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MEETING SCHEDULE
DAY-BY-DAY EVENT LISTING – as of June 6
Daily Activities (Hours for each may vary)
Recurring Activities (not listed on Day by Day listing below)
Registration Palais des congrès de Montréal – Level 2 - Viger Hall
Set Up – Thursday, August 4 – Friday, August 5
Saturday, August 6, 6 AM - 10 AM and 3 PM - 6 PM
Sunday, August 7, 6 AM - 9 PM
Monday, August 8, 6 AM - 7 PM
Tuesday, August 9, 6 AM - 7 PM
Wednesday, August 10, 6 AM - 7 PM
Thursday, August 11, 6 AM - 6:30 PM
Friday, August 12, 7 AM - NOON
Exhibits Palais des congrès de Montréal – Level 2 Exhibit Halls 220 A-D
Welcome Mixer in Exhibit Hall: Sunday, August 7, 6 PM - 9 PM
Monday, August 8, 10 AM - 6:45 PM
Tuesday, August 9, 10 AM - 6:45 PM
Wednesday, August 10, 10 AM - 6:45 PM
Thursday, August 11, 10 AM - 6:30 PM
Poster Presentations Palais des congrès de Montréal – Level 2 - Exhibit Halls 220 A-D
Posters MUST be installed on Monday through Thursday between 7 AM - 9 AM
Posters MUST be installed on Friday between 7 AM - 8 AM
Posters taken down Monday through Thursday between 6:30 PM - 7 PM and Friday at NOON
Poster Pubs with Presentations: Monday, August 8 through Thursday, August 11, 5 PM - 6:45 PM
Posters and Pastries/Latebreaking and Newsworthy Posters Friday, August 12 8 AM – 10:30 AM
Special Student Poster Session: Friday, August 12 9 AM -11 AM
NOTE: Poster presentations may be scheduled on AN APPOINTMENT BASIS DURING 12:30 PM – 1:15
PM LUNCH BREAK HOURS MONDAY THROUGH THURSDAY.
Meeting Amenities
Breaks Monday, August 8 through Thursday August 11
Coffee/Tea and Decaf Stations - 7 AM - 10:30 AM, 12:30 - 1:30 PM, 3 PM – 3:30 PM
Palais des congrès de Montréal ( Locations):
Two stations in Exhibit Halls 220 A-D Level 2
One in Viger Foyer near 210
One in De Bleury Hall – Level 5
Two in De Bleury Foyer – Level 5
Coffee/Tea and Decaf Stations Friday August 12 7 AM -10:30 AM
One Station in Exhibit Hall 220 C
One in DeBleury Hall – Level 5
One in DeBleury Foyer – Level 5
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Lunch Concessions and Poster Viewing 11:30 AM - 2 PM Palais des congrès de Montréal – Exhibit
Halls 220 A-D – Level 2
Grab-and-Go Quick Lunch Ticketed – Pick Up 11:30 - 1:15 PM Palais des congrès de Montréal –
Exhibit Hall 220 D – Level 2
Internet Café Palais des congrès de Montréal - Level 2 – Viger Foyer Hallway in front of Halls 220
Saturday August 6, 8 AM - 6 PM
Sunday, August 7, 6 AM - 9 PM
Monday August 8 through Wednesday, August 10, 6 AM - 10 PM
Thursday, August 11, 7 AM - 10 PM
Friday, August 12, 7 AM - NOON
Abstract Kiosks (3 monitors available at each Kiosk) for Abstracts Access ONLY (no printers)– Viger
Hallway – Level 2 – in front of 210 E, In Exhibit Halls 220 B and D, Viger Foyer Level 5 – in front of
Rooms Series 513. In front of Rooms Series 517 and in front of Rooms Series 518
Press Office Palais des congrès de Montréal –Level 4 - Lounge 445
Sunday, August 7, 8 AM - 5 PM
Monday, August 8 through Thursday, August 11, 7:30 AM - 5:30 PM
Friday, August 12, 7:30 AM - 2 PM
Student Lounge Monday, August 8 through Friday, August 12, 7 AM - 10 PM,(Friday open until Noon)
Palais des congrès de Montréal – Level 2 - Hall 210 D
International Lounge Monday, August 7 through Friday, August 12, 7 AM - 10 PM (Friday open until
Noon) Palais des congrès de Montréal – Level 2 - Hall 210 C
Equipment Sign Out and Sign In/Speaker Room Sign Up – Palais des congrès de Montréal – Viger
Hall - Level 2
Sunday, August 7, 8 AM - 5 PM
Monday, August 8, through Thursday, August 11, 7 AM - 7 PM
Friday, August 12 7 AM - NOON
Local Host Committee Carbon Exchange Table
Palais des congrès de Montréal – Viger Hall - Level 2
Same hours as above
Speaker Ready Rooms Palais des congrès de Montréal – Level 4 - Offices 444, 447, 440
Sunday, August 7, 8 AM - 5 PM
Monday, August 8, through Thursday, August 11 , 7 AM - 7 PM
Friday, August 12, 7 AM - 11 AM
Infant and Toddler Care Palais des congrès de Montréal – Level 5 - Rooms 525 A and 525 B
Monday, August 8, through Thursday, August 11, 7:45 AM - 5 PM
Friday, August 6, 7:45 AM - NOON
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Youth Summer Camp: Shuttle Departs - Viger Bus Terminal Palais des congrès de Montréal
Monday, August 1 through Thursday, August 5, Shuttle Departs 8:15 AM from and Returns 5 PM
Friday, August 6, Shuttle Departs 8:15 AM from and Returns at Noon
Thursday, August 4, 2005
Field Trip NOTE: Departure times are firm. Return times are estimates affected by weather
conditions, traffic etc.
Two-Night Overnight Field Trip – Advance Field Trip Registration Required
FT-1 Field Trip to the Lake Duparquet Research and Teaching Forest, Abitibi, and Haliburton
Forest and Wildlife Preserve, Ontario Annie DesRochers (Organizer) Thursday, August 4 Depart 8:30
AM from Palais des congres de Montreal – Viger Bus Terminal Return: Saturday, August 6, 6 PM
Palais des congrès de Montréal Viger Bus Terminal
Friday, August 5, 2005
Field Trip NOTE: Departure times are firm. Return times are estimates affected by weather
conditions, traffic etc.
Two Night Overnight Field Trip – Advance Field Trip Registration Required
FT-2 Mont Tremblant Park Camping/Canoeing Trip Antoine LeDuc (Organizer) Friday, August 5
Depart 8 AM from Palais des congrès de Montréal – Viger Bus Terminal Return: Sunday, August 7, 3
PM Palais des congrès de Montréal – Viger Bus Terminal
Saturday, August 6, 2005
Field Trip NOTE: Departure times are firm. Return times are estimates affected by weather
conditions, traffic etc.
One Night Overnight Field Trip - Advance Field Trip Registration Required
FT-3 Lichen Woodlands and Caribou Conservation at their Southern Range limits Dominique
Arseneault, Martin Simard, Rehaume Courtois (Organizers) Saturday, August 6 Depart 6 AM from Palais
des congrès de Montréal – Viger Bus Terminal. Return: Sunday, August 7, 6 PM Palais des congrès de
Montréal Viger Bus Terminal
Governance
ESA Governing Board Meeting 8 AM - 5 PM Meeting Room 514 A and B Level 5 Palais des congrès
de Montréal
First Training for Oral Session and OOS Presiders 4:30 PM – 5:30 PM Dave Grow (Organizer)
Meeting Room 513 E Level 5 Palais des congrès de Montréal
Saturday ONLY Workshops – Advance Workshop Registration Required
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WK-1 Biophysical Ecology at Leaf and Canopy Scales: Measurement of Water Status, Stomatal
Conductance and Leaf Area Index Bryan Wacker, Tamsin Campbell, Derek Harris (Organizers) 8 AM –
5 PM Meeting Room 513 A Level 5 Palais des congrès de Montréal
WK-2 Ecology Connections: A Website for Biology Teachers Michael Mappin, Garland Jonker
(Organizers) 1 PM – 5 PM Meeting Room 513 B Level 5 Palais des congrès de Montréal
Saturday and Sunday Workshop/Field Trip – Advance Registration Required
Note: Both days are Required as part of your registration
WK-3 Canadian National Vegetation Classification: Forests & Woodlands Ken Baldwin, Jean-Pierre
Saucier, Don Faber-Langendoen, Steve Curtis (Organizers) Endorsed by ESA’s Vegetation Classification
Panel Saturday 1 PM – 5 PM Meeting Room 513 D Level 5 Palais des congrès de Montréal
Saturday/Sunday Workshop – Advance Registration Required
Note: Both days are Required as part of your registration
WK-4 Command Spanish®: Survival Spanish for the NON-native speaker scientist in the field Sybil
Jackson-Carter, Jacoby Carter (Organizers) Endorsed by ESA’s International Affairs Section 8 AM - 5 PM
Meeting Room 514 C Level 5 Palais des congrès de Montréal
Saturday SEEDS activities
SD-1: SEEDS Alumni Orientation 9 AM - 11 AM Meeting Room 510 A Level 5 Palais des congrès de
Montréal
SD-2 SEEDS Team Outing 11:15 AM – 3 PM
SD-3: SEEDS Student Orientation 3 PM - 5 PM Meeting Room 510 A Level 5 Palais des congrès de
Montréal
SD-4 SEEDS Mixer and “Bienvenu a Montréal” Buffet Dinner 5 PM - 7 PM Meeting Room 511 A
Level 5 Palais des congrès de Montréal
Saturday Evening – Advance Tour Registration Required
Tour 1 Montreal and the Francofolies - Walking tour of Old Montreal with Dutch Treat Dinner
Catherine Potvin (Organizer) Meet at Meeting Registration in the Palais des congrès de Montréal – Viger
Hall – Level 2 at 6 PM – Return to Palais or lodging at approximately 10 PM
Sunday, August 7, 2005
Field Trip NOTE: Departure times are firm. Return times are estimates affected by weather
conditions, traffic etc.
One Day Scientific Field Trips - Advance Field Trip Registration Required
FT-4 Northern Vermont Natural History and Bird Fauna Ellen Martinson (Organizer) Sunday, August
7 Depart 5 AM from Palais des congrès de Montréal – Viger Bus Terminal Return: Sunday, August 7, 6
PM Palais des congrès de Montréal – Viger Bus Terminal
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FT- 5 Preserving a Natural Corridor on Private Land: The Riviere au Saumon Natural Corridor
Project; An Innovative Example of Watershed Conservation in Southern Quebec Jeffrey MacDonald
(Organizer) Sunday, August 7 Depart 7 AM from Palais des congrès de Montréal – Viger Bus Terminal.
Return: Sunday, August 7, 8 PM Palais des congrès de Montréal – Viger Bus Terminal
FT-6: Forests of Gatineau Park Daniel Gagnon (Organizer) Sunday, August 7 Depart 8 AM from Palais
des congrès de Montréal – Viger Bus Terminal Return: Sunday, August 7, 9 PM Palais des congrès de
Montréal - Viger Bus Terminal
FT-7 Mer Bleue Bog Tim Moore, Nigel Roulet, Jill Bubier, Peter Lafleur, Pierre Richard (Organizers)
Sunday, August 7 Depart 8 AM from Palais des congrès de Montréal – Viger Bus Terminal. Return:
Sunday, August 7, 7 PM Palais des congrès de Montréal – Viger Bus Terminal
FT-8 Exploring Parc de la Riviere des Milles Iles by Rabaska Jacques Brisson (Organizer)
Sunday, August 7 Depart 8:30 AM from Palais des congrès de Montréal – Viger Bus Terminal. Return:
Sunday, August 7, 4:30 PM Palais des congrès de Montréal – Viger Bus Terminal
FT-9 An Old-Growth Northern Hardwood Forest – Hiking/Walking Field Trip on Mont St. Hilaire,
Quebec. Martin Lechowicz, David Greene (Organizers) Sunday, August 7 Depart 9 AM from Palais des
congrès de Montréal – Viger Bus Terminal. Return: Sunday, August 7, 6 PM Palais des congrès de
Montréal – Viger Bus Terminal
FT-10 Boating to Lake Saint Pierre Wetlands and Berthier Sorel Archipelago Christiane Hudon
(Organizer) Sunday, August 7 Depart 9 AM from Palais des congrès de Montréal – Viger Bus Terminal.
Return: Sunday, August 7, 5 PM Palais des congrès de Montréal – Viger Bus Terminal
Saturday and Sunday Workshop/Field Trip – Advance Registration Required
Note: Both days are required as part of your registration
WK-3 Canadian National Vegetation Classification: Forests & Woodlands Ken Baldwin, Jean-Pierre
Saucier, Don Faber-Langendoen, Steve Curtis (Organizers) Endorsed by ESA’s Vegetation Classification
Panel Depart 8 AM from Palais des congrès de Montréal – Viger Bus Terminal. Return: 5 PM Palais des
congrès de Montréal – Viger Bus Terminal
Saturday and Sunday Workshop – Advance Registration Required
Note: Both days are required as part of your registration
WK-4 Command Spanish®: Survival Spanish for the NON-native speaker scientist in the field Sybil
Jackson-Carter, Jacoby Carter (Organizers) Endorsed by ESA’s International Affairs Section 8 AM - 5 PM
Meeting Room 514 C Level 5 Palais des congrès de Montréal
Full Day Sunday Workshops - Advance Workshop Registration Required
WK-5 An introduction to state-space models for population viability analysis Elizabeth Holmes, Chris
Jordan (Organizers) 8 AM - 5 PM Off site at computer lab (McGill)
WK-6 Interpreting fire history from sediment records of macroscopic charcoal: theory, analytical
techniques, and future directions Philip Higuera, Jason Lynch, Daniel Gavin (Organizers) Endorsed by
ESA’s Paleoecology Section 8 AM – 5 PM Meeting Room 513 C Level 5 Palais des congrès de
Montréal
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WK-7 Introduction to advanced statistical methods for ecologists Eric Lamb, Rohan Sadler
(Organizers) Endorsed by ESA’s Student Section 8 AM – 5 PM Meeting Room 510 D Level 5 Palais des
congrès de Montréal
WK -8 Cyberinfrastructure for managing analyzing and sharing ecological data and information
William Michener, Samantha Romanello (Organizers) 8 AM – 5 PM Meeting Room 513 B Level 5 Palais
des congrès de Montréal
WK -9 Combining Great Lake to global spatial scales with quick to extended times for ecological
simulation Jerry Olsen, Wilfred Post, Changhui Peng (Organizers) 8 AM – 5 PM Meeting Room 512 F
Level 5 Palais des congrès de Montréal
WK 10 Teaching and Learning ecology in the schoolyards Andrea Troncoso, Juan Armesto
(Organizers) 8 AM – 5 PM Meeting Room 510 A Level 5 Palais des congrès de Montréal
WK-11 (By Invitation Only) Sturgeon in the Caspian Sea: scaling up from individuals to population
estimates to conservation status Sandy Tartowski, Tom Butler (Organizers) 8 AM – 5 PM Meeting
Room 515 B Level 5 Palais des congrès de Montréal
WK-12 Pathways to scientific teaching: Design, implement and analyze Diane Ebert May, Doug
Luckie, Janet Batzli (Organizers) Endorsed by ESA’s Education Section 8:30 AM – 4:30 PM Meeting
Room 511 A Level 5 Palais des congrès de Montréal
WK-13 Surviving Grad School: Balancing the Demands of Teaching and Research Kathy Williams,
John Moore, George Middendorf (Organizers) Endorsed by ESA’s Education Section and Education and
Human Resources Committee 8:30 AM – 5 PM Meeting Room 510 B Level 5 Palais des congrès de
Montréal
Half Day Sunday AM Workshops - Advance Workshop Registration Required
WK-14 Lessons from large-scale manipulations of ecosystems and landscapes Jiquen Chen, Thomas
Crow (Organizers) 8 AM - 12:15 PM Meeting Room 511 F Level 5 Palais des congrès de Montréal
WK-15 How to do collaborative ecological teaching and research using web pages and online
resources. Carolyn Thomas, Bob Pohlad (Organizers) 8 AM – NOON Meeting Room 513 D Level 5
Palais des congrès de Montréal
WK-16 LANDFIRE: Scientific foundations for multiscale fire, fuels and risk assessments Ayn Shlisky,
Jim Smith (Organizers) 8 AM – NOON Meeting Room 513 E Level 5 Palais des congrès de Montréal
WK- 17 Community to the globe: Landscape analysis using geospatial tools Marguerite Madden, Donna
Johnson (Organizers) 8 AM – NOON Meeting Room 515 C Level 5 Palais des congrès de Montréal
Half Day Sunday Afternoon Workshops – Advance Workshop Registration Required
WK-18 Step up, speak up: Policy training works Nadine Lymn, Laura Lipps, Adrienne Sponberg
(Organizers) Sponsored by ESA’s Public Affairs Office 1 PM – 5 PM Meeting Room 511 F Level 5 Palais
des congrès de Montréal
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WK-19 Indicators of rangeland sustainability: Are they applicable internationally and/or at multiple
spatial scales Kristie Maczko, R. Dennis Child, John Mitchell (Organizers) 1 PM – 5 PM Meeting Room
511 E Level 5 Palais des congrès de Montréal
WK-20 Moving science beyond the Ivory Tower: Working with the media Cynthia Barakatt, Jessica
Brown, Diana Wall, Pamela Matson (Organizers) 1 PM – 5 PM Meeting Room 510 C Level 5 Palais des
congrès de Montréal
WK-21 Helping ecology faculty do research on their teaching with TIEE Charlene D’Avanzo, Bruce
Grant, Jason Taylor (Organizers) Endorsed by ESA’s Education Section 1 PM - 5 PM Meeting Room 513 F
Level 5 Palais des congrès de Montréal
WK-22 State of the City: What’s the status of urban ecosystem research and how can we create a
research agenda? Nancy Golubiewski, Margaret Carreiro (Organizers) Endorsed by ESA’s Urban Ecology
Section 1 PM - 5 PM Meeting Room 511 D Level 5 Palais des congrès de Montréal
WK-23 Advances in cyberinfrastructure for ecological studies John Vande Castle, Pamela Griego, Peter
Arzberger (Organizers) Endorsed by PRAGMA – Pacific Rim Applications and Grid Middleware Assembly
and ESA’s Long Term Studies Section 1 PM – 5 PM Meeting Room 513 D Level 5 Palais des congrès de
Montréal
Sunday Governance
ESA Governing Board Meeting 8 AM - NOON Meeting Room 512 A Level 5 Palais des congrès de
Montréal
INTECOL Executive Board Meeting 8 AM - NOON Meeting Room 730 B Level 7 Palais des congrès
de Montréal
Second Presider Training 12 NOON - 1 PM Dave Grow (Organizer) Meeting Rooms 516 A-B Level 5
Palais des congrès de Montréal
ESA Buell Braun Judges Meeting 1 PM - 2 PM Meeting Room 512 B Level 5 Palais des congrès de
Montréal
INTECOL Board Meeting 1 PM - 5 PM Meeting Room 730 A Level 7 Palais des congrès de
Montréal
ESA Council Orientation Meeting and Reception 2 PM - 5 PM Meeting Room 512 A and E Level 5
Palais des congrès de Montréal
Sunday Afternoon and Evening Events 5 PM – 9 PM
Public Plenary 5 PM - 6:30 PM Meeting Room 210 A-B-E-F Level 2 Palais des congrès de Montréal
Ohenton Karithwatehkwen – “ The Words that Come Before All Else”
Opening by Henry Lickers, Director, Deptment of Environment
Mohawk Council of Akwesasne
La Baratte au Buerre – Traditional French Canadian Chansons
Public Plenary Address Cristian Samper, Director of the Smithsonian Museum of Natural History
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TICKETED
TK-1: Welcome Mixer –“In Old Montreal” (Ticket price is included in meeting registration fee except for
Guests tickets), 6 PM - 9 PM – Exhibit Halls 220 A-D – Level 2 Palais des congrès de Montréal
SD-5 SEEDS Mentor Orientation and Social 7 PM – 9:30 PM Hall 210 D Level 2 Palais des congrès
de Montréal
Monday, August 8, 2005
Monday Early Morning Activities
Posters for Monday must be installed in Exhibit Halls 220 Palais des congrès de Montréal between 7
AM and 9 AM
“Ecology” Editorial Board Meeting (Don Strong – Editor in Chief) 7 AM - 9 AM, Meeting Room 512 A
Level 5– Palais des congrès de Montréal
ESA Meetings Committee 7 AM - 9 AM Meeting Room 512 E Level 5 Palais des congrès de Montréal
ESA Finance and Investment Committee Meeting 7 AM - 8 AM, Meeting Room 512 B Level 5 Palais
des congrès de Montréal
ESA Science Committee Meeting 7 AM - 9AM, Meeting Room 512 F Level 5 Palais des congrès de
SD-6: SEEDS Mentors’ Breakfast 7 AM - 8 AM Meeting Rooms 512 D and H Level 5 Palais des
congrès de Montréal
SD-7 SEEDS Chapter Meeting 8 AM- 9:30 AM Meeting Rooms 512 D and H Level 5 Palais des
congrès de Montréal
Issues in Ecology Editorial Board Meeting 9 AM – 10 AM Meeting Room 512 B Level 5 Palais des
congrès de Montréal
Monday Morning Symposia 8 AM - 11:30 AM
Symposium 1 The boreal forest and global change. Edward Johnson, Kiyoko Miyanishi, Kathleen
Ruckstuhl (Organizers) Endorsed by ESA’s Vegetation Section and IAVS/NA and ESA’s Canada Chapter
Meeting Room 517 A Level 5 Palais des congrès de Montréal
Symposium 2 Soil Biodiversity: Scaling from microbe to ecosystem. Alastair Fitter, Caroline Keenan,
Hefin Jones (Organizers) Sponsored by the British Ecological Society Meeting Room 517 B Level 5
Palais des congrès de Montréal
Symposium 3 Linking ecological processes and environmental impacts across scales: Coastal ecology
and energy development in the Caspian Sea and Gulf of Mexico. Sandy Tartkowski, Tom Butler and
Vladimir Bashkin (Organizers) Endorsed by ESA’s International Affairs Section Meeting Room 517 C
Level 5 Palais des congrès de Montréal
Monday Morning Organized Oral Sessions 8 AM - 11:30 AM
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OOS-1 Appreciating the impacts of oxidative stress: From genes to ecosystems. Howard Neufeld,
Nancy Grulke (Organizers) Endorsed by ESA’s Physiological Ecology Section Meeting Room 510 A-C
Level 5 Palais des congrès de Montréal
OOS-2 Measuring landscape connectivity: Tool for species conservation. Pavel Kindlemann, Francoise
Burel, Jacques Baudry (Organizers) Meeting Room 510 B-D Level 5 Palais des congrès de Montréal
OOS-3 Mutualists as parasites: How mutualistic are mutualists, and why? Jeff Powell, John
Klironomos, Ben Wolfe (Organizers) Meeting Room 511 A-D Level 5 Palais des congrès de Montréal
OOS-4 Tropical cyclone disturbance and forest dynamics at multiple temporal scales: Results from
six long-term studies in the new and old worlds. Teng-Chiu Lin, Hen-Biau King, Steven Hamburg
(Organizers) Endorsed by the International Long-Term Ecological Research Network, the US LTER
International Committee and the Taiwan Forest Research InstituteMeeting Room 511 B-E Level 5 Palais
des congrès de Montréal
OOS-5 Mercury cycles: Sources, mass balances, bioaccumulation, and options to manage affected
systems Elly Best, J.G.Wiener, D. Mergler (Organizers) Sponsored by the Systemwide Water Resources
Research Program of the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Meeting Room 511 C-F Level 5 Palais des
congrès de Montréal
OOS-6 Development of landscape heterogeneity at multiple scales in wetlands Barry Warner, Arnold
van der Valk (Organizers) Meeting Room 516 A-B Level 5 Palais des congrès de Montréal
Monday Morning Contributed Paper Oral Sessions 8 AM - 11:30 AM
1) Contributed Oral Paper Session 1 Landscape History Meeting Room 513 A – B Level 5
Palais des congrès de Montréal
2) Contributed Oral Paper Session 2 Traditional Ecological Knowledge Meeting Room 513 C-D
Level 5 Palais des congrès de Montréal
3) Contributed Oral Paper Session 3 Herbivory: Plant - Herbivore Interactions Meeting Room
513 E-F Level 5 Palais des congrès de Montréal
4) Contributed Oral Paper Session 4 Forest Management Meeting Room 514 A-B-C Level 5
Palais des congrès de Montréal
5) Contributed Oral Paper Session 5 Aquatic Ecology: System Heterogeneity Meeting Room 515
A-B-C Level 5 Palais des congrès de Montréal
6) Contributed Oral Paper Session 6 Biodiversity: Management; Theory; Techniques Meeting
Room 516 D-E
Level 5 Palais des congrès de Montréal
7) Contributed Oral Paper Session 7 Disturbance Ecology: Fire; Litter; Animal Response
Meeting Room 518 A-B
Level 5 Palais des congrès de Montréal
8) Contributed Oral Paper Session 8 Invertebrate Ecology: Butterflies; Soil; Insects Meeting
Room 518 C
Level 5 Palais des congrès de Montréal
9) Contributed Oral Paper Session 9 Marine Ecology: Dispersal; Disturbance; Recruitment
Meeting Room 519 A Level 5 Palais des congrès de Montréal
10) Contributed Oral Paper Session 10 Aquatic Trophic Systems I Meeting Room 519 B Level 5
Palais des congrès de Montréal
11) Contributed Oral Paper Session 11 Invasive Species: Arid Lands Meeting Room 520 A-D
Level 5 Palais des congrès de Montréal
12) Contributed Oral Paper Session 12 Arid Lands: Plant Response to Precipitation Meeting
Room 520 B-E Level 5 Palais des congrès de Montréal
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13) Contributed Oral Paper Session 13 Ecology Education I Meeting Room 520 C-F Level 5
Palais des congrès de Montréal
14) Contributed Oral Paper Session 14 Evolutionary/Theoretical Ecology: Theory; Modeling
Meeting Room 521 A-B-C Level 5 Palais des congrès de Montréal
15) Contributed Oral Paper Session 15 Population and Genetics: Succession and Reproduction
Meeting Room 522 A-B-C Level 5 195 Palais des congrès de Montréal
16) Contributed Oral Paper Session 16 Photosynthesis and Water Relations: Conductivity;
Stress Meeting Room 524 A Level 5 Palais des congrès de Montréal
17) Contributed Oral Paper Session 17 Reptiles and Amphibians: Habitat; Communities
Meeting Room 524 B
Level 5 Palais des congrès de Montréal
18) Contributed Oral Paper Session 18 Avian Communities and Populations Meeting Room 524 C
Level 5 Palais des congrès de Montréal
Monday Lunch Break Activities
ESA VIP Editors’ Lunch (By Invitation Only) 11:30 AM - 1 PM Meeting Rooms 512 D and H Palais des
congrès de Montréal
TICKETED
TK-2 Student Section and Student LTER Lunch-Chat 11:30 AM - 1 PM 725 Terasse East Level 7
Palais des congrès de Montréal
TICKETED
GNG-A Ticketed Grab-and-Go Quick Lunch Pick Up 11:30 - 1:15 PM Exhibit Hall 220 D Level 2
Palais des congrès de Montréal
WK-24 SEEDS Program: How ESA members can get involved Katherine Hoffman, Melissa JurgensenArmstrong (Organizers) 11:30 AM – 1:15 PM Meeting Room 516 D-E Level 5 Palais des congrès de
Montréal Workshop Registration includes Grab and Go lunch ticket
WK-25 Developing Indicators and Ecosystem Services in a Framework that Integrates Ecological and
Economic Concepts. Ted Heintz, Rhonda Kranz (Organizers) 11:30 AM – 1:15 PM Meeting Rooms 516
A-B Level 5 Palais des congrès de Montréal Workshop Registration includes Grab and Go lunch ticket
ESA Awards Committee Meeting: 11:30 AM - 1:30 PM Meeting Room 512 B Level 5 Palais des
congrès de Montréal
Traditional Ecological Knowledge Section Brown-Bag Business Meeting 11:30 AM - 1 PM Palais des
congrès de Montréal Meeting Room 517 B Level 5 Palais des congres de Montreal
Third Presider Training 11:30 AM - 12:30 PM Dave Grow (Organizer) Meeting Room 511 C-F Level 5
Palais des congrès de Montréal
Monday Special Sessions 1 PM – 2:30 PM - except for Special Session 7 - 1:30 PM – 5 PM
Special Session 1 Ecological sustainability in a world of constant change: Developing a new research
agenda for ESA Gaius Shaver, Clifford Duke, Nancy Grimm (Organizers) 1 PM - 2:30 PM Meeting
Room 517 A Level 5 Palais des congrès de Montréal
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Special Session 2 Sense of Place: Indigenous homelands of eastern Canada Robin Kimmerer, Jesse
Ford (Organizers) Endorsed by ESA’s Traditional Ecological Knowledge Section 1 PM - 2:30 PM Palais
des congres de Montreal Meeting Room 517 B Level 5 Palais des congrès de Montréal
Special Session 3. Improv 101: Ease Those Presentation Jitters Annie Drinkard, Nadine Lymn
(Organizers) 1 PM - 2:30 PM Meeting Room 517 C Level 5 Palais des congrès de Montréal
Special Session 4. Diversifying Ecology. Jason Taylor, Melissa Jurgensen-Armstrong (Organizers) 1 PM 2:30 PM Meeting Room 516 C Level 5 Palais des congrès de Montréal
Special Session 5 An integrated trends analysis network Douglas Muchoney, John Campbell, Thomas
Loveland (Organizers) 1 PM - 2:30 PM Meeting Room 516 A and B Level 5 Palais des congrès de
Montréal
Special Session 6 Writing manuscripts for publication Ruth Yanai, Amber Knowlden (Organizers)
1 PM - 2:30 PM Meeting Room 517 D Level 5 Palais des congrès de Montréal
Special Session 7 Social capacity development for environmental management: International
cooperation and ecological solutions Sun-Kee Hong, Nobukazu Nakagoshi (Organizers) Endorsed by
INTECOL, Asia-Pacific Regional Chapter of IALE (International Association for Landscape Ecology and
COE Project of Hiroshima University, supported by the Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and
Technology, Japan 1:30 PM – 5 PM Meeting Room 210 A-B-E-F Level 2 Palais des congrès de
Montréal
Monday Afternoon Organized Oral Sessions 1:30 PM - 5 PM
OOS-7 Ecological effects of the Chernobyl disaster: Genes to ecosystems. James Morris, Timothy
Mousseau, Miguel Goni (Organizers) Endorsed by the U.S. Civilian Research and Development Foundation
(CRDF) Meeting Room 510 A-C Level 5 Palais des congrès de Montréal
OOS-8 Contaminants in aquatic systems: Individual effects and community consequences.
Jake Kerby, Rick Relyea (Organizers) Meeting Room 510 B-D Level 5 Palais des congrès de Montréal
OOS-9 Multiscale advanced raster map analysis for ecosystem health monitoring, assessment, and
management in the 21st Century. Ganapati Patil, Wayne Myers (Organizers) Endorsed by the Editors of
Environmental and Ecological Statistics, Multiscale Advanced Raster Map Analysis and EcoHealth
Meeting Room 511 A-D Level 5 Palais des congrès de Montréal
OOS -10 Reducing habitat fragmentation by roads: A comparison of measures and scales.
Jochen Jaeger, Günther Jeager, Lenore Fahrig, Wolfgang Haber (Organizers) Meeting Room 511 B-E Level
5 Palais des congrès de Montréal
OOS-11 Hydraulic limitations in vascular plants. Frank Berninger, Luc Lauzon, Eero Nikinmaa
(Organizers) Meeting Room 511 C-F Level 5 Palais des congrès de Montréal
Monday Afternoon Contributed Paper Oral Sessions 1:30 PM - 5 PM
19) Contributed Oral Paper Session 19 Modeling: Movement and Population Dynamics Meeting
Room 513 A – B Level 5 Palais des congrès de Montréal
20) Contributed Oral Paper Session 20 Modeling: Animal Populations Meeting Room 513 C-D
Level 5 Palais des congrès de Montréal
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21) Contributed Oral Paper Session 21 Urban Stream Ecosystems Meeting Room 513 E-F
Level 5 Palais des congrès de Montréal
22) Contributed Oral Paper Session 22 Fish Habitat; Structure; Movement Meeting Room 514 AB-C Level 5 Palais des congrès de Montréal
23) Contributed Oral Paper Session 23 Aquatic Ecology: Plankton Communities Meeting Room
515 A-B-C Level 5 Palais des congrès de Montréal
24) Contributed Oral Paper Session 24
Disturbance Ecology: Management; Response to Fire
Meeting Room 516 D-E
Level 5 Palais des congrès de Montréal
25) Contributed Oral Paper Session 25
Aquatic Trophic Systems II Meeting Room 518 A-B
Level 5 Palais des congrès de Montréal
26) Contributed Oral Paper Session 26
Soil Fungi Meeting Room 518 C Level 5 Palais des
congrès de Montréal
27) Contributed Oral Paper Session 27 Marine Populations Under Harvest Meeting Room 519 A
Level 5 Palais des congrès de Montréal
28) Contributed Oral Paper Session 28 Physiology: Ozone; CO2; Cavitation Meeting Room 519 B
Level 5 Palais des congrès de Montréal
29) Contributed Oral Paper Session 29 Climate Dynamics: Arid Land Responses to Variability in
Rainfall Meeting Room 520 A-D Level 5 Palais des congrès de Montréal
30) Contributed Oral Paper Session 30 Statistics Meeting Room 520 B-E Level 5 Palais des
congrès de Montréal
31) Contributed Oral Paper Session 31 Reptiles and Amphibians: Physiology; Food Webs
Meeting Room 520 C-F Level 5 Palais des congrès de Montréal
32) Contributed Oral Paper Session 32 Soil Ecology: Nutrient Dynamics and Acid Deposition.
Meeting Room 521 A-B-C Level 5 Palais des congrès de Montréal
33) Contributed Oral Paper Session 33 Grassland and Shrubland Communities Meeting Room
522 A-B-C Level 5 Palais des congrès de Montréal
34) Contributed Oral Paper Session 34 Polar and Alpine Ecology Meeting Room 524 A Level 5
Palais des congrès de Montréal
35) Contributed Oral Paper Session 35 Invasive Species: Great Lakes Area Meeting Room 524 B
Level 5 Palais des congrès de Montréal
36) Contributed Oral Paper Session 36 Late Breaking and Newsworthy Research: Distribution;
Disturbance Meeting Room 524 C Level 5 Palais des congrès de Montréal
ESA Afternoon Opening Plenary, Awards Ceremony, and MacArthur Lecture 2:40 PM - 5 PM
Meeting Room 710 A and B Level 7 Palais des congrès de Montréal
Opening Video – The Power of 10: Multiple Scales
Welcome, Introductions and Acknowledgements – Opened by President Melillo
President’s Remarks – on the occasion of ESA’s 90th Anniversary
Introduction of Incoming President – Nancy Grimm
Introduction of Past ESA Presidents – Celebration of 90th Annual Meeting
Past President Eugene Likens – speaker
The ESA Awards Ceremony
MacArthur Lecture – Dr. May Berenbaum
"From the "tangled bank" to Genbank: multi-scale approaches to plant/insect interactions"
Monday Poster Presentations 5 PM - 6:45 PM
Poster Pub, Presentations and Exhibits Halls
220 A-D – Level 2 Palais des congrès de Montréal
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POSTER SESSION 1 Photosynthesis and Water Relations
Snowflake Village
POSTER SESSION 2 Forest Ecology
Snowflake Village
Maple Forest Village
Fishing Stream Village
POSTER SESSION 3 Aquatic Ecology
Fishing Stream Village
POSTER SESSION 4 Marine Ecology
Fishing Stream Village
Monday Business Meetings and Social Activities
ESA Aquatic Ecologists Business Meeting and Mixer 6:30 PM - 8 PM 725 Terasse East Level 7 Palais
des congrès de Montréal
ESA Vegetation Section and N/A Chapter of International Association of Vegetation Scientists
Business Meeting and Mixer 6:30 PM - 8 PM Meeting Room 517 A Level 5 Palais des congrès de
Montréal
ESA Physiological Ecology Section Business Meeting and Mixer 6:30 PM - 8 PM Meeting Room 517 C
Level 5 Palais des congrès de Montréal
ESA Plant Population Section Business Meeting and Mixer 6:30 PM - 8 PM De Bleury Hall Level 2
Palais des congrès de Montréal
ESA Theoretical Ecology Section Business Meeting and Mixer 6:30 PM - 8 PM De Bleury Foyer Level
5 Palais des congrès de Montréal
Utah State Ecologists’ Reception 6:30 PM - 8 PM 720 Le Jardins Restaurant Level 7 Palais des
congrès de Montréal
Canadian Chapter Mixer 6:30 PM - 8 PM Meeting Room 517 B Level 5 Palais des congrès de
Montréal
TICKETED
TK-3 Federal Ecologists’ Reception 6:30 PM - 8 PM Meeting Room 517 D Level 5 Palais des congrès
de Montréal
TICKETED
ST-1 Christian Ecologists Social 6:30 PM - 8 PM Meeting Rooms 512 D and H Level 5 Palais des
congrès de Montréal
TICKETED
TK- 4 INTECOL Reception 6:30 PM - 8 PM Belvedere Patio 715 – Level 7 Palais des congrès de
Montréal
TICKETED
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EV-A (ticketed evening session) What Editors Want: Do’s and Don’t for Submitting your
Manuscript. Endorsed by the Student Section Elizabeth Harp, Sue Silver, David Baldwin (Organizers) 6:30
PM - 10 PM Meeting Room 510 A-C Level 5 Palais des congrès de Montréal
Defending Federal Agency Science from Political Interference Reception Sponsored by the Union of
Concerned Scientists 7:15 PM – 9 PM Meeting Room 510 B-D Level 5 Palais des congrès de Montréal
Monday Evening Sessions 8 PM - 10 PM unless otherwise noted
INTECOL Evening Opening Plenary 8 PM – 9:30 PM
Welcome, Introductions and Acknowledgements – Opened by President John Lee
Keynote Lecture - Professor Anthony R.E. Sinclair
Centre for Biodiversity Research - University of British Columbia
“ Ecosystem dynamics, conservation and human society: lessons from the long term record in Serengeti”
Meeting Room 710 A and B Level 7 Palais des congrès de Montréal
EV-1 Migration in a Changing World Christopher Caudill, Christopher Peery (Organizers) 7:15 PM - 10
PM Meeting Room 513 A – B Level 5 Palais des congrès de Montréal
EV-2 Use of indicators on disturbed lands William Goran, Harold Balback, Robert Holst (Organizers)
Meeting Room 513 C-D Level 5 Palais des congrès de Montréal
EV-3 Discussion Issues in Ethics and Intellectual Property Rights in partnership with First Nations
peoples Robin Kimmerer, Jesse Ford (Organizers) Meeting Room 513 E-F Level 5 Palais des
congrès de Montréal
EV-4 Approaches and Challenges of Using Large-scale Databases and Digital Libraries in
Environmental Education Robert Bohannan, Alan Berkowitz, Andy Anderson (Organizers) Meeting
Room 514 A-B-C Level 5 Palais des congrès de Montréal
EV-5 Ecological Complexity: Unifying Ecological Theory across Scales Ban Lian (Larry) Li, Lael
Parrott (Organizers) 516 D-E Level 5 Palais des congrès de Montréal
Tuesday, August 9, 2005
Field Trip NOTE: Departure times are firm. Return times are estimates affected by weather
conditions, traffic etc.
Tuesday Mid Week Field Trip – Advance Field Trip Registration Required
FT-11 A
Biodome and Jardin Botanique Christian Messier (Organizer) Depart 8:30 AM from Palais
des congrès de Montréal – Viger Bus Terminal. Return 12:30 PM Palais des congrès de Montréal –
Viger Bus Terminal
Posters for Tuesday must be installed in Exhibit Halls 220 Palais des congrès de Montréal between 7
AM and 9 AM
Tuesday Early Morning Activities
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International Committee of US LTER Meeting 7 AM – 8:30 AM Meeting Room 512 C Level 5–
Palais des congrès de Montréal
TICKETED
ST-2 Grad Students and Post Doc Coffee, Croissants and Conversations: Roundtables with the
Governing Board (Exclusively for Graduate Students and Post Docs): 7 AM - 8 AM Meeting Room 517 D
Level 5 Palais des congrès de Montréal
ESA Vegetation Classification Panel Business Meeting: 7:30 AM - 11:30 AM Meeting Room 512 F
Level 5 Palais des congrès de Montréal
ESA Meetings Committee 7 AM - 9 AM Meeting Room 512 E Level 5 Palais des congrès de Montréal
ESA Public Affairs Committee Meeting: 7 AM - 8:30 AM Meeting Room 512 B Level 5 Palais des
congrès de Montréal
ESA Frontiers in Ecology Editorial Board Meeting (Sue Silver – Editor in Chief) 7 AM - 9 AM Meeting
Room 512 A Level 5 Palais des congrès de Montréal
SD-8 SEEDS Advisory Board Meeting: 7 AM - 9 AM Meeting Room 512 D Level 5 Palais des congrès
de Montréal
ESA – BES Breakfast Meeting (By Invitation Only) for the Presidents of Ecological Societies of the World
8:15 AM – 10 AM Meeting Room 710 B Level 7 Palais des congrès de Montréal
Tuesday Morning Symposia 8 AM -11:30 AM
Symposium 4 Ecosystem ecology at the watershed scale: Linking biogeochemical cycles across the
terrestrial - aquatic divide. Emily Bernhardt, Maury Valett (Organizers) Meeting Room 517 A – Level 5
Palais des congrès de Montréal
Symposium 5 Marine macroecology. Jon Witman, Kaustuv Roy (Organizers) Meeting Room 517 B –
Level 5 - Palais des congrès de Montréal
Symposium 6 Pathways to scientific teaching in ecology education Charlene D’Avanzo, Michael
Mappin (Organizers) Meeting Room 517 C Level 5 Palais des congrès de Montréal
Tuesday Morning Special Session 8 AM – 11:30 AM
Special Session 8 Spatial statistics at multiple scales. Pierre Legendre, Marie-Josée Fortin (Organizers)
Endorsed by ESA’s Statistical Ecology Section Meeting Room 210 A-B-E-F Level 2 Palais des congrès
de Montréal
Tuesday Morning Organized Oral Sessions 8 AM - 11:30 AM
OOS-12 Multiple time scales of ecological processes: Results from the LTER Network. James Gosz,
Robert Waide (Organizers) Meeting Room 510 A-C Level 5 Palais des congrès de Montréal
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OOS-13 Gas exchange and global change in peatlands: From soil to satellite. Juul Limpens, Gabriela
Schaepman, Mats Nilsson, Monique Heijmans (Organizers) Meeting Room 510 B-D Level 5 Palais des
congrès de Montréal
OOS-14 Ecology of arable plants: Linking invertebrate and weed population dynamics.
John Cussans, Alice Mauchline, Katherine Gross (Organizers) Endorsed by the Canadian Weed Science
Society Meeting Room 511 A-D Level 5 Palais des congrès de Montréal
OOS-15 A toolbox for fire ecology: Mechanisms linking fire behavior and ecological effect.
Sean Michaletz, Rodney Weber (Organizers) Endorsed by ESA’s Southeast and Rocky Mountain Chapters
Meeting Room 511 B-E Level 5 Palais des congrès de Montréal
OOS-16 Allelopathy: Biochemical interactions among plants affecting community structure, exotic
invasions and evolutionary theory. Azim Mallik, Ragan Callaway (Organizers) Endorsed by the
International Allelopathy Society (IAS), the Chinese Academy of Science and the Eastern Asian Federation
of Ecological Societies Meeting Room 511 C-F Level 5 Palais des congrès de Montréal
OOS-17 Coastal indicators of ecological condition: Integration of spatial scales. Gerald Niemi, Hans
Paerl, Barbara Levinson (Organizers) Endorsed by EPA’s Environmental Monitoring and Assessment
Program (EMAP). Meeting Room 516 A-B Level 5 Palais des congrès de Montréal
OOS-18 Ecological guidelines for management of water quantity and quality in agricultural
landscapes. Lech Ryszkowski, Richard Lowrance (Organizers) Meeting Room 516 C Level 5 Palais des
congrès de Montréal
Tuesday Morning Contributed Paper Oral Sessions 8 AM - 11:30 AM
37) Contributed Oral Paper Session 37 Floodplain Restoration Meeting Room 513 A – B Level 5
Palais des congrès de Montréal
38) Contributed Oral Paper Session 38 Aquatic Faunal Assemblage Responses to Stressors Meeting
Room 513 C-D Level 5 Palais des congrès de Montréal
39) Contributed Oral Paper Session 39 Physiology: Respiration, Sap Flow and Growth Meeting
Room 513 E-F Level 5 Palais des congrès de Montréal
40) Contributed Oral Paper Session 40 Forest Understories Meeting Room 514 A-B-C Level 5
Palais des congrès de Montréal
41) Contributed Oral Paper Session 41 Biogeochemistry: Climate Effects and Physiology Meeting
Room 515 A-B-C Level 5 Palais des congrès de Montréal
42) Contributed Oral Paper Session 42 Invasive Species: Competition Meeting Room 516 D-E
Level 5 Palais des congrès de Montréal
43) Contributed Oral Paper Session 43 Landscape Ecology Meeting Room 518 A-B
Level 5 Palais
des congrès de Montréal
44) Contributed Oral Paper Session 44 Mammal Ecology: Seals, Deer, Bats Meeting Room 518 C
Level 5 Palais des congrès de Montréal
45) Contributed Oral Paper Session 45 Evolutionary/Theoretical Ecology: Genotypes and
Phenotypes Meeting Room 519 A Level 5 Palais des congrès de Montréal
46) Contributed Oral Paper Session 46 Predator-Prey Ecology: Communities and Environmental
Impacts - Meeting Room 519 B Level 5 Palais des congrès de Montréal
47) Contributed Oral Paper Session 47 Invasive Species: Environmental and Habitat Factors
Meeting Room 520 A-D Level 5 Palais des congrès de Montréal
48) Contributed Oral Paper Session 48 Landscape Ecology: Animal Dynamics Meeting Room 520 BE Level 5 Palais des congrès de Montréal
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49) Contributed Oral Paper Session 49 Climate and Vegetation Dynamics Meeting Room 520 C-F
Level 5 Palais des congrès de Montréal
50) Contributed Oral Paper Session 50 Restoration Management and Modeling Meeting Room 521
A-B-C Level 5 Palais des congrès de Montréal
51) Contributed Oral Paper Session 51 Arid Land Management: Vegetation and Nutrient
Dynamics Meeting Room 522 A-B-C Level 5 Palais des congrès de Montréal
52) Contributed Oral Paper Session 52 Avian Nesting and Breeding Meeting Room 524 A Level 5
Palais des congrès de Montréal
53) Contributed Oral Paper Session 53 Trophic Communities and Modeling Meeting Room 524 B
Level 5 Palais des congrès de Montréal
54) Contributed Oral Paper Session 54 Urban Plant Communities Meeting Room 524 C Level 5
Palais des congrès de Montréal
Tuesday Lunch Break Activities
TICKETED
GNG-B Ticketed Grab-and-Go Quick Lunch pick up 11:30 AM – 1:15 PM Exhibit Hall 220 D Level 2
Palais des congrès de Montréal
ESA Past President’s Forum Luncheon (By Invitation Only) 11:30 AM - 1:30 PM Meeting Room 710 B
Level 7 Palais des congrès de Montréal
WK-26 Opportunities for Funding in Environmental Biology at NSF Alan Tessier, James Morris
(Organizers) 11:30 AM – 1:15 PM Meeting Room 517 D Level 5 Palais des congrès de Montréal
WK-27 The 2010 biodiversity target: Implications for ecologists David Ainsworth (Organizer) 11:30
AM - 1:15 PM Meeting Room 512 A Level 5 Palais des congrès de Montréal Workshop Registration
includes Grab and Go Lunch ticket.
WK-28 Multi-scale cyberinfrastructuer to support biodiversity research and conservation Sandy
Andelman, Thomas Lacher (Organizers) 11:30 AM – 1:15 PM Meeting Room 513 A-B Level 5 Palais des
congrès de Montréal Workshop Registration includes Grab and Go Lunch ticket.
WK-29 Models as a tool for integration of education and collaborative research Holly Ewing, Camille
Parrish, Maria Uriarte, Kathleen Weathers (Organizers) 11:30 AM – 1:15 PM Meeting Room 513 C-D
Level 5 Palais des congrès de Montréal Workshop Registration includes Grab and Go Lunch ticket.
WK-30 Help design EcoBeaker 3.0: Discussion on the next version of our widely used ecology
teaching software Eli Meir, Susan Maruca (Organizers) 11:30 AM – 1:15 PM Meeting Rooms 512 D and
H Level 5 Palais des congrès de Montréal Workshop Registration includes Grab and Go Lunch ticket.
ESA Urban Ecology Section Brown Bag Lunch 11:30 AM - 1:15 PM Meeting Room 517 C – Level 5 Palais des congrès de Montréal
ESA Long Term Studies Section Business Meeting and Brown Bag Lunch 11:30 AM - 1 PM Meeting
Room 517 B – Level 5 Palais des congrès de Montréal
ESA Southeastern Chapter Section Brown Bag Lunch 11:30 AM - 1 PM Meeting Room 517 A – Level
5 Palais des congrès de Montréal
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ESA Student Section Brownbag Lunch 11:30 AM - 1 PM Student Lounge - Hall 210 D Level 2
Palais des congrès de Montréal
ESA Education & Human Resources Committee Lunch Meeting 11:30 AM - 1:30 PM Meeting Room
512 E Level 5 Palais des congrès de Montréal
Introduction to the Midwest Invasive Plant Network –Brownbag Lunch Meeting Katherine Howe
(Organizer) 11:30 AM –1:15 PM Meeting Room 512 F Level 5 Palais des congrès de Montréal
Vegetation Panel Data Base (Veg Bank) SubCommittee Meeting: 1 PM - 5 PM Meeting Room 512 C
Level 5 Palais des congrès de Montréal
Ecology Letters Editorial Board Meeting (Blackwell Science) 3 PM - 5 PM Meeting Room 512 B Level 5
Palais des congrès de Montréal
Tuesday Afternoon Symposia 1:30 PM - 5 PM
Symposium 7 Multi-scale integration for ecological sustainability: Approaches and applications.
Rusong Wang, Jianguo (Jack) Liu (Organizers) Endorsed by INTECOL and the Ecological Society of China
Meeting Room 517 A – Level 5 Palais des congrès de Montréal
Symposium 8 Ecosystem response and recovery: Assessing the 1991 Canada-US Air Quality
Agreement. Richard Haeuber, Rona Birnbaum, Kerri Timoffee (Organizers) Endorsed by the Institute of
Ecosystems Studies, Millbrook, New York and the Canadian Environmental Protection Service. Meeting
Room 517 B – Level 5 Palais des congrès de Montréal
Symposium 9 Spatial heterogeneity in urban ecosystems: Integration and scaling in coupled naturalhuman systems. Mary Cadenasso, Morgan Grove, Steward Pickett (Organizers) Endorsed by ESA’s Urban
Ecosystem Ecology Section Meeting Room 517 C – Level 5 Palais des congrès de Montréal
Tuesday Afternoon Special Session 1:30 PM – 5 PM
Special Session 9 Restoration of Mesopotamian marshes of Iraq. Curtis Richardson, Barry Warner
(Organizers) Endorsed by INTECOL Meeting Room 210 A-B-E-F Level 2 Palais des congrès de
Montréal
Tuesday Afternoon Organized Oral Sessions 1:30 PM - 5 PM
OOS-19 Bat habitat use in eastern North American temperate forests: Site, stand, and landscape
effects Robert Brooks, Mark Ford (Organizers) Meeting Room 510 A-C Level 5 Palais des congrès de
Montréal
OOS-20 Disease in ecosystems: Reciprocal interactions between pathogens and ecosystems
Felicia Keesing, Richard Ostfeld, Valerie Eviner (Organizers) Meeting Room 510 B-D Level 5 Palais des
congrès de Montréal
OOS-21 Implications of disturbance on boreal peatland carbon cycling: From sites to landscape-scale
carbon budgets R. Kelman Wieder, Kimberli Scott, Dale Vitt (Organizers) Meeting Room 511 A-D Level
5 Palais des congrès de Montréal
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OOS-22 Comparative ecology of tropical trees: Linking physiology to dynamics and distribution
Sean Thomas, Kyle Harms (Organizers) Endorsed by the Center for Tropical Forest Science (CTFS) at the
Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute Meeting Room 511 B-E Level 5 Palais des congrès de Montréal
OOS-23 The use of spatially explicit data in ecological investigations Kelvin Conrad, Barbara Smith, Lisa
Rew(Organizers) Meeting Room 511 C-F Level 5 Palais des congrès de Montréal
OOS-24 Conducting global multi-scale integrated environmental management and research using sitespecific research: Lessons learned from the ILTER Hen-Biau King, Patrick Bourgeron (Organizers)
Meeting Room 516 A-B Level 5 Palais des congrès de Montréal
OOS-25 Dynamics of invasive plants: Individuals to ecosystems Tiffany Knight, John Drake (Organizer)
Endorsed by ESA’s Plant Population Ecology Section Meeting Room 516 C Level 5 Palais des congrès de
Montréal
Tuesday Afternoon Contributed Paper Oral Sessions 1:30 PM - 5 PM
55) Contributed Oral Paper Session 55 Agroecology: Management Meeting Room 513 A – B Level
5 Palais des congrès de Montréal
56) Contributed Oral Paper Session 56 Aquatic Ecology:Communities Meeting Room 513 C-D
Level 5 Palais des congrès de Montréal
57) Contributed Oral Paper Session 57 Arctic and Alpine Ecology Meeting Room 513 E-F Level 5
Palais des congrès de Montréal
58) Contributed Oral Paper Session 58 Forest Ecology: Riparian Areas Meeting Room 514 A-B-C
Level 5 Palais des congrès de Montréal
59) Contributed Oral Paper Session 59 Bacterial Communities and Diversity Meeting Room 515 AB-C Level 5 Palais des congrès de Montréal
60) Contributed Oral Paper Session 60 Biogechemistry: Soil; Nutrient Dynamics; Decomposition
Meeting Room 516 D-E
Level 5 Palais des congrès de Montréal
61) Contributed Oral Paper Session 61 Evolutionary Ecology: Aquatic Systems Meeting Room 518
A-B
Level 5 Palais des congrès de Montréal
62) Contributed Oral Paper Session 62 Fish: Predation and Morphology Meeting Room 518 C
Level 5 Palais des congrès de Montréal
63) Contributed Oral Paper Session 63 Plant Genetics: Population Level Implications Meeting
Room 519 A Level 5 Palais des congrès de Montréal
64) Contributed Oral Paper Session 64 GIS/Remote Sensing:Modeling, Spectral Analysis, and
Nutrient Meeting Room 519 B Level 5 Palais des congrès de Montréal
65) Contributed Oral Paper Session 65 Herbivory: Physiological Responses Meeting Room 520 AD Level 5 Palais des congrès de Montréal
66) Contributed Oral Paper Session 66 Disturbance Ecology: Water, Wind and Ice Meeting Room
520 B-E Level 5 Palais des congrès de Montréal
67) Contributed Oral Paper Session 67 Modeling: Nutrient Cycling; Food Webs Meeting Room 520
C-F Level 5 Palais des congrès de Montréal
68) Contributed Oral Paper Session 68 Ecology Education II Meeting Room 521 A-B-C Level 5
207 Palais des congrès de Montréal
69) Contributed Oral Paper Session 69 Marine Ecology: Habitat; Communities Meeting Room 522
A-B-C Level 5 Palais des congrès de Montréal
70) Contributed Oral Paper Session 70 Avian Ecology: Habitat; Human Impact Meeting Room 524
A Level 5 Palais des congrès de Montréal
71) Contributed Oral Paper Session 71 Terrestrial Plant Restoration: Fire Effect Meeting Room 524
B
Level 5 Palais des congrès de Montréal
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72) Contributed Oral Paper Session 72 Trophic Systems: Communities; Predator Behavior
Meeting Room 524 C Level 5 Palais des congrès de Montréal
Tuesday Poster Presentations 5 PM - 6:45 PM
Poster Pub, Presentations and Exhibits
Exhibit Halls 220 A-D – Level 2 Palais des congrès de Montréal
POSTER SESSION 5 Climate Dynamics
Snowflake Village
POSTER SESSION 6 Arctic and Alpine Ecology
Snowflake Village
POSTER SESSION 7 Grasslands
Snowflake Village
POSTER SESSION 8 Traditional Ecological Knowledge
Snowflake Village
POSTER SESSION 9 Arid Lands and Deserts
Maple Forest Village
POSTER SESSION 10 Restoration and Adaptive Management
Maple Forest Village
POSTER SESSION 11 Disturbance Ecology
Maple Forest Village
POSTER SESSION 12 Physiological Ecology
Maple Forest Village
POSTER SESSION 13 Landscape Ecology/Geomorphology
Fishing Stream Village
POSTER SESSION 14 GIS and Remote Sensing
Fishing Stream Village
POSTER SESSION 15 Urban Ecology
Fishing Stream Village
POSTER SESSION 16 Ecology Education
Fishing Stream Village
Tuesday Business Meetings and Social Events
INTECOL General Assembly 6 PM - 8 PM Meeting Room 513 A-B Level 5 Palais des congrès de
Montréal
Oecologia Editors Reception and Dinner (By Invitation) (Organizer: Ehleringer) 6:30 PM Social 7:30 PM
– 10 PM Dinner and Meeting 710 B Level 7 Palais des congrès de Montréal
Organization of Tropical Studies Mixer (Organizer: Carol Mozell) 6:30 PM – 8 PM 710 A Level 7 Palais
des congrès de Montréal
Blackwell Science Meet the Editors VIP Reception (by invitation) 6:30 PM - 8 PM Lipstick Forest
Level 1, Palais des congrès de Montréal
University of Michigan School of Natural Resources and Environment and Ecology and Evolutionary
Biology Joint Students and Alumni Mixer 6:30 PM - 8 PM Terasse 725 Level 7 Palais des congrès de
Montréal
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Ecological Applications Editorial Board Meeting (Dave Schimel – Editor in Chief) 6:30 PM - 8 PM
Meeting Room 512 A Level 5 Palais des congrès de Montréal
ESA Education Section Mixer 6:30 PM - 8 PM Meeting Rooms 512 D and H Level 5 Palais des congrès
de Montréal
ESA International Affairs Section Business Meeting and Mixer 6:30 PM - 8 PM Meeting Room 512 C
Level 5 Palais des congrès de Montréal
ESA Fund for the Millennium Reception (By Invitation Only) 6:30 PM - 8 PM Held at the
Intercontinental Hotel - Les Salons Voutes
TICKETED
TK-5 Student Mixer – Dim Sum Delights 6:30 PM - 9 PM Held at the Holiday Inn Select in
Chinatown
Tuesday Evening Sessions 8 PM - 10 PM unless otherwise noted
EV-6 Writers and Poets Evening Organized by Louis Lefebvre for the Montreal Local Host Committee –
Featured readings by naturalist journalist and poet, Richard Sommer, Quebec novelist/columnist, Louis
Hamelin, biologist/novelist Louis Lefebvre and biologist/poet Jan Conn. Meet the Authors and book signing:
7:30 PM - 8 PM. Program: 8 PM - 10 PM. 510 A-C Level 5 Palais des congrès de Montréal
EV-7 Assessing the future of North America’s natural ecosystems using the latest climate and
vegetation models Gary Benson, David Price (Organizers) 7:30 PM -10 PM Meeting Room 511 A-D
Level 5 Palais des congrès de Montréal
EV-8 Can the Mesopotamian Marsh's Garden of Eden in Iraq be restored? Curt Richardson, Barry
Warner (Organizers) Endorsed by INTECOL Meeting Room 510 B -D Level 5 Palais des congrès de
Montréal
EV-9 Ecology Teaching in K-12 Schools: Status and Vision ESA’s Education and Human Resources
Vice President’s Emerging Issues Forum Alan Berkowitz, Carol Brewer (Organizers) Meeting Room 511
B – E Level 5 Palais des congrès de Montréal
EV-10 International Polar Year 2007-2008 Town Meeting Rachel Schiflett, Paul Cutler (Organizers)
Endorsed by the World Wildlife Society Meeting Room 513 C-D Level 5 Palais des congrès de Montréal
EV-11 An Ecologist’s Guide to the Galaxy Jacoby Carter, Deborah Norling, Sandy Tartkowski
(Organizers) Endorsed by ESA’s International Affairs Section Meeting Room 515 A-B-C Level 5 Palais
des congrès de Montréal
EV-12 Empowering ecologists with informatics education and training Deana Pennington, Julie Jones,
Samantha Romanello (Organizers) Sponsored by NSF IGERT Meeting Room 514 A-B-C Level 5 Palais
des congrès de Montréal
Wednesday, August 10, 2005
Wednesday Early Morning Activities
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Registration is Required – Advance Registration Preferred
ST-3: Sunrise 5K Fun Run/Fun Walk in Mont Royal Parc 6 AM to 7:30 AM
Assemble at 5:30 AM for race warm up and transportation to Mont Royal Parc. Buses to race start
leave from Viger Bus terminal Palais des congrès de Montréal at 5:35 AM and 5:45 AM and return
following completion of the race.
Posters for Wednesday must be installed in Exhibit Halls 220 Palais des congrès de Montréal between
7 AM and 9 AM
International Committee of US LTER Meeting 7 AM – 8:30 AM Meeting Room 512 C Level 5–
Palais des congrès de Montréal
ESA Publications Committee Meeting: 7 AM - 8 AM Meeting Room 512 B Level 5 Palais des congrès
de Montréal
ESA Professional Certification Board 7 AM – 9 AM Meeting Room 512 D Level 5 Palais des congrès
de Montréal
Ecosystems Editorial Board Meeting – (Janet Slobodian for Springer-Verlaag) 7 AM to 8 AM Meeting
Room 512 A Level 5 Palais des congrès de Montréal
Field Trip NOTE: Departure times are firm. Return times are estimates affected by weather
conditions, traffic etc.
Wednesday Mid-Week Scientific Field Trip – advance scientific field trip registration required
FT-12 Macdonald Campus – Entomological Museum, Arboretum and EcoMuseum - of McGill
University Emma Despland (Organizer) Departs 9 AM from Palais des congrès de Montréal – Viger Bus
Terminal Return 4 PM Palais des congrès de Montréal – Viger Bus Terminal
Wednesday Morning Symposia 8 AM - 11:30 AM
Symposium 10 The invasion paradox: Reconciling biodiversity and invasion patterns across spatial
scales Dov Sax, G. David Tilman, Thomas Stohlgren (Organizers) Meeting Room 517 A – Level 5 Palais
des congrès de Montréal
Symposium 11 Global land science: Dynamics of the coupled human-environment system Dennis
Ojima, Emilio Moran (Organizers) Meeting Room 517 B – Level 5 Palais des congrès de Montréal
Symposium 12 Bridging the divide: Bringing theory into practice in forest biodiversity conservation
Lisa Schulte, Robert Mitchell, Malcolm Hunter, Jr, Jerry Franklin, R. Kevin McIntyre, Brian Palik
(Organizers) Meeting Room 517 C – Level 5 Palais des congrès de Montréal
Wednesday Morning Special Session 8 AM – 11:30 AM
Special Session 10 Building an ecological observatory network for regional- to continental-scale
research: NEON, the National Ecological Observatory Network William Michener, Jeffrey Goldman,
Bruce Hayden (Organizers) Endorsed by the American Institute of Biological Sciences (AIBS) Meeting
Room 210 A-B-E-F Level 2 Palais des congrès de Montréal
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Wednesday Morning Organized Oral Sessions 8 AM - 11:30 AM
OOS-26 From microbes to ecosystems: How do we really make the connections? Josh Schimel, Serita
Frey (Organizers) Endorsed by ESA’s Soil Ecology Section and the Soil Ecology Society Meeting Room 510
A-C Level 5 Palais des congrès de Montréal
OOS-27 Emerging ecoinformatic tools and accomplishments for synthetic ecological research across
scales Jennifer Dunne, Neo Martinez, Tamara Romanuk (Organizers) Meeting Room 510 B-D Level 5
Palais des congrès de Montréal
OOS-28 Ecological processes important in the responses of bird populations to environmental change
driven by agriculture Ken Norris, Emily Chambers, Juliet Vickery (Organizers) Meeting Room 511 A-D
Level 5 Palais des congrès de Montréal
OOS-29 Protecting ecosystem services through private sector partnerships and the capital markets
Bruce Kahn, Orie Loucks (Organizers) Meeting Room 511 B-E Level 5 Palais des congrès de Montréal
OOS-30 Modeling movement at multiple scales John Fryxell, Monica Turner, Mark Boyce (Organizers)
Meeting Room 511 C-F Level 5 Palais des congrès de Montréal
OOS-31 Structure and function of tropical rainforest canopies Michael Ryan, David Clark (Organizers)
Meeting Room 516 A-B Level 5 Palais des congrès de Montréal
OOS-32 Forest disturbance regimes in the circumboreal forest zone: Natural variability and
implications for forest management and biodiversity conservation Sylvie Gauthier, Timo Kuuluvainen,
Daniel Kneeshaw (Organizers) Endorsed by ESA’s Applied Ecology Section Meeting Room 516 C Level 5
Palais des congrès de Montréal
Wednesday Morning Contributed Paper Oral Sessions 8 AM - 11:30 AM
73) Contributed Oral Paper Session 73 Aquatic Ecology: Management of Streams and Lakes
Meeting Room 513 A – B Level 5 Palais des congrès de Montréal
74) Contributed Oral Paper Session 74 Biodiversity: Aquatic Systems
Meeting Room 513 C-D Level 5 Palais des congrès de Montréal
75) Contributed Oral Paper Session 75 Biogeochemistry: Soil-Chemical Flux Meeting Room 513 EF Level 5 Palais des congrès de Montréal
76) Contributed Oral Paper Session 76 Estuary and Coastal Management Meeting Room 514 A-B-C
Level 5 Palais des congrès de Montréal
77) Contributed Oral Paper Session 77 Paleoecology Meeting Room 515 A-B-C Level 5 Palais des
congrès de Montréal
78) Contributed Oral Paper Session 78 Evolutionary Ecology: Genetics Meeting Room 516 D-E
Level 5 Palais des congrès de Montréal
79) Contributed Oral Paper Session 79 Forest Ecology: Communities; Species Richness, and
Coarse Woody Debris Meeting Room 518 A-B
Level 5 Palais des congrès de Montréal
80) Contributed Oral Paper Session 80 Mutualism/Parasitism:Pollination, Dispersal, Ants, Aphids
and Fungi Meeting Room 518 C
Level 5 Palais des congrès de Montréal
81) Contributed Oral Paper Session 81 Invertebrate Ecology: Communities; Population;
Disturbance Meeting Room 519 A Level 5 Palais des congrès de Montréal
82) Contributed Oral Paper Session 82 Landscape Populations and Genetics Meeting Room 519 B
Level 5 Palais des congrès de Montréal
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83) Contributed Oral Paper Session 83 Human Impacts on Coastal Areas Meeting Room 520 AD Level 5 Palais des congrès de Montréal
84) Contributed Oral Paper Session 84 Ecology of Marine and Intertidal Systems) Meeting Room
520 B-E Level 5 Palais des congrès de Montréal
85) Contributed Oral Paper Session 85 Mutualism: Pollination Meeting Room 520 C-F Level 5
Palais des congrès de Montréal
86) Contributed Oral Paper Session 86 Herbivory: Genetic Variability in Insect-Plant Interactions
Meeting Room 521 A-B-C Level 5 Palais des congrès de Montréal
87) Contributed Oral Paper Session 87 Rare, Threatened and Endangered Species: Flora; Habitat
Meeting Room 522 A-B-C Level 5 Palais des congrès de Montréal
88) Contributed Oral Paper Session 88 Mammal Ecology: Habitat and Movement Meeting Room
524 A Level 5 Palais des congrès de Montréal
89) Contributed Oral Paper Session 89 Soil Ecology: Plant-Soil Relationships Meeting Room 524 B
Level 5 Palais des congrès de Montréal
90) Contributed Oral Paper Session 90 Urban Ecology Management Meeting Room 524 C Level 5
Palais des congrès de Montréal
Wednesday Lunch Break Activities
Advance Registration is Required
Tour-2 Guided visit to the Secretariat of the Convention on Biological Diversity’s offices in Old
Montreal Minimum 12, Maximum 25 Departure 12 Noon - Return 2:30 pm this is in walking distance
on block from Palais. Lunch will be provided Depart from Registration in Viger Hall
Rapid Response Team Luncheon (by invitation) Laura Lipps (Organizer) 11:30 AM – 1:30 PM Meeting
Room 710 B Level 7 Palais des congrès de Montréal
TICKETED
GNG-C Ticketed Grab-and-Go Quick Lunch Pick Up 11:30 AM – 1:15 PM Exhibit Hall 220 D Level
2 Palais des congrès de Montréal
ESA Paleoecology Section Brown Bag and Business Meeting 11:30 AM - 1 PM Meeting Room 512 C
Level 5 Palais des congrès de Montréal
ESA (GLBT) Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual, and Transgender Ecologists’ Brown Bag Lunch NOON - 1:15
PM Meeting Room 512 G Level 5 Palais des congrès de Montréal
Reunion Brown Bag lunch for Carleton College alumni and friends Organized by Mark McKone and
Phil Camill 11:30 AM - 1 PM Meeting Room 511 C-F Level 5 Palais des congrès de Montréal
TICKETED
ST-4 Wisconsin Ecologists Lunch. Sponsored by the Madison Ecology Group 11:30 AM - 1:15 PM
Meeting Room 710 A Level 7 Palais des congrès de Montréal
WK-31 Protecting ecosystem services through private sector partnerships and the capital markets
Bruce Kahn, Orie Loucks (Organizers) 11:30 AM – 1:15 PM Meeting Rooms 512 D and H Level 5 Palais
des congrès de Montréal Workshop Registration includes Grab and Go Lunch ticket
WK-32 Moderated roundtable luncheon discussion: Building an ecological observatory network for
regional- to continental-scale research: NEON, the National Ecological Observatory Network William
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Michener, Bruce Hayden, Jeffrey Goldman (Organizers) 11:30 AM – 1:30 PM Meeting Room 517 D–
Level 5 Palais des congrès de Montréal Workshop Registration includes Grab and Go Lunch ticket
WK-33 Environmental Justice & ESA: A Vision for Research, Education and Outreach Discussion
11:30 AM to 1:15 PM Leanne Jablonski, Tara Poling, Goerge Middendorf, Charles Nilon (Orgaznizers)
Meeting Room 512 A Level 5 Palais des congrès de Montréal Workshop Registration includes Grab and
Go Lunch ticket
WK-34 Scientific Teaching in Ecology Education What is it, why do it, and how can we help faculty
succeed at it? 11:30 AM to 1:15 PM Charlene D’Avanzo, Michael Mappin (Organizers) Meeting Room
512 B Level 5 Palais des congrès de Montréal Workshop Registration includes Grab and Go Lunch ticket
Wednesday Afternoon Symposia 1:30 PM - 5 PM
Symposium 13 Prediction and prioritization of future invasive species Richard Mack, Mark Lonsdale
(Organizers) Endorsed by the Global Invasive Species Programme (GISP). Meeting Room 517 A – Level 5
Palais des congrès de Montréal
Symposium 14 Ecological impacts of Asia on global sustainability at multiple scales Young Choi, Shili
Miao. Changhui Peng (Organizers) Endorsed by ESA’s Asian Ecology Section Meeting Room 517 B –
Level 5 Palais des congrès de Montréal
Symposium 15 The bringing together of professional ecologists and educators with citizen science
Karen Yee, Peter Marra (Organizers) Endorsed by ESA’s Education Section Meeting Room 517 C – Level 5
Palais des congrès de Montréal
Wednesday Afternoon Special Session 1:30 PM – 5 PM
Special Session 11 Delivering on the promise of ecological science to improve land management:
Ecological site descriptions. Joel Brown, Jeff Herrick (Organizers) Endorsed by ESA’s Rangeland Section
and the Society for Range Management Meeting Room 210 A-B-E-F Level 2 Palais des congrès de
Montréal
Wednesday Afternoon Organized Oral Sessions 1:30 PM - 5 PM
OOS-33 Restoring and designing ecosystems for a crowded planet: Provision of ecosystem services or
mere window dressing? M. Luisa Martinez, Margaret Palmer (Organizers) Endorsed by Ecoscience, Laval
University Meeting Room 510 A-C Level 5 Palais des congrès de Montréal
OOS-34 Incorporating ecological processes at many scales into biogeochemical and global climate
change models Wilfred Post, Jerry Olson, Changhui Peng (Organizers) Meeting Room 510 B-D Level 5
Palais des congrès de Montréal
OOS-35 Mutualism, competition, and invasion: Applying ecological theory to agriculture
Laurie Drinkwater, Jude Maul, Deborah Letourneau, Katie Monsen (Organizers) Endorsed by ESA’s
Agroecology Section Meeting Room 511 A-D Level 5 Palais des congrès de Montréal
OOS-36 Role of microbial communities in mediating biogeochemical response to disturbance
Erica Smithwick, Monica Turner (Organizers) Endorsed by ESA’s Biogeosciences Section Meeting Room
511 B-E Level 5 Palais des congrès de Montréal
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OOS-37 Post-fire conversion of forest to non-forest: Do we need new theory? Randy Balice, Bill
Romme, Thomas Swetnam (Organizers) Meeting Room 511 C-F Level 5 Palais des congrès de Montréal
OOS-38 Sensors and sensor networks in ecology Stan Wullschleger , Robert Jackson, Todd
Dawson(Organizers) Meeting Room 516 A-B Level 5 Palais des congrès de Montréal
OOS-39 Consequences of dispersal and colonization: What happens when communities are opened?
Carla Guthrie, Donal Yee (Organizers) Meeting Room 516 C Level 5 Palais des congrès de Montréal
Wednesday Afternoon Contributed Paper Oral Sessions 1:30 PM - 5 PM
91) Contributed Oral Paper Session 91 Aquatic Ecology: Wetland Management; Stream
Chemistry Meeting Room 513 A – B Level 5 Palais des congrès de Montréal
92) Contributed Oral Paper Session 92 Biodiversity: Aquatic Systems Meeting Room 513 C-D
Level 5 Palais des congrès de Montréal
93) Contributed Oral Paper Session 93 Modeling: Movement; Populations; Communities Meeting
Room 513 E-F Level 5 Palais des congrès de Montréal
94) Contributed Oral Paper Session 94 Toxicology/Disease: Viruses; Epidemics Meeting Room 514
A-B-C Level 5 Palais des congrès de Montréal
95) Contributed Oral Paper Session 95 Forest Ecology: Physiological Processes Meeting Room 515
A-B-C Level 5 Palais des congrès de Montréal
96) Contributed Oral Paper Session 96 Restoration and Adaptive Management: Fresh and
Saltwater Wetlands; Deer Meeting Room 516 D-E
Level 5 Palais des congrès de Montréal
97) Contributed Oral Paper Session 97 Modeling: Disease, Chemistry Meeting Room 518 A-B
Level 5 Palais des congrès de Montréal
98) Contributed Oral Paper Session 98 Meeting Room 518 C Marine Ecology: Feeding Strategies
and Food Webs Level 5 Palais des congrès de Montréal
99) Contributed Oral Paper Session 99 Populations and Genetics: Diversity and Population
Dynamics Meeting Room 519 A Level 5 Palais des congrès de Montréal
100) Contributed Oral Paper Session 100 Modeling:Forest Systems Meeting Room 519 B Level 5
Palais des congrès de Montréal
101) Contributed Oral Paper Session 101 Mammalian Herbivory Meeting Room 520 A-D Level
5 Palais des congrès de Montréal
102) Contributed Oral Paper Session 102 Herbivory: Effects of Photosyntheis; Nutrients
Meeting Room 520 B-E Level 5 Palais des congrès de Montréal
103) Contributed Oral Paper Session 103 Forest Ecology: Carbon Stocks and Cycling Meeting
Room 520 C-F Level 5 Palais des congrès de Montréal
104) Contributed Oral Paper Session 104 Predator-Prey Ecology: Community Defenses Meeting
Room 521 A-B-C Level 5 Palais des congrès de Montréal
105) Contributed Oral Paper Session 105 Rare, Threatened and Endangered Species: Fauna;
Management Meeting Room 522 A-B-C Level 5 Palais des congrès de Montréal
106) Contributed Oral Paper Session 106 Restoration and Adaptive Management: Forests;
Grasslands Meeting Room 524 A Level 5 Palais des congrès de Montréal
107) Contributed Oral Paper Session 107 Soil Biota and Communities Meeting Room 524 B
Level 5 Palais des congrès de Montréal
108) Contributed Oral Paper Session 108 Aquatic Trophic
Systems III Meeting Room 524 C Palais des congrès de Montréal
Wednesday Poster Presentations 5 PM - 6:45 PM
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Poster Pub, Presentations and Exhibits Exhibit Halls 220 A-D – Level 2 Palais des congrès de
Montréal
POSTER SESSION 17 Modeling
Snowflake Village
POSTER SESSION 18 Statistics
Snowflake Village
POSTER SESSION 19 Biodiversity
Snowflake Village
Maple Forest Village
POSTER SESSION 20 Invasive Species
Maple Forest Village
POSTER SESSION 21 Paleoecology
Maple Forest Village
POSTER SESSION 22 Biogeography
Maple Forest Village
POSTER SESSION 23 Soil Ecology
Fishing Stream Village
POSTER SESSION 24 Agroecology
Fishing Stream Village
Wednesday Business Meetings and Social Events
TICKETED
TK-6 Diversity Mixer “SEEDS Highlights” Reception and Program 6:30 PM – 8 PM Meeting Room
710 B– Level 7 Palais des congrès de Montréal
TICKETED
ST-5: NCEAS Mixer 6:30 PM - 8 PM Belvedere Patio 715 – Level 7 Palais des congrès de Montréal
BES Meet the Editors VIP Reception (by invitation) 6:30 PM - 8 PM Lipstick Forest Level 1 Palais
des congrès de Montréal
ESA Applied, Agroecology, Rangeland and Long Terms Studies Sections Joint Mixer 6:30 PM - 8 PM
Meeting Room 517 A – Level 5 Palais des congrès de Montréal
ESA Statistical Ecology Section Business Meeting and Mixer 6:30 PM - 8 PM Meeting Room 517 C –
Level 5 Palais des congrès de Montréal
ESA Biogeosciences and Soil Ecology Sections Joint Mixer and Section Business Meetings 6:30 PM - 8
PM Meeting Room 517 B – Level 5 Palais des congrès de Montréal
ESA Asian Ecologists Section Business Meeting and Mixer 6:30 PM – 8 PM Meeting Rooms 512 D and
H Level 5 Palais des congrès de Montréal
Colorado State Ecologists Mixer 6:30 PM - 8 PM De Bleury Foyer Level 5 Palais des congrès de
Montréal
ESA Mexican Chapter Business Meeting 6:30 PM - 8 PM Le Jardins Restaurant Level 7 Palais des
congres de montreal
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Michigan State Ecologists Students and Alumni Mixer 6:30 PM - 8 PM Terasse 725 Level 7 Palais
des congrès de Montréal
Yale University School of Forestry and Environment Alumni/ae Mixer 6:30 PM - 8 PM De Bleury
Hall Level 2 Palais des congrès de Montréal
NPER Reception (by invitation) 6:30 PM - 8 PM Meeting Room 710 A Level 7 Palais des congrès de
Montréal
Wednesday Evening Sessions 8 PM - 10 PM unless otherwise noted
SD-9 SEEDS Fellowship Meeting 8 PM – 10 PM Meeting Room 512 D-H Level Palais des congrès de
Montréal
TICKETED
EV-B (Ticketed Evening Session) Quick Response to Natural Disasters Gary Barrett, Diane Wickland,
Kevin Erwin (Organizers) Sponsored by ESA’s Professional Certification Board –Panel presentations
include Debra Peters, M.A. Sanjayan, Kevin Erwin Meeting Room 510 A-C Level 5 Palais des congrès de
Montréal
EV-13 Delivering on the promise of ecological science to improve land management: Ecological site
descriptions, an informal discussion Endorsed by ESA’s Rangeland Section Linda Wallace, Sam
Fuhlendorf (Organizers) Meeting Room 517 A – Level 5 Palais des congrès de Montréal
EV-14 How to succeed in ecology: Advice from current and aspiring eminent ecologists Endorsed by
ESA’s Student Section Elizabeth Harp, Alan Wilson, Deron Burkepile, Tiffany Troxler Gann (Organizers)
Meeting Room 517 D Level 5 Palais des congrès de Montréal
EV-15 The role of ecology in poverty reduction and international development Christina Rumbaitis del
Rio, Fabrice De Clerck, J. Carter Ingram (Organizers) Meeting Room 510 B-C Level 5 Palais des congrès
de Montréal
EV-16 Philosophy and history of ecology: Their use and misuse Kurt Jax, Thomas Potthast, Astrid
Schwarz (Organizers) Meeting Room 513 A –B Level 5 Palais des congrès de Montréal
EV-17 Testing ecological hypotheses with paleo-data Sarah Finkelstein, Konrad Gajewskii (Organizers)
Meeting Room 514 A-B-C Level 5 Palais des congrès de Montréal
EV-18 Long-Term Ecological Changes across China’s Rural Landscapes Earle Ellis, Linzhang Yang,
Hua Ouyang, Xu Cheng (Organizers) Meeting Room 516 D-E Level 5 Palais des congrès de Montréal
EV-19 Integrating water recources, biodiversity, and land use management for the implementation of
a strategic action plan program for the Pantanal Wetland of Brazil and upper Paraguay Nelson da
Franca Ribeiro dos Anjos, Humberto Cardoso Gonçalves, Paulo Varella Neto, Cleber José Rodrigues Alho
(Organizers) Meeting Room 516 A-B Level 5 Palais des congrès de Montréal
EV-20 Ecology and Ecological Economics: Symbiosis for a Sustainable Future Christina Tonitto, Karin
Limburg (Organizers) Sponsored by the U.S. Society for Ecological Economics Meeting Room 516 C
Level 5 Palais des congrès de Montréal
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Thursday, August 11, 2005
Field Trip NOTE: Departure times are firm. Return times are estimates affected by weather
conditions, traffic etc.
Advance Field Trip Registration is Required
Thursday Mid Week Field Trip
FT-11 B Biodome and Jardin Botanique Christian Messier (Organizer)
Depart 8:30 AM from Palais des congrès de Montréal – Viger Bus Terminal Return 12:30 PM Palais des
congrès de Montréal – Viger Bus Terminal
Thursday Early Morning Activities
Posters for Thursday must be installed in Exhibit Halls 220 Palais des congrès de Montréal between 7
AM and 9 AM
Chapter Breakfasts Meeting Room 517 D Level 5 Palais des congrès de Montréal
ESA Mid-Atlantic Chapter Meeting and Continental Breakfast: 7 AM - 8 AM
ESA Western Chapter Meeting and Continental Breakfast: 7 AM - 8 AM
ESA Rocky Mountain Chapter Meeting and Continental Breakfast: 7 AM - 8 AM
ESA Themed Meeting in Mexico 2006 Program Organizing and Planning Committee 7 AM – 9 AM
Meeting Room 512 A Level 5 Palais des congrès de Montréal
INTECOL Executive Board Meeting 8 AM – 11 AM Meeting Room 730 B Level 7 Palais des congrès
de Montréal
Thursday Morning Symposia 8 AM - 11:30 AM
Symposium 16 Incorporating trophic diversity into the biodiversity-ecosystem functioning debate:
Lessons from aquatic ecosystems Peter McIntyre, Kristin France, J. Emmett Duffy, Alexander Flecker
(Organizers) Endorsed by ESA’s Aquatic Ecology Section Meeting Room 517 A Level 5 Palais des
congrès de Montréal
Symposium 17 Species range dynamics: Past, present, and future Jason McLachlan, John Williams
(Organizers) Endorsed by ESA’s Paleoecology Section Meeting Room 517 B – Level 5 Palais des congrès
de Montréal
Symposium 18 Linking local, regional and global ecological changes across densely populated
landscapes Erle Ellis, Peter Verburg, Richard Houghton (Organizers) Endorsed by ESA’s Mid-Atlantic
Chapter Meeting Room 517 C – Level 5 Palais des congrès de Montréal
Thursday Morning Special Session 8 AM – 11:30 AM
Special Session 12 Millennium Ecosystem Assessment Part I: A synthesis of core findings Elena
Bennett, Hal Mooney (Organizers) Endorsed by the Convention on Biological Diversity Meeting Room 210
A-B-E-F Level 2 Palais des congrès de Montréal
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Thursday Morning Organized Oral Session 8 AM - 11:30 AM
OOS-40 Understory and epiphytic vegetation as indicators of the ecological integrity of managed
forests Sybille Haeussler, Sophie Gachet, Yves Bergeron, Ellen MacDonald (Organizers) Meeting Room
510 A-C Level 5 Palais des congrès de Montréal
OOS-41 Ecological responses to precipitation: Scaling patterns and processes from the genome to the
ecosystem Michael Loik, Stanley Smith (Organizers) Meeting Room 510 B-D Level 5 Palais des congrès
de Montréal
OOS-42 Applying ecological theories to multiple spatio-temporal scales and to different landscapes in
Europe Joerg Loeffler, Uta Steinhardt (Organizers) Meeting Room 511 A-D Level 5 Palais des congrès
de Montréal
OOS-43 Complex consequences of spatial subsidies to food webs Johanna Kraus, Wendy Anderson
(Organizers) Meeting Room 511 B-E Level 5 Palais des congrès de Montréal
OOS-44 Linking the practice of stream restoration with the science of stream ecology Paul Mayer, Joe
Williams, Sujay Kaushal (Organizers) Meeting Room 511 C-F Level 5 Palais des congrès de Montréal
OOS-45 Evolution in metacommunities: A new framework for species coexistence Mark Urban,
Mathew Leibold (Organizers) Meeting Room 516 A-B Level 5 Palais des congrès de Montréal
OOS – 46 Ecological indicators at multiple scales Felix Muller, Eric Hyatt (Organizers) Meeting Room
516 C Level 5 Palais des congrès de Montréal
Thursday Morning Contributed Paper Oral Sessions 8 AM - 11:30 AM
109) Contributed Oral Paper Session 109 Agroecology: Soils; Nutrient Cycling Meeting Room 513 A
– B Level 5 Palais des congrès de Montréal
110) Contributed Oral Paper Session 110 Biogeochemistry: Nitrogen Dynamics Meeting Room
513 C-D Level 5 Palais des congrès de Montréal
111) Contributed Oral Paper Session 111 Biodiversity: Genetics and Evolution Meeting Room 513
E-F Level 5 Palais des congrès de Montréal
112) Contributed Oral Paper Session 112 Evolutionary Ecology: Invasion Dynamics;
Populations; Communities Meeting Room 514 A-B-C Level 5 Palais des congrès de Montréal
113) Contributed Oral Paper Session 113 Forest Regeneration Meeting Room 515 A-B-C Level 5
Palais des congrès de Montréal
114) Contributed Oral Paper Session 114 Invasive Species: Disturbance; Disease and Alleopathy
Meeting Room 516 D-E
Level 5 Palais des congrès de Montréal
115) Contributed Oral Paper Session 115 Grasslands: Nutrient Cycling; Management Meeting
Room 518 A-B
Level 5 Palais des congrès de Montréal
116) Contributed Oral Paper Session 116 Predator-Prey Ecology: Modeling Meeting Room 518 C
Level 5 Palais des congrès de Montréal
117) Contributed Oral Paper Session 117 Biodiversity: Climate – Environmental Effects Meeting
Room 519 A Level 5 Palais des congrès de Montréal
118) Contributed Oral Paper Session 118 Biogeography: Community Composition Meeting
Room 519 B Level 5 Palais des congrès de Montréal
119) Contributed Oral Paper Session 119 Invasive Species: Aquatic Invaders Meeting Room 520
A-D Level 5 Palais des congrès de Montréal
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120) Contributed Oral Paper Session 120 Invasive Species: Nutrients; Chemistry Meeting
Room 520 B-E Level 5 Palais des congrès de Montréal
121) Contributed Oral Paper Session 121 Freshwater Wetlands Meeting Room 520 C-F Level 5
Palais des congrès de Montréal
122) Contributed Oral Paper Session 122 Invasive Species: Pollination-Dispersal Meeting Room
521 A-B-C Level 5 Palais des congrès de Montréal
123) Contributed Oral Paper Session 123 Photosynthesis and Water Relations: Leaf
Architecture Meeting Room 522 A-B-C Level 5 Palais des congrès de Montréal
124) Contributed Oral Paper Session 124 Grassland Ecology: Water Relations; Growth Meeting
Room 524 A Level 5 Palais des congrès de Montréal
125) Contributed Oral Paper Session 125 Soil Ecology: Carbon – Nitrogen Cycling Meeting Room
524 B
Level 5 Palais des congrès de Montréal
126) Contributed Oral Paper Session 126 Mammal Ecology: Management, Reproduction, and
Food Webs Meeting Room 524 C
Level 5 Palais des congrès de Montréal
Thursday Lunchbreak Activities
TICKETED
GNG-D Ticketed Grab-and-Go Quick Lunch, 11:30 AM – 1:15 PM Exhibit Hall 220 D Level 2 Palais
des congrès de Montréal
TICKETED
TK-7: Diversity in Ecology Luncheon Carol Brewer (Organizer for EHRC) Robin Kimmerer, Speaker
“Advancing ecology: why culture matters” 11:30 AM - 1:15 PM Meeting Room 517 D Level 5 Palais des
congrès de Montréal
WK-35 Integrating diverse data to understand species range dynamics – Facilitated Discussion
following Symposium Jason McLachlan, John Williams (Organizers) Endorsed by ESA’s Paleoecology
Section 11:30 AM - 1:15 PM Meeting Room 512 D-H Level 5 Palais des congrès de Montréal
Workshop Registration includes Grab and Go Lunch ticket
WK-36 "Fear and Fishing in Lake Davis" – A film about pike as an invasive species Jarrett Byrnes, Elizabeth Chamberlin, Sarah Elmendorf, Ryan Fischer, Suzanne Olyarnik, Amber Wright
(created/edited/directed/filmed) 11:30 AM - 1:15 PM Meeting Room 512 A Level 5 Palais des congrès
de Montréal Registration includes Grab and Go Lunch ticket
Thursday Afternoon Symposia 1:30 PM - 5 PM
Symposium 19 Spatial nonlinearities and cross scale interactions: Cascading effects in the Earth
system Debra Peters, Brandon Bestelmeyer (Organizers) Meeting Room 517 A – Level 5 Palais des
congrès de Montréal
Symposium 20 Evolution on ecological time scales Andrew Hendry, Denis Réale, Gregor Fussmann
(Organizers) Meeting Room 517 B – Level 5 Palais des congrès de Montréal
Symposium 21 Resource pulses in space and time: Linking species, communities and ecosystems
Louie Yang, Michael Vanni, Weston Nowlin, Kenneth Schmidt (Organizers) Meeting Room 517 C Level
5 Palais des congrès de Montréal
Thursday Afternoon Special Session 1:30 PM – 5 PM
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Special Session 13 Millennium Ecosystem Assessment Part II: Frontiers in multi-scale assessments of
ecosystem services Steve Carpenter, Walt Reid (Organizers) Endorsed by the Convention on Biological
Diversity Meeting Room 210 A-B-E-F Level 2 Palais des congrès de Montréal
Thursday Afternoon Organized Oral Sessions 1:30 PM - 5 PM
OOS-47 Insights, challenges, and future directions in modeling forest dynamics at multiple scales
Chris Tripler, Charles Canham, Christian Messier, Michael Papaik (Organizers) Meeting Room 510 A-C
Level 5 Palais des congrès de Montréal
OOS-48 The fate of nitrogen inputs to terrestrial ecosystems: Results from enriched 15N stable isotopic
studies Michelle Mack, Pamela Templer, Knute Nadelhoffer (Organizers) Meeting Room 510 B-D Level 5
Palais des congrès de Montréal
OOS-49 Scaling species abundance, distribution and diversity: From pattern to process
William Kunin, Helen Lewis (Organizers) Meeting Room 511 A-D Level 5 Palais des congrès de
Montréal
OOS-50 Dynamics of disturbed and undisturbed tropical rain forests Andreas Huth, Juergen Groeneveld
(Organizers ) Meeting Room 511 B-E Level 5 Palais des congrès de Montréal
OOS-51 Predictability of vegetation dynamics: From quadrats to landscapes, from years to decades
Mark Fulton, Paul Harcombe (Organizers) Meeting Room 511 C-F Level 5 Palais des congrès de
Montréal
Thursday Afternoon Contributed Paper Oral Sessions 1:30 PM - 5 PM
127) Contributed Oral Paper Session 127 Forest Ecology: Structure; Communities Meeting Room
513 A -B Level 5 Palais des congrès de Montréal
128) Contributed Oral Paper Session 128 Invasive Species: Genetics; Speciation Meeting Room
513 C-D Level 5 Palais des congrès de Montréal
129) Contributed Oral Paper Session 129 Biodiversity: Disturbance; Landscapes; Heterogeniety
Meeting Room 513 E-F Level 5 Palais des congrès de Montréal
130) Contributed Oral Paper Session 130 Forest Infestations and Mortality Meeting Room 514 AB-C Level 5 Palais des congrès de Montréal
131) Contributed Oral Paper Session 131 Biogeography: Ranges; Species Area; Populations
Meeting Room 515 A-B-C Level 5 Palais des congrès de Montréal
132) Contributed Oral Paper Session 132 Invasive Species: Management and Indicator Species
Meeting Room 516 A-B Level 5 Palais des congrès de Montréal
133) Contributed Oral Paper Session 133 Biogeochemistry of Streams and Wetlands Meeting
Room 516 C Level 5 Palais des congrès de Montréal
134) Contributed Oral Paper Session 134 Forest Ecology: Reproduction and Recruitment
Meeting Room 516 D-E Level 5 Palais des congrès de Montréal
135) Contributed Oral Paper Session 135 Invasive Species: Plant-Soil Feedbacks; Invasion
Success Meeting Room 518 A-B Level 5 Palais des congrès de Montréal
136) Contributed Oral Paper Session 136 Fish Communities, Management, Recruitment Meeting
Room 518 C Level 5 Palais des congrès de Montréal
137) Contributed Oral Paper Session 137 Agroecology: Pest Control, Dispersal, Pollination
Meeting Room 519 A Palais des congrès de Montréal
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138) Contributed Oral Paper Session 138 Fire and Vegetation Dynamics Meeting Room 519 B
Level 5 Palais des congrès de Montréal
139) Contributed Oral Paper Session 139 Landscape Ecology: Streams and Wetlands Meeting
Room 520 A-D Level 5 Palais des congrès de Montréal
140) Contributed Oral Paper Session 140 Forest Photosynthesis and Water Relations Meeting
Room 520 B-E Level 5 Palais des congrès de Montréal
141) Contributed Oral Paper Session 141 Restoration and Adaptive Management: Soils and
Nutrients Meeting Room 520 C-F Level 5 Palais des congrès de Montréal
142) Contributed Oral Paper Session 142 Biodiversity and Nitrogen Meeting Room 521 A-B-C
Level 5 Palais des congrès de Montréal
143) Contributed Oral Paper Session 143 Predator-Prey Ecology: Intraguild Predation and
Community Dynamics Meeting Room 522 A-B-C Level 5 Palais des congrès de Montréal
144) Contributed Oral Paper Session 144 Predator-Prey Ecology: Terrestrial Habitat and Food
Webs Meeting Room 524 A Level 5 Palais des congrès de Montréal
145) Contributed Oral Paper Session 145 Evolutionary Ecology: Population Dynamics Meeting
Room 524 B Level 5 Palais des congrès de Montréal
146) Contributed Oral Paper Session 146 Biogeochemistry: Nutrient Dynamics; Carbon
Sequestration Meeting Room 524 C Level 5 Palais des congrès de Montréal
SD-10 SEEDS Closing 4 PM – 6 PM Meeting Room 710 A Level 7 Palais des congrès de Montréal
Thursday Poster Presentations 5 PM - 6:30 PM
Poster Pub, Presentations and Exhibits
Exhibit Halls 220 A-D – Level 2 Palais des congrès de Montréal
POSTER SESSION 25 Mammalian Ecology
Snowflake Village
POSTER SESSION 26 Reptiles and Amphibians
Snowflake Village
POSTER SESSION 27 Fish Ecology
Snowflake Village
POSTER SESSION 28 Avian Ecology
Snowflake Village
POSTER SESSION 29 Predator -Prey Ecology
Snowflake Village
POSTER SESSION 30 Invertebrate Ecology
Maple Forest Village
POSTER SESSION 31 Rare, Threatened and Endangered Species
Maple Forest Village
POSTER SESSION 32 Biogeochemistry
Maple Forest Village
POSTER SESSION 33 Trophic Structure
Maple Forest Village
POSTER SESSION 34 Herbivory
Fishing Stream Village
POSTER SESSION 35 Evolutionary Ecology
Fishing Stream Village
POSTER SESSION 36 Genetics /Population Ecology
Fishing Stream Village
POSTER SESSION 37 Toxicology and Disease
Fishing Stream Village
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POSTER SESSION 38 Mutualism and Parasitism
Fishing Stream Village
Thursday Evening Activity
TICKETED
TK-8: ESA-INTECOL Circus Social at TOHU
Buses depart from 6 PM to 7 PM from the Palais des congrès de Montréal, Viger Bus Terminal
Return at approximately 9:30 PM to 10:30 PM to the Palais des congrès de Montréal, Viger Bus Terminal
Friday, August 12, 2005
Field Trip NOTE: Departure times are firm. Return times are estimates affected by weather
conditions, traffic etc.
Advance Field Trip Registration Required
Friday Field Trip
FT-11 C
Biodome and Jardin Botanique Christian Messier (Organizer) Depart 8:30 AM from Palais
des congrès de Montréal – Viger Bus Terminal Return 12:30 PM Palais des congrès de Montréal –
Viger Bus Terminal
Friday Early Morning Activities
Posters for Friday’s Special Poster Session and Late Breaking Newsworthy Posters must be installed
in Exhibit Halls 220 B -C Palais des congrès de Montréal between 7 AM and 8 AM
ESA Governing Board Meeting 8 AM - 10:30 AM Meeting Room 512 A Level 5 Palais des congrès de
Montréal
2006 Memphis ESA Annual Meeting Organizing Committee Meeting 7 AM - 8:30 AM Meeting Room
512 B Level 5 Palais des congrès de Montréal
Friday Morning Symposia 8 AM - 11:30 AM
Symposium 22 Qualitatively wider scope and failed models: New paradigms for tired old myths
Timothy Allen (Organizer) Meeting Room 517 A – Level 5 Palais des congrès de Montréal
Symposium 23 Comparative plant ecology as a tool for integrating across scales Bill Shipley
(Organizer) Sponsored by the Annals of Botany Meeting Room 517 B – Level 5 Palais des congrès de
Montréal
Symposium 24 Bridging the gap between theory and empiricism in ecology Priyanga Amarasekare,
Michael Neubert (Organizers) Endorsed by the American Institute of Biological Sciences (AIBS) Meeting
Room 517 C - Level 5 Palais des congrès de Montréal
Friday Morning Special Session
Special Session 14 Scaling the history and future of Pacific Northwest human marine ecosystems:
From Promethean infinity to nothingness? Mimi Lam, Roberto Gonzalez-Plaza (Organizers) Endorsed by
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ESA’s SEEDS Program and the Metcalf Institute for Marine and Environmental Reporting 8 AM – 11:30
AM Meeting Room 210 A-E Level 2 Palais des congrès de Montréal
Friday Organized Oral Sessions 8 AM - 11:30 AM
OOS-52 Casting light on nocturnal stomatal and canopy conductance Nathan Phillips, Margaret Barbour
(Organizers) Meeting Room 510 A-C Level 5 Palais des congrès de Montréal
OOS-53 Days to decades and meters to miles: Exploring community dynamics across scales, taxa, and
habitats. Jeff Houlahan, C. Scott Findlay (Organizers) Meeting Room 510 B-D Level 5 Palais des congrès
de Montréal
Friday Oral Contributed Paper Sessions 8 AM - 11:30 AM
147) Contributed Oral Paper Session 147 Aquatic Communities. Disturbance and Dispersal
Meeting Room 511 A-D Palais des congrès de Montréal
148) Contributed Oral Paper Session 148 Biogeochemistry: Nutrient Dynamics Meeting Room 511
B- E Palais des congrès de Montréal
149)
Contributed Oral Paper Session 149 Evolutionary Ecology: Modeling Meeting Room 511
C- F Palais des congrès de Montréal
150) Contributed Oral Paper Session 150 Evolutionary Ecology: Landscapes and Habitat Meeting
Room 513 A -B Level 5 Palais des congrès de Montréal
151) Contributed Oral Paper Session 151 Mutualism/Parasitism: Disease; Pathogens Meeting
Room 513 C-D Level 5 Palais des congrès de Montréal
152) Contributed Oral Paper Session 152 Biodiversity: Soils; Seeds Meeting Room 513 E-F Level 5
Palais des congrès de Montréal
153) Contributed Oral Paper Session 153 Forest Soils and Nutrient Cycling Meeting Room 514 AB-C Level 5 Palais des congrès de Montréal
154) Contributed Oral Paper Session 154 Photosynthesis and Water Relations: Climate Effects
Meeting Room 515 A-B-C Level 5 Palais des congrès de Montréal
155) Contributed Oral Paper Session 155 Biogeochemistry: Soil and Carbon Dynamics Meeting
Room 516 A- B Palais des congrès de Montréal
156) Contributed Oral Paper Session 156 Grassland Resource Allocation, Dispersal and
Pollination Meeting Room 516 C Palais des congrès de Montréal
157) Contributed Oral Paper Session 157 Climate Dynamics: Temperature Effects; Modeling
Meeting Room 516 D-E Level 5 Palais des congrès de Montréal
158) Contributed Oral Paper Session 158 Invasive Species: Management, Modeling and Dynamics
Meeting Room 518 A-B Level 5 Palais des congrès de Montréal
159) Contributed Oral Paper Session 159 Biodiversity: Management and Theory Meeting Room
518 C Level 5 = Palais des congrès de Montréal
160) Contributed Oral Paper Session 160 Biodiversity: Communities Meeting Room 519 A Level 5
Palais des congrès de Montréal
161) Contributed Oral Paper Session 161 Predator-Prey Ecology: Aquatic Habitat and Food Webs
Meeting Room 519 B Level 5 Palais des congrès de Montréal
162) Contributed Oral Paper Session 162 Landscape Ecology: Management; Vegetation Dynamics
Meeting Room 520 A-D Level 5 Palais des congrès de Montréal
163) Contributed Oral Paper Session 163 A: GIS B: Landscape Ecology: Geology and Nutrients
Meeting Room 520 B-E Level 5 Palais des congrès de Montréal
164) Contributed Oral Paper Session 164 Soil Communities and Plant-Root Interactions Meeting
Room 520 C-F Level 5 Palais des congrès de Montréal
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165) Contributed Oral Paper Session 165 Agroecology: Diversity and Modeling Meeting Room
521 A-B-C Level 5 Palais des congrès de Montréal
166) Contributed Oral Paper Session 166 Wetland Chemistry Meeting Room 522 A-B-C Level 5
Palais des congrès de Montréal
167) Contributed Oral Paper Session 167 Toxicology and Disease: Viruses, Fungi and
Contaminants Meeting Room 524 A Level 5 Palais des congrès de Montréal
168) Contributed Oral Paper Session 168 Invertebrate Ecology: Food Webs, Physiology and
Communities Meeting Room 524 B Level 5 Palais des congrès de Montréal
169) Contributed Oral Paper Session 169 Forest Ecology: Vegetation Change and Succession
Meeting Room 524 C Level 5 Palais des congrès de Montréal
Posters and Pastries 8 AM - 10:30 AM
Late-Breaking and Newsworthy Posters Exhibit Hall 220 B and C Level 2 Palais des congrès de
Montréal
Poster Listing in Supplement and Addendum to the Official Program on site
Friday Morning Special Poster Session 9 AM – 11 AM
Special Session 15 Undergraduate Student Posters in the US and Canada Val Smith (Organizer)
Exhibit Hall 220 B and C Level 2 Palais des congrès de Montréal )
Poster Listing in Supplement and Addendum to the Official Program on site
TICKETED
TK -9 Closing Brunch Plenary: Summary of Meeting by Senior Ecologists – Confirmed Panelists: Si
Levin, Barry Warner, Eun-Shik Kim, Orie Loucks, Nancy Grimm, Deborah Clark (Organized by Program
Chairs partially sponsored by Environmentally Responsible Investment Management, SmithBarney Citigroup
Global Markets, Inc. with additional underwriting by ESA-INTECOL) 11:30 AM – 1 PM Meeting Room
710 A Level 7 Palais des congrès de Montréal
Buell Braun Student Awards Committee Meeting 1 PM - 3 PM Meeting Room 512 B Level 5 Palais
des congrès de Montréal
INTECOL Board Meeting 1:30 PM - 5 PM Meeting Room 512 A Level 5 Palais des congrès de
Montréal