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

COS 114 - Invasion: Distribution Aspects

Friday, August 8, 2008: 8:00 AM-11:30 AM
202 D, Midwest Airlines Center
8:00 AM
Distribution of invasive plants in the southern US
Songlin Fei, Purdue University; Ningning Kong, University of Kentucky
8:20 AM
Effects of contemporary landscape patterns and land-use change on non-native invasive plants in western North Carolina
Timothy R. Kuhman, Edgewood College; Scott M. Pearson, Mars Hill University; Monica G. Turner, University of Wisconsin-Madison
9:00 AM
Factors affecting the distribution of non-indigenous plants: The role of time, habitat availability, and biological traits
Robert G. Ahern, Michigan State University; Douglas W. Schemske, Michigan State University; Anton A. Reznicek, University of Michigan; Douglas A. Landis, Michigan State University
9:40 AM
9:50 AM
Illusive relationships between native and exotic richness? From local to global
Qinfeng Guo, USDA Forest Service - Southern Research Station
10:30 AM
The invasive New Zealand mud snail (Potamopyrgus antipodarum) in the Great Lakes region
Edward P. Levri, Penn State Altoona; Warren J. Jacoby, Penn State Altoona; Shane J. Lunnen, Penn State Altoona; Ashley A. Kelly, Penn State Altoona; Thomas A. Ladson, Penn State Altoona
10:50 AM
The ecological implications of temperature and salinity for a native and non-native iris in coastal Louisiana
Karen Wiens, University of Louisiana at Lafayette; Susan Mopper, University of Louisiana at Lafayette
11:10 AM
Using hyperspectral and LIDAR remote sensing to study the distribution and phenologic stages of Lepidium latifolium
Margaret E. Andrew, Murdoch University; Susan Ustin, University of California Davis