Session: Invasion: Community and ecosystem consequences (ESA/SER Joint Meeting (August 5 -- August 10, 2007))

1:30 PM

COS 11-1

Regional differences in the drivers of freshwater fish diversity loss in North America
Theo Light, Shippensburg University of Pennsylvania

1:50 PM

COS 11-2

Impact of invasive earthworm control treatments on soil microflora and vertebrate fauna in an urban northeast forest restoration site
Amanda K. Bryant, Philadelphia University; Anne H. Bower, Philadelphia University; John C. Maerz, University of Georgia; Christina P. Czarnecki, Philadelphia University; Jereme W. Mason, Philadelphia University; Diana R. Cundell, Philadelphia University; Dennis A. Burton, Schuylkill Center for Environmental Education; Fran S. Lawn, Schuylkill Center for Environmental Education

2:10 PM

COS 11-3

Effect of deer and Amur honeysuckle (Lonicera maackii) understory removal method on restoration of understory plants
Kendra A. Cipollini, Wilmington College; Don Cipollini, Wright State University; Elizabeth Ames, Wilmington College

2:30 PM

COS 11-4

Ecosystem engineering by invasive beavers reduces in-stream diversity and enhances ecosystem function via habitat and trophic pathways in Cape Horn, Chile
Christopher B. Anderson, Carnegie Institution for Science; Amy D. Rosemond, University of Georgia

2:50 PM

COS 11-5

Ecological consequences of giant knotweed (Polygonum sachalinense) invasion into Pacific Northwest riparian forests
Lauren S. Urgenson, University of Washington; Sarah Reichard, University of Washington

3:10 PM

COS 11-

Break

3:20 PM

COS 11-6

Alteration of ecosystem nutrient pools and microbial populations after invasion and management of Melaleuca quinquenervia
Melissa R. Martin, University of Florida; Philip W. Tipping, United States Department of Agriculture, Agricultural Research Service; K. Ramesh Reddy, University of Florida

3:40 PM

COS 11-7

Critical loads of nitrogen deposition for invasive species at Joshua Tree National Park
Edith B. Allen, University of California, Riverside; Leela E. Rao, University of California, Riverside; Robert J. Steers, University of California, Riverside; Heather Schneider, Univeristy of California, Riverside; Andrzej Bytnerowicz, US Forest Service; Mark E. Fenn, USDA Forest Service

4:00 PM

COS 11-8

Do invasive species provide functional resilience for ecosystems affected by extinction? Evidence from exotic-dominated forests in Hawai’i in the context of the Biodiversity-Ecosystem Function Paradigm
Joseph Mascaro, Carnegie Institution for Science; R. Flint Hughes, USDA Forest Service; Stefan A. Schnitzer, University of Wisconsin - Milwaukee

4:20 PM

COS 11-9

Using Markov models to examine mechanisms of interaction among multiple invasions on Robinson Crusoe Island, Chile
Lis Castillo Nelis, Stanford University; J. Timothy Wootton, The University of Chicago

COS 11 - Invasion: Community and ecosystem consequences