COS 18 - Seed Production, Dispersal, And Predation

Presentations:

• 1:30 PM – 1:45 PM EDT

  A Chronosequence soil seed banks: Homogenization of the Mojave Desert species pools after fire.
  

  Presenting Author: Steven R. Lee – New Mexico State University

  Coauthor: Robert Klinger – USGS, Western Ecological Research Center

  Coauthor: Matthew Brooks – USGS, Western Ecological Research Center

  Coauthor: Scott Ferrenberg, PhD – New Mexico State University
• 1:45 PM – 2:00 PM EDT

  Counting Calories: Energy investment in elaiosomes in two species of Datura
  

  Presenting Author: Alexanderni Karnish – University of Arizona

  Coauthor: Judith L. Bronstein – Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ 85721
• 2:00 PM – 2:15 PM EDT

  Common, uncommon, and rare plant species survival: The consequences of post-dispersal seed predation in Missouri remnant and restored tallgrass prairies
  

  Presenting Author: Maya J. Parker-Smith – University of Missouri

  Coauthor: Katherine C. Wynne – University of Missouri-Columbia

  Coauthor: Lauren L. Sullivan – University of Missouri-Columbia
• 2:15 PM – 2:30 PM EDT

  Improving predictions of post-fire forest regeneration by mapping individual surviving trees
  

  Presenting Author: Derek Young – University of California, Davis

  Coauthor: Nina Venuti – University of California, Davis

  Coauthor: Andrew Latimer – University of California, Davis
• 2:30 PM – 2:45 PM EDT

  Understanding Germination Cues and Seed Viability for Rare Plant Taxa on California’s Channel Islands
  

  Presenting Author: Luis D. Cisneros – Santa Barbara Botanic Garden

  Coauthor: Heather Schneider – Santa Barbara Botanic Garden
• 2:45 PM – 3:00 PM EDT

  Seed production response to climate and its effect on forests species composition.
  

  Presenting Author: Hoang Luu – Ohio University

  Coauthor: Janneke Hille Ris Lambers – ETH Zürich

  Coauthor: James A. Lutz – Wildland Resources Department, Utah State University

  Coauthor: Margaret Metz – Lewis & Clark College

  Coauthor: Rebecca S. Snell, PhD – Ohio University