Oral Session #59: Plant Communities: Vegetative Analysis.

Presiding: J.T. Simonson, University of Calgary.
Wednesday, August 9, 2000
8:15 AM to 12:15 PM
Cottonwood Room II - Sports Event Center

8:15 AM	Predicting the distribution of vegetation communities from environmental variables in the Mojave Desert Ecoregion. FRANKLIN, J.
8:30 AM	Understanding California annual grassland structure using a state-transition approach. JACKSON, R.D. and J.W. BARTOLOME
8:45 AM	Modeling spatial autocorrelation in plant species composition with the community variogram. WAGNER, H.H. and J.M. BOSSENBROEK, M.M. HAWKS, B. VAN HORNE, J.A. WIENS
9:00 AM	Monitoring and evaluation of natural protected areas in Mexico. GONZALEZ-MONTAGUT, R.
9:15 AM	Vegetation dynamics in meadows of the Sierra Nevada, California. SHLISKY, A.J. and B. ALLEN-DIAZ
9:30 AM	Spatial distribution of vernal herb in Great Smoky Mountain National Park. JOBE, R.T. and A.J. MEIER, S.P. BRATTON
9:45 AM	A classification of riparian wetland plant associations of Colorado. KITTEL, G.M. and R.J. RONDEAU
10:00 AM	Break
10:15 AM	Trends in community structure along the immigration-extinction gradient. BROWN, R.L.
10:30 AM	Functional groupings of plants in florida scrub. FOSTER, T.E. and J.R. BROOKS
10:45 AM	Simulating tundra vegetation at varying levels of aggregation: An analysis of functional groupings. EPSTEIN, H.E. and F.S. CHAPIN III, M.D. WALKER, A.M. STARFIELD
11:00 AM	Spatial- temporal factors and their influence on subsequent tree species recruitment in secondary terre firme forests of Central Amazonia. BERGEN, S. and M. HONZAK, G. BRADSHAW
11:15 AM	Habitat associations of tropical trees and shrubs within a 50-ha forest plot in Panama. HARMS, K.E.
11:30 AM	Changes in the distribution and amount of late successional/old growth, hardwood and shrub cover types in the coast range of Oregon, 1939-1993. HESS, R.S. and T.A. SPIES
11:45 AM	Plant species richness on the Shoshone National Forest, Wyoming: The continuum and the cosmic pear. ROBERTS, D.W. and M.R. WEIDNER, K.J. MCCLOSKEY, K.E. HOUSTON
12:00 PM	Alternate states and hierarchical organization of forests. FRELICH, L.E. and P.B. REICH, M.B. DAVIS, D.J. AUGUSTINE