Meetings of the Ecological Society of America> 1998 Meeting – Baltimore, Maryland
Meeting theme: Managing Human-impacted Systems
Symposia
- Meeting theme symposium I -- Current issues: Wholesale transformation of coastal ecosystems. Organized by C. Bohlen, R. Goldburg, A. Bartuska, and D. Policansky.
- Meeting theme symposium II -- The Chesapeake Bay ecosystem: Historical and current perspectives on ecological processes and issues. Organized by D.F. Whigham.
- Meeting theme symposium III -- Urban ecological systems: A new frontier. Organized by R.V. Pouyat, M.C. Barber, and S.T.A. Pickett.
- Meeting theme symposium IV -- Embedded weland ecosystems in an upland matrix: Implications for conservation and management. Organized by B. Palik, T. Crow, and L Tyrrell (Sponsored by the Vegetation Section).
- Ecology as a comprehensive science. Organized by S.T.A. Pickett.
- Pfisteria in Maryland: Lessons to learn and lessons learned. Organized by W. Bell.
- Importance of precipitation amount and seasonality for ecosystem structure and function. Organized by J.F. Weltzin and G.R. McPherson.
- Ecological principles and guidelines for managing the use of land. Organized by V. Dale.
- Consequences of plant response to spatial and temporal heterogeneity. Organized by I.N. Forseth and D.A. Wait (Sponsored by the Vegetation Section).
- The nature of scientific evidence. Organized by M.L. Taper, S. Lele, and N.J. Lewin (Sponsored by the Statistical Ecology Section).
- Plant ecology research and Arabidopsis: Toward a synthesis and a critique. Organized by H.S. Callahan and T.F.H. Allen.
- Intersection of diverse perspectives: Results and creative cross-disciplinary collaborations. Organized by B.E. Kendall, K.L. Cottingham, and The NCEAS Postdocs.
- New standards and approaches in college biology courses. Organized by J.D. Winter and J. Lanza (Sponsored by the Education Section).
- Evolutionary ecophysiology of plants: recent advances and future directions. Organized by D. Ackerly and J. Coleman (Sponsored by the Physiological Section).
- Seeking generality in ecology. Organized by L. Fahrig (Sponsored by the Theoretical Ecology Section).
- Roads and their major ecological effects. Organised by R. Forman and J. Jones.
- Leopold and Hippocrates: Linkages between human health and ecological change. Organizede by M. Barber, J. Patz, E. Chivan, and L. Hidinger.
- Ecology and dynamics of the herbaceous layer of forest communities of eastern North America. Organized by F.S. Gilliam and M.R. Roberts.
- Increasing access to and application of ecological data in a distributed enviornment. Organized by Harvey Fleet.
