COS 30: Communities: Disturbance And Recovery 2

Monday, August 2, 2021

2:30 PM – 3:30 PM Pacific

Moderator(s)

Paul Banko

Pacific Island Ecosystems Research Center, U.S. Geological Survey
Hawai‘i National Park, HI, USA

Presentations:

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Bottom-up food-web impacts of commercial-scale resource harvest on coastal bird communities
Presenting Author: Elliot M. Johnston – University of Maine
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Dynamics and ecological consequences of an endemic moth outbreak in a low-diversity, tropical forest
Presenting Author: Paul Banko – Pacific Island Ecosystems Research Center, U.S. Geological Survey
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Eastern temperate forest tree seedlings exhibit minimal evidence of conspecific negative density dependence
Presenting Author: Benjamin S. Ramage – Biology Department, Randolph-Macon College
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Grazing impacts on plant community composition vary greatly in magnitude globally
Presenting Author: Sally E. Koerner – Department of Biology, University of North Carolina Greensboro
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Inferring drivers of liana mortality from associated patterns of tree death
Presenting Author: Evan Gora – Cary Institute of Ecosystem Studies
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Population level consequences of habitat-mediated density-dependent mortality: Finfish response to oyster population collapse
Presenting Author: Gabrielle D. Love – Fisheries and Aquatic Sciences, University of Florida
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Seed bank composition altered by burn severity to favor annual grass abundance in invaded sagebrush shrublands
Presenting Author: Adam L. Mahood – CIRES, University of Colorado Boulder
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Slow sapling recovery leads to mortality rather than acclimation
Presenting Author: Mirela Beloiu – Biogeography, Universität Bayreuth
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The role of timing in drought and defoliation-related tree mortality in temperate mixed-hardwood forests
Presenting Author: Danielle Tanzer – Natural Resources and the Environment, University of Connecticut
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Widespread increase of tree mortality triggered by an exceptional drought in east Texas, USA
Presenting Author: Weimin Xi – Biological and Health Sciences, Texas A&M University-Kingsville