Session: Community Disturbance And Recovery I (101st ESA Annual Meeting (August 7 -- 12, 2016))

8:00 AM

COS 68-1

Origins of alternate ecosystem states? Effects of 21^st-century drought on postfire regeneration of a widespread Rocky-mountain conifer
Winslow D. Hansen, University of Wisconsin, Madison; Monica Turner, University of Wisconsin, Madison

8:20 AM

COS 68-2

Regeneration responses to management for old-growth characteristics in northern hardwood-conifer forests
Aviva J. Gottesman, University of Vermont; William S. Keeton, University of Vermont

8:40 AM

COS 68-3

Evaluating the impacts of trail building on wildlife: A before-after control-impact experiment using camera traps
Anna B. Miller, North Carolina State University; Roland W. Kays, North Carolina Museum of Natural Sciences; Yu-Fai Leung, North Carolina State University

9:00 AM

COS 68-4

Changes in the ground spider guild community in post-wildfire jack pine forests of northern Lower Michigan
Sarah J. Rose, The Ohio State University; P. Charles Goebel, The Ohio State University

9:20 AM

COS 68-5

Plant community resistance and resilience to local scale perturbations
Erik A. Lehnhoff, New Mexico State University; Bruce Maxwell, Montana State University; Kimberley Taylor, Montana State University; Lisa J. Rew, Montana State University

9:40 AM

COS 68-

Break

9:50 AM

COS 68-6

Field experiment testing for the effect of fire season on plant regeneration rate and on species composition in Mediterranean woodland
Anat Tsafrir, Ben-Gurion university of the Negev; Hagai Shemesh, Tel-Hai College; Yagil Osem, Agricultural Research Organization, Volcani Center; Yohay Carmel, Faculty of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Technion; Ofer Ovadia, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev

10:10 AM

COS 68-7

Anthropogenic (post-agricultural) pine-grasslands of the southeastern U.S. Coastal Plain: Partial restoration of native longleaf/shortleaf pine-grasslands through unmanaged plant dispersal
Kevin Robertson, Tall Timbers Research Station and Land Conservancy

10:30 AM

COS 68-8

Megaherbivores promote a state-shift from riparian woodland towards shrubland in northern Botswana
Gabriella Teren, University of the Witwatersrand; Norman Owen-Smith, University of the Witwatersrand; Barend F.N Erasmus, University of the Witwatersrand

10:50 AM

COS 68-9

The effects of ancient human disturbance on Amazonian vegetation
Crystal McMichael, University of Amsterdam; Dolores Piperno, Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History and Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute; Mark B. Bush, Florida Institute of Technology; Eduardo Góes Neves, Universidade de São Paulo

COS 68 - Community Disturbance And Recovery I