ESA/SER Joint Meeting (August 5 -- August 10, 2007)
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COS 27 - Herbivory: Community and ecosystem patterns and effects

Tuesday, August 7, 2007: 8:00 AM-11:30 AM
Blrm Salon I, San Jose Marriott
8:00 AM
COS 27-1
Does white-tailed deer herbivory drive biotic homogenization of forest understory communities?
Thomas P. Rooney, Wright State University
8:20 AM
COS 27-2
Deer herbivory alters forest response to canopy decline caused by an exotic insect pest
Anne K. Eschtruth, University of California, Berkeley; John J. Battles, University of California, Berkeley
8:40 AM
COS 27-3
Obstacles to herb-layer recovery in an old-growth forest fragment: Deer, invasive earthworms, or propagule supply?
Andrew R. Holdsworth, Minnesota Department of Natural Resources; Peter B. Reich, University of Minnesota; Lee E. Frelich, University of Minnesota
9:00 AM
COS 27-4
Large herbivore vs topographic control of soil carbon storage
Douglas A. Frank, Syracuse University; Anita Risch, Swiss Federal Institute for Forest, Snow and Landscape Research WSL; Timothy Depriest, Syracuse University; Kendra McLauchlan, Dartmouth College
9:20 AM
COS 27-5
The effects of herbivores on seed banks in a grassland and shrubland
Terri L. Koontz, University of New Mexico; Diane L. Marshall, University of New Mexico; Bruce T. Milne, University of New Mexico
9:40 AM
COS 27-
Break
9:50 AM
COS 27-6
Reduced N-fixation in maritime chaparral under intense browsing
Paul L. Koch, University of California; Laurel R. Fox, University of California
10:10 AM
COS 27-7
Effects of terrestrial mammals on plant functional diversity in a Neotropical forest
Erin L. Kurten, Stanford University; Walter P. Carson, University of Pittsburgh; David Ackerly, University of California; Rodolfo Dirzo, Stanford University
10:30 AM
COS 27-8
Long-term burning interacts with herbivory to slow decomposition
Adam D. Kay, University of St. Thomas; Josh Mankowski, University of St. Thomas; Sarah E. Hobbie, University of Minnesota
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