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invasive forest shrubs: Inferences from root architecture.
2:30 PM COS 163-4 Stohlgren, TJ, USGS Fort Collins Science
Center. Species invasions in the United States National
Parks: Is the Park Service achieving its mission?.
2:50 PM COS 163-5 Meyerson, LA 1 , P Pyšek 2 , J Suda 3 , C
Lambertini 4 , H Brix 4 , JT Cronin 5 and M Luřanová 3 , (1)The
University of Rhode Island, (2)Institute of Botany, Academy
of Sciences, Pruhonice, Czech Republic, (3)Charles
University in Prague, (4)Aarhus University, (5)Louisiana
State University. The hidden side of plant invasions: The
role of genome-wide processes in plant success.
3:10 PM Break
3:20 PM COS 163-6 Shields, JM, MA Jenkins, MR Saunders, H
Zhang, LH Jenkins and AM Parks, Purdue University.
Spatial characteristics of an Amur honeysuckle (Lonicera
maackii (Rupr.) Herder) invasion in an Indiana mixedhardwoods
forest.
3:40 PM COS 163-7 Weaver, JE, T Conway and MJ Fortin,
University of Toronto. Predicting invasive species’ range
expansion using models built in the native range.
4:00 PM COS 163-8 Cameron, EK, EM Bayne, HC Proctor and JF
Cahill Jr., University of Alberta. Effects of an exotic ecosystem
engineer on microarthropod dispersal and root growth.
4:20 PM COS 163-9 Davidson, TM 1 , CE de Rivera 1 and JT
Carlton 2 , (1)Portland State University, (2)Williams
College. Seawater temperature mediates biological
erosion by a non-native burrowing crustacean.
4:40 PM COS 163-10 Tamburello, N 1 and IM Côté 2 , (1)Simon
Fraser University, (2)Simon Fraser University/Vancouver
Island University. The seascape ecology of invasion: A
test with indo-Pacific lionfish on Caribbean coral reefs.
competitive ability: The effect of intraspecific diversity on
invasibility and invadability in bruchid beetles.
4:20 PM COS 164-9 Schulz, BK 1 and A Gray 2 , (1)USDA Forest
Service, (2)USDA Forest Service Pacific Northwest
Research Station. Assessing the occupancy of introduced
plant species in the forests of the United States.
4:40 PM COS 164-10 Evans, JA and RE Irwin, Dartmouth
College. Diversity-invasibility relationships reverse along
productivity and diversity gradients at multiple spatial scales.
COS 165 - Modeling: Communities, Disturbance,
Succession
Portland Blrm 257, Oregon Convention Center
COS 164 - Invasion: Invasibility, Stability, And Diversity
Portland Blrm 255, Oregon Convention Center
1:30 PM COS 164-1 Fonseca da Silva, J, 1.USDA, Forest
Service International Institute of Tropical Forestry;
2.Center for Applied Tropical Ecology and Conservation,
PR. Comparative study of ecophysiological traits of
introduced and native species in tropical novel forests.
1:50 PM COS 164-2 Hicks, JJ, University of Colorado at Boulder.
Invasion success of the exotic weevil (Rhinocyllus
conicus) at high elevations in the Rocky Mountains of
Colorado.
2:10 PM COS 164-3 Milbau, A
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1 , A Shevtsova2 and BJ Graae3 1:30 PM COS 165-1 Barabás, G and AM Ostling, University
of Michigan. Robustness analysis of communities of
structured populations.
1:50 PM COS 165-2 Medvigy, DM
, (1)
Umeå University, (2)University of Antwerp, (3)Norwegian
University of Science and Technology. Community
invasibility along environmental harshness gradients in a
subarctic ecosystem.
2:30 PM COS 164-4 Whitfeld, TJS, A Lodge, A Roth and PB Reich,
University of Minnesota. Effects of plant community
phylogenetic diversity and site characteristics on the
success of invasive species: Evidence from Minnesota’s
deciduous forest.
2:50 PM COS 164-5 West, RR and GWT Wilson, Oklahoma State
University. Bud bank density of warm-season grasses as
regulators of grassland invasibility.
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Break
COS 164-6 Fox, JW, University of Calgary. Demographic
stochasticity, invasion rates, and higher order interactions:
Detecting the signal of ‘emergent’ community dynamics
in an intrinsically noisy world.
COS 164-7 Thompson, BM and DS Gruner, University of
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Maryland. The role of diversity in Sirex noctilio invasion
of North American pine ecosystems.
COS 164-8 Hausch, SJ, JW Fox and SM Vamosi,
University of Calgary. Diversity, coexistence, and
1 , KV Schafer2 , KL Clark3 and N Skowronski3 , (1)Princeton University, (2)Rutgers
University Newark, (3)USDA Forest Service. Defining
plant functional types for xeric habitats with disturbance
regimes.
2:10 PM COS 165-3 Baiser, B1 , HL Buckley2 , NJ Gotelli3 and
AM Ellison4 , (1)Harvard Forest, (2)Lincoln University,
(3)University of Vermont, (4)Harvard Forest (Harvard
University). Predicting food-web structure with
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metacommunity models.
COS 165-4 Snedden, GA and GD Steyer, U.S. Geological
Survey. Predictive occurrence models for coastal wetland
plant communities: Delineating hydrologic response
surfaces with multinomial logistic regression.
2:50 PM COS 165-5 Baskett, ML1 , NS Fabina1 and K Gross2 , (1)
University of California, Davis, (2)North Carolina State
University. Resilience as a community-level property in
coral reefs.
3:10 PM Break
3:20 PM COS 165-6 Costanza, JK1 , A Terando2 , TS Earnhardt2 and A McKerrow3 , (1)North Carolina State University, (2)
Biodiversity and Spatial Information Center, (3)USGS.
Simulating future climate and management effects on
fire and vegetation to inform conservation.
3:40 PM COS 165-7 DeSantis, RD1 and WK Moser2 , (1)University
of Missouri Department of Forestry and USDA Forest
Service Northern Research Station, (2)USDA Forest
Service. Effects of gypsy moth on forest composition
and structure in the Midwest United States.
4:00 PM COS 165-8 Peterson, CJ and LJ Snyder, University of
Georgia. Estimated biomass and carbon committed to
decomposition in a north Georgia 2011 tornado swath.
4:20 PM COS 165-9 Powell, T1 , D Galbraith2 , BJ Christoffersen3 ,
A Harper4 , H Imbuzeiro5 , L Rowland6 , PM Brando7 ,
A da Costa8 , MH Costa5 , NM Levine1 , Y Malhi9 , SR
Saleska3 , M Williams6 , P Meir6 and PR Moorcroft1 , (1)
Harvard University, (2)University of Leeds, (3)University
of Arizona, (4)Colorado State University, (5)Universidade
Federal de Viçosa, (6)University of Edinburgh, (7)
Instituto de Pesquisa Ambiental da Amazônia, (8)Federal
University of Para, (9)Oxford University. Evaluating model
predictions of carbon fluxes for Amazonian rainforests
under chronic and severe drought.
4:40 PM COS 165-10 Zhang, T and J Lichstein, University
of Florida. Modeling forest dynamics across diverse
ecoprovinces in the eastern U.S.
COS 166 - Niche Relationships And Theory
Portland Blrm 258, Oregon Convention Center
1:30 PM COS 166-1 Crowder, D1 , J Gable1 , TD Northfield2 , SA
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