Session: Community Disturbance And Recovery (99th ESA Annual Meeting (August 10 -- 15, 2014))

PS 32-21

Buying time: The potential role of biocontrol in the recovery of native vegetation after a pest invasion
Elan W. Margulies, University of Michigan; Inés Ibáñez, University of Michigan; Leah S. Bauer, USDA Forest Service Northern Research Station; Jian J. Duan, USDA - ARS

PS 32-22

Does potential bud bank increase tolerance of short-lived plants to apical meristem demage?
Lenka Malíková, Institute of Botany ASCR; Jitka Klimešová, Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic; Petr ŠMilauer, Faculty of Science, University of South Bohemia; Jonathan Rosenthal, Vassar College, Poughkeepsie

PS 32-23

Meta-analytical synthesis of the impacts of white-tailed deer on the diversity and productivity of understory flora in North American forests
Christopher Habeck, Kutztown University; Alexis Schultz, Kutztown University

PS 32-24

Forest community structure, but not ecosystem processes, differs 25 years after eastern hemlock removal in an "accidental experiment"
Jenna M. Zukswert, University of British Columbia; Jesse Bellemare, Smith College; Amy L. Rhodes, Smith College

Cancelled

PS 32-25

Rare events can determine biomass dynamics and carbon status of old-growth forest (widthdrawn)
Kerry Woods, Bennington College

PS 32-26

Effects of short-interval fires on shrubland communities: Utilizing aerial photographs to quantify vegetation conversion in Southern California
Stephanie A. Ma, University of California, Santa Barbara; Carla D'Antonio, University of California Santa Barbara

PS 32-27

Compositional and functional resilience to drought-rewetting events
Alyssa M. Beck, University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign; Anthony Yannarell, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

PS 32-28

Cattle-wild ungulate effects on sagebrush plant communities
Kari E. Veblen, Utah State University; Kyle C. Nehring, Utah State University; Chris McGlone, USDA - ARS; Mark E. Ritchie, Syracuse University

PS 32-29

Taxonomic and functional homogenization of soil communities along the gradient of forest conversion
Akira S. Mori, Yokohama National University; Aino Ota, Yokohama National University; Saori Fujii, VU University Amsterdam; Motohiro Hasegawa, Forestry and Forest Products Research Institute

PS 32-30

Understanding fire regimes and tropical forest resilience: Fire-mediated alternative stable states in the West African tropical rainforest
Francis K. Dwomoh, South Dakota State University; Michael C. Wimberly, South Dakota State University

PS 32-31

Desert seedling survival: The interacting effects of fire and small mammals
Tiffanny R. Sharp, Brigham Young University; Samuel B. St. Clair, Brigham Young University; Brock R. McMillan, Brigham Young University

PS 32-32

Field experiment to assess potential impacts of noise pollution on a bat community
Katy Warner, Colorado State University; Kenneth R. Wilson, Colorado State University; Kurt Fristrup, National Park Service

PS 32-33

Forest structure and advance regeneration following the mountain pine beetle epidemic in Canada’s boreal forest
Elizabeth M. Campbell, Natural Resources Canada; Joseph A. Antos, University of Victoria

PS 32-34

Species-specific influences on resource island nitrogen may limit drought recovery in the Colorado Desert
Natasha N. Woods, Virginia Commonwealth University; Maria N. Miriti, The Ohio State University

PS 32-35

Understory response to oak decline in an upland oak-hickory forest of Oklahoma
Devin P. Bendixsen, Oklahoma State University; Stephen W. Hallgren, Oklahoma State University; Jesse A. Burton, National Park Service

PS 32-36

Testing for thresholds in a semiarid grassland: the influence of prairie dogs and plague on vegetation dynamics
David J. Augustine, USDA-ARS; Justin D. Derner, Rangeland Resources and Systems Research Unit; J. K. Detling, Colorado State University

PS 32-37

The relative importance of fire versus hydrology in shaping species distributions along a hydrological gradient
Samantha L. Swatling-Holcomb, North Carolina State University; Matthew G. Hohmann, US Army Corps of Engineers ERDC - CERL; William A. Hoffmann, NC State University

PS 32-38

Forest resprouting responses to interacting disturbances: Wildfire and sudden oak death in Big Sur, CA
Allison Simler, University of California Davis; Margaret Metz, University of Califorina, Davis; Kerri M. Frangioso, University of California, Davis; Ross K. Meentemeyer, NC State; David M. Rizzo, University of California, Davis

PS 32-39

Habitat fragmentation induced by urban sprawl compromises the interactions between desert plants and fruit-consuming mammals
Joshua H. Ness, Skidmore College; Margaret Pfeffer, Environmental Studies Program; Jordan Stark, Environmental Studies Program; Alex Guest, Environmental Studies Program; Lawrence Combs, Environmental Studies Program; Evan Nathan, Environmental Studies Program

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Community Disturbance And Recovery