COS 123 - Communities: Disturbance And Recovery 6

Presentations:

• 3:30 PM – 3:45 PM PDT

  Interannual and seasonal variability in temperature water availability leads to starkly different restoration outcomes in a restored wheat field.
  

  Presenting Author: Adam L. Mahood – USDA-ARS

  Coauthor: Dave Barnard, Ph.D. – USDA-ARS

  Coauthor: Jacob Macdonald – Colorado State University

  Coauthor: Rob Erskine – USDA-ARS

  Coauthor: Tim Green – USDA-ARS
• 3:45 PM – 4:00 PM PDT

  Flowers after fire: looking beyond vegetation recovery in coastal sage scrub
  

  Presenting Author: Xinyu Li – UC Irvine

  Coauthor: Diane R. R. Campbell – University of California, Irvine
• 4:00 PM – 4:15 PM PDT

  High-intensity disturbances provide a critical window for seed bank replenishment
  

  Presenting Author: Castilleja F. Olmsted – University of Pittsburgh, Department of Biological Sciences

  Coauthor: Michelle E. Spicer – University of Pittsburgh, Department of Biological Sciences (Current: Yale University, Yale School of the Environment)

  Coauthor: Edith G. Fields – University of Pittsburgh, Department of Biological Sciences

  Coauthor: Alejandro A. Royo, PhD – Northern Research Station, USDA Forest Service

  Coauthor: John W. Wenzel – Powdermill Nature Reserve (Current: Conemaugh Valley Conservancy)

  Coauthor: Walter P. Carson – University of Pittsburgh, Department of Biological Sciences
• 4:15 PM – 4:30 PM PDT

  Lianas amplify the severity of lightning-caused disturbance in a neotropical forest
  

  Presenting Author: Evan M. Gora – Cary Institute of Ecosystem Studies

  Coauthor: Stefan A. Schnitzer – Marquette University

  Coauthor: Phillip M. Bitzer – The University of Alabama in Huntsville

  Coauthor: Jeffrey C. Burchfield – The University of Alabama in Huntsville

  Coauthor: Cesar Gutierrez – Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute

  Coauthor: Stephen P. Yanoviak – University of Louisville
• 4:30 PM – 4:45 PM PDT

  Reduction in top-down control results in dissimilarity in community composition and alternative community paths leading to coral- or algal-dominance on a coral reef
  

  Presenting Author: Kelly E. Speare – Arizona State University

  Coauthor: Thomas C. Adam – University of California, Santa Barbara

  Coauthor: Adam Goodman – University of California, Santa Barbara

  Coauthor: Rebecca Vega Thurber – Oregon State University

  Coauthor: Deron E. Burkepile – University of California, Santa Barbara
• 4:45 PM – 5:00 PM PDT

  Changes in tree demography and health-status explain agreement between Landsat time series and forest structure at disturbed NEON sites
  

  Presenting Author: Jane R. Foster – USDA Forest Service

  Coauthor: LaRue A. Elizabeth – University of Texas at El Paso

  Coauthor: Jaclyn H. Matthes – Harvard Forest

  Coauthor: Robert Fahey – Department of Natural Resources and the Environment, Center for Environmental Sciences and Engineering, University of Connecticut

  Coauthor: Dennis Heejoon Choi – Purdue University

  Coauthor: Brady Hardiman – Purdue University