1:30 PM

Ervin, Gary*,1, 1 Mississippi State University, Mississippi State, MS, Temporal shifts in the relative importance of microhabitat factors influencing invasion success.

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1:50 PM

Menke, Sean*,1, Holway, David, 1 University of California, San Diego, San Diego, CA, Community vulnerability to invasion by Argentine ants (Linepithema humile) is influenced more by fine-scale variation in the physical environment than by biotic resistance from native ants.

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2:10 PM

Emery, Sarah*,1, Gross, Katherine1, 1 W.K. Kellogg Biological Station, Hickory Corners, MI, The identity of dominant species, not evenness, affects invasion in experimental plant communities.

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2:30 PM

Hollebone, Amanda*,1, Hay, Mark1, 1 Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, GA, The invasive crab Petrolisthes armatus overwhelms native biotic resistance by recruiting at thousands m-2.

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2:50 PM

Maron, John*,1, Marler, Marilyn1, 1 University of Montana, Missoula, MT, 59812, Native functional diversity resists invasion at both low and high resource levels.

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3:10 PM

, Break.

3:20 PM

Hill, Steven*,1, Kotanen, Peter1, 1 Department of Botany, Mississauga, ON, Canada, Enemy release of exotic plants: the role of phylogeny.

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3:40 PM

Burns, Jean*,1, Winn, Alice1, Halpern, Stacey2, Miller, Thomas 1, 1 Florida State University, Tallahassee, FL, United States2 Pacific University, Forest Grove, OR, United States, The effect of environment on invasibility in the Commelinaceae.

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4:00 PM

Schoolmaster, Donald*,1, Snyder, Robin1, 1 Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, OH, Resident turnover increases invasibility in rapidly changing environments, but decreases invasibility in slowly changing environments.

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4:20 PM

Knight, Kathleen *,1, Oleksyn, Jacek 1, 2, Jagodzinski, Andrzej 2, Reich, Peter1, Kasprowicz, Marek 3, 1 University of Minnesota, St. Paul, MN, USA2 Polish Academy of Sciences, Institute of Dendrology, Kornik, Poland3 Adam Mickiewicz University, Poznan, Poland, The effects of overstory tree species on invasion of Prunus serotina in Poland: experimental evidence for positive relationships between understory diversity and invasibility.

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4:40 PM

Snitzer, John*,1, McNett, Hannah1, Caraher, Kai1, Bailey, Joyce1, Boucher, Douglas, 1 Hood College, Frederick, MD, Increasing hurricane disturbance and aging forests: a mechanism for increased exotic plant invasion in Maryland.

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