8:30 AM Pawlowski, Christopher^*,1, Mayer, Audrey¹, ¹ US EPA National Risk Management Research Laboratory, Cincinnati, OH, USA Resilience of ecosystems to disturbances.

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8:45 AM Moody-Weis, Jennifer ^*,1, Alexander, Helen ¹, ¹ University of Kansas, Lawrence, Kansas Role of disturbance and seed density on seedbank formation and population dynamics in Helianthus annuus.

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9:00 AM Dietze, Michael ^*,1, ¹ Duke University, Durham, NC North Atlantic hurricane disturbance: Current patterns and climatic phases.

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9:15 AM Xi, Weimin^*,1, Peet, Robert K.¹, Urban, Dean L.², ¹ University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, NC, USA² Duke University, Durham, NC, USA Hurricane disturbances, tree species diversity, and succession in North Carolina Piedmont forests.

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9:30 AM Rumbaitis-del RIo, Cristina^{*,1, 2}, Wessman, Carol^{1, 2}, ¹ Cooperative Institute for Research in Environmental Sciences, Boulder, CO, USA² Department of Environmental, Population, and Organismic Biology, Boulder, CO, USA Patterns of recovery of a wind disturbed and salvage-logged subalpine forest.

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9:45 AM Yeakley, J.^*,1, Coleman, D.², Haines, B.³, Kloeppel, B.², Meyer, J.², Swank, W.⁴, Steiner, S.², ¹ Environmental Science, Portland, OR, USA² Institute of Ecology, Athens, GA, USA³ Department of Plant Biology, Athens, GA, USA⁴ Coweeta Hydrologic Laboratory, Otto, NC, USA Hillslope and streamwater nutrient dynamics following upland riparian canopy tree windthrow in the southern Appalachians.

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10:15 AM Papaik, Michael ^{*,1, 2}, Canham, Charles ¹, Woods, Kerry³, Latty, Erika⁴, ¹ Institute of Ecosystem Studies, Millbrook, NY² University of Massachusetts, Amherst, MA³ Benningon College, Bennington, VT⁴ University of Wisconsin, Madison, WI Interactions between beech bark disease and wind disturbance with consequences to stand structure and composition.

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10:30 AM Leach, Andrea^*,1, Peterson, Chris¹, ¹ University of Georgia, Athens, GA Microsite vegetation and environmental differences in salvaged and unsalvaged wind-disturbed forest.

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