Session: Restoration Ecology I (98th ESA Annual Meeting (August 4 -- 9, 2013))

1:30 PM

COS 46-1

A “possibility-based” approach to ecological restoration of urban forests: incorporating biophysical and social constraints
Lea R. Johnson, Rutgers University; Steven N. Handel, Rutgers University

1:50 PM

COS 46-2

Disturbance-based management and changing species composition in sandplain heathlands
Kirsten M. Martin, University of Central Florida; Betsy Von Holle, University of Central Florida; Ernie Steinauer, Mass Audubon; Peter W. Dunwiddie, University of Washington; Robert Buchsbaum, Mass Audubon; Christopher Neill, Marine Biological Laboratory

2:10 PM

COS 46-3

Effectiveness of herbicide, mechanical scraping, and native seed sowing as restoration tools in a disturbed pine rockland
Lisa M. Krueger, University of Tennessee Martin; Jennifer E. Possley, Fairchild Tropical Botanic Garden; Joyce M. Maschinski, Fairchild Tropical Botanic Garden; Jane G. Dozier, Miami-Dade County Park and Recreation, Natural Areas Management Division

2:30 PM

COS 46-4

Arbuscular mycorrhizal inoculum source influences plant survival and growth in an urban prairie restoration
Elizabeth L. Middleton, Missouri Department of Conservation; Zhanna Yermakov, Chicago Parks Department; Corey E. Palmer, Northwestern University; Sarah C. Richardson, DePaul University; Isaiah Cole, DePaul University; Elizabeth Koziol, Indiana University; Katherine Zaiger, Indiana University; Jeremiah A. Henning, University of Tennessee; Keith D. Jones, V3 Companies; Peggy A. Schultz, Indiana University; James D. Bever, Indiana University

2:50 PM

COS 46-5

Source-population characteristics affect switchgrass biomass but not community biodiversity or productivity in establishing prairies
Shelby Flint, University of Minnesota; Ruth G. Shaw, University of Minnesota; Nicholas R. Jordan, University of Minnesota

3:10 PM

COS 46-

Break

3:20 PM

COS 46-6

Gauging macroinvertebrate response to restoration-induced disturbance using recolonization traps in a western Colorado stream
Scot D. Peterson, Murray State University; Howard H. Whiteman, Murray State University

3:40 PM

COS 46-7

Evaluating the importance of spatiotemporal variation in plant establishment
Jonathan Bakker, University of Washington; Eric G. Delvin, The Nature Conservancy; Peter W. Dunwiddie, University of Washington

4:20 PM Cancelled

COS 46-8

First reproduction and tropical tree restoration (widthdrawn)
Henry F. Howe, University of Illinois-Chicago; Marines de la Pena-Domene, University of Illinois-Chicago; Cristina Martínez-Garza, Universidad Autónoma del Estado de Morelos

4:00 PM

COS 46-9

Determining the timespan and ecological conditions necessary for afforested farmlands to function like old-growth forests: A view from the understorey
Paul J. Richardson, University of Waterloo; Stephen D. Murphy, University of Waterloo

4:40 PM

COS 46-10

Integrating recent advances in genetic diversity-ecosystem function research to improve ecological restoration
Karin M. Kettenring, Utah State University; Kristin L. Mercer, The Ohio State University; Carrie Reinhardt Adams, University of Florida; Jessica Hines, EAWAG

COS 46 - Restoration Ecology I