Oral Session #58: Landscape Ecology.

Presiding: B.J. Marshall, Michigan State University.
Wednesday, August 9, 2000
8:15 AM to 12:15 PM
Cottonwood Room I - Sports Event Center

8:00 AM	Saving biodiversity: Can ecosystem function justify species conservation? HUSTON, M.A. and D.A. WARDLE, J.P. GRIME
8:15 AM	Landscape-scale assessment of plant diversity: Integration of spatial information and spatial statistics. KALKHAN, M.A. and T.J. STOHLGREN, G.W. CHONG
8:30 AM	Landscape patterns of overland flow in a semi-arid biome transition zone. MARTENS, S.N.
8:45 AM	Plant species dominance and disturbance at a grassland-shrubland ecotone. PETERS, D.P.C.
9:00 AM	Effects of canopy removal on local and regional patterns of distribution and abundance. COLLINS, S.L. and S.M. GLENN
9:15 AM	The effects of spatial pattern on diversity-productivity relationships in a northern mixed grass prairie. DAVIDSON, A. and F. CSILLAG, M. KERTéSZ
9:30 AM	California grassland productivity and nutrient availability at the hillslope scale. ALTHOUSE, L. and F. CHAMRAN, J.P. SCHIMEL, V. LACAPRA
9:45 AM	Linking patch-scale heterogeneity to hillslope runoff in semaird ecosystems. BRESHEARS, D.D. and S.N. MARTENS, P.C. BEESON
10:00 AM	Break
10:15 AM	A spatial time series: Dynamics of openings in oak scrub vegetation DUNCAN, B.W. and P.A. SCHMALZER, C.A. DUNLEVY
10:30 AM	Forest understory spatial patterning in old-growth and managed northern hardwood forests in Wisconsin and Michigan. SCHELLER, R.M. and D.J. MLADENOFF
10:45 AM	Species-specific and scale-dependent responses to landscape configuration: A simulation model based on correlation matrices. WILLIG, M.R. and M. GORRESEN, R.E. STRAUSS
11:00 AM	Colonization potentials of tree species in fragmented forests. HEWITT, N. and M. KELLMAN
11:15 AM	Examining current forest patterns in the context of historical dynamics: An example from the Pacific Northwest. WIMBERLY, M.C. and T.A. SPIES
11:30 AM	Island remnant patterns of forest fires in boreal forests: Far from random. ANDISON, D.W.
11:45 AM	Spatial analysis of selected soil attributes across an alpine topographic/snow gradient. LITAOR, M.I. and T.R. SEASTEDT, D.A. WALKER
12:00 PM	Different metrics of connectivity respond differently to landscape structure. GOODWIN, B.J. and L. FAHRIG