Monday, August 15th
Session	Date/Time	Location	Title	Type	Authors	Keywords
Monday, August 15th 10:15 am to 11:45 am · Salon A - Gov Ballroom/Hilton Session 9: Contributed Papers: Genecology Presiding: Bernadette Roche, Loyola College
9-1	August 15th 10:15 am	Salon A - Gov Ballroom/Hilton	Are Patchy Prairie Plant Populations Actually Metapopulations? Log in to add this item to your schedule	Paper	Jog, Suneeti, Questad, Erin, Fritts, Stephanie, Kindscher, Kelly, Foster, Bryan, Loring, Hillary.	metapopulation incidence function model prairies Kansas grasslands
9-2	August 15th 10:30 am	Salon A - Gov Ballroom/Hilton	Genetic variation in plants in restored prairie populations at Kankakee Sands, Indiana Log in to add this item to your schedule	Paper	Dolan, Rebecca W., Schnabel, Andrew, Marr, Deborah.	genetic variation prairie restoration
9-3	August 15th 10:45 am	Salon A - Gov Ballroom/Hilton	Crossing effects on seed viability, germination and protocorm growth of the federal threatened Eastern Prairie Fringed Orchid (Platanthera leucophaea) Log in to add this item to your schedule	Paper	Bell, Timothy, Bowles, Marlin, Zettler, Lawrence, Poulter, Sarah.	outcrossing depression threatened germination Platanthera leucophaea orchid
9-4	August 15th 11:00 am	Salon A - Gov Ballroom/Hilton	Local adaptation in diverse populations of the lyre-leaved rock cress, Arabidopsis lyrata Log in to add this item to your schedule	Paper	Roche, Bernadette, Lloyd, Michael, McIntyre, Meaghan.	Arabidopsis lyrata local adaptation
9-5	August 15th 11:15 am	Salon A - Gov Ballroom/Hilton	Maintenance of floral-color variation in Claytonia virginica Log in to add this item to your schedule	Paper	Frey, Frank M..	Claytonia virginica floral-color evolution herbivory pollination ecology polymorphism
9-6	August 15th 11:30 am	Salon A - Gov Ballroom/Hilton	Is invasive Typha x glauca always an F_₁ hybrid in the north-central USA? Log in to add this item to your schedule	Paper	Snow, Allison, Sweeney, P. M., Wildova, R., Goldberg, D. E..	hybridization cattail Invasive Species introgresssion molecular marker
Tuesday, August 16th
Tuesday, August 16th 12:30 pm to 2:00 pm · Salon C, D & E - Gov Ballroom/Hilton Session 33: Contributed Posters: Ecology Posters Presiding: Unknown,
33-18	August 16th 12:30 pm	Salon C, D & E - Gov Ballroom/Hilton	Comparison of Understory Diversity Beneath the Invasive Tree Ailanthus altissima versus Native Trees in a Forest in West Virginia Log in to add this item to your schedule	Poster: Ecological Section	Greer, Gary.	Ailanthus altissima Allelopathy biodiversity Forest understory West Virginia
33-19	August 16th 12:30 pm	Salon C, D & E - Gov Ballroom/Hilton	The Prevalence Of Exotic Plants In Southern Alabama Log in to add this item to your schedule	Poster: Ecological Section	Rouse, Suzanne, Major, Kelly, Major, C. Smoot.	Invasive Species exotic species
33-20	August 16th 12:30 pm	Salon C, D & E - Gov Ballroom/Hilton	Predicting the next woody invasives in New England: A model-based approach to identifying future threats Log in to add this item to your schedule	Poster: Ecological Section	Martine, Christopher, Herron, Patrick M., Latimer, Andrew M., Leicht, Stacey A., Mosher, Eric S..	Invasive Species New England Bayesian regression
33-21	August 16th 12:30 pm	Salon C, D & E - Gov Ballroom/Hilton	Dalea reverchonii (Fabaceae): relocating a rare Texas endemic Log in to add this item to your schedule	Poster: Ecological Section	Mclemore, Caren, O'Kennon, Robert.	Dalea reverchonii endemic species relocation Lyndon B. Johnson National Grasslands
33-22	August 16th 12:30 pm	Salon C, D & E - Gov Ballroom/Hilton	Unique anatomical development of Stylisma pickeringii seedlings Log in to add this item to your schedule	Poster: Ecological Section	Cunningham, J. B., Coons, J. M., Harris, E. M., Becker, S.A..	Stylisma pickeringii anatomy seedling development
33-23	August 16th 12:30 pm	Salon C, D & E - Gov Ballroom/Hilton	The life of a social radish: competition and its fitness consequences for advanced-generation, crop-wild hybrids Log in to add this item to your schedule	Poster: Ecological Section	Campbell, Lesley G., Snow, Allison.	hybridization gene flow plant competition natural selection Raphanus raphanistrum Raphanus sativus
33-24	August 16th 12:30 pm	Salon C, D & E - Gov Ballroom/Hilton	Floral biology of three Namibian Hydnora (Hydnoraceae) Log in to add this item to your schedule	Poster: Ecological Section	Bolin, Jay F., Maass, Erika, Musselman, Lytton John, Tennakoon, Kushan U..	pollination Holoparasite Chamber Flower Brood Site Mimicry
33-25	August 16th 12:30 pm	Salon C, D & E - Gov Ballroom/Hilton	Flowering phenology, pollination ecology, and gene flow in the myco-heterotroph, Monotropsis odorata (Ericaceae) Log in to add this item to your schedule	Poster: Ecological Section	Klooster, Matthew R., Culley, Theresa M..	Monotropsis odorata flowering phenology pollination myco-heterotroph reproductive biology microsatellite gene flow
33-26	August 16th 12:30 pm	Salon C, D & E - Gov Ballroom/Hilton	Aspects of the mating system of Gentiana puberulenta Log in to add this item to your schedule	Poster: Ecological Section	Gehring, J. L..	autogamy geitonogamy inbreeding tallgrass prairie
33-27	August 16th 12:30 pm	Salon C, D & E - Gov Ballroom/Hilton	Petal spot correlates positively with pollen tube numbers inflowers from a natural population of Clarkiatembloriensis (Onagraceae) Log in to add this item to your schedule	Poster: Ecological Section	Smith-Huerta, Nancy L., McClain, Jennifer R., Huerta, Alfredo J..	petal spot polymorphism Clarkia pollen tubes
33-28	August 16th 12:30 pm	Salon C, D & E - Gov Ballroom/Hilton	Population ecology of the barrel candy cactus Echinocactus platyacanthus Link et Otto (Cactaceae) in the desert of Tehuacan-Cuicatlan, Mexico. Log in to add this item to your schedule	Poster: Ecological Section	Jimenez-Sierra, Cecilia L., Mandujano, Maria, Eguiarte, Luis E..	elasticity demography matrix population models
33-29	August 16th 12:30 pm	Salon C, D & E - Gov Ballroom/Hilton	Seed dispersal and germination strategies of two Oenothera species (Onagraceae) in temperate North America Log in to add this item to your schedule	Poster: Ecological Section	Hidayati, Siti, Walck, Jeffrey.	seed germination seed dormancy Seed dispersal Oenothera Onagraceae
33-30	August 16th 12:30 pm	Salon C, D & E - Gov Ballroom/Hilton	The Effects of Temperature and Seed Mass on the Germination of Muhlenbergia rigens from the Santa Rosa Ecological Preserve Log in to add this item to your schedule	Poster: Ecological Section	Lopez, Jennifer, Oster, Cyrus, Perumal, John.	bunch grass Muhlenbergia rigens temperature
33-31	August 16th 12:30 pm	Salon C, D & E - Gov Ballroom/Hilton	Seedling recruitment, survival and distribution in Nebraska populations of American ginseng (Panax quinquefolius) Log in to add this item to your schedule	Poster: Ecological Section	Antlfinger, Ann, Garabrandt, Marjorie, Baker, Jennifer, Bough, Lisa.	Panax quinquefolius seedling recruitment seedling survival
33-32	August 16th 12:30 pm	Salon C, D & E - Gov Ballroom/Hilton	Effect of Mulberry Mineral Deposits on the Development and Performance of Silkworm Log in to add this item to your schedule	Poster: Ecological Section	Moraru, Corina, Maier, Camelia G.-A..	sexual dimorphism mineral deposits phytoestrogens
33-33	August 16th 12:30 pm	Salon C, D & E - Gov Ballroom/Hilton	A test of elemental defense against slugs by Ni in hyperaccumulator and non-hyperaccumulator Streptanthus species Log in to add this item to your schedule	Poster: Ecological Section	Boyd, Robert, Jhee, Edward.	hyperaccumulation nickel herbivory slugs
33-34	August 16th 12:30 pm	Salon C, D & E - Gov Ballroom/Hilton	Nickel hyperaccumulation as an elemental defense of Streptanthus polygaloides (Brassicaceae): influence of herbivore feeding mode Log in to add this item to your schedule	Poster: Ecological Section	Jhee, Edward, Boyd, Robert, Eubanks, Micky.	hyperaccumulation nickel herbivory feeding mode
33-35	August 16th 12:30 pm	Salon C, D & E - Gov Ballroom/Hilton	Fitness Responses to Water-Deficit Stress in GM Rice, Oryza rufipogon, and F1 plants Log in to add this item to your schedule	Poster: Ecological Section	Bashir, Anbreen, Leverich, Wesley J..	stress rice Oryza rufipogon fitness
33-36	August 16th 12:30 pm	Salon C, D & E - Gov Ballroom/Hilton	Hydraulic redundancy in shrubs along aridity gradients in North and South America Log in to add this item to your schedule	Poster: Ecological Section	Goedhart, Christine, Pongetti, Greg, Nordenstahl, Marisa, Espino, Susana, Schenk, H. Jochen.	hydraulic segmentation hydraulic redundancy shrub ecology climatic gradients Xylem drought adaptations
33-37	August 16th 12:30 pm	Salon C, D & E - Gov Ballroom/Hilton	Functional Significance of the Apical Anther Appendage in Pentalinon andrieuxii (Apocynaceae, Apocynoideae) Log in to add this item to your schedule	Poster: Ecological Section	Koether, Steven, Williams, Justin.	Apocynaceae pollination Pentalinon
33-38	August 16th 12:30 pm	Salon C, D & E - Gov Ballroom/Hilton	Path Analysis of Developmental Variation of Phenotypic Components among Pitch Pine (Pinus rigida Mill.) Families from the Walden Woods Log in to add this item to your schedule	Poster: Ecological Section	Raj, Devaki, Govindaraju, Diddahally.	Pitch pine, Development, Heritability
33-39	August 16th 12:30 pm	Salon C, D & E - Gov Ballroom/Hilton	A Preliminary Microscopical Assessment of Mycorrhizal Associations in Ailanthus altissima from Two Habitats Log in to add this item to your schedule	Poster: Ecological Section	Huebner, Cynthia, McQuattie, Carolyn, Rebbeck, Joanne.	Ailanthus altissima endomycorrhizal fungi Arum-type colonization intercellular hyphae
33-40	August 16th 12:30 pm	Salon C, D & E - Gov Ballroom/Hilton	Simulated environments reveal ecotypic differentiation in Arabidopsis thaliana Log in to add this item to your schedule	Poster: Ecological Section	Chiang, Jyh-min, McEwan, Ryan W., Ballard, H. E., Wyatt, Sarah.	Ecotype Ecological Filter natural selection Ecological Speciation
33-41	August 16th 12:30 pm	Salon C, D & E - Gov Ballroom/Hilton	The FloraS of North America Project Log in to add this item to your schedule	Poster: Ecological Section	Palmer, Michael W..	floristics Biogeography biodiversity species area relationships species richness exotic species bibliography latitudinal gradient
Tuesday, August 16th 2:00 pm to 5:15 pm · Salon A - Gov Ballroom/Hilton Session 37: Contributed Papers: Reproduction, Growth, and Species' Relationships Presiding: J. M. Coons, Eastern Illinois University
37-1	August 16th 2:00 pm	Salon A - Gov Ballroom/Hilton	Breeding system investigation of the endangered vine Ipomoea microdactyla Griseb. (Convolvulaceae) Log in to add this item to your schedule	Paper	Geiger, John.	breeding system self-incompatibility habitat fragmentation
37-2	August 16th 2:15 pm	Salon A - Gov Ballroom/Hilton	Factors limiting reproductive output in declining populations of the rare New England perennial Desmodium cuspidatum (Fabaceae) Log in to add this item to your schedule	Paper	Skogen, Krissa.	reproductive biology rare plants Fabaceae conservation
37-3	August 16th 2:30 pm	Salon A - Gov Ballroom/Hilton	Selfing abilities of three fern species may contribute to differential colonization success in post-agricultural forests Log in to add this item to your schedule	Paper	Flinn, Kathryn M..	Ferns mating systems inbreeding depression land-use history colonization
37-4	August 16th 2:45 pm	Salon A - Gov Ballroom/Hilton	Phenology and pollen presentation in Michauxia campanuloides L Log in to add this item to your schedule	Paper	Al-Zein, Mohammad, Musselman, Lytton John.	secondary pollen presentation dichogamy Campanulaceae Michauxia
37-5	August 16th 3:00 pm	Salon A - Gov Ballroom/Hilton	Does geographic, annual and diurnal variation in pollinator visitation define a generalist-pollinated plant? Log in to add this item to your schedule	Paper	Davila, Yvonne C, Wardle, Glenda M.	Apiaceae generalist insect visitation pollination pollinator assemblage seed set spatial and temporal variation
37-6	August 16th 3:15 pm	Salon A - Gov Ballroom/Hilton	Heritability and genetic correlation of nectar and floral traits in Nicotiana alata Log in to add this item to your schedule	Paper	Kaczorowski, Rainee L., Holtsford, Timothy P..	heritability genetic correlation nectar traits floral traits Nicotiana
	August 16th 3:30 pm	Salon A - Gov Ballroom/Hilton	Break Log in to add this item to your schedule
37-7	August 16th 3:45 pm	Salon A - Gov Ballroom/Hilton	Testing Causal Models for the Evolution of Dioecy using GIS, SEM and Microsatellites: The birds and bees of plant sex Log in to add this item to your schedule	Paper	Scobell, Summer, Schultz, Stewart.	pollination evolution dioecy coevolution GIS Structural Equation Modeling microsatellites cacti hummingbirds
37-8	August 16th 4:00 pm	Salon A - Gov Ballroom/Hilton	Heteroblasty, Growth, and Mortality in the Bromeliad Catopsis berteroniana (Schult f.) Mez Log in to add this item to your schedule	Paper	Gonsiska, Philip A..	heteroblasty Catopsis berteroniana Bahamas bromeliad epiphyte
37-9	August 16th 4:15 pm	Salon A - Gov Ballroom/Hilton	Photosynthesis and survival in high-altitude, current-year seedlings of Abies fraseri in the southern Appalachian Mountains Log in to add this item to your schedule	Paper	Johnson, Daniel M., Smith, William K..	carbon gain cotyledon sunlight regime microclimate refugial populations stand re-establishment
37-10	August 16th 4:30 pm	Salon A - Gov Ballroom/Hilton	Sugar and spice and everything nice: similar phenolic chemistry may not mean similar defense in an alpine willow shrub, Salix glauca Log in to add this item to your schedule	Paper	Dudley, Leah S..	Salix glauca phenolic defense tri-trophic interaction dioecy
37-11	August 16th 4:45 pm	Salon A - Gov Ballroom/Hilton	Edible Seaweed Succession and the Impact of Macroalgal Blooms on the Local Eelgrass (Zostera marina) Populations in the Chincoteague Bay Log in to add this item to your schedule	Paper	Hager, Holland, Mitra, Madhumi, Schwarz, Jurgen.	succession Chincoteague Bay Blooms Seaweeds Succession
37-12	August 16th 5:00 pm	Salon A - Gov Ballroom/Hilton	Hyperspectral Remote Sensing of Invasive Aquatic Plant Populations in the Mobile-Tensaw River Delta, Alabama Log in to add this item to your schedule	Paper	Carter, Gregory A., Wells, Tami.	Remote Sensing Hyperspectral Spectral reflectance vascular plants Invasive Species
Tuesday, August 16th 5:30 pm to 7:00 pm · Salon A - Gov Ballroom/Hilton Meeting: Ecological Section Business Meeting Presiding: J. M. Coons, Eastern Illinois University
	August 16th 5:30 pm	Salon A - Gov Ballroom/Hilton	Ecological Section Business Meting Log in to add this item to your schedule
Wednesday, August 17th
Wednesday, August 17th 8:00 am to 9:45 am · Salon F - Austin Grand Ballroom/Hilton Session 43: Contributed Papers: Seed Production and Germination Presiding: Jeffrey Walck, Middle Tennessee State University
43-1	August 17th 8:00 am	Salon F - Austin Grand Ballroom/Hilton	The invasive potential of Pinus radiata: seed production, dispersal and the role of fire Log in to add this item to your schedule	Paper	Wardle, Glenda M, Williams, Moira, Ironside, Joanne.	Invasions Pinus radiata cone production Eucalypt woodland dispersal wildfire
43-2	August 17th 8:15 am	Salon F - Austin Grand Ballroom/Hilton	The Effect of Coleotechnites eryngiella Bottimer [Lepidoptera: Gelechiidae] on Aspects of the Reproductive Biology of Eryngium yuccifolium Michaux [Apiaceae] Log in to add this item to your schedule	Paper	Danderson, Clark, Molano-Flores, Brenda.	Eryngium yuccifolium Coleotechnites eryngiella reserve-ovary model compensation herbivory
43-3	August 17th 8:30 am	Salon F - Austin Grand Ballroom/Hilton	Failure of Reproductive Assurance in the Chasmogamous Flowers of Polygala lewtonii (Polygalaceae), an Endangered Sandhill Herb Log in to add this item to your schedule	Paper	Weekley, Carl W., Brothers, Amanda.	autogamy pollinator exclusion reproductive assurance delayed selfing Polygala lewtonii Polygalaceae selfing
43-4	August 17th 8:45 am	Salon F - Austin Grand Ballroom/Hilton	The impact of solute leaching on the salt tolerance during germination of a common roadside plant Dipsacus sylvestris (Dipsaceae) Log in to add this item to your schedule	Paper	Beaton, Laura L., Dudley, Susan A..	ion toxicity local adaptation maternal environmental effects osmotic stress seed composition
43-5	August 17th 9:00 am	Salon F - Austin Grand Ballroom/Hilton	Germintion of druplets in multi-seeded drupes of the Hawaiian montane/subalpine shrub, Styphelia tameiameiae, a case for deep physiological dormancy broken by high temperatures Log in to add this item to your schedule	Paper	Baskin, Carol C., Baskin, Jerry M., Yoshinaga, Alvin.	seed dormancy seed germination tropical montane Hawaii
43-6	August 17th 9:15 am	Salon F - Austin Grand Ballroom/Hilton	Evolutionary considerations for seed dormancy in Dipsacales Log in to add this item to your schedule	Paper	Baskin, Jerry M., Hidayati, Siti, Baskin, Carol C..	Dipsacles evolution seed dormancy underdeveloped embryos
43-7	August 17th 9:30 am	Salon F - Austin Grand Ballroom/Hilton	Temporal aspects of the light requirement for seed germination of two rare Paysonia species (Brassicaceae) in considering management protocols Log in to add this item to your schedule	Paper	Fitch, Elizabeth, Walck, Jeffrey, Hidayati, Siti.	Photoecology Soil seed bank seed dormancy Agroecosystem Climatic change
Wednesday, August 17th 10:15 am to 12:15 pm · Salon F - Austin Grand Ballroom/Hilton Session 47: Contributed Papers: Vegetation Ecology Presiding: Gregory A. Carter, University of Southern Mississippi
47-2	August 17th 10:30 am	Salon F - Austin Grand Ballroom/Hilton	The Distribution And Diversity Of Aquatic Plants In The Mobile-Tensaw Delta Log in to add this item to your schedule	Paper	Major, C. Smoot, Major, Kelly.	Aquatic plant distributions
47-3	August 17th 10:45 am	Salon F - Austin Grand Ballroom/Hilton	The Use of Hyperspectral Remote Sensing to Evaluate Plant Species Richness on Horn Island, Mississippi Log in to add this item to your schedule	Paper	Lucas, Kelly L., Carter, Gregory A..	Hyperspectral Remote Sensing islands biodiversity
47-4	August 17th 11:00 am	Salon F - Austin Grand Ballroom/Hilton	Convergence and divergence in species composition of two Minnesota forests during 21 years following catastrophic windthrow Log in to add this item to your schedule	Paper	Cobo, María Carmen, Arévalo, José Ramón, Bond, Steven, Hussain, Mumtaz, Palmer, Suzanne M., Sasaki, Kiyoshi, Shirakura, Fumiko, Thomas, Shyam, Palmer, Michael W..	disturbance succession tipup mound treefall windstorm forests dynamics
47-5	August 17th 11:15 am	Salon F - Austin Grand Ballroom/Hilton	The effect of mowing on species richness, turnover and speciescomposition of an Oklahoma grassland. Log in to add this item to your schedule	Paper	Thomas, Shyam, Thompson, Steven, Palmer, Michael W..	extinction rates grassland immigration rates litter mowing frequency mowing season species composition species richness
47-6	August 17th 11:30 am	Salon F - Austin Grand Ballroom/Hilton	Contrasting responses of bryophytes and vascular plants to eastern hemlock decline following a hemlock woolly adelgid outbreak Log in to add this item to your schedule	Paper	Cleavitt, Nat, Eschtruth, Anne, Battles, John, Fahey, Tim.	bryophytes temporal turnover hemlock woolly adelgid
47-7	August 17th 11:45 am	Salon F - Austin Grand Ballroom/Hilton	The Effect of Light Treatments on Cultivated American Ginseng Growth Log in to add this item to your schedule	Paper	Baker, Jennifer, Antlfinger, Ann.	American ginseng light quantity
47-8	August 17th 12:00 pm	Salon F - Austin Grand Ballroom/Hilton	A Floristic Description of a Neotropical Coastal Savanna in Belize Log in to add this item to your schedule	Paper	Farruggia, F. T., Stevens, M. Henry H., Vincent, Michael A..	Neotropical flora hyperseasonal savanna Belize non-metric multidimensional scaling
Wednesday, August 17th 1:30 pm to 2:30 pm · Salon F - Austin Grand Ballroom/Hilton Session 52: Contributed Papers: Modeling and Symbioses, Positive & Negative Presiding: John Perumal,
52-1	August 17th 1:30 pm	Salon F - Austin Grand Ballroom/Hilton	Is hemiparasitism an evolutionary stable strategy? Log in to add this item to your schedule	Paper	Armstrong, Joseph E..	hemiparasitism Rhinanthaceae prairies
52-2	August 17th 1:45 pm	Salon F - Austin Grand Ballroom/Hilton	Distributional Possibilities of Five Species of Striga in North America Log in to add this item to your schedule	Paper	Mohamed, Kamal, Peterson, A. Townsend.	Striga Schrophulariaceae witchweed S. asiatica S. lutea S. hirsuta S. hermonthica S. gesnerioides
52-3	August 17th 2:00 pm	Salon F - Austin Grand Ballroom/Hilton	The Effects of Arbuscular Mycorrhizal Fungi on the Growth and Establishment of Muhlenbergia rigens (Deer grass) in the Santa Rosa Ecological Preserve Log in to add this item to your schedule	Paper	Perumal, John.	Mycorrhizae mycorrhizal colonization carbondioxide exchange rate inoculums
52-4	August 17th 2:15 pm	Salon F - Austin Grand Ballroom/Hilton	Distributional Possibilities of Five Species of Striga in North America. Log in to add this item to your schedule	Paper	Mohamed, Kamal, Peterson, A. Townsend.	Striga Scrophulariaceae witchweed S. asiatica S. hermonthica S. lutea