95th ESA Annual Meeting (August 1 -- 6, 2010)

COS 104 - Ecosystem Stability and Resilience

Thursday, August 5, 2010: 1:30 PM-5:00 PM
320, David L Lawrence Convention Center
Presider:
Katherine A. Everard
1:30 PM
Ecohydrologic feedbacks and topographic pattern in Everglades peatlands: a model of the self-organizing canal hypothesis
James B. Heffernan, Duke University; Danielle L. Watts, University of Florida; Matthew J. Cohen, University of Florida
1:50 PM
Citizen science in disaster and conflict resilience
Keith G. Tidball, Cornell University; Marianne E. Krasny, Cornell University
2:10 PM
Wetland security: Submerged macrophytes buffer aquatic communities from insecticide effects
William R. Brogan III, University of Pittsburgh; Rick A. Relyea, University of Pittsburgh
2:30 PM
Are forest and savanna alternative states in sub-Saharan Africa?
A. Carla Staver, Princeton University; Sally Archibald, CSIR; Simon A. Levin, Princeton University
2:50 PM
Hydroclimatic variability drives episodic expansion of floating peat mats in glacial kettles
Alex W. Ireland, The Pennsylvania State University; Robert K. Booth, Lehigh University
3:10 PM
3:40 PM
Eelgrass & climate change: Storm disturbance erodes ecosystem engineering
Sylvia Yang, University of Washington; Jennifer L. Ruesink, University of Washington; Janneke HilleRisLambers, University of Washington
4:20 PM
Predators maintain ecosystem resilience: A quantitative evaluation of the tropic role of predation using foodweb models
Lyne Morissette, Université du Québec à Rimouski; Kevin S. McCann, University of Guelph; Gabriel Gellner, Colorado State University; France Dufresne, Université du Québec à Rimouski