93rd ESA Annual Meeting (August 3 -- August 8, 2008)

COS 26 - Invasion: Community Effects I

Tuesday, August 5, 2008: 8:00 AM-11:30 AM
201 B, Midwest Airlines Center
8:00 AM
Effect of removal of Hesperis matronalis (dame’s rocket) on forest understory vegetation
Stacey A. Leicht-Young, U.S. Geological Survey; Noel B. Pavlovic, U.S. Geological Survey; Krystalynn J. Frohnapple, U.S. Geological Survey; Ralph Grundel, U.S. Geological Survey
8:20 AM
Biotic resistance to cheatgrass and spotted knapweed invasion in a ponderosa pine savanna: Mechanisms behind contrasting patterns
Kerry L. Metlen, The Nature Conservancy in Oregon; Ragan M. Callaway, The University of Montana
8:40 AM
Causes and consequences of stream bank invasions by Japanese knotweed
Joshua H. Ness, Skidmore College; E. Kenison, Skidmore College; P. Leipzig-Scott, Skidmore College; Ma Morales, Williams College
9:40 AM
9:50 AM
Comparing invasive and native ant interactions with a native extrafloral nectary plant
Lori Lach, University of Western Australia; Richard J. Hobbs, The University of Western Australia; Jonathan D. Majer, Curtin University of Technology
10:10 AM
Effects of removing the non-native, Erodium cicutarium, on a Chihuahuan Desert ecosystem
Danielle D. Ignace, University of Arizona; Peter Chesson, University of Arizona
10:30 AM
Root enzymes of grasses in the genus Bromus: A case of “novel defense” in invasive plants?
Claus Holzapfel, Rutgers University; David Kafkewitz, Rutgers University
10:50 AM
Big invasion, little effect: Plant community in undisturbed wetland shows little response to exotic shrub invasion
Jason E. Mills, University of Wisconsin- Milwaukee; James A. Reinartz, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee; Gretchen A. Meyer, University of Wisconsin- Milwaukee; Erica B. Young, University of Wisconsin- Milwaukee