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1:30 pm-5 pm
savannas by an alien grass.
3:40 PM COS 113-7 Pyšek, P 1 , V Jarošík 2 , PE Hulme 3 , J Pergl 1
and M Vilà 4 , (1)Institute of Botany, Academy of Sciences
of the Czech Republic, (2)Charles University in Prague,
Faculty of Science, (3)Lincoln University, (4)Estación
Biológica de Doñana (EBD-CSIC). Impacts of alien
invasive plants on resident species, communities and
ecosystems: a global assessment.
4:00 PM COS 113-8 Beauchamp, VB, Towson University. Niche
requirements and competitive effects of a new forest
invader, Oplismenus hirtellus spp. undulatifolius (wavyleaf
basket grass).
4:20 PM COS 113-9 LeBrun, EG 1 , JC Abbott 2 and LE Gilbert 1 ,
(1)University of Texas at Austin, (2)University of Texas.
Adding insult to injury in Texas grasslands: Crazy ant
extirpates imported fire ant and further reduces native
ant and arthropod diversity.
4:40 PM COS 113-10 Bugnot, AB 1 , RA Coleman 2 , WF
Figueira 3 and EM Marzinelli 4 , (1)University of Sydney,
(2)The University of Sydney, (3)The University of Sidney,
(4)University of New South Wales. The non-indigenous
isopod Cirolana harfordi in Australia: Does a non-native
in great abundance impact local assemblages?.
COS 114 - Invasion: Species Interactions II
Portland Blrm 254, Oregon Convention Center
1:30 PM COS 114-1 Barak, R, K Skogen and J Fant, Chicago
Botanic Garden/Northwestern University. Assessing
competitive potential of native forbs from cheatgrass
dominated habitats.
1:50 PM COS 114-2 Swope, SM, USDA ARS. Biocontrol attack
exacerbates resource- and pollen- limitation in its target
weed (Centaurea solstitialis) across a soil moisture
gradient.
2:10 PM COS 114-3 Wigginton, RD1 , L Grenier2 , H Spautz3 and
CR Whitcraft1 , (1)CSU Long Beach, (2)State Coastal
Conservancy, (3)California Department of Fish and
Game. Impacts of Lepidium latifolium on food web
structure of Suisun song sparrows in a brackish marsh.
2:30 PM COS 114-4 Meckel, HM1 , S Schwinning1 and PA Fay2 ,
(1)Texas State University, (2)USDA, Agricultural Research
Service. Mechanisms of competitive suppression of
native grasses by Johnsongrass.
2:50 PM COS 114-5 Hannam, MP, University of Washington.
Microtopography mediates competition between an
native and an introduced seagrass.
3:10 PM Break
3:20 PM COS 114-6 Cumming, WP, The University of Colorado.
An analysis of year-to-year changes in native and nonnative
vegetation abundance in response to climate and
soil variability.
3:40 PM COS 114-7 Heckman, RW1 , JP Wright2 and CE Mitchell1 ,
(1)University of North Carolina, (2)Duke University. The
effects of soil nutrients on foliar herbivory and disease on
native and exotic old field species.
4:00 PM COS 114-8 Zhang, Y, Q Fang, L Chen and W Wang,
Key Laboratory of the Ministry of Education for Coastal
and Wetland Ecosystems, Xiamen University. Invasion
of mangroves by Spartina alterniflora: Interspecific
interactions across latitudinal gradient in southeast
China.
4:20 PM COS 114-9 Schultheis, EH and JA Lau, Michigan State
University. Do altered biotic interactions drive invasion?.
1:30 PM COS 115-1 Six, LJ 1 , JD Bakker 2 and RE Bilby 1 ,
(1)Weyerhaeuser NR Company, (2)University of
Washington. The importance of spatiotemporal scale
in understanding agroforestry management effects on
grassland vegetation.
1:50 PM COS 115-2 Riskin, SH 1 , C Neill 2 , S Porder 1 , R McHorney 3 ,
H Elsenbeer 4 and AV Krusche 5 , (1)Brown University, (2)
Marine Biological Laboratory, (3)Woods Hole Marine
Biological Laboratory, (4)Universität Potsdam, Potsdam,
Germany, (5)CENA/USP. Solute concentrations and
annual export from Amazon headwater streams following
conversion from forest to intensive soybean agriculture.
2:10 PM COS 115-3 Karp, DS 1 , A Rominger 2 , J Ranganathan 3 , J
Zook 4 , PR Ehrlich 1 and GC Daily 1 , (1)Stanford University,
(2)University of California Berkeley, (3)National Center
for Ecological Analysis and Synthesis, (4)Unión de
Ornitólogos de Costa Rica.. Intensive agriculture erodes
beta-diversity at large scales.
2:30 PM COS 115-4 Habeck, C 1 , LA Brudvig 1 and JL Orrock 2 ,
(1)Michigan State University, (2)University of Wisconsin
- Madison. Scale-dependant legacies of agricultural
land-use on soils and understory plant communities in
longleaf pine woodlands.
2:50 PM COS 115-5 Jackson, MM 1 , MG Turner 1 and SM
Pearson 2 , (1)University of Wisconsin, (2)Mars Hill
College. Climate and logging history influence native
forest herb performance in the Southern Appalachians.
3:10 PM Break
3:20 PM COS 115-6 Allen, JM 1 , TJ Leininger 2 , JD Hurd Jr 1 , DL
Civco 1 , AE Gelfand 2 and JA Silander Jr. 1 , (1)University of
Connecticut, (2)Duke University. Socioeconomics drive
invasive woody plants in New England through forest
fragmentation.
3:40 PM COS 115-7 Shirley, SM, Y Zhiqiang, RA Hutchinson and
MG Betts, Oregon State University. Unclassified landsat
TM predicts bird distributions at fine resolutions in
forested landscapes.
4:00 PM COS 115-8 Kaplan, JO, KM Krumhardt, M Pfeiffer, BAS
Davis and M Zanon, Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de
Lausanne. From forest to farmland and meadow to
metropolis: Integrated modeling of Holocene land cover
change.
4:20 PM COS 115-9 McElroy, DJ 1 and RA Coleman 2 , (1)School
of Biological Sciences, (2)The University of Sydney. The
effect of copper and contamination history on microalgal
type and abundance.
4:40 PM COS 115-10 Sandel, B, L Arge and JC Svenning,
Aarhus University. Topographic controls on the
distribution of tree cover from local to global scales.
COS 116 - Modeling III
Portland Blrm 256, Oregon Convention Center
1:30 PM COS 116-1 Peper, PJ
COS 115 - Land-Use And Land-Use History
Portland Blrm 255, Oregon Convention Center
124 ESA 97th Annual Meeting, August 5 - 10, 2012, Oregon Convention Center
1 and G McPherson2 , (1)USDA
Forest Service, (2)US Forest Service. How large is large?
Urban tree allometrics from 16 U.S. climate regions.
1:50 PM COS 116-2 Shakir hanna, S, Texas Gulf Coast
Environmental Data (TEXGED) Center, Prairie View A&M
University. Sustainable economy of ecological footprint
in USA: Economic analysis and impacts.
2:10 PM COS 116-3 Gregr, EJ and KMA Chan, University of
British Columbia. Uncertainty in social-ecological models
of marine systems: Implications for management.
2:30 PM COS 116-4 Ryals, R1 , WL Silver1 , WJ Parton2 , M
Hartman2 and M DeLonge1 , (1)University of California,
Berkeley, (2)Colorado State University. Simulating
long-term responses of rangeland soil carbon storage