COS 240 - Invasion: Community Effects 1

Presentations:

• 8:00 AM – 8:15 AM PDT

  Patchy habitats create patchy responses of native fish communities to the removal of an invasive predator.
  

  Presenting Author: Montana Airey – Cornell Universty

  Coauthor: Thomas Detmer – Cornell University

  Coauthor: Clifford Kraft – Cornell University

  Coauthor: Kurt Jirka – Cornell University

  Coauthor: Eileen Randall – Cornell University

  Coauthor: Peter B. McIntyre – Cornell University
• 8:15 AM – 8:30 AM PDT

  Risk Assessment Meets Damage Report: A Look into the Impact of Invasive Carp on the Kansas River Using Stable Isotopes
  

  Presenting Author: Austin Smith – Emporia State University

  Coauthor: Rachel E. Bowes, PhD – Emporia State University

  Coauthor: Chris Steffen – Kansas Department of Wildlife and Parks
• 8:30 AM – 8:45 AM PDT

  CANCELLED - What are the specific ecological settings in a modified landscape that permit return of faunal biodiversity?
  

  Presenting Author: Varughese Jobin – Indian Institute of Science Education and Research Tirupati

  Coauthor: CP Harikrishnan – Indian Institute of Science Education and Research Tirupati

  Coauthor: Ritobroto Chanda – CES, IISc Bangalore

  Coauthor: Swapna Lawrence – CES, IISc Bangalore

  Coauthor: Mohammed Mubeen – Indian Institute of Science Education and Research Tirupati

  Coauthor: Devcharan Jathanna – WCS India, Bengaluru

  Coauthor: VV Robin – Indian Institute of Science Education and Research Tirupati
• 8:45 AM – 9:00 AM PDT

  Twenty-five years of vegetation dynamics following chronic hemlock woolly adelgid infestation in southern New England
  

  Presenting Author: David A. Orwig – Harvard Forest, Harvard University
• 9:00 AM – 9:15 AM PDT

  Interaction between climate change and invasion of a freshwater macroalga suggest potential for reduced impacts and at least limited resilience of native communities under warmer conditions
  

  Presenting Author: Ranjan Muthukrishnan – Boston University, Department of Biology

  Coauthor: Carolyn Kalinowski – Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission, Division of Marine Fisheries Management

  Coauthor: Abigail Sullivan – Boston University, Department of Earth and Environment
• 9:15 AM – 9:30 AM PDT

  Ecological drivers of functional and phylogenetic diversity in Hawaiian montane forests
  

  Presenting Author: Michael S. Peyton, MS – University of Wisconsin - Madison

  Coauthor: Sara C. Hotchkiss, PhD – University of Wisconsin - Madison