COS 250 - Communities: Succession

Presentations:

• 1:30 PM – 1:45 PM EDT

  The role of invertebrate herbivores and nitrogen limitation on developing soil C and N pools
  

  Presenting Author: Rebecca Evans – Washington State University

  Coauthor: John Bishop, PhD – Washington State University

  Coauthor: Justin Olmstead – Washington State University
• 1:45 PM – 2:00 PM EDT

  Importance of dune elevation and vegetation cover for shrub establishment in a coastal system
  

  Presenting Author: Natasha N. Woods, PhD – Moravian University

  Coauthor: Julie C. Zinnert, PhD – Virginia Commonwealth University
• 2:00 PM – 2:15 PM EDT

  Seventy Years of Northern Hardwood Forest Succession
  

  Presenting Author: Morgan V. Ritzi, B.S. Plant Sciences Purdue University – Purdue University

  Coauthor: Gordon G. McNickle – Purdue University
• 2:15 PM – 2:30 PM EDT

  Successional changes in soil microbiome influence the outcome of plant competition
  

  Presenting Author: Ethan Bass – Cornell University, Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology

  Coauthor: Andre Kessler – Cornell University
• 2:30 PM – 2:45 PM EDT

  Successional processes have opposing effects on diversity and function of bacterial communities associated with the purple pitcher plant
  

  Presenting Author: Catalina Cuellar-Gempeler, PhD – California State Polytechnic Humboldt

  Coauthor: Casey terHorst, PhD. – Cal State Northridge

  Coauthor: Thomas Miller, PhD – Florida State University
• 2:45 PM – 3:00 PM EDT

  Colonial management drives ecological change following exclusion of Indigenous stewardship in a Stoney Nakoda montane grassland, Canadian Rocky Mountains
  

  Presenting Author: Gabe Schepens – University of Victoria

  Coauthor: Jordan Seider, MSc – University of Victoria

  Coauthor: Darcy L Mathews, PhD – University of Victoria

  Coauthor: Brian Starzomski, PhD – University of Victoria