1:30 PM: Cirtain, Margaret^*,1, Franklin, Scott¹, ¹ University of Memphis, Memphis, TN, 38152, Impact of selected environmental parameters on Arundinaria gigantea canebrake establishment and reintroduction.

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1:50 PM: Zitzer, Stephen^*,, Young, Michael¹, ¹ Desert Researcg Institute, Las Vegas, NV, USA, Surface emulsion impacts seed germination and winter annual vital rates in a Sonoran Desert wash community.

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2:10 PM: Sutton, Adrienne^*,1, Fisher, Thomas¹, ¹ University of Maryland Center for Environmental Science, Cambridge, MD, USA, Water quality effects of restored riparian buffers at multiple scales in the natural environment, Delmarva Peninsula USA.

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2:30 PM: Schultz, Peggy^*,1, Bever, James¹, ¹ Indiana University, Bloomington, IN, USA, Response of prairie plant species to prairie and old field soil communities.

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2:50 PM: Mitchell, Stephen^*,1, Christensen, Norman², ¹ Department of Forest Science, Corvallis, OR, USA² Nicholas School of the Environment and Earth Sciences, Durham, NC, 27707, Structures of herbaceous plant communities in managed forests of the southern Appalachians.

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3:20 PM: Schaff, Steven^*,1, McLeod, Kenneth ¹, ¹ U. of Georgia, Aiken, SC, sschaff@uga.edu, Transitioning to functional ecosystem restoration: The relationship between productivity and nitrogen transformation in bottomland hardwood forests.

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3:40 PM: Ross, Kristen^*,1, Patel, Manisha¹, Ehrenfeld, Joan¹, ¹ Rutgers, the State University of New Jersey, New Brunswick, NJ, USA, Effects of soil amendments on nitrogen dynamics of Berberis thunbergii and Microstegium vimineum in New Jersey forests.

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4:00 PM: Huang, Jianjun^*,1, Boerner, Ralph¹, Rebbeck, Joanne², ¹ Ohio State University, Columbus, OH² USDA Forest Service, Delaware, OH, Can the plant life history characteristics of Desmodium nudiflorum be used as indicators of the effects of ecological restoration treatments?

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4:20 PM: Faulkner, Stephen^*,1, Ullah, Sami^{2, 3}, ¹ U.S. Geological Survey, Lafayette, LA² Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge, LA³ Current Address: Rutgers University, New Brunswick, NJ, Carbon sequestration and greenhouse gas emissions in natural and restored forested wetlands of the Lower Mississippi Valley.

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