Session: Community ecology: Succession (ESA/SER Joint Meeting (August 5 -- August 10, 2007))

1:30 PM

Is the establishment of a functioning ecosystem sufficient to restore reptile communities in sites rehabilitated after bauxite mining?
Michael D. Craig, Murdoch University; Mark J. Garkaklis, Department of Environment and Conservation; Giles E. St. J. Hardy, Murdoch University; Andrew H. Grigg, Alcoa World Alumina Australia; Carl D. Grant, Alcoa World Alumina Australia; Patricia A. Fleming, Murdoch University; Richard J. Hobbs, The University of Western Australia

1:50 PM

COS 121-2

Could ecophysiological traits and related ecohydrological processes explain competition and succession trend in warm-temperate broadleaved forests?
Mei Yu, University of Puerto Rico, Rio Piedras; Qiong Gao, University of Puerto Rico, Rio Piedras

2:10 PM

COS 121-3

Spawning salmon alleviate terrestrial nitrogen limitation by fertilizing early succession in a large river floodplain
Michael R. Morris, The University of Montana; Jack A. Stanford, The University of Montana

2:30 PM

COS 121-4

Rodent-mediated secondary succession in tidal marshes
Keryn D. Bromberg, Brown University; Caitlin Mullan Crain, University of California, Santa Cruz; Mark D. Bertness, Brown University

2:50 PM

COS 121-5

Primary succession to forest on some island and continental Pacific volcanoes
Bruce D. Clarkson, University of Waikato; Beverley R. Clarkson, Landcare Research; James O. Juvik, University of Hawaii-Hilo; Lawrence R. Walker, University of Nevada Las Vegas

3:10 PM

COS 121-

Break

3:20 PM

COS 121-6

Establishment history of mature Douglas-fir forests in the southwest Washington Cascade Range
James A. Freund, University of Washington; Jerry F. Franklin, University of Washington

3:40 PM

COS 121-7

Abandoned agricultural lands: An opportunity for the expansion of native forest?
Cibele F. Queiroz, Stockholm University / Technical University of Lisbon; Henrique Miguel Pereira, Instituto Superior Tecnico; Carl Folke, Stockholm University

4:00 PM

COS 121-8

The roles of plant persistence and lifespan in restoration and community ecology
Truman Young, University of California, Davis

4:20 PM

COS 121-9

Early-successional dynamics of tree species growth in response to nitrogen and phosphorus fertilization in abandoned pasture in eastern Amazonia
Ilyas Siddique, Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina; Ima C. G. Vieira, Museu Paraense EmÃlio Goeldi, Brazil; Susanne Schmidt, University of Queensland; David Lamb, The University of Queensland; ClÃ¡udio J. R. de Carvalho, Embrapa AmazÃ´nia Oriental, Brazil; Ricardo O. Figueiredo, Embrapa Meio Ambiente; Simon Blomberg, The University of Queensland; Eric A. Davidson, The Woods Hole Research Center, Massachusetts

4:40 PM

COS 121-10

Facilitating succession on abandoned pasture in Costa Rica using an aluminum-hyperaccumulating tree, Vochysia guatemalensis (Vochysiaceae)
Kristin C. Young, University of California, Irvine; F. Lynn Carpenter, University of California, Irvine; David Parker, University of California, Riverside

COS 121 - Community ecology: Succession