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

COS 12 - Invasion: Population process and theory

Monday, August 6, 2007: 1:30 PM-5:00 PM
San Carlos I, San Jose Hilton
1:30 PM
The effects of environment and competitive ability on invasiveness
Drew Silver, Mount Holyoke College; Martha F. Hoopes, Mount Holyoke College
1:50 PM
The dispersal paradox: Are good dispersers poor invaders?
Derek M. Johnson, Virginia Commonwealth University; Andrew M. Liebhold, USDA Forest Service; Kyrre L. Kausrud, University of Oslo; Bjørn Økland, Norwegian Forest and Landscape Institute
2:10 PM
The impact of propagule pressure on invasion success
Tawny M. Mata, Michigan State University; Nick M. Haddad, North Carolina State University; Marcel Holyoak, University of California, Davis
2:30 PM
Impotent pathogens and invasive success
Kurt O. Reinhart, USDA-ARS; Wim H. Van der Putten, Netherlands Institute of Ecology; Keith Clay, Indiana University
2:50 PM
Stochastic dynamics of invasive spread: New theory and experiments in microcosms
Brett Melbourne, University of Colorado; Alan Hastings, University of California, Davis
3:10 PM
3:20 PM
Understanding invasions: A multi-garden approach
Kirk A. Moloney, Iowa State University; Claus Holzapfel, Rutgers University; Frank Schurr, University of Potsdam; Katja Tielbörger, University of Tuebingen; Jack Chapman, Rutgers University; Young Jin Chun, Korea Research Institute of Bioscience and Biotechnology; Petra Finkenbein, University of Tübingen; Lina Weiß, University of Potsdam
3:40 PM
Variation in escape of common ragweed from its natural enemies
James C. MacKay, University of Toronto at Mississauga; Peter M. Kotanen, University of Toronto
4:00 PM
Challenges of modeling invasive species spread
Ines Ibanez, University of Michigan; John A. Silander, University of Connecticut; Adam Wilson, University of Conneticut; Nancy LaFleur, University of Connecticut
4:20 PM
Using spatially explicit population models and GIS analysis to predict population spread of an invasive plant
Eleanor A. Pardini, Washington University in St. Louis; John M. Drake, University of Georgia; Tiffany Knight, Washington University
4:40 PM
Target the cause and simplify the control: Integrating disturbance into weed management
Jennifer Firn, Queensland University of Technology; Tracy M. Rout, University of Melbourne; Hugh P. Possingham, University of Queensland; Yvonne M. Buckley, Trinity College Dublin