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

COS 148 - Ecology of estuarine, coastal, and intertidal systems

Friday, August 10, 2007: 8:00 AM-11:30 AM
F1, San Jose McEnery Convention Center
8:00 AM
Comparison of species composition in two contrasting open-coast, rocky-intertidal habitats: California and Hawaii
Chela J. Zabin, Smithsonian Environmental Research Center; John S. Pearse, University of California, Santa Cruz; Eric M. Danner, National Marine Fisheries Service; Erin P. Baumgartner, Western Oregon University
8:20 AM
Immersion affects intertidal invertebrate assemblages of coralline algae
Kylee A. Pawluk, University of Alberta; Heather C. Proctor, University of Alberta
8:40 AM
The temporal scale of environmental forcing in intertidal communities along the West Coast of the United States
Tarik C. Gouhier, Northeastern University; Frederic Guichard, McGill University; Bruce A. Menge, Oregon State University; Carl Schoch, University of Alaska Fairbanks; Gary W. Allison, The Ohio State University
9:00 AM
Coastal marine invertebrates locally enhance primary production
Catherine A. Pfister, University of Chicago
9:20 AM
Influence of elevation and inundation on tidal wetland vegetation distributions in the northern San Francisco Bay Estuary
Lisa M. Schile, San Francisco State University; Tim Carson, Wetlands and Water Resources; John Callaway, University of San Francisco; Philip Bachand, Wetlands and Water Resources; Virgil Parker, San Francisco State University; Jeremy P. Lowe, Philip Williams and Associates; Michael Vasey, San Francisco State University; Stuart Siegel, Wetlands and Water Resources
9:40 AM
9:50 AM
Changing eelgrass (Zostera marina) distribution in a Maine estuary over the last half century: Rates of decline and potential causes
Laurie J. Osher, University of Maine; Tara Goodrich, University of Maine; Seth Barker, Central Michigan University
10:10 AM
Evidence of the use of brackish marsh habitat by the endangered salt marsh harvest mouse in South San Francisco Bay
Mary C. Orland, H. T. Harvey & Associates; Ronald R. Duke, H. T. Harvey & Associates; Howard S. Shellhammer, H. T. Harvey & Associates; Dave S. Johnston, H. T. Harvey & Associates
10:30 AM
“Terrestrialization” of coastal wetland ecosystems by a riparian invader
C.R. Whitcraft, CSU Long Beach; Drew Talley, San Francisco State University; Jeff Crooks, Tijuana River National Estuarine Research Reserve; John Boland, EcoSystems Restoration Associates; Lisa A. Levin, Scripps Institution of Oceanography
10:50 AM
Photosynthetic differences between native and non-native haplotypes of Phragmites australis
Thomas J. Mozdzer, Smithsonian Environmental Research Center; J.C. Zieman, University of Virginia