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

PS 41-55

Fires and floods: How disturbance and life-history affect coexistence
Adam David Miller, The Pennsylvania State University; Peter L. Chesson, University of Arizona

PS 41-56

Impacts on aquatic invertebrate communities of altered drawdown magnitude and timing of spring refill in a managed reservoir within Voyageurs National Park, Minnesota
Daniel C. McEwen, Minnesota State University Moorhead; Malcolm G. Butler, North Dakota State University

PS 41-57

Exploring urban soil ecology: Influence of urbanization on soil chemical properties and nematode community
Sunjeong Park, The Ohio State University; Parwinder S. Grewal, Ohio State University

PS 41-58

The effects of a fire following a tornado on Quercus marilandica and Quercus stellata in a Cross Timbers stand, Tallgrass Prairie Preserve, Oklahoma
Vaskar Thapa, Oklahoma State University; Michael W. Palmer, Oklahoma State University

PS 41-59

Soil microbial community changes during grassland restoration
Elizabeth M. Bach, Iowa State University; Clinton K. Meyer, Simpson College; Sara G. Baer, Southern Illinois University Carbondale; Johan Six, ETH

PS 41-60

Density and pathogenic activity of soil microbes associated with windthrows of temperate deciduous forests in the Allegheny National Forest, Pennsylvania
Kurt O. Reinhart, USDA-ARS; Alejandro A. Royo, USDA Forest Service; Keith Clay, Indiana University

PS 41-61

How changes in belowground processes affect the recovery of aboveground vegetation after Hurricane Wilma
Niles Hasselquist, University of California, Riverside; Michael F. Allen, University of California

PS 41-62

Understanding shrub encroachment in Chihuahuan Desert grassland: Implications for restoration
Laura B. Calabrese, University of New Mexico; Scott L. Collins, University of New Mexico

PS 41-63

Development of size hierarchies after fire of pitch pine (Pinus rigida) in the Long Island Pine Barrens
Emily K. Thompson, SUNY Stony Brook; Ross Zhang, Ward Melville Highschool; Jessica Gurevitch, Stony Brook University

PS 41-64

Benthic macroinvertebrate population dynamics in an intermittent north Texas prairie stream: What happens during drought?
Benjamin J. Lundeen, University of North Texas; James H. Kennedy, University of North Texas (UNT); Charles R. Randklev, University of North Texas; Tamara A. Contador, University of North Texas, Sub-Antarctic Biocultural Conservation Program, Omora Ethnobotanical Park, Chile

PS 41-65

Surface fire effects on conifer and hardwood crowns: Applications of an integral plume model
Matthew B. Dickinson, US Forest Service; Anthony S. Bova, US Forest Service; Antoine Randolph, University of North Carolina; Lawrence E. Band, University of North Carolina; Katy L. Kavanagh, Texas A&M University

PS 41-66

Do temperature and nitrogen levels affect soil seed bank responses following herbicide application in hardwood forests?
Todd E. Ristau, USDA Forest Service

PS 41 - Community Disturbance and Recovery