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

COS 87 - Invasion: Species Interactions

Thursday, August 7, 2008: 8:00 AM-11:30 AM
203 C, Midwest Airlines Center
8:00 AM
Climate affects response of an island endemic plant to removal of invasive herbivores
Kathryn McEachern, US Geological Survey - Western Ecological Research Center; Diane Thomson, W.M. Keck Science Department; Katherine A. Chess, Northern Arizona University and USGS-WERC
8:20 AM
Insect herbivory and competition limit regeneration of an introduced thistle more than a co-occurring native thistle
Tomomi Suwa, Michigan State University and W.K. Kellogg Biological Station; Svata Louda, University of Nebraska
8:40 AM
Natural enemies and fitness in common ragweed
A. Andrew M. MacDonald, University of British Columbia; Peter M. Kotanen, University of Toronto
9:00 AM
The role of genetic variation and allelopathy in competitive effects of Ailanthus altissima on Liriodendron tulipifera
Alyssa B. Hanna, West Virginia University; James B. McGraw, West Virginia University
9:20 AM
Local extinction of a native prairie grass is due to the spread of the competitively dominant invasive smooth brome (Bromus inermis)
Forrest P. Dillemuth, Louisiana State University; James T. Cronin, Louisiana State University
9:40 AM
9:50 AM
Functional dissimilarity between invaders and residents controls community invasibility in a grassland
Alexander J. Fergus, University of Zurich; Jana S. Petermann, Freie Universität Berlin; Lindsay A. Turnbull, University of Zürich; Bernhard Schmid, University of Zurich
10:10 AM
Invasive ants and honeydew-producing Hemiptera: Partners in crime?
David Holway, University of California, San Diego
10:50 AM
An alternative hypothesis for invasional meltdown in the Great Lakes:  General facilitation by Dreissena
Jonathan M. Bossenbroek, University of Toledo; Betsy Bodamer, University of Toledo; Kristen DeVanna, Ohio State University; Erin Hammer, University of Toledo; Colleen Wellington, University of Toledo; Chris M. Mayer, University of Toledo
11:10 AM
The importance of belowground gaps in roots of perennials in sagebrush steppe: Does the belowground neighborhood matter?
Michael D. Reisner, Augustana College; Paul S. Doescher, Oregon State University; David A. Pyke, U.S. Geological Survey