COS 182 - Restoration Ecology 8

Presentations:

• 10:00 AM – 10:15 AM PDT

  Woodland restoration age alters soil microbial communities and shapes interactions between microbiota and plant growth
  

  Presenting Author: Rachel Brant – Missouri Botanical Garden

  Coauthor: John Leighton Reid – Virginia Tech

  Coauthor: Christine Edwards – Missouri Botanical Garden

  Coauthor: Scott A. Mangan – Arkansas State University Department of Biological Sciences

  Coauthor: Burgund Bassuner – Missouri Botanical Garden

  Coauthor: Brad Delfeld – Missouri Botanical Garden

  Coauthor: Noah Dell – Missouri Botanical Garden

  Coauthor: Victoria de la Paz Bernosconi Torres – University of Buenos Aires

  Coauthor: Quinn Long – Missouri Botanical Garden

  Coauthor: Mahala Lorenzo – Adrian College

  Coauthor: Claudia Stein – Auburn University at Montgomery

  Coauthor: Matthew Albrecht – Missouri Botanical Garden
• 10:15 AM – 10:30 AM PDT

  Palouse Prairie Restoration in Eastern Washington: First-year Plant Cover and Richness Largely Driven by Topographic Variation, Not Seed Mix Diversity
  

  Presenting Author: Thurman M. Johnson – Eastern Washington University

  Coauthor: Rebecca L. Brown – Eastern Washington University
• 10:30 AM – 10:45 AM PDT

  The effects of pre-planting treatment strategies on understory vegetation in urban forest patches
  

  Presenting Author: Samantha E. Gigliotti – Rutgers The State University of New Jersey: Graduate Program in Ecology and Evolution

  Coauthor: Max R. Piana – USDA Forest Service

  Coauthor: Richard A. Hallet – USDA Forest Service

  Coauthor: Myla F.J. Aronson – Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey
• 10:45 AM – 11:00 AM PDT

  Examining Dormancy Class and Germination Requirements for Forbs of the Northern Great Plains
  

  Presenting Author: Gregory Cooper – South Dakota State Univeristy

  Coauthor: Joshua Leffler – South Dakota State Univeristy

  Coauthor: Lora Perkins – South Dakota State Univeristy

  Coauthor: Gabrielle Bolwerk – South Dakota State University
• 11:00 AM – 11:15 AM PDT

  CANCELLED - Exploring mechanisms to co-opt secondary invasion for native plants in drought
  

  Presenting Author: Justin C. Luong – Cal Poly Humboldt

  Coauthor: Jennifer Funk – UC Davis
• 11:15 AM – 11:30 AM PDT

  From the bottom up: First year growth of five floodplain tree species in a controlled moisture regime experiment to assess cause behind shifting floodplain forest communities
  

  Presenting Author: John Tracy, Forester, PhD candidate – University of Florida

  Coauthor: Ajay Sharma – Auburn University

  Coauthor: Mack Thetford, PhD – University of Florida