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

Saturday, August 4, 2007

8:00 AM-5:00 PM

ESA Governing Board

SER Governing Board Meeting

8:00 AM-11:55 PM

FT 6 - Big Sur Forests and Grasslands (OVERNIGHT)

8:30 AM-5:00 PM

WK 1 - Ecosystems as templates for sustainable communities

8:30 AM-5:30 PM

FT 2 - A trip through time: Plant-soil relationships of the Santa Cruz marine terraces

9:00 AM-10:30 AM

SEEDS Alumni Breakfast

9:00 AM-1:30 PM

FT 3 - Jasper Ridge Global Change Experiment

9:00 AM-4:00 PM

WK 2 - The California Rapid Assessment Method (CRAM): A tool for assessing the condition of wetland restoration projects

10:30 AM-1:00 PM

SEEDS Student Orientation

1:00 PM-2:00 PM

SEEDS Student Lunch

2:00 PM-11:55 PM

FT 4 - Bats of Pinnacles National Monument

4:00 PM-6:00 PM

SEEDS Mentor Orientation

6:00 PM-8:00 PM

SEEDS Dinner

Sunday, August 5, 2007

7:30 AM-5:00 PM

FT 8 - Big Sur bird banding and condor tracking

8:00 AM-12:00 PM

ESA Governing Board

WK 4 - Demography and dispersal: The analysis of invasion wave speeds

8:00 AM-4:00 PM

FT 13 - Northern California redwood ecology

8:00 AM-5:00 PM

SER Governing Board Meeting

FT 12 - Marine mammals and redwoods

WK 5 - A brief introduction to Bayesian and hierarchical Bayesian modeling in ecology

WK 6 - An introduction to the analysis of community and multivariate time series using multivariate autoregressive (MAR) models

WK 7 - Communicating science to the public: The where, why, and how of engaging non-scientists

8:15 AM-2:00 PM

FT 9 - South San Francisco Bay Salt Pond Restoration Project

FT 10 - San Francisco Bay National Wildlife Refuge

8:30 AM-4:30 PM

WK 8 - Environmental flows for instream and coastal ecosystems: Sorting through methodologies

WK 9 - Scientific teaching and interactive learning: Strategies to maximize student understanding in the biological sciences

WK 10 - An introduction to structural equation modeling

8:30 AM-5:00 PM

FT 11 - Monterey Bay Aquarium

WK 11 - Spatial modeling of stream network data

9:00 AM-11:45 AM

WK 12 - Academic service learning in ecology

9:00 AM-5:00 PM

Global Soil Biodiversity Project Meeting

11:00 AM-11:30 AM

Presider Training Session 1

12:00 PM-12:30 PM

AV Training Session 1

12:30 PM-4:30 PM

WK 13 - Developing a strategic plan for grad school and beyond

1:00 PM-2:00 PM

ESA Buell Braun Judges Meeting

1:00 PM-5:00 PM

WK 15 - Urban ecosystem education: Concepts and practices

WK 16 - Using digital libraries in undergraduate teaching: A roadmap for faculty

2:00 PM-5:00 PM

ESA Council Orientation Meeting and Reception

3:00 PM-5:00 PM

Fungal Environmental Sampling and Informatics Network Open Forum

5:00 PM-6:30 PM

ESA Opening Plenary Session

6:30 PM-7:30 PM

ESA Welcome Mixer

Monday, August 6, 2007

6:45 AM-8:00 AM

ESA Education and Human Resources Business Meeting

7:00 AM-7:30 AM

AV Training Session 2

7:00 AM-8:00 AM

ESA Development Meeting

ESA Ecology Editorial Board Meeting

SEEDS Breakfast

7:00 AM-10:00 PM

Student Lounge

8:00 AM-10:30 AM

Opening Plenary, Awards Ceremony, and MacArthur Lecture

9:00 AM-1:30 PM

FT 14 - Jasper Ridge Global Change Experiment

10:00 AM-11:30 AM

SS 1 - International connections: Advantages, opportunities, and challenges to international research in ecology

SS 2 - Decadal science planning for the ecological sciences

SS 3 - What is NEON becoming?

SS 4 - Informational session: Opportunities for funding in environmental biology and related areas at NSF

SS 5 - ESA Vice President's Summit on Ecological Literacy

SS 6 - Environmental justice, ecology, and restoration: Advancing the agenda

SS 7 - How ESA scientists obtain funding from NSF programs in the Education and Human Resources Directorate (EHR)

SS 8 - Improv 101

11:30 AM-1:15 PM

ESA Awards Committee Meeting

ESA Brown-Bag Lunch: SEEDS chapter highlights

ESA Undergraduate Student Orientation

ESA VIP Editor's Lunch

Federal Ecologists Brown Bag Lunch

WK 17 - Book publishing 101 for ecologists

WK 18 - Teaching using conceptual ecological modeling

11:45 AM-12:15 PM

AV Training Session 3

Presider Training Session 2

1:30 PM-5:00 PM

COS 1 - Biodiversity patterns: Gradients and biogeography

COS 2 - Climate change and carbon cycling I

COS 3 - Community ecology: General theory and models

COS 4 - Conservation ecology and ecosystem management: Planning and policy

COS 5 - Ecology education

COS 6 - Ecology of boreal and temperate forest habitats

COS 7 - Ecosystem and community stability and resilience

COS 8 - Evolution and life history theory: Animals

COS 9 - Food webs I: Structure and stability

COS 10 - Habitat connectivity and fragmentation I

COS 11 - Invasion: Community and ecosystem consequences

COS 12 - Invasion: Population process and theory

COS 13 - Mycorrhizae: Plant-fungus relationships and ecosystem function

COS 14 - Niche relationship and theory I

COS 15 - Nutrient cycling and ecosystem function in aquatic systems

COS 16 - Population modeling I: General and theory

COS 17 - Restoration ecology: Wildlife restoration, wildlife response

COS 18 - Species interactions

COS 19 - Statistical theory and methods

OOS 1 - Host-associated differentiation in multi-trophic interactions: Host plants as ecological and evolutionary islands

OOS 2 - Forest restoration at the scale of the landscape

OOS 3 - Restoration of western riparian ecosystems: Challenges and solutions

OOS 4 - Diagnostic assessment: Uncovering and responding to how our students are thinking

OOS 5 - Alternative futures for Great Basin ecosystems

OOS 6 - Ancient extinctions and modern experiments: The ecological effects of adding and removing megaherbivores from the landscape

SYMP 1 - Ecological constraints to the restoration of California grasslands

SYMP 2 - Tipping points in the biosphere: Agriculture, water, and resilience

SYMP 3 - Key concepts and research questions in restoration ecology

4:30 PM-9:00 PM

FT 15 - Cultivating Agroecological Research: Dinner and Discussion at the Center for Agroecology and Sustainable Food Systems

5:00 PM-5:45 PM

ESA Award Recipients' Reception (by invitation only)

5:00 PM-6:30 PM

Musicians Central

PS 1 - Aquatic-terrestrial linkages

PS 2 - Aquatic ecology

PS 3 - Arid and semi-arid systems

PS 4 - Biodiversity

PS 5 - Coastal

PS 6 - Community disturbance, recovery

PS 7 - Community pattern and dynamics

PS 8 - Estuary

PS 9 - Forest canopy

PS 10 - Forest habitats

PS 11 - Grasslands

PS 12 - Habitat

PS 13 - Landscape ecology

PS 14 - Marine systems

PS 15 - Rhizophere

PS 16 - Riparian

PS 17 - Species-area relationship

PS 18 - Shrublands

PS 19 - Urban ecology

PS 20 - Wetland habitats

5:00 PM-8:00 PM

SER Membership Meeting

6:30 PM-8:00 PM

Christian Ecologists Mixer

ESA Aquatic Ecology Meeting

ESA Student Mixer

ESA Theoretical Ecology Section Meeting

ESA Vegetation Section & NA-IAVS MIxer

Oikos Drinks Reception

Utah State University Ecologists

6:30 PM-10:00 PM

SS 16 - What editors want: Advice for submitting your manuscript

8:00 PM-10:00 PM

SS 10 - Increasing diversity in the ecological workforce

SS 11 - Knowing, valuing, and protecting intensively used urban and coastal ecosystems and landscapes

SS 13 - What Restorationists Need to Know About Invasive Plants

SS 14 - Ecology education in the Ecological Society of America

SS 15 - Sense of place

SS 17 - Sustainable water resource use: Proposed indicators and research priorities

SS 31 - An evening with music and ecology

Tuesday, August 7, 2007

6:00 AM-10:00 AM

FT 16 - Birding the South San Francisco Bay

7:00 AM-8:00 AM

ESA Graduate Student & Post Doc Bagels Roundtable with NEON leadership

ESA Mid-Atlantic Chapter Meeting

ESA Rocky Mountain Chapter and Western Chapter Meeting

SEEDS Advisory Board Meeting

7:00 AM-9:00 AM

ESA Meeting Committee

ESA Professional Certification Board Meeting

Frontiers Editoral Board Meeting

NPER Meeting

7:30 AM-8:30 AM

ESA MacArthur Award Meeting

8:00 AM-11:30 AM

COS 20 - Aquatic-terrestrial linkages: Behavior to biogeochemistry

COS 21 - Climate change and carbon cycling II

COS 22 - Community assembly and neutral theory

COS 23 - Ecology of riparian habitats

COS 24 - Ecology of tropical and subtropical forest habitats

COS 25 - Ecosystem function: Carbon, energy, and NPP

COS 26 - Evolution and life history theory: Plants

COS 27 - Herbivory: Community and ecosystem patterns and effects

COS 28 - Interspecific competition

COS 29 - Invasion: Community invasibility and controls on invasion

COS 30 - Invasion: Population regulation and interactions

COS 31 - Niche relations and theory II

COS 32 - Pollination: Ecology and evolution

COS 33 - Population dynamics and regulation: Plants

COS 34 - Population modeling II: Animals, including humans

COS 35 - Restoration ecology in forest habitats: Concepts and case studies

COS 36 - Restoration ecology in grassland habitats

COS 37 - Soil ecology

COS 38 - Species-area relationships and abundance and rarity

OOS 7 - Trophic structure across systems: Case studies and synthesis

OOS 8 - Restoring physical and ecological connections in roaded landscapes

OOS 9 - Human roles in ecosystems through deep time: The North Pacific as a case study

OOS 10 - What is the right size ecological model? Views on model complexity and parsimony from different statistical paradigms

OOS 11 - Illuminating the black box: Examining the mycorrhizal symbiosis and its effect on plant and fungal community dynamics

OOS 12 - Reducing uncertainty: Adaptive management in the South Bay Salt Pond Restoration Project

OOS 13 - Agricultural landscapes: Critical for biodiversity conservation and ecosystem restoration

SYMP 4 - Flexible foragers in food webs

SYMP 5 - No child left indoors: Ecologists linking young people with nature

SYMP 6 - Ecological foundations of sustainability in a constantly changing world

11:30 AM-1:15 PM

Cooperative Sagebrush Initiative: Citizen Stewardship for the Conservation of the Sagebrush Biome and Sage Grouse

ESA Agroecology Section Brown Bag Meeting

ESA Long-term Studies Business Meeting

ESA Past President's Forum Luncheon

ESA Public Affairs Committee Meeting

ESA Student Section Pizza Lunch and Business Meeting

ESA Urban Ecosystem Ecology Section Meeting

Ecosystem Editorial Board Meeting

No Child Left Indoors Discussion

SER Chapter Caucus Meeting

WK 19 - How to write a scientific publication

WK 20 - Introduction to TIEE (Teaching Issues and Experiments in Ecology): A peer-reviewed electronic publication designed to help ecology faculty teach better

1:30 PM-5:00 PM

COS 39 - Carbon cycling

COS 40 - Climate change: Effects on ecosystem function and biogeochemistry

COS 41 - Climate change: Phenology and population responses

COS 42 - Community dynamics and diversity

COS 43 - Community ecology: Modeling and applications

COS 44 - Conservation biology, ecosystem management, and sustainability

COS 45 - Disease and epidemiology

COS 46 - Ecology education: Extended audiences

COS 47 - Ecology of created and restored wetlands

COS 48 - Evolution: Population genetics and population differentiation

COS 49 - Food webs II: Analytic methods, applications

COS 50 - Habitat connectivity and fragmentation II: Case studies

COS 51 - Invasion: Genetics and evolutionary processes

COS 52 - Invasion: Interactions with ecosystem properties

COS 53 - Matrix models: Methods and applications

COS 54 - Mycorrhizae: Community-level relationships

COS 55 - Pollination: Ecology and management

COS 56 - Restoration ecology in forest habitats: Methods and approaches

COS 57 - Restoration ecology in western grassland and arid habitats

COS 58 - Statistical ecology: Applications

OOS 14 - Biogeochemical variation within and between tropical ecosystems

OOS 15 - Long-term restoration and conservation in "wilderness-development frontiers": The value of integrating ecology and ethics

OOS 16 - Root herbivores as agents of change: Micro- and macro-herbivores across natural and managed systems

OOS 17 - E-learning in ecology education

OOS 18 - The link between propagule pressure and non-native invasion success and impacts

OOS 19 - Science policy participants and their perspectives

OOS 20 - Ecoagriculture: Restoring wild biodiversity, livelihoods, and ecosystem processes in agricultural landscapes

SYMP 7 - Environmental change, extinction risk, and the maintenance of biodiversity through time

SYMP 8 - Plant functional traits as tools for ecological restoration

SYMP 9 - Ecological analysis in the 21st century: Advances in space-based observations for local to global ecological studies

3:00 PM-5:00 PM

Ecology Letters Editorial Meeting

5:00 PM-6:30 PM

ESA Ecological Applications Editorial Board Meeting

Musicians Central

PS 21 - Behavior

PS 22 - Community assembly

PS 23 - Competition

PS 24 - Decompostition

PS 25 - Disease

PS 26 - Dispersal

PS 27 - Distribution

PS 28 - Fire ecology

PS 29 - Herbivory

PS 30 - Invasion

PS 31 - Life history

PS 32 - Mutualism

PS 33 - Niche

PS 34 - Parasitism

PS 35 - Plant/insect interactions

PS 36 - Pollination

PS 37 - Predation

PS 38 - Seeds

PS 39 - Species interactions

6:30 PM-8:00 PM

ESA Education Section Meeting

ESA Physiological Ecology Section Mixer

ESA Soil Ecology Mixer

ESA Statistical Ecology Section Meeting

ESA Traditional Ecological Knowledge Section Meeting

Ecology Letters Drinks Reception (by invitation only)

Organization for Tropical Studies Reception

The ESA Donor Reception (by invitation)

USGS Staff Reception

University of Georgia Ecology Reception

University of Michigan School of Natural Resources and Environment Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology Alumni and Friends Mixer

7:00 PM-10:00 PM

Oecologia Editorial Board Dinner Meeting

SER Awards Reception and Banquet

8:00 PM-10:00 PM

SS 18 - How to land and keep a job at a small liberal arts college

SS 19 - Integrating research in invasion biology and restoration ecology into protected area management

SS 20 - How to succeed in ecology: Advice from professionals

SS 21 - Ecology education and outreach programs at North American field stations: An important resource for an urbanized society and possible remedy for a generation with nature deficit disorder

SS 22 - Real management issues in secondary tropical forests

SS 23 - Bridging western science and indigenous traditional ecological knowledge ethically: What works and what doesn’t

SS 24 - Journalists are from Venus, scientists are from Mars: Bridging the worlds of science and journalism

Wednesday, August 8, 2007

5:30 AM-7:30 AM

ESA Sunrise 5K Fun Run/Fun Walk

7:00 AM-9:00 AM

ESA Meetings Committee

ESA Publications Committee Meeting

7:00 AM-1:30 PM

FT 17 - Santa Clara Valley riparian habitat restoration

8:00 AM-11:30 AM

COS 59 - Amphibian ecology and decline

COS 60 - Biodiversity and ecosystem function I

COS 61 - Carbon cycling: Soil processes

COS 62 - Community and metacommunity dynamics

COS 63 - Community pattern: Environmental gradients and spatial variation

COS 64 - Disease ecology: Plant pathogens and vectors

COS 65 - Ecology of fresh-water wetlands

COS 66 - Ecology of grassland habitats

COS 67 - Food webs III: Aquatic and marine systems

COS 68 - Forest communities: Pattern and dynamics

COS 69 - Herbivory: Patterns and population responses

COS 70 - Invasion: Diversity relationships

COS 71 - Invasion: Trophic relationships

COS 72 - Modeling ecosystem dynamics and climate change

COS 73 - Predation and predator-prey interactions

COS 74 - Restoration ecology in riparian habitats: Case studies and methods: I

COS 75 - Rhizoshpere: root function and root interactions

COS 76 - Sampling theory, methods, and assessment

COS 77 - Seed ecology: Production, predation, and dispersal

COS 78 - Spatial analysis and geostatistics

OOS 21 - Not-such-strange-bedfellows: Partnerships between scientists and artists enhance ecological research, art, and ecological restoration

OOS 22 - Stepping back in time: The application of historical and fossil records to recovering ecological baselines

OOS 23 - Tropical agroforestry as model systems for ecology

OOS 24 - Soil biota alteration of aboveground plant interactions

OOS 25 - Ecosystem responses to experimental warming and other global climate change factors

OOS 26 - Restoration of ecological processes: Comparing the role of plant-insect interactions in tropical and temperate systems

OOS 27 - Matrix population models: Theory and applications

SYMP 10 - The assembly and disassembly of ecological networks: Restoration and conservation at multiple trophic levels

SYMP 11 - Linking physiological ecology, evolutionary biology, and functional genomics for understanding biotic responses to a changing environment

SYMP 12 - Linking ecology and restoration to societal outcomes: Living the legacy of George Brown

11:30 AM-1:15 PM

ESA Microbial Ecology Section Meeting

ESA Paleoecology Section Brown Bag Lunch

ESA Rapid Response Team Lunch

ESA Science Committe Meeting

ESA Southeastern Chapter Meeting

Ecologists from Undergraduate Institutions Brown Bag Lunch

Gay and Lesbian Brown Bag Lunch

Putting your scientific skills to use for the public interest and environmental protection

WK 21 - Bridging the worlds of science and journalism: An interactive workshop

WK 22 - Integrating educational outreach into academic research

WK 23 - Writing a "teaching philosophy" statement: Models and suggestions

WK 24 - You can count on us: Decision support tools for forest carbon management and reporting

11:45 AM-12:15 PM

Presider Training Session 3

1:30 PM-5:00 PM

COS 79 - Behavioral ecology: Foraging and diet

COS 80 - Biodiversity and ecosystem function II

COS 81 - Climate change: community response

COS 82 - Community ecology: Environmental drivers plant community pattern

COS 83 - Conservation ecology and ecosystem management: Case studies I

COS 84 - Ecology and evolution of mutualism

COS 85 - Ecology of the freshwater habitats I

COS 86 - Fire ecology I

COS 87 - Food webs IV: Terrestrial systems

COS 88 - Forest canopy ecology

COS 89 - Life history theory, resource allocation, and sex allocation

COS 90 - Nitrogen cycling

COS 91 - Paleoecology, historical ecology, and restoration baselines

COS 92 - Parasites, pathogens, and hosts

COS 93 - Plant physiological ecology: Water relations

COS 94 - Plant-insect interactions

COS 95 - Population modeling III

COS 96 - Restoration ecology in riparian habitats: Case studies and methods II

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

COS 98 - Spatial patterns: Description and analysis

OOS 28 - Inferring environmental conditions from biological observations: Tools for environmental management

OOS 29 - Agroecological restoration: Synergy of science and community in the local and global marketplace

OOS 30 - Synthesizing ecological studies in a changing world using meta-analysis

OOS 31 - Grassland restoration: Ecosystem recovery across space and time

OOS 32 - Disease emergence and amphibian declines: Using ecology to understand patterns and promote restoration

OOS 33 - Ecological restoration for poverty reduction

OOS 34 - Ecological consequences of size-structured interactions

SYMP 13 - Setting goals and targets for restoration and management of large-scale ecosystems

SYMP 14 - Microbial communities along environmental gradients: Linking microbial ecology and the ecosystem

SYMP 15 - Beyond Single Mechanisms: The Relative and Interactive Importance of Bottom-up and Top-down Processes in Plant Invasion

4:00 PM-8:45 PM

FT 18 - Checkerspot butterfly and grassland restoration and work party at Edgewood County Park and Natural Preserve

4:30 PM-6:30 PM

University of California Press Authors Reception

5:00 PM-6:30 PM

Musicians Central

PS 40 - Cycling - carbon

PS 41 - Cycling - nitrogen

PS 42 - Cycling - nutrients, water

PS 43 - Climate change

PS 44 - Ecosystem function

PS 45 - Ecosystem stability

PS 46 - Environment gradient

PS 47 - Modeling

PS 48 - Mycorrhizae

PS 49 - Phenotypic plasticity

PS 50 - Physiological ecology

PS 51 - Population dynamics

PS 52 - Resource allocation

PS 53 - Soil ecology

PS 54 - Succession

PS 55 - Trophic dynamics

6:30 PM-8:00 PM

British Ecological Society Drinks Reception (by invitation only)

Brown University Environmental Change Initiative Mixer

Colorado State Univeristy Ecologists Mixer

ESA Agroecology, Applied Ecology, Long-Term Studies, and Rangeland Sections Business Meeting and Mixer

ESA Biogeosciences Mixer

ESA Canada Chapter Mixer

ESA Diversity Mixer - SEEDS Dispersal

ESA Mexican Chapter Meeting

ESA Plant Population Biology Mixer

Restoration Ecology Editorial Board Meeting

UC Davis Ecology Mixer

Yale School of Forestry & Environmental Studies Alumni/ae Reception

8:00 PM-10:00 PM

Recent Advances Lecture: Multiple feedbacks link changes in climate and ecosystems

SS 25 - Everglades restoration efforts: Using landscape features, chemistry, and biology as indices of success

SS 26 - Bridging the gap: Establishing outreach activities at ESA meetings

SS 27 - ESA Southeast Knowledge Partnership Pilot Project

SS 28 - Restoration to sustainable landscapes: Building a partnership between scientific, traditional, and local ecological knowledge

SS 29 - Do scientists sound like a flock of dodos? Science communication without jargon

SS 30 - Biodiversity standards for agricultural lands in Canada

Thursday, August 9, 2007

COS 101 - Biodiversity patterns and processes

COS 102 - Climate change: Range change

COS 103 - Disease ecology: Models and human disease

COS 104 - Distributions and range limits

COS 105 - Ecology of alpine, Arctic, and Antarctic systems

COS 106 - Ecology of freshwater habitats II

COS 107 - Environmental philosophy, socioeconomic connections, and traditional ecological knowledge

COS 108 - Fire ecology II

COS 109 - Historical ecology, paleoecology, and land-use legacies I

COS 110 - Mycorrhizae III

COS 111 - Nitrogen cycling across systems

COS 112 - Nutrient cycling and ecosystem function in forest ecosystems

COS 113 - Parasitism: theory, evolution, and ecology

COS 114 - Plant physiological ecology: light and water relations

COS 115 - Plant-insect interactions: Chemical defenses and induction

COS 116 - Population biology: Metapopulations

COS 117 - Remote sensing and image analysis

COS 118 - Restoration ecology in riparian habitats: Assessment

COS 119 - Restoration ecology in wetlands II: Freshwater

OOS 35 - The multi-faceted challenge of restoring Lake Tahoe Basin's ecosystems

OOS 36 - Conservation and restoration of tropical dry forest: From islands to continents

OOS 37 - Climate change and disease ecology: Challenges to the restoration and maintenance of suitable pestilence

OOS 38 - A community assembly approach to restoration ecology

OOS 39 - Restoring neotropical forests in a hot, hot world

SYMP 16 - The success of succession: The development of a fundamental ecological theory and its application in a changing world

SYMP 17 - Ecological and economic theory in analyzing risk in biological invasions

SYMP 18 - Yin and yang: The combined influences of positive and negative interactions in ecological communities

8:30 AM-11:30 AM

FT 19 - Guadalupe River: Advancing ecological function in managed ecosystems

11:30 AM-12:30 PM

Issues in Ecology Editorial Board Meeting

11:30 AM-1:15 PM

ESA Brown-Bag Lunch: A guided tour of EcoEd.net ESA'S digital library

ESA Diversity Luncheon: Women in power-networking, negotiating, and nurturing ecology careers

Wisconsin Ecologists Brown Bag Lunch

WK 25 - Climate change mitigation with an emphasis on the development of the forestry clean development mechanism (presented in Spanish)

WK 26 - Show me the money: How to write successful grant proposals

1:00 PM-2:00 PM

SEEDS Undergraduate Research Fellowship Meeting

1:00 PM-6:00 PM

FT 20 - Santa Cruz Sandhills

1:30 PM-5:00 PM

COS 120 - Agricultural ecology II: Agricultural systems as habitat, diversity

COS 121 - Community ecology: Succession

COS 122 - Conservation ecology and ecosystem management case studies: II

COS 123 - Ecology of arid and semiarid habitats: I

COS 124 - Ecology of marine ecosystems and reefs

COS 125 - Fire ecology III

COS 126 - Historical ecology, paleoecology, and land-use legacies II

COS 127 - Invasion: Competitive dynamics

COS 128 - Invasion: Management approaches and assessment

COS 129 - Invasion: Population processes and invasiveness

COS 130 - Microbial ecology I

COS 131 - Migration, dispersal, and colonization

COS 132 - Nitrogen cycling and enrichment in forests

COS 133 - North American vegetation classification

COS 134 - Phenotypic plasticity: Animals and protists

COS 135 - Plant physiological ecology: Respiration and transpiration

COS 136 - Plant-insection interactions: Defenses against herbivory

COS 137 - Population and metapopulation dynamics: Terrestrial

COS 138 - Restoration ecology: Methods

COS 139 - Selection and adaptation I: Plants under environmental selection

COS 140 - Urban ecology

OOS 40 - Biofuels from rangelands: Boon or bane?

OOS 41 - Commercial trade of plants and wildlife in a changing world: Research to inform policy

OOS 42 - Climate-induced forest dieback as an emergent global phenomenon: Patterns, mechanisms, and projections

OOS 43 - Biodiversity in the litter layer: Mechanisms and applications

OOS 44 - Elwha River restoration: Dam removal, ecological framework, and baseline studies

OOS 45 - The Gap Analysis Program: Addressing the future needs of ecological research, conservation, and restoration

SYMP 19 - Ecosystem services in decision-making: Stepping into reality

SYMP 20 - Advancing ecological function in managed ecosystems: Restoring, revealing, and re-inventing the landscape

SYMP 21 - Epidemics, ecological immunology, and environmental change: Insights from theory and field systems

4:00 PM-5:00 PM

SEEDS Student Closing

5:00 PM-6:30 PM

Musicians Central

PS 56 - Agriculture

PS 57 - Conservation

PS 58 - Ecology education

PS 59 - Ecological management

PS 60 - Forest management

PS 61 - Evolutionary ecology

PS 62 - Genetics

PS 63 - Land use

PS 64 - Paleoecology

PS 65 - Rapid assessments

PS 66 - Remote sensing

PS 67 - Restoration ecology

PS 68 - Restoration methods

PS 69 - Spatial analysis and GIS

PS 70 - Sustainable management

PS 71 - Waste management

7:00 PM-9:00 PM

ESA/SER Fiesta Fling

Friday, August 10, 2007

7:30 AM-12:00 PM

ESA Vegetation Classification Panel BM

8:00 AM-11:30 AM

COS 141 - Agroforestry and agricultural policy and conservation

COS 142 - Climate change: Physiological and population response

COS 143 - Community disturbance and response

COS 144 - Detritus and decomposition

COS 145 - Disease ecology: Lyme disease and other mammalain diseases

COS 146 - Dispersal and colonization

COS 147 - Ecology of arid and semi-arid habitats: II

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

COS 149 - Forest management

COS 150 - Invasion: Models of process and management

COS 151 - Invasion: Population processes and interactions

COS 152 - Microbial ecology II

COS 153 - Nutrient cycling: Limiting resources, interactions, and ecosystem restoration

COS 154 - Phenotypic plasticity: Plants

COS 155 - Plant physiological ecology: Temperature effects, growth relations

COS 156 - Pollution, waste management, rehabilitation

COS 157 - Population and meta-population dynamics: Aquatic and marine

COS 158 - Restoration and conservation: Planning, policy, and theory

COS 159 - Restoration ecology: Urban ecosystems

COS 160 - Scaling and allometry: From body size to ecosystem function

COS 161 - Selection and adaptation II: Animals and interacting populations

COS 162 - Stable isotope and tracer applications

COS 163 - Urban ecosystems: Design, management, and evaluation

OOS 46 - Information technology tools and programs link scientific research to conservation management and restoration: Answers from those "out standing in the field"

OOS 47 - The California Channel Islands: Conservation and restoration in dynamic ecosystems

OOS 48 - The role of animal behavior in invasions: From mechanism to synthesis

OOS 49 - Controls over nitrogen fixation: A global perspective

OOS 50 - The longleaf pine ecosystem: Ecology, management, and restoration

OOS 51 - Mechanistic underpinnings of ecological processes: Scaling from genes to ecosystems

SYMP 22 - Movement ecology

SYMP 23 - Biodiversity and ecosystem restoration in a changing world

SYMP 24 - Effects of human choice on ecosystem properties

8:30 AM-10:30 AM

ESA Governing Board Meeting

PS 72 - Latebreaking and newsworthy posters

11:30 AM-1:15 PM

ESA/SER Closing Plenary Brunch: Reflections by distinguished ecologists

12:00 PM-1:30 PM

Musicians Central

12:00 PM-2:30 PM

ESA Braun Student Award Committee Meeting

Saturday, August 11, 2007

8:00 AM-6:00 PM

FT 21 - Lettuce, landscape and labor: A one-day exploration of the agriculture and environment interface on the California Central Coast