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

COS 82 - Community ecology: Environmental drivers plant community pattern

Wednesday, August 8, 2007: 1:30 PM-5:00 PM
Willow Glen I, San Jose Marriott
1:30 PM
Changes in species cover due to interannual variation in temperature and precipitation in a tallgrass prairie experiment
Rebecca A. Sherry, University of Oklahoma; Linda L. Wallace, University of Oklahoma; Yiqi Luo, University of Oklahoma; John A. Arnone III, Desert Research Institute; David S. Schimel, Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology
1:50 PM
Amount or pattern? Grassland responses to the heterogeneity and availability of two key resources
Fernando T. Maestre, Universidad Rey Juan Carlos; James F. Reynolds, Duke University
2:10 PM
Evaluating seed and microsite limitation to the establishment of a native forb in a non-native pasture grass
Anne L. Frances, NatureServe; Carrie Reinhardt Adams, University of Florida/ IFAS; Jeffrey G. Norcini, University of Florida/ IFAS
2:30 PM
Microtopography and centimeter-scale patterns of plant community structure in fens of the New Jersey Pine Barrens
Matthew I. Palmer, Columbia University; Joan Ehrenfeld, Rutgers University
2:50 PM
Response of arid shrubland to nitrogen and potassium additions over 9 years at Tierberg Karoo LTER, South Africa
Suzanne J. Milton, University of Stellenbosch; W. Richard J. Dean, University of Cape Town
3:10 PM
3:20 PM
Effects of altered flows in the Congaree River on the floodplain forests of the Congaree National Park, SC
Peter R. Minchin, Southern Illinois University Edwardsville; Rebecca R. Sharitz, University of Georgia
3:40 PM
Spatial variation in solar irradiance and the recruitment of rainforest trees at Khao Yai National Park, Thailand
David B. Greenberg, University of California; Warren Y. Brockelman, BIOTEC Central Research Unit; Anuttara Natalang, BIOTEC Central Research Unit
4:00 PM
4:20 PM
Soil-based habitat associations in understory palms
Kelly M. Andersen, San Diego Zoo Global; James W. Dalling, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign