ESA/SER Joint Meeting (August 5 -- August 10, 2007): Contributed Oral and Poster Abstracts

Monday, August 6, 2007

1:30 PM-5:00 PM

COS 1 - Biodiversity patterns: Gradients and biogeography

COS 2 - Climate change and carbon cycling I

COS 3 - Community ecology: General theory and models

COS 4 - Conservation ecology and ecosystem management: Planning and policy

COS 5 - Ecology education

COS 6 - Ecology of boreal and temperate forest habitats

COS 7 - Ecosystem and community stability and resilience

COS 8 - Evolution and life history theory: Animals

COS 9 - Food webs I: Structure and stability

COS 10 - Habitat connectivity and fragmentation I

COS 11 - Invasion: Community and ecosystem consequences

COS 12 - Invasion: Population process and theory

COS 13 - Mycorrhizae: Plant-fungus relationships and ecosystem function

COS 14 - Niche relationship and theory I

COS 15 - Nutrient cycling and ecosystem function in aquatic systems

COS 16 - Population modeling I: General and theory

COS 17 - Restoration ecology: Wildlife restoration, wildlife response

COS 18 - Species interactions

COS 19 - Statistical theory and methods

5:00 PM-6:30 PM

PS 1 - Aquatic-terrestrial linkages

PS 2 - Aquatic ecology

PS 3 - Arid and semi-arid systems

PS 4 - Biodiversity

PS 5 - Coastal

PS 6 - Community disturbance, recovery

PS 7 - Community pattern and dynamics

PS 8 - Estuary

PS 9 - Forest canopy

PS 10 - Forest habitats

PS 11 - Grasslands

PS 12 - Habitat

PS 13 - Landscape ecology

PS 14 - Marine systems

PS 15 - Rhizophere

PS 16 - Riparian

PS 17 - Species-area relationship

PS 18 - Shrublands

PS 19 - Urban ecology

PS 20 - Wetland habitats

Tuesday, August 7, 2007

8:00 AM-11:30 AM

COS 20 - Aquatic-terrestrial linkages: Behavior to biogeochemistry

COS 21 - Climate change and carbon cycling II

COS 22 - Community assembly and neutral theory

COS 23 - Ecology of riparian habitats

COS 24 - Ecology of tropical and subtropical forest habitats

COS 25 - Ecosystem function: Carbon, energy, and NPP

COS 26 - Evolution and life history theory: Plants

COS 27 - Herbivory: Community and ecosystem patterns and effects

COS 28 - Interspecific competition

COS 29 - Invasion: Community invasibility and controls on invasion

COS 30 - Invasion: Population regulation and interactions

COS 31 - Niche relations and theory II

COS 32 - Pollination: Ecology and evolution

COS 33 - Population dynamics and regulation: Plants

COS 34 - Population modeling II: Animals, including humans

COS 35 - Restoration ecology in forest habitats: Concepts and case studies

COS 36 - Restoration ecology in grassland habitats

COS 37 - Soil ecology

COS 38 - Species-area relationships and abundance and rarity

1:30 PM-5:00 PM

COS 39 - Carbon cycling

COS 40 - Climate change: Effects on ecosystem function and biogeochemistry

COS 41 - Climate change: Phenology and population responses

COS 42 - Community dynamics and diversity

COS 43 - Community ecology: Modeling and applications

COS 44 - Conservation biology, ecosystem management, and sustainability

COS 45 - Disease and epidemiology

COS 46 - Ecology education: Extended audiences

COS 47 - Ecology of created and restored wetlands

COS 48 - Evolution: Population genetics and population differentiation

COS 49 - Food webs II: Analytic methods, applications

COS 50 - Habitat connectivity and fragmentation II: Case studies

COS 51 - Invasion: Genetics and evolutionary processes

COS 52 - Invasion: Interactions with ecosystem properties

COS 53 - Matrix models: Methods and applications

COS 54 - Mycorrhizae: Community-level relationships

COS 55 - Pollination: Ecology and management

COS 56 - Restoration ecology in forest habitats: Methods and approaches

COS 57 - Restoration ecology in western grassland and arid habitats

COS 58 - Statistical ecology: Applications

5:00 PM-6:30 PM

PS 21 - Behavior

PS 22 - Community assembly

PS 23 - Competition

PS 24 - Decompostition

PS 25 - Disease

PS 26 - Dispersal

PS 27 - Distribution

PS 28 - Fire ecology

PS 29 - Herbivory

PS 30 - Invasion

PS 31 - Life history

PS 32 - Mutualism

PS 33 - Niche

PS 34 - Parasitism

PS 35 - Plant/insect interactions

PS 36 - Pollination

PS 37 - Predation

PS 38 - Seeds

PS 39 - Species interactions

Wednesday, August 8, 2007

8:00 AM-11:30 AM

COS 59 - Amphibian ecology and decline

COS 60 - Biodiversity and ecosystem function I

COS 61 - Carbon cycling: Soil processes

COS 62 - Community and metacommunity dynamics

COS 63 - Community pattern: Environmental gradients and spatial variation

COS 64 - Disease ecology: Plant pathogens and vectors

COS 65 - Ecology of fresh-water wetlands

COS 66 - Ecology of grassland habitats

COS 67 - Food webs III: Aquatic and marine systems

COS 68 - Forest communities: Pattern and dynamics

COS 69 - Herbivory: Patterns and population responses

COS 70 - Invasion: Diversity relationships

COS 71 - Invasion: Trophic relationships

COS 72 - Modeling ecosystem dynamics and climate change

COS 73 - Predation and predator-prey interactions

COS 74 - Restoration ecology in riparian habitats: Case studies and methods: I

COS 75 - Rhizoshpere: root function and root interactions

COS 76 - Sampling theory, methods, and assessment

COS 77 - Seed ecology: Production, predation, and dispersal

COS 78 - Spatial analysis and geostatistics

1:30 PM-5:00 PM

COS 79 - Behavioral ecology: Foraging and diet

COS 80 - Biodiversity and ecosystem function II

COS 81 - Climate change: community response

COS 82 - Community ecology: Environmental drivers plant community pattern

COS 83 - Conservation ecology and ecosystem management: Case studies I

COS 84 - Ecology and evolution of mutualism

COS 85 - Ecology of the freshwater habitats I

COS 86 - Fire ecology I

COS 87 - Food webs IV: Terrestrial systems

COS 88 - Forest canopy ecology

COS 89 - Life history theory, resource allocation, and sex allocation

COS 90 - Nitrogen cycling

COS 91 - Paleoecology, historical ecology, and restoration baselines

COS 92 - Parasites, pathogens, and hosts

COS 93 - Plant physiological ecology: Water relations

COS 94 - Plant-insect interactions

COS 95 - Population modeling III

COS 96 - Restoration ecology in riparian habitats: Case studies and methods II

COS 97 - Restoration ecology in wetlands I: Coastal and created

COS 98 - Spatial patterns: Description and analysis

5:00 PM-6:30 PM

PS 40 - Cycling - carbon

PS 41 - Cycling - nitrogen

PS 42 - Cycling - nutrients, water

PS 43 - Climate change

PS 44 - Ecosystem function

PS 45 - Ecosystem stability

PS 46 - Environment gradient

PS 47 - Modeling

PS 48 - Mycorrhizae

PS 49 - Phenotypic plasticity

PS 50 - Physiological ecology

PS 51 - Population dynamics

PS 52 - Resource allocation

PS 53 - Soil ecology

PS 54 - Succession

PS 55 - Trophic dynamics

Thursday, August 9, 2007

8:00 AM-11:30 AM

COS 99 - Agricultural ecology I: Biogeochemistry management

COS 100 - Behavioral ecology: Movement and social interaction

COS 101 - Biodiversity patterns and processes

COS 102 - Climate change: Range change

COS 103 - Disease ecology: Models and human disease

COS 104 - Distributions and range limits

COS 105 - Ecology of alpine, Arctic, and Antarctic systems

COS 106 - Ecology of freshwater habitats II

COS 107 - Environmental philosophy, socioeconomic connections, and traditional ecological knowledge

COS 108 - Fire ecology II

COS 109 - Historical ecology, paleoecology, and land-use legacies I

COS 110 - Mycorrhizae III

COS 111 - Nitrogen cycling across systems

COS 112 - Nutrient cycling and ecosystem function in forest ecosystems

COS 113 - Parasitism: theory, evolution, and ecology

COS 114 - Plant physiological ecology: light and water relations

COS 115 - Plant-insect interactions: Chemical defenses and induction

COS 116 - Population biology: Metapopulations

COS 117 - Remote sensing and image analysis

COS 118 - Restoration ecology in riparian habitats: Assessment

COS 119 - Restoration ecology in wetlands II: Freshwater

1:30 PM-5:00 PM

COS 120 - Agricultural ecology II: Agricultural systems as habitat, diversity

COS 121 - Community ecology: Succession

COS 122 - Conservation ecology and ecosystem management case studies: II

COS 123 - Ecology of arid and semiarid habitats: I

COS 124 - Ecology of marine ecosystems and reefs

COS 125 - Fire ecology III

COS 126 - Historical ecology, paleoecology, and land-use legacies II

COS 127 - Invasion: Competitive dynamics

COS 128 - Invasion: Management approaches and assessment

COS 129 - Invasion: Population processes and invasiveness

COS 130 - Microbial ecology I

COS 131 - Migration, dispersal, and colonization

COS 132 - Nitrogen cycling and enrichment in forests

COS 133 - North American vegetation classification

COS 134 - Phenotypic plasticity: Animals and protists

COS 135 - Plant physiological ecology: Respiration and transpiration

COS 136 - Plant-insection interactions: Defenses against herbivory

COS 137 - Population and metapopulation dynamics: Terrestrial

COS 138 - Restoration ecology: Methods

COS 139 - Selection and adaptation I: Plants under environmental selection

COS 140 - Urban ecology

5:00 PM-6:30 PM

PS 56 - Agriculture

PS 57 - Conservation

PS 58 - Ecology education

PS 59 - Ecological management

PS 60 - Forest management

PS 61 - Evolutionary ecology

PS 62 - Genetics

PS 63 - Land use

PS 64 - Paleoecology

PS 65 - Rapid assessments

PS 66 - Remote sensing

PS 67 - Restoration ecology

PS 68 - Restoration methods

PS 69 - Spatial analysis and GIS

PS 70 - Sustainable management

PS 71 - Waste management

Friday, August 10, 2007

8:00 AM-11:30 AM

COS 141 - Agroforestry and agricultural policy and conservation

COS 142 - Climate change: Physiological and population response

COS 143 - Community disturbance and response

COS 144 - Detritus and decomposition

COS 145 - Disease ecology: Lyme disease and other mammalain diseases

COS 146 - Dispersal and colonization

COS 147 - Ecology of arid and semi-arid habitats: II

COS 148 - Ecology of estuarine, coastal, and intertidal systems

COS 149 - Forest management

COS 150 - Invasion: Models of process and management

COS 151 - Invasion: Population processes and interactions

COS 152 - Microbial ecology II

COS 153 - Nutrient cycling: Limiting resources, interactions, and ecosystem restoration

COS 154 - Phenotypic plasticity: Plants

COS 155 - Plant physiological ecology: Temperature effects, growth relations

COS 156 - Pollution, waste management, rehabilitation

COS 157 - Population and meta-population dynamics: Aquatic and marine

COS 158 - Restoration and conservation: Planning, policy, and theory

COS 159 - Restoration ecology: Urban ecosystems

COS 160 - Scaling and allometry: From body size to ecosystem function

COS 161 - Selection and adaptation II: Animals and interacting populations

COS 162 - Stable isotope and tracer applications

COS 163 - Urban ecosystems: Design, management, and evaluation

8:30 AM-10:30 AM

PS 72 - Latebreaking and newsworthy posters