ESA/SER Joint Meeting (August 5 -- August 10, 2007)
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Organized Oral Session

Monday, August 6, 2007

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1:30 PM-5:00 PM

OOS 1 - Host-associated differentiation in multi-trophic interactions: Host plants as ecological and evolutionary islands
OOS 2 - Forest restoration at the scale of the landscape
OOS 3 - Restoration of western riparian ecosystems: Challenges and solutions
OOS 4 - Diagnostic assessment: Uncovering and responding to how our students are thinking
OOS 5 - Alternative futures for Great Basin ecosystems
OOS 6 - Ancient extinctions and modern experiments: The ecological effects of adding and removing megaherbivores from the landscape

Tuesday, August 7, 2007

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8:00 AM-11:30 AM

OOS 7 - Trophic structure across systems: Case studies and synthesis
OOS 8 - Restoring physical and ecological connections in roaded landscapes
OOS 9 - Human roles in ecosystems through deep time: The North Pacific as a case study
OOS 10 - What is the right size ecological model? Views on model complexity and parsimony from different statistical paradigms
OOS 11 - Illuminating the black box: Examining the mycorrhizal symbiosis and its effect on plant and fungal community dynamics
OOS 12 - Reducing uncertainty: Adaptive management in the South Bay Salt Pond Restoration Project
OOS 13 - Agricultural landscapes: Critical for biodiversity conservation and ecosystem restoration

1:30 PM-5:00 PM

OOS 14 - Biogeochemical variation within and between tropical ecosystems
OOS 15 - Long-term restoration and conservation in "wilderness-development frontiers": The value of integrating ecology and ethics
OOS 16 - Root herbivores as agents of change: Micro- and macro-herbivores across natural and managed systems
OOS 17 - E-learning in ecology education
OOS 18 - The link between propagule pressure and non-native invasion success and impacts
OOS 19 - Science policy participants and their perspectives
OOS 20 - Ecoagriculture: Restoring wild biodiversity, livelihoods, and ecosystem processes in agricultural landscapes

Wednesday, August 8, 2007

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8:00 AM-11:30 AM

OOS 21 - Not-such-strange-bedfellows: Partnerships between scientists and artists enhance ecological research, art, and ecological restoration
OOS 22 - Stepping back in time: The application of historical and fossil records to recovering ecological baselines
OOS 23 - Tropical agroforestry as model systems for ecology
OOS 24 - Soil biota alteration of aboveground plant interactions
OOS 25 - Ecosystem responses to experimental warming and other global climate change factors
OOS 26 - Restoration of ecological processes: Comparing the role of plant-insect interactions in tropical and temperate systems
OOS 27 - Matrix population models: Theory and applications

1:30 PM-5:00 PM

OOS 28 - Inferring environmental conditions from biological observations: Tools for environmental management
OOS 29 - Agroecological restoration: Synergy of science and community in the local and global marketplace
OOS 30 - Synthesizing ecological studies in a changing world using meta-analysis
OOS 31 - Grassland restoration: Ecosystem recovery across space and time
OOS 32 - Disease emergence and amphibian declines: Using ecology to understand patterns and promote restoration
OOS 33 - Ecological restoration for poverty reduction
OOS 34 - Ecological consequences of size-structured interactions

Thursday, August 9, 2007

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8:00 AM-11:30 AM

OOS 35 - The multi-faceted challenge of restoring Lake Tahoe Basin's ecosystems
OOS 36 - Conservation and restoration of tropical dry forest: From islands to continents
OOS 37 - Climate change and disease ecology: Challenges to the restoration and maintenance of suitable pestilence
OOS 38 - A community assembly approach to restoration ecology
OOS 39 - Restoring neotropical forests in a hot, hot world

1:30 PM-5:00 PM

OOS 40 - Biofuels from rangelands: Boon or bane?
OOS 41 - Commercial trade of plants and wildlife in a changing world: Research to inform policy
OOS 42 - Climate-induced forest dieback as an emergent global phenomenon: Patterns, mechanisms, and projections
OOS 43 - Biodiversity in the litter layer: Mechanisms and applications
OOS 44 - Elwha River restoration: Dam removal, ecological framework, and baseline studies
OOS 45 - The Gap Analysis Program: Addressing the future needs of ecological research, conservation, and restoration

Friday, August 10, 2007

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8:00 AM-11:30 AM

OOS 46 - Information technology tools and programs link scientific research to conservation management and restoration: Answers from those "out standing in the field"
OOS 47 - The California Channel Islands: Conservation and restoration in dynamic ecosystems
OOS 48 - The role of animal behavior in invasions: From mechanism to synthesis
OOS 49 - Controls over nitrogen fixation: A global perspective
OOS 50 - The longleaf pine ecosystem: Ecology, management, and restoration
OOS 51 - Mechanistic underpinnings of ecological processes: Scaling from genes to ecosystems