Session: Restoration ecology in wetlands I: Coastal and created (ESA/SER Joint Meeting (August 5 -- August 10, 2007))

1:30 PM

COS 97-1

Bay scallop (Argopecten irradians) habitat attributes in a Massachusetts salt pond with active scallop restoration efforts
Marnita M. Chintala, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency; Eric J Weissberger, U. S. Environmental Protection Agency; David W. Grunden, Town of Oak Bluffs

1:50 PM

COS 97-2

Recruitment facilitation as a means of seagrass rehabilitation
Jason E. Tanner, SARDI Aquatic Sciences; Rachel Wear, SARDI Aquatic Sciences; Greg Collings, SARDI Aquatic Sciences; Sonja Venema, SARDI Aquatic Sciences

2:10 PM

COS 97-3

Can seagrass beds heal themselves after physical disturbance? Implications for restoration
Amy V. Uhrin, University of Wisconsin Madison; W. Judson Kenworthy, National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration; Mark S. Fonseca, National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration

2:30 PM

COS 97-4

Do plants really reduce salt marsh erosion?
Rusty A. Feagin, Texas A&M University; Starr M. Lozada-Bernard, Texas A&M University; Tom Ravens, Texas A&M University at Galveston

2:50 PM

COS 97-5

Disturbance for endangered parasitic plant restoration is offset by salt marsh invasion
Brenda Grewell, Dept. of Plant Sciences MS-4, University of California Davis

3:10 PM

COS 97-

Break

3:20 PM

COS 97-6

Evaluating cumulative ecosystem response to tidal wetlands restoration projects in the Columbia River estuary, USA
Heida L. Diefenderfer, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory; Ronald M. Thom, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory; Gary E. Johnson, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory; G. Curtis Roegner, NOAA Fisheries; Allan H. Whiting, Columbia River Estuary Study Taskforce; Earl M. Dawley, Consultant; John R. Skalski, University of Washington; Blaine D. Ebberts, US Army Corps of Engineers; Amy B. Borde, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory; Kathryn L. Sobocinski, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory; Ian A. Sinks, Columbia Land Trust

3:40 PM

COS 97-7

Estuarine habitat equivalency ratios based on production at multiple trophic levels for use in compensatory restoration
Melisa C. Wong, University of North Carolina - Chapel Hill; Charles H. Peterson, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill; Michael F. Piehler, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill; Jonathan H. Grabowski, Gulf of Maine Research Institute; Mark S. Fonseca, National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration; Robert R. Twilley, Louisiana State University

4:00 PM

COS 97-9

Success of Wetland Mitigation Projects in California
Richard F. Ambrose, UCLA; Steven Lee, University of California, Los Angeles; John Callaway, University of San Francisco

4:20 PM

COS 97-10

Assessment of the water quality and habitat functions of natural, restored, and created wetlands of the Hawaiian Islands
Greg Bruland, Principia College; Meris Bantilan-Smith, University of Hawaii Manoa; Richard MacKenzie, USDA Forest Service; Christina McGuire, Pacific Coast Joint Venture; Adonia Henry, US Fish and Wildlife Service; Connie L. Ramsey, U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, Honolulu District

COS 97 - Restoration ecology in wetlands I: Coastal and created