93rd ESA Annual Meeting (August 3 -- August 8, 2008)
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COS 49 - Community Disturbance and Recovery

Wednesday, August 6, 2008: 8:00 AM-11:30 AM
103 AB, Midwest Airlines Center
8:00 AM
COS 49-1
Compositional convergence and forest architecture following windstorm in two Minnesota forests
Matthew S. Allen, Oklahoma State University; Vaskar Thapa, Oklahoma State University; Michael W. Palmer, Oklahoma State University
8:20 AM
COS 49-2
Native shrub recovery nine years after reduction of extensive grazing on Santa Rosa Island, California
Julie A. Christian, University of Wisconsin-Madison; Paul H. Zedler, University of Wisconsin; Kathryn McEachern, US Geological Survey - Western Ecological Research Center
8:40 AM
COS 49-3
Effects of sudden oak death on plant community structure and regeneration in the Big Sur ecoregion of California
Margaret R. Metz, University of California, Davis; Kerri M. Frangioso, University of California, Davis; Allison C. Wickland, University of Califorina Davis; Ross K. Meentemeyer, NC State; David M. Rizzo, University of California, Davis
9:00 AM
COS 49-4
Temporal change in forest plant communities in historically logged and unlogged areas of Great Smoky Mountains National Park
Windy A. Bunn, National Park Service; Claire B. Brown, University of Tennessee; Michael Jenkins, United States Department of Agriculture; Nathan J. Sanders, The University of Copenhagen
9:20 AM
COS 49-5
Tree-ring reconstructions of spruce bark beetle outbreaks in Lake Clark National Park and Preserve, Alaska
Rosemary L. Sherriff, Humboldt State University; Edward E. Berg, U.S. FIsh and Wildlife Service; Amy E. Miller, National Park Service
9:40 AM
COS 49-
Break
9:50 AM
COS 49-6
Born of fire: Chaparral age structure as a clue to disturbance regimes and vegetation community change in southwest Oregon
O. C. Duren, Oregon State University; P. S. Muir, Oregon State University
10:10 AM
COS 49-7
How EAB facilitates a secondary spread of invasive plant species:  Impacts of EAB eradication and tree mortality
Constance E. Hausman, Cleveland Metroparks; John F. Jaeger, Metropolitan Park District of the Toledo Area; Oscar J. Rocha, Kent State University
10:30 AM
COS 49-8
Nutrient loading and benthic native-invasive species dynamics
Heidi W. Weiskel, Environmental Law Alliance Worldwide; Edwin D. Grosholz, University of California, Davis
10:50 AM
COS 49-9
Impact of an experimental disturbance on food-chain length
Annika W. Walters, USGS Wyoming Cooperative Fish and Wildlife Research Unit; David Post, Yale University
11:10 AM
COS 49-10
Collective decision-making in nest relocation in Argentine ants and odorous house ants
Daniel R. Scholes, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign; Andrew V. Suarez, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
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