8:00 AM Bunker, Daniel^*,1, Carson, Walter¹, ¹ University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania Experimental test of resource competition and keystone predation theories: Predicting the success of invasions and biological control.

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8:15 AM Parry, Dylan ^*,1, Boettner, George², ¹ State University of New York, Syracuse, NY, USA² University of Massachusetts, Amherst, MA, USA Vanishing native parasitoids: Competitive exclusion by an exotic biological control agent?

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8:30 AM Inouye, Brian^*,1, ¹ Florida State University, Tallahassee, Florida Invasive ants and gall-wasp mutualisms and commensalisms.

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8:45 AM Rose, Joshua^*,1, ¹ Duke University, Durham, NC, USA Ecology of exotic dragonfly species in different native assemblages.

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9:00 AM Goodell, Karen¹, ¹ Department of Ecology, Evolution, and Natural Resources, New Brunswick, NJ, USA Structure of bee communities in calcareous fens invaded by purple loosestrife compared to uninvaded fens.

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9:15 AM Winfree, Rachael^*,1, ¹ Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, Princeton, NJ, USA High offspring survival in a novel habitat for an invasive species, the brown-headed cowbird.

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9:30 AM Break.

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10:00 AM Maerz, John^*,1, Blossey, Bernd¹, Nuzzo, Victoria², Liebherr, Jame³, ¹ Ecology and Management of Invasive Plants Prorgram, Ithaca, NY, USA² Natural Areas Consultants, Richford, NY, USA³ Department of Entomology, Ithaca, NY, USA Nonnative species in forest food webs and their impacts on woodland salamander populations.

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10:15 AM Zou, Xiaoming^{*,1, 2}, Huang, Qingyu³, Hou, Lucy³, ¹ Kunming Section, Kunming, Yunnan, P. C. China² Institute for Tropical Ecosystem Studies, San Juan, PR, USA³ Department of Biology, Tainan, Taiwan, R. O. China Invasion of Pontoscolex corethrurus in a tropical forest of Taiwan.

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10:30 AM Winsome, Thais^{*,1, 2}, Horwath, William ¹, Epstein, Lynn¹, Hendrix, Paul², ¹ University of California, Davis, CA² University of Georgia, Athens, GA Functional differences between exotic and native earthworm species in a California grassland.

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10:45 AM Holdsworth, Andrew^*,1, Frelich, Lee¹, Reich, Peter¹, ¹ University of Minnesota, Saint Paul, MN Patterns of earthworm invasion and understory plant composition in lakeside northern hardwood forests.

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