Printed Program (PDF) - Ecological Society of America

WEDNESDAY
8 am-11:30am
defense in the invasive tree, Triadica sebifera.
8:20 AM COS 88-2 Meza-Lopez, MM and E Siemann, Rice
University. Pomacea insularum facilitates Alternanthera
philoxeroides invasion but there is no evidence of
invasional meltdown in wetland communities.
8:40 AM COS 88-3 Burns, JH, NM Zimmerman, SC Leahy and
AJ Brandt, Case Western Reserve University. Phenotypic
plasticity in plant trait expression may facilitate mutual
invasibility between close relatives.
9:00 AM COS 88-4 Nuñez, MA1 , J Hayward2 , TR Horton2 , GC
Amico3 , R Dimarco1 , N Barrios-Garcia1 and D Simberloff1 ,
(1)The University of Tennessee, (2)State University
of New York - College of Environmental Science and
Forestry, (3)INIBIOMA, CONICET-Universidad Nacional
del Comahue. Non-native mammals disperse non-native
fungi that promote invasion of non-native trees.
9:20 AM COS 88-5 Lieurance, D1 , S Chakraborty2 , P Bonello2 ,
SR Whitehead3 , DM Bowers3 and D Cipollini1 , (1)
Wright State University, (2)The Ohio State University,
(3)University of Colorado at Boulder. Does variation in
defensive secondary metabolites in native and non-native
Lonicera species explain invasive success? Responses
to nutrient availability and relationships with herbivore
resistance in a common garden experiment.
9:40 AM Break
9:50 AM COS 88-6 Shiels, A, USDA, APHIS, National Wildlife
Research Center. Niche differentiation based on diet
analysis of three introduced rodents in tropical montane
forest.
10:10 AM COS 88-7 Bunn, RA1 , Y Lekberg2 and C Gallagher1 ,
(1)Western Washington University, (2)MPG Ranch. A
new invader, Potentilla recta, and its effect on the native
mycorrhizal symbiosis.
10:30 AM COS 88-8 Aslan, AB1 and PJ Hart2 , (1)University of
Hawaii - Hilo, (2)University of Hawaii at Hilo. Implications
of a novel mutualist for fecundity metrics of two endemic
Hawaiian plants.
10:50 AM COS 88-9 Imamura, JL and GK Roderick, University
of California. Exotic species and temporal variation in
Hawaiian floral visitation networks.
11:10 AM COS 88-10 Kent, SM, Northeastern University’s Marine
Science Center. The importance of the ecological
neighborhood: Quantifying the effect of exotic plants on
native species interactions.
University, (3)United States Geological Survey, (4)US
Geological Survey, Fort Collins Science Center and
Natural Resource Ecology Laboratory. The Hyper-
Envelope Modeling Interface (HEMI): A novel approach
to habitat suitability modeling.
9:00 AM COS 89-4 Saint-Béat, B 1 , C Dupuy 1 , P Bocher 1 , M
De Crignis 1 , C Fontaine 1 , K Guizien 2 , J Lavaud 1 , S
Lefebvre 3 , H Montanié 1 , JL Mouget 4 , PY Pascal 5 , G
Quaintenne 1 , G Radenac 1 , P Richard 1 , F Robin 1 and N
Niquil 1 , (1)UMR Littoral Environnement et Sociétés, (2)
Laboratoire d’Océanographie Biologique de Banyuls,
(3)Laboratoire d’Océanographie et de Géoscience, (4)
Ecophysiologie et Métabolisme des Microalgues, (5)
UFR SEN. Consequences for shorebirds of an intertidal
mudflat (Brouage, NE Atlantic) food web functioning in
winter.
9:20 AM COS 89-5 Bartley, ML and WJ Boeing, New Mexico
State University. Predicting optimum growth and lipid
accumulation of the microalgae Nannochloropsis salina
and minimizing invading organisms with a response
surface model.
9:40 AM Break
9:50 AM COS 89-6 Wang, L and DA Jackson, University of
Toronto. Effects of sample size and species response
shape on the performance of different species distribution
models: A simulation study.
10:10 AM COS 89-7 Green, SJ 1 , NK Dulvy 1 , A Cooper 2 and IM
Côté 3 , (1)Simon Fraser University, (2)Simon Fraser
Univeristy, (3)Simon Fraser University/Vancouver Island
University. Past, present, and future impacts of invasive
Indo-Pacific lionfish on high-diversity Atlantic fish
communities.
10:30 AM COS 89-8 Baskerville, EB 1 and M Pascual 2 , (1)
University of Michigan, (2)University of Michigan AND
Howard Hughes Medical Institute. Flexible Bayesian
modeling of groups and niches in food webs.
10:50 AM COS 89-9 Merow, C 1 , M Smith 2 and J Silander 1 , (1)
University of Connecticut, (2)Microsoft Research.
New approaches to species distribution modeling
with Maxent: Rethinking model interpretation, model
complexity and prior assumptions.
COS 90 - Mycorrhizae
Portland Blrm 256, Oregon Convention Center
COS 89 - Modeling II
Portland Blrm 255, Oregon Convention Center
8:00 AM COS 89-1 Bunyan, M
110 ESA 97th Annual Meeting, August 5 - 10, 2012, Oregon Convention Center
1 , JR Jaeger2 , RD Inman3 , DM
Fletcher4 and KE Nussear5 , (1)University of Nevada Las
Vegas, School of Life Sciences, (2)University of Nevada
Las Vegas, (3)U.S. Geological Survey, Western Ecological
Research Center, (4)Great Basin Bird Observatory, (5)US
Geological Survey, Westen Ecological Research Center.
Assessing niche partitioning and competition between
sympatric thrashers.
8:20 AM COS 89-2 See, KE1 , C Jordan2 , M Ward3 , C Beasley4 ,
N Bouwes5 , J White4 and C Volk6 , (1)National Marine
Fisheries Service, National Oceanic and Atmospheric
Administration, (2)NOAA Fisheries, (3)Terraqua, (4)
Quantitative Consultants, Inc., (5)Utah State University,
(6)South Fork Research. Boosted regression tree analysis
of juvenile salmonids and their freshwater habitat in the
Pacific Northwest.
8:40 AM COS 89-3 Graham, J1 , N Young2 , C Jarnevich3 ,
G Newman2 , P Evangelista2 and TJ Stohlgren4 8:00 AM COS 90-1 Fernandez, CW
, (1)
Natural Resource Ecology Laborary, (2)Colorado State
1 and RT Koide2 , (1)The
Pennsylvania State University, (2)Pennsylvania State
University. Melanin: A functional trait conferring tolerance
to water stress in ectomycorrhizal fungi.
8:20 AM COS 90-2 Kennedy, PG, Lewis & Clark College.
Colonization-competition tradeoffs as a mechanism
driving successional dynamics in ectomycorrhizal fungal
communities.
8:40 AM COS 90-3 Becklin, KM, JS Medeiros and JK Ward,
University of Kansas. Mycorrhizal functioning across
the glacial-interglacial transition: Evidence from stable
isotopes.
9:00 AM COS 90-4 Treseder, KK, University of California, Irvine.
Percent mycorrhizal root length is a reliable indicator of
benefits to host plants: Results from a meta-analysis.
9:20 AM COS 90-5 Hewitt, RE1 , TN Hollingsworth2 , DL Taylor1 and FS Chapin III1 , (1)University of Alaska Fairbanks, (2)
Pacific Northwest Research Station. The role of fire in
facilitating treeline expansion: Getting to the root of the
matter.
9:40 AM Break
9:50 AM COS 90-6 Walker, JKM1 , V Ward2 and MD Jones2 ,