ORGANIZED ORAL SESSIONS

OOS-2: Measuring landscape connectivity:  Tool for species conservation  

OOS-3: Mutualists as parasites: How mutualistic are mutualists, and why?  

OOS-4: Tropical cyclone disturbance and forest dynamics at multiple temporal scales: Results from six long-term studies in the new and old worlds  

OOS-5: Mercury cycles: Sources, mass balances, bioaccumulation, and options to manage affected systems  

OOS-6: Development of landscape heterogeneity at multiple scales in wetlands  

OOS-7: Ecological effects of the Chernobyl disaster: Genes to ecosystems  

OOS-8: Contaminants in aquatic systems: Individual effects and community consequences  

OOS-9: Multiscale advanced raster map analysis for ecosystem health monitoring, assessment, and management in the 21^st Century  

OOS-10: Reducing habitat fragmentation by roads: A comparison of measures and scales  

OOS-11: Hydraulic limitations in vascular plants  

OOS-12: Multiple time scales of ecological processes: Results from the LTER Network  

OOS-13: Gas exchange and global change in peatlands: From soil to satellite  

OOS-14: Ecology of arable plants: Linking invertebrate and weed population dynamics  

OOS-15: A toolbox for fire ecology: Mechanisms linking fire behavior and ecological effect  

OOS-16: Allelopathy: Biochemical interactions among plants affecting community structure, exotic invasions, and evolutionary theory  

OOS-17: Coastal indicators of ecological condition: Integration of spatial scales  

OOS-18: Ecological guidelines for management of water quantity and quality in agricultural landscapes  

OOS-19: Bat habitat use in eastern North American temperate forests: Site, stand, and landscape effects  

OOS-20: Disease in ecosystems: Reciprocal interactions between pathogens and ecosystems  

OOS-21: Implications of disturbance on boreal peatland carbon cycling: From sites to landscape-scale carbon budgets  

OOS-22: Comparative ecology of tropical trees: Linking physiology to dynamics and distribution  

OOS-23: The use of spatially explicit data in ecological investigations  

OOS-24: Conducting global multi-scale integrated environmental management and research using site-specific research: Lessons learned from the ILTER  

OOS-25: Dynamics of invasive plants: Individuals to ecosystems  

OOS-26: From microbes to ecosystems: How do we really make the connections?

OOS-27: Emerging ecoinformatic tools and accomplishments for synthetic ecological research across scales  

OOS-28: Ecological processes important in the responses of bird populations to environmental change driven by agriculture  

OOS-29: Protecting ecosystem services through private sector partnerships and the capital markets  

OOS-30: Modeling movement at multiple scales  

OOS-31: Structure and function of tropical rainforest canopies  

OOS-32: Forest disturbance regimes in the circumboreal forest zone: Natural variability and implications for forest management and biodiversity conservation  

OOS-33: Restoring and designing ecosystems for a crowded planet: Provision of ecosystem services or mere window dressing?

OOS-34: Incorporating ecological processes at many scales into biogeochemical and global climate change models  

OOS-35: Mutualism, competition, and invasion: Applying ecological theory to agriculture  

OOS-36: Role of microbial communities in mediating biogeochemical response to disturbance  

OOS-37: Post-fire conversion of forest to non-forest: Do we need new theory?

OOS-38: Sensors and sensor networks in ecology

OOS-39: Consequences of dispersal and colonization: What happens when communities are opened?

OOS-40: Understory and epiphytic vegetation as indicators of the ecological integrity of managed forests  

OOS-41: Ecological responses to precipitation: Scaling patterns and processes from the genome to the ecosystem  

OOS-42: Applying ecological theories to multiple spatio-temporal scales and to different landscapes in Europe  

OOS-43: Complex consequences of spatial subsidies to food webs  

OOS-44: Linking the practice of stream restoration with the science of stream ecology  

OOS-45: Evolution in metacommunities: A new framework for species coexistence  

OOS-46: Ecological indicators at multiple scales  

OOS-47: Insights, challenges, and future directions in modeling forest dynamics at multiple scales  

OOS-48: The fate of nitrogen inputs to terrestrial ecosystems: Results from enriched ¹⁵N stable isotopic studies  

OOS-49: Scaling species abundance, distribution, and diversity: From pattern to process  

OOS-50: Dynamics of disturbed and undisturbed tropical rain forests  

OOS-51: Predictability of vegetation dynamics: From quadrats to landscapes, from years to decades

OOS-52: Casting light on nocturnal stomatal and canopy conductance  

OOS-53: Days to decades and meters to miles: Exploring community dynamics across scales, taxa, and habitats