Printed Program (PDF) - Ecological Society of America

4:00 PM COS 56-8 Murphy, SJ and BC McCarthy, Ohio
University. Modeling fifteen-year patterns in the growth,
mortality, and regeneration of trees in an old-growth,
mixed-mesophytic forest.
4:20 PM COS 56-9 Supp, SR and SKM Ernest, Utah State
University. Experimental macroecological approach tests
the influence of biotic interactions, species richness, and
abundance as determinants of the species abundance
distribution.
4:40 PM COS 56-10 Roy, CL, BS Maitner and AE Dunham, Rice
University. Are mountain passes higher in the tropics? A
community phylogenetic approach.
COS 57 - Conservation Management III
D137, Oregon Convention Center
1:30 PM COS 57-1 Castro Escobar, BD 1 , MV Castro Rojas 2
and R Rozzi 3 , (1)University of Puerto Rico, Rio Piedras
Campus, (2)University of Chile, (3)University of North
Texas and University of Magallanes - Institute of Ecology
and Biodiversity, Chile. Approximations to biocultural
conservation of plants and birds in Puerto Saavedra,
Chile: The Mapuche perspective.
1:50 PM COS 57-2 Reece, JS and R Noss, University of Central
Florida. A new method for assessing vulnerability of
species and communities to combined impacts of sealevel
rise, climate change, and land-use change.
2:10 PM COS 57-3 DeWitt, PD 1 , JL Keim 1 and CR Smyth 2 ,
(1)Matrix Solutions Inc., (2)Summit Environmental
Consultants Inc.. If you build it, will they come? Using
resource selection and satellite imagery to develop
wildlife habitat reclamation strategies.
2:30 PM COS 57-4 Warman, L 1 , S Cordell 1 , R Ostertag 2 , JR
Schulten 2 , A Uowolo 1 and PM Vitousek 3 , (1)USDA Forest
Service, (2)University of Hawaii, (3)Stanford University.
Fantasy football for community ecologists: Building
hybrid ecosystems in Hawaiian lowland wet forests.
2:50 PM COS 57-5 Jennings, MK 1 , R Lewison 1 , EE Boydston 2 ,
JC Burger 3 , KR Crooks 4 , RN Fisher 5 , M Fowler 3 , LM
Lyren 2 and D Olson 3 , (1)San Diego State University, (2)
U.S. Geological Survey, (3)Irvine Ranch Conservancy,
(4)Colorado State University, (5)US Department of the
Interior. Corridor conservation in southern California
under climate change: Understanding mammalian
carnivore response to burned landscapes.
3:10 PM Break
3:20 PM COS 57-6 Robinson, OJ, JL Lockwood and NH
Fefferman, Rutgers University. Using a coupled predatorprey
PVA to direct efforts of controlling predation on atrisk
populations.
3:40 PM COS 57-7 Grundel, R 1 , KJ Frohnapple 1 , TA Patterson 2
and NB Pavlovic 1 , (1)US Geological Survey, (2)University
of Notre Dame. Geographic coincidence of abundance,
richness, conservation value, and response to climate of
U.S. landbirds.
4:00 PM COS 57-8 Philippoff, JK 1 , E Conklin 2 , C Smith 1 and C
Hunter 1 , (1)University of Hawaii at Manoa, (2)The Nature
Conservancy. Movement and dietary preference of the
sea urchin Tripneustes gratilla (Echinodermata) on a
patch reef in Hawai‘i.
4:20 PM COS 57-9 Bothwell, HM, Northern Arizona University.
Planning for global change: Range-specific conservation
and restoration recommendations from a study of
cottonwood (Populus angustifolia).
4:40 PM COS 57-10 Grand, JB 1 , M Post van der Burg 2 , TL Kreps 3
and RM Mordecai 4 , (1)USGS Alabama Cooperative
Fisheries and Wildlife Research Unit, (2)US Geological
Life on Earth: Preserving, Utilizing, and Sustaining our Ecosystems
1:30 pm-5 pm
Survey, (3)Auburn University, (4)U.S. Fish & Wildlife
Service. A prototype for comparing landscape scale
conservation strategies in the South Atlantic Coastal
Plain, USA.
COS 58 - Ecosystem Function: Biodiversity III
D138, Oregon Convention Center
1:30 PM COS 58-1 Matthews, B1 , T Aebischer1 , B Lundsgaard-
Hansen1 , KE Sullam2 and O Seehausen1 , (1)EAWAG,
(2)Drexel University. Experimental evidence for the
ecosystem consequences of eco-evolutionary dynamics.
1:50 PM COS 58-2 Wolf, AA1 and ES Zavaleta2 , (1)University of
California Santa Cruz, (2)University of California, Santa
Cruz. Species traits, not nested structure, drive the
effects of realistic biodiversity losses on productivity.
2:10 PM COS 58-3 Yurkonis, KA1 , S Seahra2 and JA Newman2 ,
(1)University of North Dakota, (2)University of Guelph.
The mechanisms affecting productivity and invasion
responses in grasslands occur over small spatial scales.
2:30 PM COS 58-4 Hallett, LM1 , E Cleland2 , SL Collins3 , TL
Dickson4 , EC Farrer1 , LA Gherardi5 , KL Gross4 , J Hsu1 ,
L Turnbull5 and KN Suding1 , (1)University of California
at Berkeley, (2)University of California – San Diego, (3)
University of New Mexico, (4)Michigan State University, (5)
Arizona State University. Compensatory dynamics increase
along a gradient of precipitation variability in US grasslands.
2:50 PM COS 58-5 Stachowicz, JJ1 , SJ Kamel1 , AR Hughes2 and R Grosberg1 , (1)University of California Davis, (2)
Florida State University. Connecting genetic diversity
to seagrass productivity: Effects of genotypic richness,
genetic relatedness and trait variation.
3:10 PM Break
3:20 PM COS 58-6 MacDonald, AL, LA Schulte, MJ Helmers
and JB Niemi, Iowa State University. Testing a new
conservation practice for agricultural landscapes: Bird
response to prairie strips in row-cropped landscapes.
3:40 PM COS 58-7 Nielsen, UN1 , DH Wall2 , N Fierer3 and C
Lauber4 , (1)University of Western Sydney, (2)Colorado
State University, (3)University of Colorado, (4)University
of Colorado at Boulder. Soil biodiversity and ecosystem
function: Insights from Antarctic low diversity soils.
4:00 PM COS 58-8 Zuppinger-Dingley, D1 , B Schmid2 and
DFB Flynn2 , (1)Institute of Evolutionary Biology and
Environmental Studies, (2)University of Zurich. Plant
community history affects the interspecific combining
ability of plants.
4:20 PM COS 58-9 Pufal, G1 and AM Klein2 , (1)Leuphana
University, (2)Leuphana University of Lüneburg. Seed
fate of common grassland species along an experimental
plant diversity gradient.
4:40 PM COS 58-10 Hulvey, KB, RJ Hobbs, MP Perring, RJ
Standish and L Lach, University of Western Australia.
Restoring multiple woodland ecosystem functions
through diverse carbon plantings.
COS 59 - Education: Tools And Technology
D139, Oregon Convention Center
1:30 PM COS 59-1 Newman, G1 , J Scher2 , J Graham3 , T
Walters2 , L Martin2 , R Scarpino4 and T Manahan3 ,
(1)Colorado State University, (2)USDA APHIS PPQ
CPHST, (3)Natural Resource Ecology Laborary, (4)
Natural Resource Ecology Laboratory, Colorado State
University. What’s in a name? Crowdsourcing citizens,
experts, and the Web to populate the ID Source plant
pest identification search tool.
1:50 PM COS 59-2 Burton, RS, Alverno College. Readability,
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