1:30 PM: Levine, Jonathan ^*,1, Pachepsky, Elizaveta¹, Kendall, Bruce¹, Yelenik, Stephanie¹, Hille Ris Lambers, Janneke ¹, Wittmann, Marion¹, ¹ University of California, Santa Barbara, Santa Barbara, CA, Plant-Soil Feedbacks and Invasive Spread.

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1:50 PM: Yelenik, Stephanie^*,1, Levine, Jonathan^*,1, ¹ Department of Ecology, Evolution, and Marine Biology, Santa Barbara, CA, USA, The role of plant-soil feedbacks in native coastal sage shrub recolonization of exotic annual grasslands.

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2:10 PM: Hickman, Jonathan^*,1, Howe, Kate², Gurevitch, Jessica¹, Lerdau, Manuel¹, ¹ The State University of New York at Stony Brook, Stony Brook, NY, US² The Nature Conservancy, Indianapolis, IN, US, Decomposition dynamics of native and invasive litter in single and two-species mixes.

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2:30 PM: Otfinowski, Rafael^*,1, Kenkel, Norm¹, ¹ University of Manitoba, Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada, The proliferation-decline model of exotic plant invasion.

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2:50 PM: Kao-Kniffin, Jenny^*,1, Balser, Teri¹, ¹ University of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison, WI, Plant-microbial interactions within invasive and native plant communities grown under elevated CO₂.

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3:20 PM: Mortenson, Susan^*,1, Mack, Richard¹, ¹ Washington State University, Pullman, Washington, USA, The fate of alien conifers in long-term plantings in the U.S.

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3:40 PM: Battaglia, Loretta^*,1, Inczauskis, Jason¹, ¹ Southern Illinois University, Carbondale, IL, Wax myrtle controls recruitment of Chinese tallow and native wetland species in a Louisiana floating marsh.

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4:00 PM: Leonard, Norman^*,1, ¹ University of New Orleans, New Orleans, LA, Tadpoles of early breeding amphibians are negatively affected by litter from invasive Chinese tallow trees.

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4:20 PM: Powers, Matthew^*,1, Nagel, Linda², ¹ School of Forest Resources and Environmental Science, Houghton, Michigan, USA² Ecosystem Science Center, Houghton, Michigan, USA, Forest management, deer herbivory, and exotic earthworm activity contribute to Pennsylvania sedge mat formation in northern hardwood forests.

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4:40 PM: Cummings, D. Chad^*,1, Fuhlendorf, Samuel ¹, Engle, David¹, ¹ Dept. of Plant and Soil Sciences, Stillwater, OK, USA, Invasive Lespedeza cuneata dynamics at multiple spatial scales as influenced by dominant disturbances on rangelands.

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