Session: Community Disturbance and Recovery (95th ESA Annual Meeting (August 1 -- 6, 2010))

PS 49-1

Effects of forest edges on population dynamics in a successional system
Kimberly A. Lang, Eastern Illinois University; Scott Meiners, Eastern Illinois University

PS 49-2

Effects of tornado damage and salvage logging on sapling recruitment in an upland oak-shortleaf pine forest in Mississippi
Jeffery B. Cannon, University of Georgia; J. Stephen Brewer, University of Mississippi

PS 49-3

Transient and asymptotic dynamics of pioneer plant populations in a Costa Rican cloud forest
K. Greg Murray, Hope College; John. E. Drake, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign; Aaron J. Garoutte, Hope College; Krista M. Stanton, Hope College; J. Mauricio Garcia-C., Organización para Estudios Tropicales

PS 49-4

Hurricane wrack facilitates high biodiversity in coastal pine savanna groundcover
Dwayne Joseph, Grambling State University; Skyla Duncan, Grambling State University; Bill Platt, Louisiana State University

PS 49-5

Hurricane wrack facilitates resilient and resistant species in coastal pine savanna groundcover
Skyla Duncan, Grambling State University; Dwayne Joseph, Grambling State University; Bill Platt, Louisiana State University

PS 49-6

Effects of common disturbances on early-successional plant communities on Eleuthera Island, Bahamas
Claire C. Larkin, Miami University; Charles Kwit, University of Tennessee; Joseph M. Wunderle Jr., USDA Forest Service; Eileen H. Helmer, USDA Forest Service; M. Henry H. Stevens, Miami University; Montara T.K. Roberts, University of Minnesota; David N. Ewert, The Nature Conservancy

PS 49-7

The effect of clipping height on two C3 and two C4 grasses native to the Bluegrass Ash-Oak Savanna
Jann E. Fry, University of Kentucky; Chris Fenzel, University of Kentucky

PS 49-8

Recovery of ground cover vegetation and fine fuels following silvicultural treatments in a longleaf pine forest: Preliminary results of a long-term ecological forestry study
Melanie J. Kaeser, Joseph W. Jones Ecological Research Center; L. Katherine Kirkman, Joseph W. Jones Ecological Research Center; Robert J. Mitchell, Joseph W. Jones Ecological Research Center

PS 49-9

Fire and hardwood regeneration in central Texas
Christina M. Andruk, University of Texas at Austin; Norma L. Fowler, University of Texas at Austin

PS 49-10

A comparison of seasonal post-fire vegetation growth trends in sagebrush systems using MODIS data
Gretchen A. Meier, USGS

PS 49-11

Macroinvertebrate community changes following a Pennsylvania dam removal
Donna M. Zingaro, Youngstown State University; Felicia P. Armstrong, Youngstown State University; Thomas P. Diggins, Youngstown State University

PS 49-12

Recruitment and Dominance of Quercus rubra and Quercus alba in a previous Oak-Chestnut Forest from the 1980s to 2008
Miranda D. Redmond, University of Colorado; Rebecca B. Wilbur, University of Virginia; Henry M. Wilbur, University of Virginia

PS 49-13

Relationship between soil surface heterogeneity and the plant community in burned and unburned sagebrush steppe
Amber N. Hoover, Idaho State University; Matthew J. Germino, US Geological Survey; Nancy F. Glenn, Idaho State University; Joel B. Sankey, USGS

PS 49-14

Forest recovery on abandoned farms of the Añasco river watershed of western Puerto Rico
Braulio A. Quintero, SUNY College of Environmental Science and Forestry

PS 49 - Community Disturbance and Recovery