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

Friday, August 1, 2008

7:00 AM-11:55 PM

FT 1 - Door County Coastal State Natural Areas (OVERNIGHT)

Saturday, August 2, 2008

8:00 AM-4:00 PM

FT 2 - Horicon Marsh: A Wetland of International Importance - CANCELLED

8:00 AM-8:30 PM

WK 1 - Ecology and Evolution of Plant-Pollinator Interactions

8:30 AM-10:00 AM

ESA SEEDS Alumni Breakfast

8:30 AM-5:00 PM

ESA Governing Board

WK 2 - Molecular Tools for Assessing Fungal Biodiversity

9:00 AM-5:00 PM

FT 3 - Renak-Polak Old Growth Maple-Beech Woods and Chiwaukee Prairie

10:30 AM-1:00 PM

ESA SEEDS Student Orientation

1:00 PM-2:00 PM

ESA SEEDS Student Lunch

4:30 PM-6:00 PM

ESA SEEDS Mentor Orientation

6:00 PM-8:00 PM

ESA SEEDS Dinner

Sunday, August 3, 2008

8:30 AM-12:00 PM

ESA Governing Board Mtg

WK 7 - Preparing Successful Proposals to the National Science Foundation to Support Projects Related to Undergraduate Education

8:30 AM-12:30 PM

WK 8 - New Mathematical Tools for Sensitivity Analysis of Population Models

8:30 AM-4:00 PM

FT 6 - Ecological Outreach Oppurtunity (EOO)-"BioBlitz" at the Proposed Milwaukee Central Park Riparian Corridor

8:30 AM-4:30 PM

WK 9 - Innovative Teaching and Active Learning: Principles, Practice, and Materials

8:30 AM-5:00 PM

FT 7 - Cedarburg Bog Natural Area and the UWM Field Station

WK 10 - Sampling Fungi from the Environment: Challenges and Solutions

8:30 AM-5:30 PM

FT 8 - Linking Research and Education Through Museums: A Field Trip to the Morton Arboretum - CANCELLED

9:00 AM-3:00 PM

FT 9 - Snakes, Canoeing, and Citizen Science at the Urban Ecology Center

9:00 AM-4:30 PM

WK 11 - An Educational Simulation Tool for Negotiating Sustainable Natural Resource Management Strategies Among Social Actors with Conflicting Interests

WK 12 - Novel Ecosystems: How Invasion and Climate are Shaping the Future of the Biosphere

WK 13 - Analysis of Stochastic Time Series Data using State-Space Models and Kalman Filters

9:00 AM-5:00 PM

WK 14 - Using Diagnostic Question Clusters (DQCs) to Impove Introductory Biology Teaching

12:30 PM-4:30 PM

WK 16 - Toward Learner-Centered Soil Ecology Education: Integrating Research and Experiential Activities into Teaching Soils - CANCELLED

1:00 PM-2:00 PM

ESA Buell Braun Judges Mtg

1:00 PM-4:00 PM

WK 17 - Informing Policy with Ecological Science - CANCELLED

1:00 PM-5:00 PM

WK 18 - Landscape Pattern and Fragmentation on Rangelands - State of Knowledge and Proposed Evaluation Techniques: A Sustainable Rangelands Roundtable (SRR) Workshop - CANCELLED

1:30 PM-4:30 PM

WK 19 - Ecology Education in Religious Organizations: Advancing Ecological Literacy and Environmental Justice

2:00 PM-5:00 PM

ESA Council Orientation Mtg and Reception

3:00 PM-4:00 PM

Presider/AV Training

5:00 PM-6:30 PM

PL 1 - ESA Opening Plenary - Ecological literacy in a phantasmagorical world--Thomas E. Lovejoy

Monday, August 4, 2008

7:00 AM-8:00 AM

ESA SEEDS Breakfast

7:00 AM-9:00 AM

ESA Ecology Editorial Board Mtg

8:00 AM-10:00 AM

PL 2 - Opening Scientific Plenary and Awards Ceremony - Ecological science and tomorrow's world--Lord Robert May

10:15 AM-11:30 AM

SS 1 - Data Sharing in Ecology, Evolution, and Organismal Biology: Issues, Obstacles, and Paths Forward

SS 2 - Are We Managing Holistic Ecosystems or Parts of Ecosystems?

SS 3 - Student Ecological Research on K-12 School Grounds

SS 4 - Opportunities for Funding in Environmental Biology and Related Areas at NSF

SS 5 - Student Diversity: Trail Blazers in Transforming the Culture of Ecology

SS 6 - Sense of Place

11:30 AM-1:15 PM

ESA Awards Committee Business Mtg

ESA Joint Editorial Board Luncheon (Invitation Only)

ESA Rapid Response Team Luncheon (Invitation Only)

ESA Researchers at Undergraduate Institutions Business Mtg

ESA Student Orientation

WK 20 - Introduction to TIEE (Teaching Issues and Experiments in Ecology): A Peer-Reviewed Electronic Publication Designed to Help Ecology Faculty Teach Better

WK 21 - Book Publishing 102 for Ecologists

WK 22 - The Art of Mentoring: How to Get Out of Your Niche

WK 23 - Exploring the Places We Live: Citizen Scientists

WK 24 - How to Use Your Science to Protect the Environment and Why You Should

11:30 AM-6:30 PM

Opening of ESA Exhibits with Refreshments

11:45 AM-12:45 PM

Presider/AV Training

1:30 PM-5:00 PM

COS 1 - Aquatic-Terrestrial Linkages I

COS 2 - Biodiversity: Patterns and Processes

COS 3 - Carbon Cycling: Soils I

COS 4 - Climate Change: Range and Phenology

COS 5 - Community Ecology: Plants I

COS 6 - Food Webs

COS 7 - Forest Management

COS 8 - GIS, Remote Sensing, and Spatial and Image Analysis

COS 9 - Historical Ecology and Survey Records

COS 10 - Invasion: Detection and Invasibility

COS 11 - Public Outreach of Ecological Concepts

COS 12 - Sampling and Experimental Design and Species-Area Relations

COS 13 - Selection and Adaptation

COS 14 - Soil Ecology

COS 15 - Water Cycling

OOS 1 - Investigating Your Own Teaching: Ecology Faculty as Research Practitioners

OOS 2 - Soil, Water, and Plants: Linking Physical Processes in Water-Controlled Ecosystems

OOS 3 - Insect Disturbance Ecology: A Forest's Perspective

OOS 4 - The Landscape-Scale Ecology of Pollinators and Pollination: Mechanisms, Patterns, and Processes

SYMP 1 - Why Is Ecology Hard To Learn? K-16 Through Graduate Students

SYMP 2 - The Theory of Ecology

SYMP 3 - Ecology and Economics: A New Literacy for Sharing Approaches to Achieve Synergy

5:00 PM-5:45 PM

ESA Award Recipients' Reception (Invitation Only)

5:00 PM-6:30 PM

Musicians Central

PS 1 - Aquatic Ecology

PS 2 - Climate Change

PS 3 - Cycling: Carbon

PS 4 - Cycling: Nitrogen

PS 5 - Cycling: Nutrient and Water

PS 6 - Disease and Epidemiology

PS 7 - Genetics

PS 8 - Herbivory

PS 9 - Mycorrhizae

PS 10 - Phenotypic Plasticity

PS 11 - Plant-Insect Interactions

PS 12 - Pollination

PS 13 - Population Dynamics

PS 14 - Resource Allocation and Partitioning

PS 15 - Seeds

PS 16 - Spatial Analysis and GIS

5:30 PM-9:30 PM

FT 10 - Lake Michigan Cruise: A Look Beneath the Waves

6:30 PM-8:00 PM

Christian Ecologist Social

ESA Aquatic Section Mixer

ESA Student Mixer

ESA Theoretical Ecology Section Mixer and Business Mtg

ESA Vegetation Section and IAVS-NA Mtg and Mixer

Issues in Ecology Advisory Board Mtg

Utah State University Ecology Center

8:00 PM-10:00 PM

Music and Ecology

Student Ecofilm Festival

SS 7 - Studying Chicago Wilderness: An Urban Conservation Model as a Regional Interdisciplinary Laboratory

SS 8 - Pedagogical Frameworks for Teaching Inquiry in Middle and High School Classrooms: Lessons from GK-12

SS 9 - Creating Environmental Stewardship Through Discovery: An All Taxa Biodiversity Inventory of US National Parks

SS 10 - International Polar Year: Research and Educational Opportunities in Antarctica for Minorities (IPY-ROAM)

SS 11 - Wild Rice Roundtable Discussion

SS 12 - Research Grants for Ecologists at Undergraduate Institutions: A Conversation with Funding Agencies

WK 25 - Careers in Ecology: Advice from Professionals in the Field

Tuesday, August 5, 2008

6:30 AM-10:30 AM

FT 11 - Birding Around Milwaukee Harbor

7:00 AM-8:00 AM

ESA Graduate Student & Post Doc Bagels Roundtable ESA Leadership

ESA Mid-Atlantic Chapter, Rocky Mountain Chapter, and Western Chapters' Breakfast Mtg

7:00 AM-9:00 AM

Capstone NPER Fellowship Program Breakfast

ESA Frontiers Editorial Board Mtg

ESA Meetings Committee

ESA Professional Certification Board Mtg

ESA SEEDS Advisory Board Mtg

8:00 AM-11:30 AM

COS 16 - Aquatic-Terrestrial Linkages II

COS 17 - Carbon Cycling: Soils II

COS 18 - Climate Change and Plants I

COS 19 - Community Assembly and Neutral Theory

COS 20 - Conservation Planning, Policy, and Theory

COS 21 - Ecosystem Management and Assessment

COS 22 - Ecosystem Stability and Resilience

COS 23 - Forest Canopy and Tropical Forests

COS 24 - Grasslands and Steppe

COS 25 - In The Classroom: Kindergarten through Graduate I

COS 26 - Invasion: Community Effects I

COS 27 - Modeling I

COS 28 - Parasitism and Host-Parasite Interactions

COS 29 - Plant Respiration and Transpiration

COS 30 - Pollination

COS 31 - Scaling: Body Size and Allometry

OOS 5 - Have Microbes Read the Book? Theoretical Ecology for Microbial Communities

OOS 6 - Integrating Modern Instrumentation Into Undergraduate Ecology Education: Case Studies and Strategies

OOS 7 - Ecological Exploration of Plant Elemental Defenses

SYMP 4 - Ecology Education and Outreach Programs at North American Field Stations: Natural Resource Islands to Improve Ecological Literacy and Outdoor Learning Experiences for a K-20+ Urbanized Society

SYMP 5 - The Ecological and Economic Impacts of Non-native, Invasive Forest Insects and Pathogens

SYMP 6 - New Approaches to the Evolution of Social Behavior

11:30 AM-1:15 PM

ESA Human Ecology-New Section Business Mtg (Open to All Interested Attendees)

ESA Long Term Research Studies Business Mtg

ESA Microbial Ecology Section Business Mtg

ESA Past President's Forum Luncheon

ESA Public Affairs Committee Mtg

ESA SEEDS Chapter Program Brown Bag

ESA Southwestern Chapter Inaugural Business Mtg

ESA Traditional Ecological Knowledge Section Business Mtg

ESA Urban Ecology Section

Ecosystems Editorial Board Mtg

Forest Service Emerging Issues/Long Term Research and Experimental Forests

GLBT Brown Bag Lunch

Resources for Ecology Education * Fair & Share (REEFS)

University of Wisconsin-Madison, Ecology Brown Bag Lunch

WK 26 - Conservation in the 21^st Century: Saving Species and Ecosystems from Climate Change by Translocation to New, More Climatically Suitable Regions

WK 27 - Writing a "Teaching Philosophy" Statement: Models and Suggestions

WK 28 - Extending Your Research into Policy and Adult Education: Two for the Price of One

WK 29 - How to Write a Scientific Publication

12:00 PM-1:30 PM

ESA Student Section Pizza Business Mtg

1:30 PM-5:00 PM

COS 32 - Arctic, Alpine, Antarctic, and Boreal Systems

COS 33 - Behavior: Migration and Movement

COS 34 - Biogeochemistry of Aquatic Systems and Nutrient Cycling I

COS 35 - Climate Change and Carbon I

COS 36 - Community Ecology: Experiments and Disturbance

COS 37 - Habitat Structure, Fragmentation, and Connectivity

COS 38 - In The Classroom: Kindergarten through Graduate II

COS 39 - Interspecific Competition

COS 40 - Invasion: Community Effects II

COS 41 - Life History Theory and Evolution

COS 42 - Modeling II

COS 43 - Niche Relationships and Theory

COS 44 - Soil Processes and Development

COS 45 - Species Interactions

COS 46 - Wetlands

OOS 8 - Size and Reproduction in Plant Populations

OOS 9 - Ecological Literacy in Public Audiences: Building Upon Successful Strategies and Defining the Research Agenda

OOS 10 - Linkages Between Ecosystem Disturbance and Exotic Species Invasions in Forested Ecosystems

OOS 11 - Frontiers in the Ecology of Plant-Fungal Interactions

SYMP 7 - Ecological Processes Across the Salinity Divide: Contrasts and Comparisons in Marine and Great Lakes Ecosystems

SYMP 8 - Tracking Ecological Change: Using Large-Scale, Long-Term Datasets

SYMP 9 - Linking Scientists With Non-Traditional Public Audiences to Enhance Ecological Thought

2:00 PM-5:00 PM

Ecology Letters Editorial Board Mtg

5:00 PM-6:30 PM

Musicians Central

PS 17 - Biological Control

PS 18 - Community Pattern and Dynamics

PS 19 - Evolution

PS 20 - Evolution: Life History Theory

PS 21 - Forest Management

PS 22 - Invasion

PS 23 - Invasion: Community Effects

PS 24 - Invasion: Dynamics and Population Processes

PS 25 - Invasion: Ecosystem Processes

PS 26 - Invasion: Invasibility, Stability, and Diversity

PS 27 - Invasion: Prevention and Management

PS 28 - Microbial Ecology

PS 29 - Modeling and Statistics

PS 30 - Physiological Ecology

PS 31 - Soil Ecology

PS 32 - Spatial Scale and Scaling

PS 33 - Species Interactions

6:30 PM-7:30 PM

Oecologia Editorial Board Social Hour

6:30 PM-8:00 PM

ESA Agroecology, Applied Ecology, Long-Term Studies, and Rangeland Section Business Mtg and Mixer

ESA Asian Ecology Mixer

ESA Canada Chapter Business Mtg and Mixer

ESA Donor Reception

ESA Ecological Applications Editorial Board Meeting

ESA Education Section Business Mtg/Mixer

ESA Soil Ecology Section Mixer and Business Mtg

ESA Statistical Ecology Section--Mixer/Business Mtg

Ecology Letters Drinks Reception (Invitation only)

New Reception: LTER Student Mixer

University of Michigan SNRE and EEEB Alumni and Friends Reception

8:00 PM-10:00 PM

SS 13 - Ecological Literacy in Public Audiences: Building upon Successful Strategies and Defining the Research Agenda

SS 14 - NSF Undergraduate Education Session - CANCELLED

SS 15 - Projects Linking Science Research and the Community: Examples and Ideas

SS 16 - How to Get and Keep a Job at a Small College

SS 17 - Linking Research and Education In and Beyond Our National Parks

WK 30 - Encyclopedia of Earth: A New Publishing Model for Outreach by Ecologists

Wednesday, August 6, 2008

7:00 AM-9:00 AM

ESA Meetings Committee

ESA Publications Committee Business Mtg

8:00 AM-11:30 AM

COS 47 - Aquatic Ecology: Lakes and Ponds

COS 48 - Behavior: Foraging and Diet

COS 49 - Community Disturbance and Recovery

COS 50 - Dispersal and Colonization

COS 51 - Invasion: Control and Management I

COS 52 - Invasion: Mechanisms and Process I

COS 53 - Land-Use and Land-Use History

COS 54 - Mutualism and Facilitation

COS 55 - Mycorrhizae and Ecosystem Function

COS 56 - Nitrogen Cycling I

COS 57 - Paleoecology

COS 58 - Phenotypic Plasticity

COS 59 - Plant-Insect Interactions: Pollination

COS 60 - Predation and Predator-Prey Interactions

COS 61 - Resource Allocation and Partitioning

OOS 12 - Ecohydrological Consequences of Aeolian Processes: Local- to Global-Scale Perspectives

OOS 13 - Towards a Synthetic Theory of Tree-Grass Coexistence in Savannas

OOS 14 - Ecological Education Furthering Environmental Justice

SYMP 10 - The Evolutionary Ecology of Metacommunities

SYMP 11 - Global Climate Change and Agriculture: Interactions, Land-Use Patterns, and Educational Connections

SYMP 12 - Ecological Literacy for All

8:00 AM-12:00 PM

FT 12 - Riveredge Nature Center - Lake Sturgeon Restoration in the Milwaukee River - Linking Ecological Research and Education - CANCELLED

8:00 AM-4:00 PM

ESA Panel on Vegetation Classification

11:30 AM-1:15 PM

ESA Environmental Justice Section Business Mtg

ESA Science Committee Mtg

11:45 AM-12:15 PM

Presider/AV Training

12:00 PM-1:00 PM

Carleton College Alumni & Friends Brown Bag Lunch

12:00 PM-1:15 PM

ESA Southeastern Chapter Brown Bag Business Mtg

12:15 PM-1:15 PM

PL 3 - Recent Advances Lecture - Moving beyond ecological to educational research: What are the questions? How do we answer them? What have we learned?--Diane Ebert-May

1:30 PM-5:00 PM

COS 62 - Agriculture, Agroecology, and Agroforestry I

COS 63 - Aquatic Ecology: Limnology

COS 64 - Assessment in Education

COS 65 - Behavior

COS 66 - Biofuel Ecology and Cropping Systems

COS 67 - Climate Change and Carbon II

COS 68 - Community Ecology: Plants II

COS 69 - Disease Ecology and Epidemiology I

COS 70 - Ecosystem Function: Biodiversity I

COS 71 - Herbivory: Plant Defenses

COS 72 - Invasion: Control and Management II

COS 73 - Invasion: Mechanisms and Process II

COS 74 - Microbial Ecology

COS 75 - Nitrogen Cycling II

COS 76 - Spatial Scale and Scaling

OOS 15 - Theoretical Perspectives in Agroecology

OOS 16 - Grinnellian Niches or Just Statistical Correlates? Opportunities for Ecological Inference From Species Distribution Models

OOS 17 - Training Biology Teachers in Ecological Research

SYMP 13 - Evolution in a Community Context

SYMP 14 - Transient Dynamics and its Implications for Ecological Theory

SYMP 15 - Enhancing Ecological Thought Through Phenological Observation, Research, and Education

5:00 PM-6:30 PM

Musicians Central

PS 34 - Arctic, Alpine, and Antarctic Systems

PS 35 - Abundance and Rarity

PS 36 - Aquatic-Terrestrial Linkages

PS 37 - Arid and Semi-Arid Systems

PS 38 - Biodiversity

PS 39 - Classification

PS 40 - Community Assembly and Neutral Theory

PS 41 - Community Disturbance and Recovery

PS 42 - Competition

PS 43 - Distributions and Range Limits

PS 44 - Education: Active Learning

PS 45 - Education: K-12

PS 46 - Education: Public Outreach

PS 47 - Education: Undergraduate

PS 48 - Environmental Gradients

PS 49 - Fisheries Management

PS 50 - Land Use and Land-Use History

PS 51 - Paleoecology

PS 52 - Urban Ecosystems

6:30 PM-8:00 PM

Colorado State University Ecologists

ESA Biogeosciences Section Mixer

ESA Diversity Mixer

ESA Mexican Chapter Business Mtg

ESA Physiological Ecology Section Business Mtg

ESA Plant Population Ecology Section Mixer

NEON Town Hall Meeting: Community Update

Nutrient Network Business Mtg

USGS Meet and Greet

University of Georgia Odum School of Ecology Reception

Yale University - F&ES Alumni/ae Reception

8:00 PM-10:00 PM

ESA SEEDS Undergraduate Research Fellowship Mtg

SS 18 - Ecological Practices and Public Awareness: A Dialogue Between the US and China

SS 19 - Prioritizing Wildlife-Friendly Agricultural Research

SS 20 - Phenology as a Tool to Enhance Ecological Understanding through Integration of Research and Education

SS 21 - "No Child Left Indoors": An Action Plan for Future Involvement by ESA Members

SS 22 - Bridging Ecohydrological Research from Arid Lands to Humid Environments

Thursday, August 7, 2008

7:00 AM-8:00 AM

Historical Records Business Meeting

7:00 AM-9:00 AM

ESA Education and Human Resources Committee Business Mtg

8:00 AM-11:30 AM

COS 77 - Active Learning in Education

COS 78 - Agriculture, Agroecology, and Agroforestry II

COS 79 - Aquatic Ecology: Streams and Rivers

COS 80 - Climate Change and Plants II

COS 81 - Community Ecology: Patterns

COS 82 - Disease Ecology and Epidemiology II

COS 83 - Distributions and Range Limits

COS 84 - Ecosystem Function: Biodiversity II

COS 85 - Estuarine, Coastal, and Intertidal Systems

COS 86 - Evolutionary Ecology

COS 87 - Invasion: Species Interactions

COS 88 - Invasion: Models and Management

COS 89 - Nutrient Cycling II

COS 90 - Plant-Insect Interactions

COS 91 - Succession

OOS 18 - Ecohydrology: Integrating Current Knowledge of Water Flux Along the Soil-Plant-Atmosphere Continuum

OOS 19 - Approaches for Linking Vegetation Classification, Vegetation Mapping, and Remote Sensing Technologies

SYMP 16 - Combining Ecological and Archaeological Knowledge to Better Understand the Reciprocal Dynamics of People and the Ecosystems That Sustain Them

SYMP 17 - Forecasting Future Ecosystem States in a Time of Global Change: From Models to Management

SYMP 18 - Citizen Science in Ecology: The Intersection of Research and Education

8:00 AM-1:00 PM

FT 13 - Urban Forestry, Ecosystem Services, and Environmental Justice

11:30 AM-1:15 PM

ESA Diversity Luncheon: Women and Minorities in Ecology (WAMIE)

ESA Professional Certification Brown Bag Lunch and Information Session

Phenology Brown Bag Lunch

WK 31 - Climate Change: Clean Development Mechanism (CDM) in Latin America

WK 32 - Promoting Ecological Literacy in Public Audiences: Building upon Successful Strategies Using a Citizen Science Approach

WK 33 - Show Me the Money: How to Write a Successful Grant Proposal

WK 34 - Learn How to Publish in EcoEd DL, ESA's Digital Teaching Library

12:00 PM-1:00 PM

ESA Paleoecology Section Business Mtg

1:30 PM-5:00 PM

COS 92 - Abundance, Rarity, and Extinction

COS 93 - Climate Change: Communities

COS 94 - Ecosystem Function: NPP

COS 95 - Evolution: Genetic Isolation and Differentiation

COS 96 - Fire

COS 97 - Herbivory

COS 98 - Invasion: Dynamics and Population Processes

COS 99 - Invasion: Ecosystem Processes

COS 100 - Mycorrhizae and Plant-Fungal Interactions I

COS 101 - Physiological Ecology I

COS 102 - Population Dynamics: Modeling

COS 103 - Reptiles and Amphibians

COS 104 - Riparian and Floodplain Habitats

COS 105 - Statistics

COS 106 - Trophic Dynamics and Interactions

OOS 20 - Shake-up in Timing in Ecological Communities: Understanding the Complexity and the Role of Citizen Science

OOS 21 - Building Research and Monitoring Networks For Population and Ecosystem Ecology

OOS 22 - Plant Pathogen Ecology: The Effects of Plant Pathogens on Individuals, Populations, Communities, and Ecosystems

SYMP 19 - Good Ideas at the Time: Historians Look at Ecology

SYMP 20 - Using Urban Ecological Research as a Tool for Enhancing Ecological Literacy

SYMP 21 - Environmental Fluctuation, Temporal Dynamics, and Community Processes

4:00 PM-5:00 PM

ESA SEEDS Closing

5:00 PM-6:30 PM

Musicians Central

PS 53 - Agriculture

PS 54 - Behavior

PS 55 - Coastal Habitats

PS 56 - Conservation

PS 57 - Detritus and Decomposition

PS 58 - Ecosystem Function

PS 59 - Fire

PS 60 - Forest Habitats

PS 61 - Habitat Structure, Fragmentation, and Connectivity

PS 62 - Mutualism and Facilitation

PS 63 - Parasitism and Host-Parasite Interactions

PS 64 - Phenology

PS 65 - Predation and Predator-Prey Interactions

PS 66 - Rapid Assessment

PS 67 - Restoration Ecology

PS 68 - Riparian and Floodplain Habitats

PS 69 - Wetlands

7:00 PM-9:00 PM

ESA Ecology-Fest

Friday, August 8, 2008

8:00 AM-11:30 AM

COS 107 - Citizen Science

COS 108 - Community Ecology: Theory and Space

COS 109 - Conservation and Fisheries Management

COS 110 - Detritus and Decomposition

COS 111 - Ecological Genetics

COS 112 - Ecosystem Function

COS 113 - Environmental Gradients

COS 114 - Invasion: Distribution Aspects

COS 115 - Metapopulations

COS 116 - Mycorrhizae and Plant-Fungal Interactions II

COS 117 - Physiological Ecology II

COS 118 - Population Dynamics: Regulation

COS 119 - Restoration Ecology

COS 120 - Seed Production, Dispersal, and Predation

COS 121 - Urban Ecology

OOS 23 - Mentoring Future Ecologists at Small Liberal Arts Colleges Through Research

OOS 24 - Biology of Weedy and Invasive Species in Agroecosystems: Case Studies

OOS 25 - Changing Times: The Impact of Variability in Plant Phenology at Multiple Scales

SYMP 22 - Tropical Deforestation and Climate Change: Contrasting Views of Science and Policy

SYMP 23 - Toward Ecological Forecasting: Applications of Model-Data Fusion Techniques

SYMP 24 - Research and Education About Ecosystem Functioning: Linking Perspectives From Ecology, Social Sciences, and the Humanities

8:30 AM-10:30 AM

ESA Governing Board Mtg

PS 70 - Latebreaking: Agriculture and Sustainability

PS 71 - Latebreaking: Biodiversity

PS 72 - Latebreaking: Biogeochemistry

PS 73 - Latebreaking: Climate Change

PS 74 - Latebreaking: Community Ecology

PS 75 - Latebreaking: Conservation, Fisheries, and Management

PS 76 - Latebreaking: Disease and Epidemiology

PS 77 - Latebreaking: Ecosystems

PS 78 - Latebreaking: Education

PS 79 - Latebreaking: Evolution and Behavior

PS 80 - Latebreaking: Fire

PS 81 - Latebreaking: Forests

PS 82 - Latebreaking: Invasion

PS 83 - Latebreaking: Methods and Techniques

PS 84 - Latebreaking: Physiology

PS 85 - Latebreaking: Plant-Insect Interactions and Herbivory

PS 86 - Latebreaking: Populations

PS 87 - Latebreaking: Restoration

PS 88 - Latebreaking: Urban Ecology

11:30 AM-1:15 PM

ESA Braun Student Award Committee Mtg

PL 4 ESA Closing Plenary and Lunch

12:00 PM-1:30 PM

Musicians Central

Saturday, August 9, 2008

8:00 AM-2:00 PM

FT 14 - The Miracle of Scuppernong Wet Prairie - CANCELLED