COS 169 - Communities: Disturbance And Recovery 3

Presentations:

• 1:30 PM – 1:45 PM EDT

  Skeletal Density Shifts in Corals Exposed to Hurricane Irma on the Florida Keys Reef Tract
  

  Presenting Author: Aliyah Griffith, B.S. Marine and Environmental Science, M.S. Marine Science – University of North Carolina Chapel Hill

  Coauthor: Jose A. Sanchez Gomez, B.S. Mathematics – University of North Carolina Chapel Hill

  Coauthor: Karl Castillo, Ph.D. Marine Sciences – University of North Carolina Chapel Hill
• 1:45 PM – 2:00 PM EDT

  Speed in which communities recover function and composition after disturbance varies across latitude and community age
  

  Presenting Author: Mariana Bonfim, Ph.D. Temple University, Bonfim 2021 – Temple Ambler Field Station & Department of Biology

  Coauthor: Diana P. López, Ph.D. Temple University, López 2021 – Department of Biological Science, Florida State University

  Coauthor: MIchele R. Repetto, Ph.D. Temple University, Repetto 2021 – Moss Landing Marine Laboratories

  Coauthor: Amy L. Freestone, Ph.D. University of California, Davis 2005 – Temple Ambler Field Station & Department of Biology
• 2:00 PM – 2:15 PM EDT

  How Fire, Canopy Gaps, and Deer Interact to Change the Temperate Forest Seed Bank
  

  Presenting Author: Samuel P. Reed, n/a – University of Minnesota

  Coauthor: Alejandro A. Royo – U.S. Forest Service, Northern Research Station

  Coauthor: Walter P. Carson – University of Pittsburgh

  Coauthor: Castilleja F. Olmsted – University of Pittsburgh

  Coauthor: Lee E. Frelich – University of Minnesota

  Coauthor: Peter B. Reich – University of Minnesota
• 2:15 PM – 2:30 PM EDT

  Interactions between wildfire and recreation influence plant community trajectories
  

  Presenting Author: Jenny L. McCune, n/a – University of Lethbridge

  Coauthor: Jed Lloren – University of Lethbridge
• 2:30 PM – 2:45 PM EDT

  Pine encroachment and the absence of fire suppress nitrogen effects on grassland community composition
  

  Presenting Author: George R. Wheeler – University of Nebraska, Lincoln

  Coauthor: Chad Brassil – University of Nebraska, Lincoln

  Coauthor: Johannes Knops – Xi'an Jiaotong-Liverpool University
• 2:45 PM – 3:00 PM EDT

  Varied long-term responses to climate change among steady states in a historical grazing gradient in southeast Utah
  

  Presenting Author: Rebecca Finger Higgens – USGS-Southwest Biological Research Station

  Coauthor: Jayne Belnap – US Geological Survey

  Coauthor: Anna Knight, MS – US Geological Survey - Southwest Biological Science Center

  Coauthor: Erika Geiger – U.S. Geological Survey

  Coauthor: Michael C. Duniway – US Geological Survey - Southwest Biological Science Center