Organized Oral Sessions

Monday, August 10, 2015

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1:30 PM-5:00 PM


OOS 1 - Weaving the Soil Biodiversity Food Web: Advancements in Understanding on a Global Scale

OOS 2 - Biodiversity of Temperate and Tropical Rivers in a Changing World: Research Frontiers and Future Challenges

OOS 3 - The ESA at 100: Historical Perspectives on Ecology and Ecological Management

OOS 4 - Advances in Modeling Wildlife Abundance

OOS 5 - Ecological Controls over Soil Organic Carbon Cycling: An Emerging Frontier in Ecology

OOS 6 - From Drought to Deluge: Evolutionary Lessons for Natural Resource Management in an Increasingly Variable World

OOS 7 - Synergies for Food Production, Conservation and Rural Development in a Changing Climate

OOS 8 - Danse Macabre: The Role of Migrations and Mortality in Shaping Our Planet

OOS 9 - Student Learning and Understanding in Ecology and Evolution: Development and Use of Assessment Tools to Guide Undergraduate Education Reform

OOS 10 - Toward Prediction in the Restoration of Biodiversity

OOS 11 - Community and Ecosystem Effects of Rapid Evolution

OOS 12 - Snapshot Ecology: Inferring Ecosystem Dynamics from a Single Point in Time or Space

Tuesday, August 11, 2015

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8:00 AM-11:30 AM


OOS 13 - New Perspectives for Ecology during the Anthropocene: New Paradigms, Technologies and Collaborations

OOS 14 - Road Ecology - Moving Forward

OOS 15 - Dynamics, Conservation Status, and Future of the Eastern Deciduous Forest Biome: A Session in Honor of E. Lucy Braun

OOS 16 - Allee Effects: Theory and Applications

OOS 17 - Demography Gone Wild: Applications of Integral Projection Models in Functional Ecology, Life History Theory, Community Ecology and Conservation Biology

OOS 18 - Plant-Soil Feedbacks and Plant Coexistence: Integrating Theoretical Models and Empirical Approaches

OOS 19 - Green Roof Biodiversity and the Food Web

OOS 20 - Biomarkers in Trophic Ecology: Past, Present and Future Perspectives

OOS 21 - Urban Soil Biodiversity: A New Frontier in Ecological Science and Education

OOS 22 - Dead Roots: The Dark Side of the Carbon Cycle

OOS 23 - Models and Mechanisms of Fungal Disease

1:30 PM-5:00 PM


OOS 24 - Collaborative Ecological Research Networks: Sociology, Successes, and Future Opportunities

OOS 25 - Disrupted Nitrogen Cycling in the Tropics: Tracking the Effects of Global Change Impacts on N Biogeochemistry from Soil to Stream

OOS 26 - Climate Change in Wildlands: Pioneering Applications of Science to Management in the Rocky and Appalachian Mountains

OOS 27 - Demographic Buffering Beyond the Comfort Zone: Species’ Responses to Anthropogenic Disturbances

OOS 28 - Functional, Phylogenetic and Genetic Dimensions of Forest Diversity and Change

OOS 29 - Resilience to Climate Change Using Traditional Ecological Knowledge and Western Science

OOS 30 - Ecology in the Critical Zone

OOS 31 - Soil's Role in Providing and Restoring Ecosystem Services

OOS 32 - Contributions of Urban Agriculture to the Urban Ecosystem

OOS 33 - The Macroecology of Infectious Disease

OOS 34 - Molecular Insights into Microbial Feedbacks to Climate

OOS 35 - The Effects of Eco-Evolutionary Feedbacks on Communities, Ecosystems, and Responses to Environmental Change

Wednesday, August 12, 2015

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8:00 AM-11:30 AM


OOS 36 - Coastal Plant Range Shifts: Causes and Consequences

OOS 37 - Implications of Positive Interaction Studies to the Future of Ecological Research

OOS 38 - Seeds of Evolution: Using Resurrection Ecology and the Project Baseline Collection to Understand Responses to Anthropogenic and Natural Change

OOS 39 - Native Plant Materials Development Research: Synthesis, Cutting Edge and Use Implications

OOS 40 - ESA Vice Presidents’ Centennial Session: Frontiers in Science, Education, Management, and Policy to Address Pressing Environmental Issues

OOS 41 - Scaling Microbial Functions from Molecule to the Globe: Integrated Experiment-Model Approaches

OOS 42 - Putting Agroecology to Work: From Science to Practice and Policy

OOS 43 - Effects of Climate Warming on Aboveground-Belowground Feedbacks in Terrestrial Ecosystems

OOS 44 - Ecologists and Faith & Justice Communities: A Journey from Antagonism to Earth Stewardship Partnerships for the Next Century

OOS 45 - The Emergence, Rise, and Future of Urban Ecology in the United States

1:30 PM-5:00 PM


OOS 46 - Ungulate Overabundance As a Driver of Above- and below-Ground Interactions and Ecosystem Processes

OOS 47 - Paleoecological Patterns, Ecological Processes, Modeled Scenarios: Crossing Scales to Understand an Uncertain Future

OOS 48 - Effects of Disturbance on Consumer Mediated Habitat Linkages

OOS 49 - A Century of Structured Population Models in Ecology

OOS 50 - History and Its Uses in the NSF Long-Term Ecological Research Network

OOS 51 - Functional Traits in Ecological Research: What Have We Learned and Where Are We Going?

OOS 52 - Assessing Urban Agriculture: Ecosystem Services and Ecological Consequences

OOS 53 - Human Ecology -- A Gathering of Perspectives: Portraits from the Past - Prospects for the Future

OOS 54 - The Role of Biotic Interactions in Structuring Species Distributions: Synthesizing Across Ecological Disciplines and Spatial Scales in the Face of Climate Change

OOS 55 - Head in the Clouds: Advancing Our Understanding of How Fog and Dew Affect Plants in Ecosystems Around the World

OOS 56 - Ecologists and Faith & Justice Communities: Evaluating Opportunities and Challenges for Outreach and Partnership for the Next 100 Years

OOS 57 - Invasive Vines: Drivers of Large-Scale Ecosystem Shifts Worldwide and Consequences for Restoration

Thursday, August 13, 2015

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8:00 AM-11:30 AM


OOS 58 - The Ecological Impacts of Drought As Revealed Through Experimental Approaches

OOS 59 - Shifting Dimensions: Temporal Ecology for the Next 100 Years and Beyond

OOS 60 - Parasites in Trophic Networks: Complex Life Cycles, Coinfection Dynamics, and Community Structure

OOS 61 - The Ecology of Renewable Energy Development

OOS 62 - The Consequences of Anthropogenic Chemical Pollution for Community and Ecosystem Dynamics

OOS 63 - Solving Complex Problems in Coupled Natural and Human Systems: Socio-Ecological Research at the Frontier of Global Change

OOS 64 - The Soil Frontier: Understanding How Belowground Processes Drive Ecosystem Responses to Climate Change

OOS 65 - Research Frontiers in Ecological Stoichiometry

OOS 66 - Conservation Genetics of Bee Pollinators

OOS 67 - Population Stabilization and Planetary Stewardship: Making up for Lost Time

OOS 68 - Building Bridges – Using Unmanned Aerial Systems (UASs) Imagery to Link Ecological Observations

OOS 69 - Intraspecific Genetic Adaptation in Forest Trees and Its Ecological Implications Under a Changing Climate

1:30 PM-5:00 PM


OOS 70 - The Impact of Ecologists in Higher Education Administration in Promoting Ecoliteracy, Ecological Research and Sustainability in the 21st Century

OOS 71 - The Role of Long-Term Studies in Advancing Ecological Understanding

OOS 72 - Microbial Efficiency: Perspectives on the Fate of Metabolized Organic Carbon in a Changing World

OOS 73 - Rewetting Dry Soil: The Century’s Unifying Problem in Soil Microbial Ecology

OOS 74 - Usable Science: Meeting the Needs of Decision Makers in a Changing World

OOS 75 - The Effects of Drought on the Formation, Resilience, and Recovery of Xylem Embolism in Plants: Linking Experimental Results and Synthesizing Observations

OOS 76 - Trait-Based Ecology at the Micro-Scale

OOS 77 - Science at the Frontier of Understanding "Natural Infrastructure": Societal Benefits of Healthy Coastal Ecosystems

OOS 78 - Predicting Range Shifts in Response to Ongoing Environmental Change Using Dynamic Modelling Approaches

OOS 79 - Beyond the Spreadsheet: Data Integration and Informatics for the Next Century of Ecology

OOS 80 - External Influences on Ecological Theory: The Effects of Economic, Sociopolitical, Climatic, and Other Conditions

OOS 81 - Hyperspectral Remote Sensing Data Supports 21st Century Ecological Research

Friday, August 14, 2015

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8:00 AM-11:30 AM


OOS 82 - Terrestrial Carbon Cycle and Nonautonomous Systems

OOS 83 - Bees Across Urban Environments: Social and Ecological Forces

OOS 84 - Bridging Ecology and Community-Based Planning Towards Earth Stewardship

OOS 85 - The Community Ecology of Host-Symbiont Interactions: Breaking Boundaries and Crossing Scales

OOS 86 - Coastal Wetlands in a Changing World: Drivers of Carbon Storage and Loss

OOS 87 - Creative Approaches for Addressing Ecological Uncertainty in Earth System Models

OOS 88 - Extreme Disturbance Events Leading to Forest Ecosystem Change

OOS 89 - Evolutionary Responses to Directional Climate Change

OOS 90 - Cross-Scale Perspectives: Integrating Long-Term and High-Frequency Data into Our Understanding of Communities and Ecosystems

OOS 91 - Agroecosystems and Processes of Global Change

OOS 92 - Ecological Acoustics: Conceptual and Technological Advances in Ecology Through Sound