Session: Community Disturbance And Recovery II (97th ESA Annual Meeting (August 5 -- 10, 2012))

8:00 AM

Long-term tree and stand biomass increment patterns derived from tree rings in multiple temperate and sub-boreal forest systems in northeastern Minnesota, USA
Jane R. Foster, University of Minnesota; Anthony W. D'Amato, University of Minnesota; John B. Bradford, U.S. Geological Survey

8:20 AM

COS 128-2

Empirically linking fire history to seedbed quality, species establishment, and growth: Predictions for northern boreal forest succession under changing climate and disturbance regimes
Carissa D. Brown, Memorial University; Jill F. Johnstone, University of Saskatchewan

8:40 AM

COS 128-3

Interactions between woodpeckers, elk, and drought lead to the collapse of riparian willow communities
Kristen M. Kaczynski, Colorado State University; David J. Cooper, Colorado State University

9:00 AM

COS 128-4

Harvest-related disturbance effects on species richness and community composition in Lake States aspen-dominated forests
Miranda T. Curzon, University of Minnesota; Anthony W. D'Amato, University of Minnesota; Brian J. Palik, USDA Forest Service

9:20 AM

COS 128-5

Effects of remnant trees on secondary forest regeneration in the Osa Peninsula, Costa Rica
Manette E. Sandor, University of Connecticut; Robin L. Chazdon, University of Connecticut

9:40 AM

COS 128-

Break

9:50 AM

COS 128-6

Comparing chamber and eddy covariance estimates of ecosystem respiration during bark beetle mortality in a subalpine spruce-fir forest
Heather N. Scott, USDA Forest Service; William J. Massman, Rocky Mountain Research Station, U.S. Forest Service; John M. Frank, Rocky Mountain Research Station, U.S. Forest Service; Brianna L. Miles, USDA Forest Service; Michael G. Ryan, Colorado State University

10:10 AM

COS 128-7

Relative influences of biotic and abiotic factors on coral reef fish biomass in the Anthropocene
Marc Nadon, University of Hawaii; Julia Baum, University of Victoria; Robert Schroeder, NOAA Fisheries, Hawaii, USA; Jana M. McPherson, Calgary Zoo; Ivor D. Williams, NOAA Pacific Islands Fisheries Science Center; Benjamin L. Richards, NOAA Fisheries; Brian J. Zgliczynski, Scripps Institution of Oceanography; Rusty Brainard, NOAA Fisheries

10:30 AM

COS 128-8

Fire severity affects community assemly through filters on regeneration traits in Alaska boreal forests
Teresa N. Hollingsworth, Pacific Northwest Research Station; Jill F. Johnstone, University of Saskatchewan; F. Stuart Chapin III, University of Alaska Fairbanks; Emily Bernhardt, Duke University

10:50 AM Cancelled

COS 128-9

High mortality levels observed in old-growth spruce stands of west-central British Columbia (widthdrawn)
Philip J. Burton, University of Northern British Columbia, Canadian Forest Service

11:10 AM Cancelled

COS 128-10

Impacts of drying and crayfish invasion on stream ecosystem structure and function (widthdrawn)
Daniel D. Magoulick, USGS, Arkansas Cooperative Fish and Wildlife Research Unit

COS 128 - Community Disturbance And Recovery II