Oral Session #2: Conservation Ecology.

Presiding: S.J. Meiners, Rutgers University.
Sunday, August 6, 2000
8:00 AM to 12:15 PM
Magpie Room - Cliff Lodge

8:00 AM	Assessing the impact of the invasive tree Acer platanoides on forest communities. FANG, W.
8:15 AM	Biodiversity: Aspen has the lead, but will non-native species take over? CHONG, G.W. , T.J. STOHLGREN, S. SIMONSON
8:30 AM	Superior fitness of hybrid cottonwoods along a western stream: Ecological and conservation implications. SCHWEITZER, J.A.
8:45 AM	Naturalized floras are largely the products of deliberate introductions: Assessment of temperate and subtropical floras. MACK, R.N. , M. ERNEBERG
9:00 AM	Species diversity and biological invasions: Relating local process to community pattern. LEVINE, J.M.
9:15 AM	Exotic plant invasions in southern Grand Staircase-Escalante National Monument, Utah. OTSUKI, Y. , T.J. STOHLGREN, C.A. VILLA, M. LEE, J. BELNAP
9:30 AM	Using a knowledge-based system for selection of regional conservation networks as a communication tool. BOURGERON, P.S. , H.C. HUMPHRIES, K.M. REYNOLDS
9:45 AM	Maximum species richness extrapolated from samples: An accuracy assessment of current estimators. KLAWINSKI, P. , J. ZIMMERMAN, J. THOMPSON
10:00 AM	Break
10:15 AM	Plant diversity and ecosystem functioning: The importance of species evenness. WILSEY, B.J. , G. STIRLING, H.W. POLLEY
10:30 AM	Mapping of species richness and endemism on the continental to global scale using new methodological approaches. KIER, G. , J. MUTKE, W. BARTHLOTT
10:45 AM	Effects of experimental perturbations on biodiversity-ecosystem functioning relationships. SCHMID, B. , A. PFISTERER
11:00 AM	Ungrazed roadside verges in a grazed landscape: Interactive effects of grazing, invasion, and substrate on grassland diversity. SAFFORD, H.D. , S.P. HARRISON
11:15 AM	Implications for reintroduction of an endangered limestone endemic: Lessons from field and greenhouse germination tests. MASCHINSKI, J. , J.E. BAGGS, C.F. SACCHI
11:30 AM	Abundance and frequency of Lycopodium species under various forest management regimes in northern hardwood forests. NAUERTZ, E.A. , M.R. GALE, J.C. ZASADA, T.R. CROW
11:45 AM	Effects of disturbance on relationships between species richness and ecosystem processes: Using bryophyte communities as model systems. MULDER, C.P.H. , D.F. DOAK
12:00 PM	From people to pathogens: Are parasites responding to anthropogenic disturbance? POTEET, M.F.