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This schedule was last updated at 9:00 AM Central Time on July 26, 2005. Please note that this site is updated periodically. Check back regularly to get the latest session and presentation times.

Thursday, August 4

Morning

Field Trips

FT - 1: Lake Duparquet Research and Teaching Forest, Abitibi, and Haliburton Forest and Wildlife Preserve, Ontario (Two-nights)

Afternoon/Evening

Friday, August 5

Morning

Field Trips

FT - 2: Mont Tremblant Park Camping/Canoeing Trip (Two Nights)

Afternoon/Evening

Saturday, August 6

Morning

Workshops

WK - 1: Biophysical ecology at leaf and canopy scales: Measurement of water status, stomatal conductance and leaf area index

WK - 4: Command Spanish®: Survival Spanish for the NON-native speaker scientist in the field.

Field Trips

FT - 3: Lichen woodlands and caribou conservation at their southern range limits (One Night)

ESA Functions

Registration

ESA Governing Board Meeting

Internet Cafe

SEEDS

SD - 1: SEEDS Alumni Orientation

SD - 2: SEEDS Team Outing

Afternoon/Evening

Workshops

WK - 2: Ecology Connections: A website for biology teachers

WK - 3: Canadian National Vegetation Classification: Forests & woodlands

ESA Functions

AV Training for Student Projectionist 1

Presider Training 1

Tour 1: Montreal and the Francofolies

SEEDS

SD - 3: SEEDS Student Orientation

SD - 4: SEEDS Mixer and Buffet Dinner

Sunday, August 7

Morning

Workshops

WK - 3: Canadian National Vegetation Classification: Forests & woodlands

WK - 4: Command Spanish®: Survival Spanish for the NON-native speaker scientist in the field.

WK - 5: An introduction to state-space models for population viability analysis

WK - 6: Interpreting fire history from sediment records of macroscopic charcoal: Theory, analytical techniques, and future directions

WK - 7: Introduction to advanced statistical methods for ecologists

WK - 8: Cyberinfrastructure for managing analyzing and sharing ecological data and information

WK - 9: Combining Great Lake to global spatial scales with quick to extended times for ecological simulation

WK - 10: Teaching and learning ecology in the schoolyards

WK - 11: (By Invitation Only) Sturgeon in the Caspian Sea: Scaling up from individuals to population estimates to conservation status

WK - 12: Pathways to scientific teaching: Design, implement and analyze

WK - 13: Surviving Grad School: Balancing the demands of teaching and research

WK - 14: Lessons from large-scale manipulations of ecosystems and landscapes

WK - 15: How to do collaborative ecological teaching and research using web pages and online resources.

WK - 16: LANDFIRE: Scientific foundations for multiscale fire, fuels and risk assessments

WK - 17: Community to the globe: Landscape analysis using geospatial tools

Field Trips

FT - 4: Northern Vermont natural history and bird fauna

FT - 5: Preserving a natural corridor on private land: The Riviere au Saumon Natural Corridor Project; An innovative example of watershed conservation in southern Quebec.

FT - 6: Forests of Gatineau Park

FT - 7: Mer Bleue Bog

FT - 8: Exploring Parc de la Riviere des Milles Iles by Rabaska

FT - 9: An Old-growth northern hardwood forest – hiking/walking field trip on Mont St. Hilaire, Quebec

FT - 10: Boating to Lake Saint Pierre Wetlands and Berthier Sorel Archipelago

INTECOL Functions

INTECOL Executive Board Meeting

ESA Functions

Registration

ESA Governing Board Meeting

Speaker Ready Rooms

Press Office

Internet Cafe

Equipment Sign Out - Sign In / Spealer Ready Room Sign Up

Afternoon/Evening

Workshops

WK - 18: Step up, speak up: Policy training workshop

WK - 19: Indicators of rangeland sustainability: Are they applicable internationally and/or at multiple spatial scales?

WK - 20: Moving science beyond the Ivory Tower: Working with the media

WK - 21: Helping ecology faculty do research on their teaching with TIEE

WK - 22: State of the City: What’s the status of urban ecosystem research and how can we create a research agenda?

WK - 23: Advances in cyberinfrastructure for ecological studies

INTECOL Functions

INTECOL Board Meeting

ESA Functions

AV Training for Student Projectionists 2

Presider Training 2

Buell - Braun Judges Meeting

Opening Ceremony and Public Plenary

ESA Council Orientation Meeting and Reception

Ticketed Events

TK - 1: Welcome Mixer: In Old Montréal

SEEDS

SD - 5: SEEDS Mentor Orientation and Social

Monday, August 8

Morning

Symposia

Symposium 1: The boreal forest and global change

Symposium 2: Soil Biodiversity: Scaling from microbe to ecosystem

Symposium 3: Linking ecological processes and environmental impacts across scales: Coastal ecology and energy development in the Caspian Sea and Gulf of Mexico

Organized Oral

Organized Oral Session 1: Understanding the impacts of oxidative stress in plants: From molecules to ecosystems

Organized Oral Session 2: Measuring landscape connectivity - tool for species conservation

Organized Oral Session 3: Mutualists as parasites: How mutualistic are mutualists, and why?

Organized Oral Session 4: Tropical cyclone disturbance and forest dynamics at multiple temporal scales: results from long-term studies in the new and old worlds

Organized Oral Session 5: Mercury cycles: Sources, mass balances, bioaccumulation, and options to manage affected systems

Organized Oral Session 6: Development of landscape heterogeneity at multiple scales in wetlands

Oral Sessions

Contributed Oral Session 1: Landscape History

Contributed Oral Session 2: Traditional Ecological Knowledge

Contributed Oral Session 3: Herbivory: Plant - Herbivore Interaction

Contributed Oral Session 4: Forest Management

Contributed Oral Session 5: Aquatic Ecology: System Heterogeneity

Contributed Oral Session 6: Biodiversity: Management, Theory, and Techniques

Contributed Oral Session 7: Disturbance Ecology: Fire; Litter; Animal response

Contributed Oral Session 8: Invertebrate Ecology: Butterflies; Soil Insects

Contributed Oral Session 9: Marine Ecology: Disturbance; Dispersal; Recruitment

Contributed Oral Session 10: Aquatic Trophic Systems I

Contributed Oral Session 11: Invasive Species: Arid Lands

Contributed Oral Session 12: Arid Lands: Plant Response to Precipitation

Contributed Oral Session 13: Ecology Education I

Contributed Oral Session 14: Evolutionary Ecology: Theory; Modeling

Contributed Oral Session 15: Populations and Genetics: Succession; Reproduction

Contributed Oral Session 16: Photosynthesis and Water Relations: Conductivity; Stress

Contributed Oral Session 17: Reptiles and Amphibians: Habitat; and Communities

Contributed Oral Session 18: Avian Communities and Populations

Workshops

WK - 24: SEEDS Program: How ESA members can get involved

WK - 25: Developing indicators and ecosystem services in a framework that integrates ecological and economic concepts

ESA Functions

AV Training for Student Projectionists 3

Presider Training 3

Registration

Youth Summer Camp

Ecology Editorial Board Meeting

ESA Meetings Committee

ESA Science Committee Meeting

ESA Meetings Committee

ESA Finance and Investment Committee Meeting

Issues in Ecology Editorial Board Meeting

VIP ESA Editor's Lunch (Invitation Only)

ESA Awards Committee Meeting

Traditional Ecological Knowledge Section Brown - Bag Lunch Business Meeting

Speaker Ready Rooms

Press Office

International Lounge

Internet Cafe

Equipment Sign Out - Sign In / Spealer Ready Room Sign Up

Infant and Toddler Care

Student Lounge

Ticketed Events

TK - 2: Student Section and Student LTER Lunch - Chat

GNG - A: Grab-and-Go Quick Lunch

SEEDS

SD - 6: SEEDS Mentor's Breakfast

SD - 7: SEEDS Chapter Meeting

Afternoon/Evening

Organized Oral

Organized Oral Session 7: Ecological effects of the chernobyl disaster: Genes to ecosystems

Organized Oral Session 8: Contaminants in aquatic systems: Individual effects and community consequences.

Organized Oral Session 9: Multiscale advanced raster map analysis for ecosystem health monitoring, assessment, and management in the 21st Century

Organized Oral Session 10: Reducing habitat fragmentation by roads: A comparison of measures and scales

Organized Oral Session 11: Hydraulic limitations in vascular plants

Oral Sessions

Contributed Oral Session 19: Modeling: Movement and Population Dynamics

Contributed Oral Session 20: Modeling Animal Populations

Contributed Oral Session 21: Urban Stream Ecosystems

Contributed Oral Session 22: Fish Habitat Structure and Movement

Contributed Oral Session 23: Aquatic Ecology: Plankton Communities

Contributed Oral Session 24: Disturbance Ecology: Management; Response to Fire

Contributed Oral Session 25: Aquatic Trophic Systems II

Contributed Oral Session 26: Soil Fungi

Contributed Oral Session 27: Marine Populations Under Harvest

Contributed Oral Session 28: Plant Physiology: Effects of Ozone CO₂, and Cavitation

Contributed Oral Session 29: Climate Dynamics: Arid Land Responses to Variability in Rainfall

Contributed Oral Session 30: Statistics

Contributed Oral Session 31: Reptiles and Amphibians: Physiology; Food Webs

Contributed Oral Session 32: Soil Nutrient Dynamics and Acid Deposition

Contributed Oral Session 33: Grassland and Shrubland Communities

Contributed Oral Session 34: Polar and Alpine Ecology: Climate Effects; Communities

Contributed Oral Session 35: Invasive Species: Great Lakes Area

Contributed Oral Session 36: Late Breaking and Newsworthy Research: Distribution; Disturbance

Posters

Poster Session 1: Photosynthesis and Water Relations

Poster Session 2: Forest Ecology

Poster Session 3: Aquatic Ecology

Poster Session 4: Marine Ecology

Special Sessions

Special Session 1: Ecological sustainability in a world of constant change: Developing a new research agenda for ESA

Special Session 2: Sense of Place: Indigenous homelands of eastern Canada

Special Session 3: Improv 101: Ease those presentation jitters

Special Session 4: Diversifying ecology

Special Session 5: An integrated trends analysis network

Special Session 6: Writing manuscripts for publication

Special Session 7: Social capacity development for environmental management: International cooperation and ecological solution

Evening Sessions

EV - A (Ticketed Evening Session): What editors want: Do’s and Don’ts for submitting your manuscript

EV - 1: Migration in a changing world

EV - 2: Use of indicators on disturbed lands

EV - 3: Issues in ethics and intellectual property rights in partnership with First Nations peoples

EV - 4: Approaches and challenges of using large-scale databases and digital libraries in environmental education

EV - 5: Ecological complexity: Unifying ecological theory across scales

INTECOL Functions

INTECOL Opening Plenary

ESA Functions

Opening Plenary, Awards Ceremony, and MacArthur Lecture

ESA Aquatic Ecologists Business Meeting and Mixer

ESA Vegetation Section and North American Chapter of International Association of Vegetation Scientists Business Meeting and Mixer

ESA Physiological Ecology Section Business Meeting and Mixer

ESA Plant Population Section Business Meeting and Mixer

ESA Theoretical Ecology Section Business Meeting and Mixer

Utah State Ecologist's Reception

Canadian Chapter Mixer

Defending Federal Agency Science from Political Interference Reception

Ticketed Events

TK - 3: Federal Ecologists' Reception

TK - 4: INTECOL Reception

ST - 1: Christian Ecologists' Social

Tuesday, August 9

Morning

Symposia

Symposium 4: Ecosystem ecology at the watershed scale: Linking biogeochemical cycles across the terrestrial - aquatic divide

Symposium 5: Marine macroecology

Symposium 6: Pathways to scientific teaching in ecology education

Organized Oral

Organized Oral Session 12: Multiple time scales of ecological processes: Results from the LTER Network

Organized Oral Session 13: Gas exchange and global change in peatlands: From soil to satellite

Organized Oral Session 14: Ecology of arable plants: Linking invertebrate and weed population dynamics

Organized Oral Session 15: A toolbox for fire ecology: Mechanisms linking fire behavior and ecological effect

Organized Oral Session 16: Allelopathy: Biochemical interactions among plants affecting community structure, exotic invasions and evolutionary theory

Organized Oral Session 17: Coastal indicators of ecological condition: Integration of spatial scales

Organized Oral Session 18: Ecological guidelines for management of water quantity and quality in agricultural landscapes

Oral Sessions

Contributed Oral Session 37: Floodplain Restoration

Contributed Oral Session 38: Aquatic Faunal Assemblage Responses to Stressors

Contributed Oral Session 39: Physiology: Respiration, Sap Flow, and Growth

Contributed Oral Session 40: Forest Understories

Contributed Oral Session 41: Biogeochemistry: Climate Effects and Physiology

Contributed Oral Session 42: Invasive Species: Competition

Contributed Oral Session 43: Landscape Ecology

Contributed Oral Session 44: Mammal Ecology: Seals, Deer, and Bats

Contributed Oral Session 45: Evolutionary / Theoretical Ecology : Genotypes and Phenotypes

Contributed Oral Session 46: Predator - Prey Ecology: Communities and Environmental Impacts

Contributed Oral Session 47: Invasive Species: Environmental and Habitat Factors

Contributed Oral Session 48: Landscape Ecology: Animal Dynamics

Contributed Oral Session 49: Climate and Vegetation Dynamics

Contributed Oral Session 50: Restoration Management and Modeling

Contributed Oral Session 51: Arid Land Management, Vegetation, and Nutrient Dynamics

Contributed Oral Session 52: Avian Nesting and Breeding

Contributed Oral Session 53: Trophic Communities and Modeling

Contributed Oral Session 54: Urban Plant Communities

Special Sessions

Special Session 8: Spatial statistics at multiple scales

Workshops

WK - 26: Opportunities for funding in environmental biology at NSF

WK - 27: The 2010 biodiversity target: Implications for ecologists

WK - 28: Multi-scale cyberinfrastructure to support biodiversity research and conservation

WK - 29: Models as a tool for integration of education and collaborative research

WK - 30: Help design EcoBeaker 3.0 : Discussion on the next version of our widely used ecology teaching software

Field Trips

FT - 11 A: Biodome Jardin Botanique

ESA Functions

Registration

Youth Summer Camp

ESA Meetings Committee

Introduction to the Midwest Invasive Plant Network - Brownbag Lunch Meeting

ESA Public Affairs Committee Meeting

ESA Vegetation Classification Panel Business Meeting

"Frontiers in Ecology" Editorial Board Meeting

ESA - BES Breakfast Meeting and Reception for the Presidents of the Ecological Societies of the World

ESA Past President's Forum Luncheon (Invitation Only)

ESA Urban Ecology Section Brown - Bag Lunch

ESA Long Term Studies Section Business Meeting and Brown - Bag Lunch

ESA Southeastern Chapter Section Brown - Bag Lunch

ESA Student Section Brown - Bag Lunch

ESA Education and Human Resources Committee Lunch Meeting

International Committee of U.S. LTER Meeting

Press Office

Student Lounge

International Lounge

Internet Cafe

Equipment Sign Out - Sign In / Spealer Ready Room Sign Up

ESA MacArthur Awards Subcommittee

Speaker Ready Rooms

Infant and Toddler Care

ESA Agroecology Section Business Meeting and Brownbag Lunch

Ticketed Events

ST - 2: Grad Student and Post-Doc Coffee, Croissants, and Conversations: Roundtable with the Governing Board

GNG - B: Grab-and-Go Quick Lunch

SEEDS

SD - 8: SEEDS Advisory Board Meeting

Afternoon/Evening

Symposia

Symposium 7: Multi-scale integration for ecological sustainability: Approaches and applications

Symposium 8: Ecosystem response and recovery: Assessing the 1991 Canada-US Air Quality Agreement

Symposium 9: Spatial heterogeneity in urban ecosystems: Integration and scaling in coupled natural-human systems

Organized Oral

Organized Oral Session 19: Bat habitat use in eastern North American temperate forests: Site, stand, and landscape effects

Organized Oral Session 20: Disease in ecosystems: Reciprocal interactions between pathogens and ecosystems

Organized Oral Session 21: Implications of disturbance on boreal peatland carbon cycling: From sites to to landscape-scale carbon budgets

Organized Oral Session 22: Comparative ecology of tropical trees: Linking physiology to dynamics and distribution

Organized Oral Session 23: The use of spatially explicit data in ecological investigations

Organized Oral Session 24: Conducting global multi-scale integrated environmental management and research using site-specific research: Lessons learned from the ILTER

Organized Oral Session 25: Dynamics of invasive plants: Individuals to ecosystems

Oral Sessions

Contributed Oral Session 55: Agroecology: Management

Contributed Oral Session 56: Aquatic Ecology: Communities

Contributed Oral Session 57: Polar and Alpine Ecology: Carbon and Nutrient Dynamics

Contributed Oral Session 58: Forest Ecology: Riparian Areas

Contributed Oral Session 59: Bacterial Communities and Diversity

Contributed Oral Session 60: Biogeochemistry: Soil Nutrient Dynamics; Decomposition

Contributed Oral Session 61: Evolutionary Ecology: Aquatic Systems

Contributed Oral Session 62: Fish Predation and Morphology

Contributed Oral Session 63: Plant Genetics: Population Level Implications

Contributed Oral Session 64: GIS / Remote Sensing and Landscape Ecology

Contributed Oral Session 65: Herbivory: Physiological Responses

Contributed Oral Session 66: Disturbance Ecology : Water, Wind, and Ice

Contributed Oral Session 67: Modeling: Nutrient Cycling; Food Webs

Contributed Oral Session 68: Ecology Education II

Contributed Oral Session 69: Marine Ecology: Habitat; Communities

Contributed Oral Session 70: Avian Ecology: Habitat; Human Impact

Contributed Oral Session 71: Terrestrial Plant Restoration; Fire Effects

Contributed Oral Session 72: Trophic Systems: Communities; Predator Behavior

Posters

Poster Session 5: Climate Dynamics

Poster Session 6: Arctic and Alpine Ecology

Poster Session 7: Grasslands

Poster Session 8: Traditional Ecological Knowledge

Poster Session 9: Arid Lands and Deserts

Poster Session 10: Restoration and Adaptive Management

Poster Session 11: Disturbance Ecology

Poster Session 12: Physiology

Poster Session 13: Landscape Ecology / Geomorphology

Poster Session 14: GIS and Remote Sensing

Poster Session 15: Urban Ecology

Poster Session 16: Ecology Education

Special Sessions

Special Session 9: Restoration of Mesopotamian Marshes of Iraq

Evening Sessions

EV - 6: Writers and Poets Evening

EV - 7: Assessing the future of North America’s natural ecosystems using the latest climate and vegetation models

EV - 8: Can the Mesopotamian Marsh's Garden of Eden in Iraq be restored?

EV - 9: Ecology teaching in K-12 schools: Status and vision

EV - 10: International Polar Year 2007-2008 Town Meeting

EV - 11: An ecologist’s guide to the galaxy

EV - 12: Empowering ecologists with informatics education and training

INTECOL Functions

INTECOL General Assembly

ESA Functions

University of Michigan School of Natural Resources and Environment and Ecology and Evolutionary Biology Joint Students and Alumni Mixer

ESA Vegetation Panel Database (VegBank) Sub-Committee Meeting

Oecologia Editors Reception and Dinner (Invitation Only)

Ecological Applications Editorial Board Meeting

ESA Education Section Mixer

ESA International Affairs Section Business Meeting and Mixer

ESA Fund for the Millenium Reception (Invitation Only)

Organization for Tropical Studies Mixer

Ecology Letters Reception (Blackwell Publishing) (Invitation Only)

Ecology Letters Editorial Board Meeting (Blackwell Publishing)

USGS All – Hands Meeting and Mixer

Ticketed Events

TK - 5: Student Mixer: Dim Sum Delights

Wednesday, August 10

Morning

Symposia

Symposium 10: The invasion paradox: Reconciling biodiversity and invasion patterns across spatial scales

Symposium 11: Global land science: Dynamics of the coupled human-environment system

Symposium 12: Bridging the divide: Bringing theory into practice in forest biodiversity conservation

Organized Oral

Organized Oral Session 26: From microbes to ecosystems: How do we really make the connections?

Organized Oral Session 27: Emerging ecoinformatic tools and accomplishments for synthetic ecological research across scales

Organized Oral Session 28: Ecological processes important in the responses of bird populations to environmental change driven by agriculture

Organized Oral Session 29: Protecting ecosystem services through private sector partnerships and the capital markets

Organized Oral Session 30: Modeling movement at multiple scales

Organized Oral Session 31: Structure and function of tropical rainforest canopies

Organized Oral Session 32: Forest disturbance regimes in the circumboreal forest zone: Natural variability and implications for forest management and biodiversity conservation

Oral Sessions

Contributed Oral Session 73: Aquatic Ecology: Management of Streams and Lakes

Contributed Oral Session 74: Biodiversity: Aquatic Systems

Contributed Oral Session 75: Biogeochemistry: Soil Chemical Flux

Contributed Oral Session 76: Estuary and Coastal Management

Contributed Oral Session 77: Paleoecology

Contributed Oral Session 78: Evolutionary Ecology: Genetics

Contributed Oral Session 79: Forest Ecology: Communities, Species Richness, and Coarse Woody Debris

Contributed Oral Session 80: Mutualism / Parasitism: Pollination, Dispersal, Ants, Aphids, and Fungi

Contributed Oral Session 81: Invertebrate Ecology: Communities; Populations; Disturbance

Contributed Oral Session 82: Landscape and Population Genetics

Contributed Oral Session 83: Human Impacts on Coastal Areas

Contributed Oral Session 84: Ecology of Marine and Intertidal Systems

Contributed Oral Session 85: Mutualism: Pollination

Contributed Oral Session 86: Herbivory: Genetic Variability in Insect - Plant Interactions

Contributed Oral Session 88: Mammal Ecology: Habitat and Movement

Contributed Oral Session 89: Soil Ecology: Plant - Soil Relationships

Contributed Oral Session 90: Urban Ecology: Management

Special Sessions

Special Session 10: Building an ecological observatory network for regional- to continental-scale research—NEON, the National Ecological Observatory Network

Workshops

WK - 31: Protecting ecosystem services through private sector partnerships and the capital markets

WK - 32: Moderated roundtable luncheon discussion: Building an ecological observatory network for regional- to continental-scale research: NEON, the National Ecological Observatory Network

WK - 33: Environmental justice & ESA: A vision for research, education and outreach

WK - 34: Scientific teaching in ecology education: What is it, why do it, and how can we help faculty succeed at it?

Field Trips

FT - 12: Macdonald Campus: Entomological Museum, Arboretum and EcoMuseum of McGill University

ESA Functions

Registration

Youth Summer Camp (Wednesday)

ESA Publications Committee Meeting

ESA Professional Certification Board Meeting

Rapid Response Team Luncheon (Invitation Only)

ESA Paleoecology Section Brown - Bag Lunch and Business Meeting

Ecosystems Editorial Board Meeting (Janet Slobodien for Springer)

Carleton College Alumni and Friends Reunion and Brown Bag Lunch

Speaker Ready Rooms

Press Office

Student Lounge

International Lounge

Internet Cafe

Equipment Sign Out - Sign In / Spealer Ready Room Sign Up

Infant and Toddler Care

Ticketed Events

ST - 3: Sunrise 5 K Fun Run / Fun Walk in Mont Royal Parc

ST - 4: Wisconsin Ecologists' Lunch: Sponsored by the Madison Ecology Group

GNG - C: Grab-and-Go Quick Lunch

Afternoon/Evening

Symposia

Symposium 13: Prediction and prioritization of future invasive species

Symposium 14: Ecological impacts of Asia on global sustainability at multiple scales

Symposium 15: The bringing together of professional ecologists and educators with citizen science

Organized Oral

Organized Oral Session 33: Restoring and designing ecosystems for a crowded planet: Provision of ecosystem services or mere window dressing?

Organized Oral Session 34: Incorporating ecological processes at many scales into biogeochemical and global climate change models

Organized Oral Session 35: Mutualism, competition, and invasion: Applying ecological theory to agriculture

Organized Oral Session 36: Role of microbial communities in mediating biogeochemical response to disturbance

Organized Oral Session 37: Post-fire conversion of forest to non-forest: Do we need new theory?

Organized Oral Session 38: Sensors and sensor networks in ecology

Organized Oral Session 39: Consequences of dispersal and colonization: What happens when communities are opened?

Oral Sessions

Contributed Oral Session 91: Aquatic Ecology: Wetland Management; Stream Chemistry

Contributed Oral Session 92: Biodiversity: Aquatic Systems

Contributed Oral Session 93: Modeling: Movement, Populations, and Communities

Contributed Oral Session 94: Toxicology and Disease : Viruses and Epidemics

Contributed Oral Session 95: Forest Ecology: Physiological Processes

Contributed Oral Session 96: Restoration and Adaptive Management: Fresh and Salt Water Wetlands; Deer

Contributed Oral Session 97 : Toxicology and Disease: Modeling; Dynamics

Contributed Oral Session 98: Marine Ecology: Feeding Strategies and Food Webs

Contributed Oral Session 99: Populations and Genetics: Diversity and Population Dynamics

Contributed Oral Session 100: Modeling: Forest Systems

Contributed Oral Session 101: Mammalian Herbivory

Contributed Oral Session 102: Herbivory: Effects of Photosynthesis; Nutrients

Contributed Oral Session 103: Forest Ecology : Carbon Stocks and Cycling

Contributed Oral Session 104: Predator - Prey Ecology: Communities; Defenses

Contributed Oral Session 105: Rare, Threatened, and Endangered Species: Fauna; Management

Contributed Oral Session 106: Restoration and Adaptive Management: Forests; Grasslands

Contributed Oral Session 107: Soil Biota and Communities

Contributed Oral Session 108: Aquatic Trophic Systems II

Posters

Poster Session 17: Modelling

Poster Session 18: Statistics

Poster Session 19: Biodiversity

Poster Session 20: Invasive Species

Poster Session 21: Paleoecology

Poster Session 22: Biogeography

Poster Session 23: Soil Ecology

Poster Session 24: Agro-Ecology

Special Sessions

Special Session 11: Delivering on the promise of ecological science to improve land management: Ecological site descriptions

Evening Sessions

EV - B: (Ticketed Evening Session) Quick response to natural disasters

EV - 13: Delivering on the promise of ecological science to improve land management: Ecological site descriptions, and informal discussion

EV - 14: How to succeed in ecology: Advice from senior ecologists and rising stars

EV - 15: The role of ecology in poverty reduction and international development

EV - 16: Philosophy and history of ecology: Their use and misuse

EV - 17: Testing ecological hypotheses with paleo-data

EV - 18: Long-term ecological changes across China’s rural landscapes

EV - 19: Implementation of integrated management in the Pantanal and Upper Paraguay River basin

EV - 20: Ecology and ecological economics: Symbiosis for a sustainable future

INTECOL Functions

INTECOL Board Dinner

ESA Functions

Tour 2: Guided visit to the Secretariat of the Convention on Biological Diversity's offices in Old Montreal

Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual, and Transgender Ecologists' Brown - Bag Lunch

ESA Applied, Agroecology, Rangeland, Long-Term Studies, and Soil Ecology Sections Joint Mixer

ESA Statistical Ecology Section Business Meeting and Mixer

ESA Biogeosciencesand Soil Ecology Sections Joint Mixer and Section Business Meetings

ESA Asian Ecologists Section Business Meeting and Mixer

Colorado State Ecologists Mixer

ESA Mexican Chapter Business Meeting

Michigan State Ecologists Students and Alumni Mixer

NPER Reception (Invitation Only)

BES Reception (Blackwell Publishing) (Invitation Only)

Yale University School of Forestry and Environment Alumni/ae Mixer

Ticketed Events

TK - 6: Diversity Mixer: 'SEEDS Highlights' Reception and Program

ST - 5: NCEAS Mixer

SEEDS

SD - 9: SEEDS Fellowship Meeting

Thursday, August 11

Morning

Symposia

Symposium 16: Incorporating trophic diversity into the biodiversity-ecosystem functioning debate: Lessons from aquatic ecosystems

Symposium 17: Species range dynamics: Past, present, and future

Symposium 18: Linking local, regional and global ecological changes across densely populated landscapes

Organized Oral

Organized Oral Session 40: Understory and epiphytic vegetation as indicators of the ecological integrity of managed forests

Organized Oral Session 41: Ecological responses to precipitation: Scaling patterns and processes from the genome to the ecosystem

Organized Oral Session 42: Applying ecological theories to multiple spatio-temporal scales and to different landscapes in Europe

Organized Oral Session 43: Complex consequences of spatial subsidies to food webs

Organized Oral Session 44: Linking the practice of stream restoration with the science of stream ecology

Organized Oral Session 45: Evolution in metacommunities: A new framework for species coexistence

Organized Oral Session 46: Ecological indicators at multiple scales

Oral Sessions

Contributed Oral Session 109: Agroecology: Soils; Nutrient Cycling

Contributed Oral Session 110: Biogeochemistry: Nitrogen Dynamics

Contributed Oral Session 111: Biodiversity: Genetics and Evolution

Contributed Oral Session 112: Evolutionary Ecology: Invasion Dynamics; Populations; Communities

Contributed Oral Session 113: Forest Regeneration

Contributed Oral Session 114: Invasive Species: Disturbance; Disease; Allelopathy

Contributed Oral Session 115: Grasslands: Nutrient Cycling; Management

Contributed Oral Session 116: Predator - Prey Ecology: Modeling

Contributed Oral Session 117: Biodiversity: Climate and Environmental Effects

Contributed Oral Session 118: Biogeography: Community Composition

Contributed Oral Session 119: Invasive Species : Aquatic Invaders

Contributed Oral Session 120: Invasive Species: Nutrients and Chemistry

Contributed Oral Session 121: Freshwater Wetlands

Contributed Oral Session 122: Invasive Species: Pollination - Dispersal

Contributed Oral Session 123: Photosynthesis and Water Relations: Leaf Architecture

Contributed Oral Session 124: Grassland Ecology: Water Relations; Growth

Contributed Oral Session 125: Soil Ecology: Carbon - Nitrogen Cycling

Contributed Oral Session 126: Mammal Ecology: Management, Reproduction, and Food Webs

Special Sessions

Special Session 12: Millennium Ecosystem Assessment Part I: A synthesis of core findings

Workshops

WK - 35: Species Range Dynamics: Integrating Phylogeographic, Paleoecological, and Contemporary Data Sources

WK - 36: Fear and Fishing in Lake Davis

Field Trips

FT - 11 B: Biodome Jardin Botanique

INTECOL Functions

INTECOL Executive Board Meeting

ESA Functions

Registration

Youth Summer Camp (Thursday)

ESA Mid-Atlantic Chapter Meeting and Continental Breakfast

ESA Western Chapter Meeting and Continental Breakfast

ESA Rocky Mountain Chapter Meeting and Continental Breakfast

ESA Themed Meeting in Mexico 2006 Program Organizing and Planning Committee Meeting

Speaker Ready Rooms

Press Office

Student Lounge

International Lounge

Internet Cafe

Equipment Sign Out - Sign In / Spealer Ready Room Sign Up

ESA Historical Records Committee

Infant and Toddler Care

Ticketed Events

TK - 7: Diversity in Ecology Luncheon

GNG - D: Grab-and-Go Quick Lunch

Afternoon/Evening

Symposia

Symposium 19: Spatial nonlinearities and cross scale interactions: Cascading effects in the Earth System

Symposium 20: Evolution on ecological time scales

Symposium 21: Resource pulses in space and time: Linking species, communities and ecosystems

Organized Oral

Organized Oral Session 47: Insights, challenges, and future directions in modeling forest dynamics at multiple scales

Organized Oral Session 48: Nitrogen cycling in terrestrial ecosystems: New insights from isotopes and experiments

Organized Oral Session 49: Scaling species abundance, distribution and diversity: From pattern to process

Organized Oral Session 50: Dynamics of disturbed and undisturbed tropical rain forests

Organized Oral Session 51: Predictability of vegetation dynamics: From quadrats to landscapes, from years to decades

Oral Sessions

Contributed Oral Session 127: Forest Structure and Communities

Contributed Oral Session 128: Invasive Species: Genetics; Speciation

Contributed Oral Session 129: Biodiversity: Disturbance; Landscapes; Heterogeneity

Contributed Oral Session 130: Forest Infestations and Mortality

Contributed Oral Session 131: Biogeography: Ranges; Species Area; Populations

Contributed Oral Session 132: Invasive Species: Management and Indicator Species

Contributed Oral Session 133: Biogeochemistry of Streams and Wetlands

Contributed Oral Session 134: Forest Ecology: Reproduction and Recruitment

Contributed Oral Session 135: Invasive Species: Plant - Soil Feedbacks; Invasion Success

Contributed Oral Session 136: Fish Communities, Management, and Recruitment

Contributed Oral Session 137: Agroecology: Pest Control, Dispersal, and Pollination

Contributed Oral Session 138: Fire and Vegetation Dynamics

Contributed Oral Session 139: Landscape Ecology: Streams; Wetlands

Contributed Oral Session 140: Forest Photosynthesis and Water Relations

Contributed Oral Session 141: Restoration and Adaptive Management: Soils and Nutrients

Contributed Oral Session 142: Biodiversity and Nitrogen

Contributed Oral Session 143: Predator - Prey Ecology: Intraguild Predation and Community Dynamics

Contributed Oral Session 144: Predator - Prey Ecology: Terrestrial Habitat and Food Webs

Contributed Oral Session 145: Evolutionary Ecology: Population Dynamics

Contributed Oral Session 146: Biogeochemistry: Nutrient Dynamics; Carbon Sequestration

Posters

Poster Session 25: Mammalian Ecology

Poster Session 26: Reptiles and Amphibians

Poster Session 27: Fish Ecology

Poster Session 28: Avian Ecology

Poster Session 29: Predator / Prey Ecology

Poster Session 30: Invertebrate Ecology

Poster Session 31: Rare, Threatened, and Endangered Species

Poster Session 32: Biogeochemistry

Poster Session 33: Trohpic Structure

Poster Session 34: Herbivory

Poster Session 35: Evolutionary Ecology

Poster Session 36: Genetics / Population Ecology

Poster Session 37: Toxicology and Disease

Poster Session 38: Mutualism / Parasitism

Special Sessions

Special Session 13: Millenium Ecosysyem Assessment Part II: Frontiers in multi-scale assessments of ecosystem services

Ticketed Events

TK - 8: ESA - INTECOL Circus Social at TOHU

SEEDS

SD - 10: SEEDS Closing

Friday, August 12

Morning

Symposia

Symposium 22: Qualitatively wider scope and failed models: New paradigms for tired old myths

Symposium 23: Comparative plant ecology as a tool for integrating across scales

Symposium 24: Bridging the gap between theory and empiricism in ecology

Organized Oral

Organized Oral Session 52: Casting light on nocturnal stomatal and canopy conductance

Organized Oral Session 53: Days to decades and meters to miles: Exploring community dynamics across scales, taxa, and habitats

Oral Sessions

Contributed Oral Session 147: Aquatic Communities, Disturbance, and Dispersal

Contributed Oral Session 148: Biogeochemistry: Nutrient Dynamics

Contributed Oral Session 149: Evolutionary Ecology: Modeling

Contributed Oral Session 150: Evolutionary Ecology: Landscapes and Habitat

Contributed Oral Session 151: Mutualism / Parasitism: Disease; Pathogens

Contributed Oral Session 152: Biodiversity: Soils; Seeds

Contributed Oral Session 153: Forest Soils and Nutrient Cycling

Contributed Oral Session 154: Photosynthesis and Water Relations: Climate Effects

Contributed Oral Session 155: Biogeochemistry: Soil Carbon Dynamics

Contributed Oral Session 156: Grassland Resource Allocation, Dispersal, and Pollination

Contributed Oral Session 157: Climate Dynamics: Temperature Effects; Modeling

Contributed Oral Session 158: Invasive Species: Management, Modeling, and Dynamics

Contributed Oral Session 159: Biodiversity: Management and Theory

Contributed Oral Session 160: Biodiversity: Communities

Contributed Oral Session 161: Predator - Prey Ecology: Aquatic Habitat and Food Webs

Contributed Oral Session 162: Landscape Ecology: Management; Vegetation Dynamics

Contributed Oral Session 163: Forest Ecology: Vegetation Change and Succession

Contributed Oral Session 164: Wetland Chemistry

Contributed Oral Session 165: Agroecology: Diversity and Modeling

Contributed Oral Session 166: Soil Communities and Plant-Root Interactions

Contributed Oral Session 167: Toxicology / Disease: Viruses, Fungi, and Contaminants

Contributed Oral Session 168: Invertebrate Ecology: Food Webs, Physiology, and Communities

Contributed Oral Session 169: Late Breaking and Newsworthy Research: Sustainable Development, and an Aquatic and Terrestrial Collage

Posters

Poster Session 39: Late Breaking and Newsworthy Posters

Special Sessions

Special Session 14: Scaling the history and future of Pacific Northwest human marine ecosystems: From Promethean infinity to nothingness?

Special Session 15: Undergraduate Research Posters in the U.S. and Canada

Field Trips

FT - 11 C: Biodome and Jardin Botanique

ESA Functions

Registration

Youth Summer Camp (Friday)