Oral Session #33: Plant Demography.

Presiding: K.M. Howe, University of Washington, Seattle.
Monday, August 7, 2000
1:00 PM to 5:15 PM
Cottonwood Room II - Sports Event Center

1:00 PM	Effects of diversity on the invasibility of plant communities in California serpentine grassland. HOOPER, D.U. , J.S. DUKES, J. VERVILLE
1:15 PM	Life history models for the invasive species Carduus nutans (nodding thistle) in Australia. SHEA, K. , T. WOODBURN, A. SHEPPARD
1:30 PM	Population variation in the germination of the facultative winter annual Thlaspi arvens. HENDRICKSON, A. , M.A. FARRIS*
1:45 PM	Facilitation of dominant by subordinate species in herbaceous desert plant communities. BOEKEN, B. , M. SHACHAK
2:00 PM	Distribution and abundance of two wild, harvested species in the central Appalachians. SANDERS, S.M. , J.B. MCGRAW
2:15 PM	Estimating dormancy and survival of a rare herbaceous perennial using mark-recapture models. SHEFFERSON, R.P. , B.K. SANDERCOCK, J. PROPER, S.R. BEISSINGER
2:30 PM	Microsite characteristics of the C4 grass, Muhlenbergia richardsonis, in the alpine zone of the White Mountains, California. SAGE, R.F. , T.L. SAGE
2:45 PM	Forest fragmentation and the population dynamics of an Amazonian herb. BRUNA, E.M.
3:00 PM	Break
3:15 PM	Local scale effects of growing season length on the population structure of scarlet monkeyflower, Mimulus cardinalis. WILLIAMS, J.L. , J.M. LEVINE
3:30 PM	Long-term studies of a Shetland serpentine site. SLINGSBY, D.
3:45 PM	Effect of extended inundation on Sidalcea nelsoniana, a threatened wetland prairie perennial. BARTELS, M.R. , M.V. WILSON
4:00 PM	The status of four endemic pine rockland herbs in the Florida Keys: Implication for long term management. RUIZ, P.L. , M.S. ROSS
4:15 PM	The influence of salinity and maternal environment on germination in Iris Hexagona. VAN ZANDT, P.A. , S. MOPPER
4:30 PM	Spatial and depth variations in the soil seed bank of an inland salt marsh. COTEFF, C. , O.W. VAN AUKEN
4:45 PM	Fire suppression, tree encroachment, and the spread of exotic species threaten the persistence of two endangered plants in California. MCGRAW, J.M.