Session: Ecology of arid and semiarid habitats: I (ESA/SER Joint Meeting (August 5 -- August 10, 2007))

1:30 PM

The effect of amount and frequency of precipitation on seedling establishment and survival of lane mountain milkvetch (Astraglaus jaegerianus munz), an endangered species
Rasoul Sharifi, University of California, Los Angeles; Barry A. Prigge, University of California, Los Angeles; Philip W. Rundel, University of California, Los Angeles

1:50 PM

COS 123-2

Enhanced root development for increased survival in seedling plantings
Joseph Paternoster, DriWater, Inc; Harold W. Jensen, DriWater, Inc; Kyle A. Peterson, DriWater, Inc; Jerald Wheeler, PhD

2:10 PM

COS 123-3

Effects of five years of increased seasonal precipitation on desert plant physiology in Big Bend National Park in the Chihuahuan Desert
Lisa D. Patrick, University of Arizona; David T. Tissue, Hawkesbury Institute for the Environment, University of Western Sydney, Richmond NSW

2:30 PM

COS 123-4

Does post-fire seeding in a Mojave Desert shrubland rehabilitate habitat for the desert tortoise?
Lesley A. DeFalco, US Geological Survey, Westen Ecological Science Center; Todd C. Esque, US Geological Survey, Westen Ecological Science Center; Kenneth E. Nussear, US Geological Survey, Westen Ecological Research Center; Kristina Drake, US Geological Survey, Westen Ecological Science Center; Sara J. Scoles, US Geological Survey, Westen Ecological Science Center; Philip A. Medica, US Geological Survey, Westen Ecological Science Center

2:50 PM

COS 123-5

Post-fire spatial recruitment patterns of Wyoming big sagebrush (Artemisia tridentata ssp wyomingensis)
Amy D. Forman, Idaho National Laboratory; Roger D. Blew, Idaho National Laboratory; Jackie R. Hafla, Idaho National Laboratory; Jeremy P. Shive, Idaho National Laboratory

3:10 PM

COS 123-

Break

3:20 PM

COS 123-6

Woody-grass ratios in a patterned (mulga-spinifex) arid system are mediated by unexpected competitive interactions driven by fire, resources, and life-history
Catherine E. M. Nano, Northern Territory Government; Peter J. Clarke, University of New England

3:40 PM

COS 123-7

A break in the drought or just more of the same stress? Interaction among shrubs and annuals in the Mojave Desert
Claus Holzapfel, Rutgers University; Erik Hamerlynck, USDA-ARS

4:00 PM

COS 123-8

Landscape-scale structuring of arid bird assemblages: Vegetation type influences species composition
Chris R. Pavey, Parks and Wildlife Service of the Northern Territory; Catherine E. M. Nano, Northern Territory Government

4:20 PM

COS 123-9

Food resources for small livestock in semiarid and Mediterranean landscapes under climate change
Martin KÃ¶chy, University of Potsdam

4:40 PM

COS 123-10

Controls on plant gas exchange across a grassland to shrubland gradient in Owens Valley, California
Christine M. Goedhart, University of California, Irvine; Diane Pataki, University of Utah; Sharon A. Billings, University of Kansas

COS 123 - Ecology of arid and semiarid habitats: I