Oral Session #68: Dispersal of Seeds and Fruits.

Presiding: I. Ibanez, Duke University.
Wednesday, August 9, 2000
1:45 PM to 4:45 PM
Cottonwood Room III - Sports Event Center

1:45 PM	Dispersal limitation influences spatial dispersion in rainforest tree populations. SEIDLER, T.G. , P.S. ASHTON
2:00 PM	Seed, cache and seedling shadows of an Australian tropical rainforest tree dispersed by white-tailed rats. THEIMER, T.C.
2:15 PM	Seed dispersal determines local seedling species richness in Bornean rain forest. WEBB, C.O. , D.R. PEART
2:30 PM	Dispersal, speciation, and the fate of founders: The Hawaiian biota as a model for linking phylogenetic processes with large-scale diversity patterns. PRICE, J.
2:45 PM	Fish, mammals, or light?: Disperser-limited versus resource limited distribution of a riparian fig tree in a Costa Rican tropical rainforest. BANACK, S.A. , M. HORN and A. GAWLICKA
3:00 PM	Break
3:15 PM	The role of low quality habitat in perennial plant population dynamics. HOOPES, M.F.
3:30 PM	The effects of dispersal and competition on the population dynamics of two dominant California coastal sage scrub species; California buckwheat and White sage. CHALEKIAN, J.S. , D.H. DEUTSCHMAN
3:45 PM	The recovery of species interactions during secondary succession. LOMáSCOLO, T. , T. MITCHELL AIDE
4:00 PM	Coastal dune perennials facilitate seed accumulation: Results of a seedbank study. FRANKS, S.J. , C.J. PETERSON
4:15 PM	Seed dormancy/germination traits of Polygonum species and their implication in soil seed bank strategy. ARAKI*, S. , I. WASHITANI
4:30 PM	Dispersal, environmental variation, and spatial correlation: Effects on extinction risk of Snake River spring chinook. STANLEY, A.G.