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

COS 91 - Succession

Thursday, August 7, 2008: 8:00 AM-11:30 AM
102 B, Midwest Airlines Center
8:00 AM
Shifting dominance from native C4 to non-native C3 grasses: Relationships to succession rates
Erin K. Miles, University of Nebraska; Johannes M. H. Knops, University of Nebraska-Lincoln
8:20 AM
Understory vegetation response to thinning disturbance of varying complexity in forest stands of western Oregon, USA
Adrian Ares, Virginia Technical University; Shanti D. Berryman, Oregon State University; Klaus J. Puettmann, Oregon State University
8:40 AM
Effects of flow regulation on historic landscape dynamics and Populus age structure along the Missouri River
Mark Dixon, University of South Dakota; Tim C. Cowman, University of South Dakota; Wesley Christensen, University of South Dakota; Caleb R. Caton, University of South Dakota; Rebekah Jessen, University of South Dakota; W. Carter Johnson, South Dakota State University; Lisa A. Rabbe, US Army Corps of Engineers
9:00 AM
A 23-year assessment of vegetation change in the Adirondack alpine zone
Sean C. Robinson, State University of New York at Albany
9:20 AM
Fast versus slow succession in eastern North America: Why do old fields persist in the north?
Justin Wright, Duke University; Jason Fridley, Syracuse University
9:40 AM
9:50 AM
Cattle and wildlife effects on persistence of a successional savanna landscape mosaic
Kari E. Veblen, Utah State University; Truman Young, University of California, Davis
10:10 AM
Long-term effects of predator arrival timing on prey community succession
Colin J. Olito, University of Calgary; Tadashi Fukami, Stanford University
10:30 AM
Fine and coarse woody debris nutrient pools in developing northern hardwood forests
Marty Acker, Washington Department of Natural Resources; Mary A. Arthur, University of Kentucky; Steven P. Hamburg, Environmental Defense Fund; Matthew A. Vadeboncoeur, University of New Hampshire
10:50 AM
Changes in plant resistance and tolerance to herbivory during succession
Alyssa Stocks Hakes, Florida State University; James T. Cronin, Louisiana State University
11:10 AM
The hydrologic implications of ecologic succession: Depression storage and leaf litter
Mark D. Norris, SUNY Brockport; Paul L. Richards, SUNY Brockport; Brenda B. Lin, CSIRO