COS 287 - Invasion: Community Effects 3

Presentations:

• 1:30 PM – 1:45 PM PDT

  Measuring predation in a predator-less tropical system.
  

  Presenting Author: Marcel Kate G. Jardeleza, MS Ecology – Colorado State University

  Coauthor: Ruth Hufbauer, PhD – Colorado State University

  Coauthor: Ian S. Pearse – U.S. Geological Survey
• 1:45 PM – 2:00 PM PDT

  Do invasive shrubs in eastern North America host depauperate arthropod communities?
  

  Presenting Author: Ari Zakroff – Wright State University

  Coauthor: John Stireman, PhD – Wright State University
• 2:00 PM – 2:15 PM PDT

  Adding insult to injury: Light competition and allelochemical weapons interact to facilitate grass invasion
  

  Presenting Author: Colin R. Morrison – The University of Texas at Austin

  Coauthor: Aaron R. Rhodes – The University of Texas at Austin

  Coauthor: Elizabeth R. Bowman – The University of Texas at Austin

  Coauthor: Robert R. Plowes – The University of Texas at Austin

  Coauthor: Brian E. Sedio, Ph.D. – University of Texas - Austin

  Coauthor: Lawrence R. Gilbert – The University of Texas at Austin
• 2:15 PM – 2:30 PM PDT

  Biological Control Food webs Suggest Biotic Resistance not Apparent Competition
  

  Presenting Author: Melissa C. Smith – USDA-ARS Agricultural Research Service

  Coauthor: Ellen Lake – Mt. Cuba Center

  Coauthor: Carey Minteer – University of Florida, Institute for Food and Agricultural Sciences

  Coauthor: Philip Tipping – USDA Agricultural Research Service

  Coauthor: Karen Rice-David – Archbold Biological Station

  Coauthor: Alissa Berro – Pinellas County
• 2:30 PM – 2:45 PM PDT

  Resistance and resilience of microbial communities to invasion: The role of community synchrony, competition, and environmental variability
  

  Presenting Author: Janette L. Davidson – University of Wyoming

  Coauthor: Lauren Shoemaker – University of Wyoming
• 2:45 PM – 3:00 PM PDT

  Suppression of Reed Canary Grass by Assisted Succession: a 16- Year Restoration Experiment.
  

  Presenting Author: Kattia Palacio-Lopez – University of Houston-Downtown

  Coauthor: Stephen Hovick – The Ohio State University

  Coauthor: Kali Mattingly – The Ohio State University

  Coauthor: Leah Weston – The Ohio State University

  Coauthor: Nathaniel Hofford – The Ohio State University

  Coauthor: Logan Finley – The Ohio State University

  Coauthor: Aaron Tayal – The Ohio State University

  Coauthor: James Reinartz – University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee