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1 INTECOL-ESA JOINT MEETING PROGRAM ( as of April 21, 2005 ) IMPORTANT NOTES: This listing includes the date, day, time, identification number, title and Organizers for ALL Plenary Sessions, Special Sessions, Symposia, Organized Oral Sessions, Evening Sessions and Pre-Meeting and Lunch-break Workshops from Saturday, August 6 through Friday, August 12, 2005 . The names of some organizers and the times and dates COULD be subject to change prior to the final program. This listing does NOT include a listing of any specific Contributed Papers or Posters. These will be listed in Mid-May on the Montreal Meeting website. This listing ALSO INCLUDES board or committee meetings, chapter or section business meetings or mixers, ticketed social events or activities, evening social events, lunchtime meetings other than workshops. Scientific Field Trips and Tours are listed separately on the Montreal Meeting website. For ALL Workshops (pre-meeting and Lunch-break), Evening Sessions EV-A and EV-B , and all Field Trips and Tours, and all Ticketed Events and Activities a separate fee-paid registration will be required to attend . Fees will be posted in the Preliminary Meeting Program and Registration Form. All other sessions are included in the Meeting Registration Fee. PRELIMINARY MEETING SCHEDULE DAY-BY-DAY EVENT LISTING 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 2 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 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 3 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 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 4 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 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 5 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 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 6 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 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 7 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 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 8 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 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 9 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 OOS-1 Appreciating the impacts of oxidative stress: From genes to ecosystems. Howard Neufeld, Nancy Grulke (Organizers) Endorsed by ESA’s Physiological Ecology Section Mercury cycles: Sources, mass balances, bioaccumulation, and options to manage affected systems. 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 Session and Paper Listing in Official Program on site and Allen Press Itinerary Planner prior to meeting 10 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 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 11 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 Session and Paper Listing in Official Program on site and Allen Press Itinerary Planner prior to meeting 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 12 Session and Poster Listing in Official Program on site and Allen Press Itinerary Planner prior to meeting 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 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 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” 13 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 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 14 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 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 15 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 Session and Paper Listing in Official Program on site and Allen Press Itinerary Planner prior to meeting 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 ESA Student Section Brownbag Lunch 11:30 AM - 1 PM Student Lounge - Hall 210 D Level 2 Palais des congrès de Montréal 16 ESA Education & Human Resources Committee Lunch Meeting 11:30 AM - 1:30 PM Meeting Room 512 E 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 set 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 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 17 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 Session and Paper Listing in Official Program on site and Allen Press Itinerary Planner prior to meeting 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 Session and Poster Listing in Official Program on site and Allen Press Itinerary Planner prior to meeting 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 Students and Alumni Mixer 6:30 PM - 8 PM Terasse 725 Level 7 Palais des congrès de Montréal 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 18 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 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 19 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 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 20 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 Session and Paper Listing in Official Program on site and Allen Press Itinerary Planner prior to meeting 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 21 WK-32 Moderated roundtable luncheon discussion: Building an ecological observatory network for regional- to continental-scale research: NEON, the National Ecological Observatory Network William 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 22 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 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 Session and Paper Listing in Official Program on site and Allen Press Itinerary Planner prior to meeting Wednesday Poster Presentations 5 PM - 6:45 PM Poster Pub, Presentations and Exhibits Exhibit Halls 220 A-D – Level 2 Palais des congrès de Montréal Session and Poster Listing in Official Program on site and Allen Press Itinerary Planner prior to meeting 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 23 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 24 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 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 25 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 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 Session and Paper Listing in Official Program on site and Allen Press Itinerary Planner prior to meeting 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 “Looking at Ecology through Diverse Lenses” 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 - 26 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 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 Session and Paper Listing in Official Program on site and Allen Press Itinerary Planner prior to meeting 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 27 Poster Pub, Presentations and Exhibits Exhibit Halls 220 A-D – Level 2 Palais des congrès de Montréal Session and Poster Listing in Official Program on site and Allen Press Itinerary Planner prior to meeting Thursday Evening Activity TICKETED TK-8: INTECOL-ESA 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 28 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 Session and Paper Listing in Official Program on site and Allen Press Itinerary Planner prior to meeting 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 (Organized by Program Chairs) 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 Saturday, August 13, 2005 Field Trip NOTE: Departure times are firm. Return times are estimates affected by weather conditions, traffic etc. 29 Three Night Overnight Post Meeting Trip (Includes Quebec City) – Advance Field Trip Registration Required FT 13- Charlevoix, an ecotouristic visit Margaret Kraenzel (Organizer) Minimum: 8 Maximum: 20 Departs on Saturday, August 13 8AM from the Palais des congrès de Montreal, Viger Bus Terminal Returns at approximately 2 PM Tuesday August 16th to the Palais des congrès de Montreal, Viger Bus Terminal
