
COS 57-10
 Influence of disturbance regimes on the metabolic activity and diversity of benthic bacterial communities
Thomas Pollet, ISMER; Olivier Cloutier, ISMER; Christian Nozais, Université du Québec à Rimouski; Christopher McKindsey, Pêche et Ocean Canada; Philippe Archambault, Université du Québec à Rimouski
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