2018 ESA Annual Meeting (August 5 -- 10)

COS 96 - Communities: Disturbance And Recovery III

Thursday, August 9, 2018: 8:00 AM-11:30 AM
333-334, New Orleans Ernest N. Morial Convention Center
8:00 AM
Interactions among defoliation, drought, and tree phenology determine ecosystem-atmosphere feedbacks in northeastern U.S. mesic forests
Jaclyn H. Matthes, Wellesley College; Valerie Pasquarella, University of Massachusetts Amherst; Sarah J. Russell, Wellesley College
8:20 AM
Does the past matter? The influences of disturbance history and type on community resistance to future disturbances
Roland A. Eveleens, University of Canterbury; Angus R. McIntosh, University of Canterbury; Helen J. Warburton, University of Canterbury
8:40 AM
Adding insult to injury: Ship groundings are associated with coral disease on a pristine reef in the Philippines
Laurie Raymundo, University of Guam; Wilfredo A Licuanan, De La Salle University; Alexander M. Kerr, University of Guam
9:00 AM
Physiological response of mid-canopy sweetgum trees to overstory loblolly pine mortality
Heidi J. Renninger, Mississippi State University; Nicole Hornslein, Mississippi State University
9:20 AM
The role of land use in shaping stream sediment microbial community composition
Gregory Martin, West Virginia University; Chansotheary Dang, West Virginia University; Jason Hubbart, West Virginia University; Elliot Kellner, West Virginia University; Ember Morrissey, West Virginia University; Zachary Freedman, West Virginia University
9:40 AM
9:50 AM
Bat species occupancy varies across a disturbance gradient: Implications for a future of extreme wildfire events
Zachary L. Steel, UC Davis; Brent Campos, Point Blue Conservation Science; Ryan Burnett, Point Blue Conservation Science; Winifred F. Frick, Bat Conservation International; Hugh D. Safford, Regional Ecologist, USDA Forest Service
10:10 AM
In search of lost species: Limitations to native understory occurrence beneath N-fixing trees
Elizabeth M. August-Schmidt, University of California Santa Barbara; Carla D'Antonio, University of California Santa Barbara; Stephanie G. Yelenik, U.S. Geological Survey
10:30 AM
Soil biota shifts in response to land use history can influence aboveground plant community composition in a hardwood forest
Sarah R. Carrino-Kyker, The Holden Arboretum; Katharine L. Stuble, The Holden Arboretum; Sergio Andres Sabat Bonilla, The Holden Arboretum; David J. Burke, The Holden Arboretum
10:50 AM
Variation cascades: Top down effects regulate the impacts of resource-pulses
Franz Wesley Simon, The Nature Conservancy; David A. Vasseur, Yale University
11:10 AM
An ecosystem-wide evaluation of how agricultural legacies and restoration affect longleaf pine savannas
Lars Brudvig, Michigan State University; Nash Turley, University of Central Florida; Sabrie Breland, Michigan State University; Jason Gibbs, University of Manitoba; Philip G. Hahn, University of Florida; Rufus Isaacs, Michigan State University; Joe Ledvina, Michigan State University; John L. Orrock, University of Wisconsin - Madison; John D. Stuhler, Texas Tech University
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