Session: Invasion: Invasibility, Stability, and Diversity (94th ESA Annual Meeting (August 2 -- 7, 2009))

PS 32-108

Emergent insights from the synthesis of conceptual frameworks for biological invasions
Jessica Gurevitch, Stony Brook University; Gordon A. Fox, University of South Florida; Glenda M. Wardle, University of Sydney; Prof Inderjit, University of Delhi; Daniel Taub, Southwestern University

PS 32-109

Site of origin and degree of plasticity affect success of an invasive liana: Celastrus orbiculatus
Jenna A. P. Hamlin, University of North Carolina of Asheville

PS 32-110

Patterns of plant invasions in Western grasslands: roads, diversity, scat, and limiting similarity
Isabel W. Ashton, National Park Service; Donna Shorrock, National Park Service

PS 32-111

Seedling establishment of invasive Bromus tectorum and native Elymus multisetus in sagebrush steppe ecosystems
Monica B. Mazzola, Universidad Nacional de La Pampa; Jeanne C. Chambers, USDA Forest Service

PS 32-112

Do mature forests present barriers to non-native plant invasion? A case study of Lonicera maackii establishment in deciduous forests of central Kentucky
Heather N. Wilson, University of Kentucky; Mary A. Arthur, University of Kentucky; Ryan McEwan, University of Dayton; Brian D. Lee, University of Kentucky; Robert D. Paratley, University of Kentucky

PS 32-113

Landscape scale constraints on conversion of a sagebrush steppe ecosystem to an annual grass dominated stable state in southeastern Wyoming
Marques Daniel Munis, Colorado State University; Cynthia Brown, Colorado State University; Roy L. Roath, Colorado State University; Michael Coughenour, Colorado State University; Mark Paschke, Colorado State University

PS 32-114

The native-exotic success relationship depends on vegetation indices in a California serpentine grassland
Daniel J. Slakey, Western Washington University; David U. Hooper, Western Washington University

PS 32-115

Spatial and ecological processes in grassland-to-shrubland transitions in the the Chihuahuan Desert
Darroc P. Goolsby, New Mexico State University; Brandon T. Bestelmeyer, USDA Agricultural Research Service; Steve Archer, University of Arizona

PS 32-116

The utilization of leaf litter nutrient pulses by Alliaria petiolata, an exotic wintergreen species
Robert W. Heckman, University of North Carolina; David E. Carr, University of Virginia

PS 32-117

Effects of global change on Bromus tectorum invasion in the eastern Sierra Nevada, California
Amy L. Concilio, University of Colorado; Michael Loik, University of California

PS 32 - Invasion: Invasibility, Stability, and Diversity