Session: Communities: Disturbance And Recovery (2020 ESA Annual Meeting (August 3

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Recovery of Mississippi’s coastal swamp-cedar communities 14-years post Hurricane Katrina
Clayton Hale, Mississippi State University; Joshua Granger, Mississippi State University

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Effects of intraguild facilitation on community stability and diversity
M. Fernanda Herce, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México; Carlos Martorell, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México

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Pioneer conifer Abies procera’s influence on early successional plant communities at Mount Saint Helens
Cynthia Chang, University of Washington Bothell; Kathryn Queen, University of Washington, Bothell, WA; Alex Wachter, University of Washington Bothell; Isabel Rodriguez, University of Washington Bothell

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Plant traits predict persistence of nutrient enrichment effects in arctic tundra
Chhaya Werner, Helmholtz Center for Environmental Research; Maria Tuomi, University of Turku; Anu Eskelinen, Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research - UFZ

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The fate of biological soil crusts and their plant communities after fire: A meta-analysis
Brianne R Palmer, University of California, Davis, San Diego State University; Rebecca R. Hernandez, University of California, Davis; David Lipson, San Diego State University

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Historical contingency in plant community responses to fire
Anita Simha, Duke University; Justin P. Wright, Duke University

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Assessing the role of ecosystem nitrogen cycling in insect defoliation and tree recovery across multiple scales during a severe invasive insect outbreak
Emma Conrad-Rooney, Wellesley College; Jaclyn Matthes, Wellesley College; Audrey A. Barker Plotkin, Harvard University; Valerie Pasquarella, Boston University

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Urban buzz: How bee identities and traits are affected by urbanization
Ourania Nikolaidis, Rutgers University - Camden; Amy Savage, Rutgers University - Camden

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Resiliency of coastal Texas bird communities following Hurricane Harvey
Michael McCloy, Texas A&M University; Selma Glasscock, Welder Wildlife Foundation; Jacquelyn K. Grace, Texas A&M University

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Rangeland response to grazing varies across an elevation gradient in the southern interior of British Columbia
Laura Weber Ploughe, Thompson Rivers University; Morodoluwa Akin-Fajiye, Thompson Rivers University; Jay Singh, Thompson Rivers University; Lauchlan H. Fraser, Thompson Rivers University

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Soil microbial biomass and community structure response to variation in climate during restoration establishment year
Kathryn Eckhoff, University of Kansas; Drew A. Scott, Southern Illinois University Carbondale; Sara G. Baer, University of Kansas

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Changes in understory plant communities following widespread spruce mortality in subalpine forests
Trevor A Carter, University of Wyoming; Paula J. Fornwalt, USDA Forest Service; Daniel Laughlin, University of Wyoming

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Searching for analgesic degrading bio-prospects using functional metagenomics
Cristian Sanlatte-Reyes, University of Puerto Rico Mayagüez; Carlos Ríos-Velázquez, University of Puerto Rico Mayagüez

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Wildfires in the Southern Appalachian Mountains increases soil microbial nutrient scavenging with burn severity
Megan Schill, University of Texas at San Antonio; Allison M. Veach, Oak Ridge National Laboratory; Shawn Brown, University of Memphis; Richard Baird, Mississippi State University

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Impact of natural disasters on the Ostrea lurida in the Southern California estuary
Brandon Quintana, University of California, Santa Barbara

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Tree growth patterns over the last 39 years in Puerto Rican tropical dry forest
Skip Van Bloem, Clemson University; Vanessa J. Bailey, University of Utah; Peter G. Murphy, Michigan State University; Ariel E. Lugo, USDA Forest Service; Brian K Dunphy, Michigan State University

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The effects of human conflict on the population structure of the Asian elephant (Elephas maximus)
K. Budd, University of Missouri; Lori S. Eggert, University of Missouri

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Fire frequency and intensity influence spatial variation in community composition in longleaf pine savannas of the southeastern U.S.A
Raelene Crandall, University of Florida; Yingen Chew, University of Florida; Leda N. Kobziar, University of Idaho

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Shuffling the deck: A predictive framework of microbial community reassembly following species gains and losses
Jessica A.M. Moore, Oak Ridge National Lab; Hoang Tran, Oak Ridge National Lab; Cory D Hauck, Oak Ridge National Lab, University of Tennessee; Alex Ruzicka, University of Tennessee, Oak Ridge National Lab; Joshua K Michener, Oak Ridge National Lab; Melissa Cregger, University of Tennessee

PS 7 - Communities: Disturbance And Recovery