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OOS-25: Dynamics of invasive plants: Individuals to ecosystems
Endorsed
by the ESA Plant Population Ecology Section
Tuesday,
August 9, 1:30 PM - 5 PM, Meeting Room 516c, Level 5, Palais
des congrès de Montréal
Organizer:
Tiffany Knight (tknight@biology2.wustl.edu),
John Drake
Description:
This organized oral session will focus on quantitative, innovative
approaches to understanding the processes underlying plant invasions, including
immigration, establishment, spread, and ecosystem alteration. Although invasions
are of longstanding interest to plant ecologists, the number and quality of
empirical studies using quantitative methodologies and modeling approaches has
increased in recent years. The selected speakers employ a wide range of
quantitative techniques and study various species. Approaches that will be
represented include individual based modeling, matrix modeling, optimal control,
fluctuating resource theory, and non-linear dynamics. The species represented in
these studies range from short-lived annual and biennial herbs to perennial
herbs, vines, and trees. The intersection of speakers selected will present
empiricists with new techniques for studying model species and modelers with
empirical examples to which emerging theory can be applied. Indeed, it is our
goal to identify fruitful directions for further synthesis in this timely topic.
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