Organizing Committee

Co-Chairs: Julie S. DenslowUSDA Forest Service, Institute of

Pacific Islands Forestry

Dieter Mueller-Dombois

University of Hawaii—Manoa

Committee members:

University of Hawai‘i—HiloGrant Gerrish, James O. JuvikRebecca Ostertag

University of Hawai‘i—ManoaKim Bridges, Rainer BussmannCurtis Daehler, Donald Drak

University of Hawai‘i—Hilo Conference CenterJudith Fox-Goldstein, Josephine MalepeaiMary Ann Tsuchiyama, Robin Kealoha Black

USDA Forest ServiceInstitute of Pacific Islands Forestry

Susan Cordell, R. Flint Hughes

USGS Biological Resources DivisionPacific Islands Ecosystems Research Center

Jim Jacobi, Linda Pratt

Field Trip OrganizersDieter Mueller-Dombois, Grant GerrishSusan Cordell, R. Flint Hughes

Program and AbstractsRebecca Ostertag, Julie S. Denslow

Social ProgramAnnette Mueller-Dombois

Student WorkersDonald Drake

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E Komo Mai - Welcome

Dear Colleague:

On behalf of the IAVS2004 Steering Committee and the IAVS-North American Chapter, it is our pleasure to welcome you toHawai‘i and to Hawai‘i Island. We have been working hard thelast several months to plan a meeting that will broaden yourexperience of tropical oceanic islands and introduce some ofthe challenges to understanding, managing, and conservingthese unusual plant communities; that will pique your interestin new approaches and ideas in our field; that will leave youimpressed with the insights and creativity of your colleagues;that will warm your hearts with the promise of the nextgeneration of plant ecologists and that will lconnect you withfriends and colleagues from around the world.

We sincerely hope that you are able to take full advantage ofthe formal sessions and field trips, and also that you are ableto explore on your own. Hawai‘i is a very user-friendly place.There are many great places to walk and an amazing diversityof plant communities. Steep gradients in rainfall, temperature,substrate and disturbance history produce a striking heteroge-neity in the landscape. Joe Tosi of the Tropical Science Centerin Costa Rica reports 26 different Life Zones represented onthe Island of Hawai‘i. We are fortunate that major NationalParks and Wildlife Refuges as well as Hawaii State NaturalAreas and Forest Reserves provide public access to most ofthese. Ancient trails and cultural sites remind us that Hawai-ians understood and managed this landscape for more than athousand years before it came to the attention of westernscience.

Hawai‘i’s extreme isolation has produced some of the highestlevels of endemism in the world. Although Hawai‘i is amonument to the marvels of evolution, it is also a microcosm—or a model—for processes that drive vegetation dynamics andpattern any place in the world. We hope that this meeting willproduce synergies and collaborations that will further ourunderstanding of these phenomena. We especially welcomeyour perspectives, insights and ideas to help us understand,conserve, and wisely manage plant communities around theworld.

Welcome to Hawai‘i and best wishes for a productive andenjoyable meeting.

Julie S. Denslow Dieter Muller-DomboisUSDA Forest Service University of Hawai‘i-

Manoa

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International Association of VegetationScience

The IAVS is an International Association for allindividuals interested in vegetation science. Its aimsare:

* to promote research and education in vegetation science;* to promote the publication of research results in vegetation

science;* to facilitate scientific and personal contacts among vegetation

scientists of all countries;* to promote applications of vegetation science; to increase

awareness and to disseminate knowledge about vegetation.

The IAVS publishes two journals—Journal of Vegetation Scienceand Journal of Applied Vegetation Science as well as occasionalMeeting Proceedings. Membership and subscription information forIAVS can be found at their web site:

http://www.iavs.org

Officers and Staff

President: E.O. Box, Athens (USA)General Secretary & Treasurer: J.H.J. Schaminée, Wageningen(NL)Office: Alterra, Green World Research

Postbus 47, NL-6700 AA WAGENINGENThe Netherlands

Tel: +31317 47 79 14; Fax +31317 42 49 88E-mail: Joop.Schaminee@wur.nlVicepresidents: M. Diekmann (Publication Officer)

J. Loidi, Bilbao (SP)L. Mucina, Phuthadijthaba (RSA)K. Fujiwara, Yokohama (JP)J. Rodwell, Lankaster (UK)

Council (2002-2005)

M. Austin (AU), J. P. Bakker (NL), E.O. Box (US), G. Bredenkamp (ZA),U. Deil (DE), S. Diaz (AR), M. Diekmann (DE), H. Dierschke (DE),K. Dierßen (DE), J.B. Faliski (PL), K. Fujiwara (JP); J.-M. Géhu (FR),G. Grabherr (AT), O. Hegg (CH), T. Herben (CZ), F. Klötzli (CH),F. Krahulec (CZ), J. Leps (CZ), J. Loidi (ES), A. Miyawaki (JP),L. Mucina (KW), D. Mueller-Dombois (US), G. Nakhutsrishvili (GE),Z. Neuhäuslová (CZ),J. Oksanen (FI), L. Orlóci (CA), M.W. Palmer (US),F. Pedrotti (IT),R.K. Peet (US), J. Pfadenhauer (DE), S. Pignatti (IT),V. De Patta Pillar (BR), J. Podani (HU), R. Pott (DE),S. Rivas-Martínez (ES), J.S. Rodwell (UK), I. Safronova (RU),J.H.J. Schaminée (NL), A. Schwabe-Kratochwil (DE), J.S. Singh (IN),E. van der Maarel (NL), O. Wildi (CH), B. Wilson (NZ), M. Zobel (EE).

Honorary Members

D. Goodall, W. Matuszkiewicz, A. Miyawaki, D. Mueller-Dombois, M.Numata, E. Oberdorfer, S. Pignatti.

IAVS- North America

Chair: David Roberts, Utah State UniversityVice Chair: Janet Franklin, San Diego State UniversitySecretary: Susan Will-Wolf, University of Wisconsin

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Table of Contents

IAVS Conferencesteering committee ........................ Inside front cover

Welcome ......................................................................... 1

IAVS ................................................................................ 2

A word for our sponsors ............................................... 4-6

Hotel map ........................................................................ 7

Conference Overview ................................................ 8-12

Information for presenters ............................................. 13

Schedule of sessions ............................................... 14-27

Monday, July 19 .................................................... 14

Tuesday, July 20 ................................................... 16

Wednesday, July 21 .............................................. 20

Thursday, July 22 .................................................. 21

Friday, July 23 ....................................................... 25

Roster of posters ...................................................... 27-32

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A Word for Our Sponsors

We are pleased to acknowledge the support of the followingorganizations who, in a substantial way, have made this meetingpossible. They have provided financial support for the confer-ence, for student participants and for participants from afar.They generously have encouraged the participation of their staffin the conference organization by providing members of oursteering committee and guides and organizers for the field trips.We are grateful for their help.

Cooke Foundation

The Cooke Foundation supports worthy endeavors in thecommunity that the family feels will make a significant differencein the betterment and welfare of the people of Hawaii.

The BMZ is responsible for the planning and conversion of thedevelopment policy ofthe Federal Govern-ment of Germany.

The DeutscheGesellschaft furTechnischeZusammenarbeit is aninternational cooperation enterprise for sustainable develop-

ment with worldwideoperations. It providesviable, forward-lookingsolutions for political,economic, ecological andsocial development in a

globalised world. GTZ promotes complex reforms and changeprocesses, often working under difficult conditions. Its cooper-ate objective is to improve people’s living conditions on asustainable basis.

Hawaiian Botanical Society

The mission of the Hawaiian Botanical Society is to advance thescience of botany in all its applications, encourage research inbotany in all its phases, and promote the welfare of its mem-bers, developing the spirit of good fellowship and cooperationamong them.

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Pacific-AsiaBiodiversity TransectNetwork (PABITRA)

PABITRA combines the horizontaland vertical approaches to ecosystemstudies and conservation.

University of Hawai‘i

As the state’s only public higher educationalinstitution, the University of Hawai’i systemcreates, preserves, and transmits knowl-edge in a multicultural setting. Its purposesare to—

• Provide all qualified people in Hawai’iwith equal opportunity for high qualityeducation and training.

• Provide varied entry points and compre-hensive offerings so that its students movewithin the system to meet individualeducational and professional goals.

• Promote distinctive pathways to excel-lence, differentially emphasizing instruction,research, and service while fostering acohesive response to state needs and participation in theglobal community.

Hawai‘i Research InfrastructureImprovement Project

Hawai‘i begins its firstResearch InfrastructureImprovement (RII) grantwith great energy and aspirit of imua: to goforward. Under theNational Science Founda-tion (US) ExperimentalProgram to Stimulate Competitive Research (EPSCoR),Hawaii’s grant “Investing in Multidisciplinary University Activities(IMUA)” reflects this spirit and energy. Within the overarchingtheme of Biodiversity in an Integrated Island Environment,Hawai‘i has identified three research thrusts: EvolutionaryGenetics, Ecosystems Studies, and Information Technologyfor Environmental Research to promote collaborativeresearch among University of Hawaii system scientists andpartnerships with the Kamehameha Schools and the Hawai‘iDepartment of Education will serve to increase K-12 studentinterest in science, technology, engineering, and mathematics(STEM) curricula.

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US Department of Agriculture ForestServiceInstitute of Pacific Islands Forestry

The mission of the Institute of Pacific IslandsForestry is to develop knowledge needed torestore, protect, and sustain upland andwetland forests of the Pacific for purposes ofconservation and utilization. This mission isaccomplished through the activity of fourinterdisciplinary teams of professionals: 1)Forest management services, 2) Invasive species, 3) Restorationof ecosystem processes, and 4) Tropical forested wetlands. TheInstitute’s purview includes the State of Hawaii, the Territories ofGuam and American Samoa, the Commonwealth of the NorthernMarianas, and the republics of the Marshall Islands, FederatedStates of Micronesia, and Palau.

US Geological Survey – BiologicalResources DivisionPacific Island Ecosystems ResearchCenter

The mission of PIERC is to work with others to provide thescientific understanding and technologies needed to support thesound management and conservation of our Nation’s biologicalresources occurring within cultural, sociological and politicalcontext of the State of Hawai’i and other lands under U.S.jurisdiction in the Pacific Basin. PIERC works with federal, state,local and private organizations to provide objective research,baseline information, and technical assistance relating toconservation and restoration of indigenous biological resourcesoccurring within the cultural, sociological and political context ofthe States and Islands Territories of Hawaii, Guam, Truk, theMarianas Islands, American Samoa and others under U.S.jurisdiction in the Pacific Basin.

Hawai‘i County Research andDevelopment

The Department of Research and Develop-ment is responsible for promoting economicdevelopment in Hawaii County andcollecting and developing data for decision-making, program development and policy -making. The department’s focus encom-passes numerous programs, which includetourism, agriculture, new industry and industry developmentincluding film, energy and research and statistics.

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Information for Presenters

Oral Contributed Papers and Special Sessions

Computer and AV Support - Hualalai Room

Presenters are encouraged to bring their presentations asMicrosoft® Powerpoint®2002 files (or earlier) on CD’s,memory sticks, or floppy disks. Files should be copieddirectly onto designated computers at the conference andreviewed the afternoon or evening before the presenta-tion is scheduled. Files should be appropriately labeledwith the last name of the senior author (as listed in theprogram), the day of the presentation, and ContributedPaper (CP) or Special Session (SS) number. We hope inthis way to avoid last-minute problems with the softwareand to keep the sessions on time.

Please check in with your session moderator before thestart of your session. His/her name will be posted on aschedule in front of each room.

To keep the conference on schedule, it is important thatpresenters stay within her/his allotted time. Sessionmoderators are asked to let presenters know when 2minutes remain and to ask presenters to stop when theirtime is complete. All conference participants will appreci-ate cooperation of presenters in keeping to the printedschedule.

Poster Session

Posters can be hung Sunday afternoon July 18th orMonday morning, July 19th in the Elua Room and will beavailable for viewing until Thursday, July 22nd. Areception will be held Tuesday afternoon (5-7 PM) forparticipants to view posters and talk with presenters.Poster presenters are asked to be available near theirposters during this time.

Posters must be retrieved before noon on Friday.

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SCHEDULE OFSESSIONS

Monday July 19 Morning

Opening PlenaryEha & Ekolu Rooms

8:00 Welcoming Remarks

9:00 VITOUSEK, P.M. The Hawaiian Islands as amodel system for ecosystem studies.

9:30 OGDEN, J. Pleistocene, Holocene andPresent: The dynamics of long-lived conifers ina changing environment.

10:00 BREAK

10:15 KIRCH, P.V. The role of Polynesians inHawaiian ecodynamics, A.D. 800-1800.

10:45 GON, S. Hawai‘i: A Visual Exploration ofEcosystem Diversity.

11:15 DENSLOW, J.S. Invasive plants on tropicalislands: Lessons for continents?

Monday July 19 Afternoon

Special Session 1:Vegetation Ecology in the Pacific AsiaBiodiversity Transect (PABITRA) LandscapesEha & Ekolu RoomsGunnar Keppel and Curtis Daehler, Session Chairs

1:30 MUELLER-DOMBOIS, D. The PABITRAnetwork: its role and recent developments.

1:45 JACOBI, J., K. BIO, AND D. MUELLER-DOMBOIS. Change in tree population structureover 30 years in a montane forest in Hawai‘i.

2:00 SPATZ, G. A study on pasture versus Acaciakoa-forest productivity for the Keauhou Ranchon Hawai‘i.

2:15 BOEHMER, J., G.C. GERRISH, J.D. JACOBI,AND D. MUELLER-DOMBOIS. Long-termregeneration dynamics of a montane rain foreston the island of Hawai‘i.

2:30 DAEHLER, C. Comparison of introduced andinvasive plants across three PABITRA sites: Fiji,Samoa, and Hawai‘i.

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2:45 SHIMIZU, Y.K. Invasion of Bishofia javanicaand recent eradication efforts in the Bonin(Ogasawara) Islands.

3:00 BREAK

3:15 BOSETO, D., C. MORRISON, AND N. THO-MAS. Rainforest health versus disturbance asindicated by freshwater fishes and frogs in Fiji.

3:30 KEPPEL, G. The dry-zone vegetation of Fiji.

3:45 THOMAS, N. AND G. KEPPEL. Compositionand structure of cloud forest on Mt. Delaco,Gau, Fiji.

4:00 SILIKO, S. AND N. TUIVAVALAGI. Climate andsubstrates, and their effect on the Samoan flora.

4:15 MISA, M. American Samoa and PABITRA.

4:30 DISCUSSION/ PABITRA UPDATES

Oral Contributed Papers. Session 1: DiversityEkahi Room

1:30 BONINI, I., AND A. CHIARUCCI. Relationshipbetween vascular plants and bryophyte speciesdiversity in forest ecosystems in Tuscany.

1:45 KROMER, Th., S.R. GRADSTEIN, AND A.ACEBEY. Epiphyte diversity along elevationaland disturbance gradients in the Andes ofBolivia.

2:00 WOLF, J.H.D. Vascular epiphytes in anthropo-genic disturbed pine-oak forests in the high-lands of Chiapas, Mexico.

2:15 HOMEIER, J., H. DALITZ, AND S-W.BRECKLE. Tree diversity and forest dynamicsalong an altitudinal gradient in a SouthernEcuadorian montane forest.

2:30 BUSSMANN, R.W. Vegetation and speciesrichness patterns of East African tropicalmontane forests.

2:45 SCHICKHOFF, U. Altitudinal gradients of plantspecies richness in arid high mountains: a casestudy of Jargalant, Mongolian Altai.

3:00 BREAK

3:15 MIYAWAKI, A. AND S. MEGURO. Vegetation oflowland tropical forest and ecological character-istics of the component trees at estuary regionin Amazon.

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3:30 PATZELT, A. Vegetation patterns of theMonsoon affected mountains in SouthernOman, Arabia, and their importance as a centerof Arabian plant diversity

3:45 KEELEY, J. E. Sampling design and plot shapeeffects on plant diversity measurements.

4:00 JURASINSKI, G. AND C. BEIERKUHNLEIN.Spatial patterns in plant diversity and theirrelation to disturbance and site - the HexGrid-approach.

4:15 LAWLESS, P., J. BASKIN, AND C. BASKIN.Community ecology of xeric limestone prairiesin Kentucky: scale-dependence and species-area relationships.

4:30 BLOCK, M. Socioeconomic aspects ofphytodiversity in urban ecosystems. Examplesfrom Germany.

Other Activities

7:00 Council MeetingEkahi Room

Tuesday July 20 Morning

Opening PlenaryEha & Ekolu Rooms

8:00 KAUFFMAN, J.B. Fire and Land Use in TropicalEcosystems.

Special Session 2: Ecoinformatics inVegetation ScienceEha & Ekolu RoomsRobert Peet and Susan Wiser, Session Chairs

8:45 PEET, R.K. Introduction and an informationinfrastructure for vegetation science in NorthAmerica.

9:15 AUSTIN, M.P., A. ZERGER, AND M. CAWSEY.Vegetation Databases: interfacing them withecological theory and practical analysis.

9:45 SPENCER, N. AND S. WISER. Metadatamanagement for New Zealand’s nationalvegetation plot databank.

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10:00 SPENCER, N. Demonstration. New ZealandNational Plot Database: metadata system.

10:15 BREAK

10:30 BURROWS, L.E. Ownership and access todata deposited to a public-good vegetationarchive – whose information is it anyway?

10:45 KNEVEL, I.C. AND R.M. BEKKER. The LEDATraitbase – a database on life history traits ofplants.

11:00 JENNINGS, M. Applied informatics for studiesof vegetation alliances.

11:15 GRAMLING, J.M. Testing the continuumconcept with a species pool approach.

11:30 LAFFAN, S.W. AND S. BICKFORD. Spatiallyanalysing genetic and taxonomic variability atregional and continental scales.

11:45 PILLAR, V.D. Accuracy and power of random-ization tests in multivariate analysis of variancewith vegetation data.

12:00 PILLAR, V.D. Demonstration. Siavs2004-Program MULTIV for randomization testing;Program SYNCSA for analysis of trait-basedcommunity data and identification of plantfunctional types; Program SYNCSA for analysisof long-term vegetation dynamics.

Oral Contributed Papers. Session 2:Disturbance EcologyEkahi Room

8:45 NE’EMAN, G. Pinus halepensis, a Mediterra-nean pine, in the light of fire.

9:00 NONNER, E. The effect of fire on seed viabilityof fountain grass.

9:15 NORTH, M. Changes in structure, compositionand clustering pattern of Sierran mixed coniferfollowing fire and thinning restoration treat-ments.

9:30 MARTINSON, E., P. OMI, J. POLLET, E.WHITE-HAT, AND G. CHONG. Retrospectiveanalysis of fuel treatment performance underextreme wildfire conditions.

9:45 HUEBNER, C., K. GOTTSCHALK, AND J.REBBECK. Using soil seed banks to predictresponse to disturbance in an oak-dominatedforest in Pennsylvania.

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10:00 XI, W., R.K. PEET, AND D.L. URBAN. Seedlingestablishment and growth in response to amajor hurricane event in a Carolina Piedmontforest, USA.

10:15 BREAK

Oral Contributed Papers. Session 3:EcophysiologyEkahi Room

10:30 CORDELL, S., D.R. SANDQUIST, AND C.LITTON. Functional diversity of native Hawaiiandry forest.

10:45 SANDQUIST, D.R., S. CORDELL, AND C.LITTON. Water and carbon-use responses toremoval of non-native fountain grass in aHawaiian lowland dry forest.

11:00 LITTON, C.M., D.R. SANDQUIST, AND S.CORDELL. An invasive grass species affectscarbon cycling in Hawaiian dry forest.

11:15 WARD, D. Do we understand the causes ofshrub encroachment in African savannas?

11:30 HOSHINO, Y. AND M. SASAJIMA. Geographi-cal variation of spine density and length injuveniles of Santhoxylum ailanthoides in the IzuIsland and adjacent area, central Japan.

11:45 KOHYAMA, T., T. KUBO, M.D. POTTS, ANDP.S. ASHTON. Recruitment versus maximumsize tradeoff within rainforest tree community.

12:00 DIETZ, H. AND G. VON ARX. Growth re-sponses in perennial forbs to alpine environ-mental gradients and climatic fluctuation: aherb-chronological analysis.

Tuesday July 20 Afternoon

Special Session 2: Ecoinformatics inVegetation ScienceEha & Ekolu RoomsRobert Peet and Susan Wiser, Session Chairs

1:30 KUEHN, I. Demonstration. BiolFlor Traitbase.

1:45 PEET, R.K. Demonstration. VegBank.

2:00 PEET, R.K. AND S. WISER. Concludingremarks.

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Oral Contributed Papers Session 4: VegetationDynamicsEkahi Room

1:45 ENOKI, T. AND S. YAMADA. Topographicalvariation of tree species dominance in asubtropical evergreen broad-leaved forest.

2:00 ADSERSEN, H. Disturbance regimes andvegetation dynamics in the Galápagos Islands.

2:15 BARBOUR, M.G. AND M. DEL ARCO Dynamicsof Pinus canariensis old-growth stands.

2:30 GOETZE, D., D. GURLIN, B. HORSCH, P.KERSTING, A. KOULIBALY, AND S.POREMBSKI. Dynamics of protected anddisturbed forest-savanna mosaics in northeast-ern Ivory Coast.

2:45 POTTS, M., T. KOHYAMA, T. KUBO, M.N.SUPARDI, AND P. ASHTON. Life history trade-offs characterize species abundance andperformance in a hyper-diverse tropicalrainforest.

3:00 KAMIJO, T., A. TSUNEKAWA, Y. KIYOHARA, A.YAMANISHI, T. KATO, K. HASHIBA, AND H.HIGUCHI. Vegetation dynamics after the 2000-year eruption on Miyake-jima Islands, Japan.

3:15 BREAK

Special Session 3: Implementing NaturalDisturbance-based Management in Temperateand Boreal ForestsEha & Ekolu RoomsCraig DeLong and Sylvie Gauthier, Session Chairs

2:30 DELONG, C. Implementation of naturaldisturbance-based landscape level planning innorthern British Columbia.

3:00 BREAK

3:15 ANDISON, D.W. Natural disturbance-basedplanning demonstration area in west-centralAlberta: How did we do?

3:45 GAUTHIER, S. Implementing natural distur-bance-based management in temperate andboreal forests.

4:15 KUULUVAINEN, T., M. LARJAVAARA, J.PENNANEN, AND T. WALLENIUS. Naturaldisturbance dynamics of boreal forests inFinland: new findings and implications formanagement.

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4:45 DISCUSSION

Oral Contributed Papers Session 5: InvasiveSpeciesEkahi Room

3:30 BJØRNDALEN, J.E. Destructive rabbit grazingin a small insular nature reserve in Oslo, SENorway - vegetation changes and implicationsfor management.

3:45 WILDPRET DE LA TORRE, W., V.E. MARTÍN.OSORIO, B.H. BOLANOS, AND S.-P.GONZALEZ. Present state of the invasivespecies in the Timanfaya National Park(Lanzarote), Canary Islands. Spain.

4:00 DUNCAN, R.P., R.P. RANDALL, AND P.A.WILLIAMS. Comparative naturalization rates inthe exotic floras of Australia and New Zealand.

4:15 HUGHES, R.F. AND J.S. DENSLOW. Invasionby the N-fixing tree, Falcataria moluccana,alters ecosystem function and structure oflowland wet forests in Hawaii.

4:30 LOH, R.K., C.C. DAEHLER, AND J.T.TUNISON. Understory succession followingexperimental removal of invasive Morella fayastands in a Hawaiian rain forest.

4:45 MILLER, A., R. DUNCAN, J. SULLIVAN, S.WISER, AND C. NEWELL. Untangling the rolesof habitat susceptibility and propagule pressurein the spread of an exotic herb in New Zealand’smountain vegetation.

5:00 JAKOBS, G., E. WEBER, AND P.J. EDWARDS.Evolutionary changes in introduced species.

Poster ReceptionElua Room

5:00-7:00 Poster Viewing and Reception

Wednesday, July 21

All Day Mid-conference Field TripsMain Hotel Lobby

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Thursday, July 22 Morning

Opening PlenaryEha & Ekolu Rooms

8:00 WILSON, J.B. The control of communitycomposition—from point to continental scale.

Special Session 4: Biodiversity andUrbanizationEha & Ekolu RoomsIngolf Kühn and Stefan Klotz, Session Chairs

8:45 KLOTZ, S. AND I. KÜHN. The flora andvegetation of urban areas: a review.

9:15 PYSEK, P. Long-term dynamics of urban florain Central European cities.

9:45 GODEFROID, S. AND N. KOEDAM. What isthe future of urban nature in a developingworld?

10:15 BREAK

10:30 CELESTI-GRAPOW, L. AND C. BLASI. Hotspots of plant diversity in Italian Mediterraneancities.

11:00 KÜHN, I., R. BRANDL, AND S. KLOTZ. Theflora of cities is naturally rich.

11:30 DISCUSSION

Oral Contributed Papers. Session 6:SuccessionEkahi Room

8:45 FELINKS, B. AND T. WIEGAND. Analysis ofspatial pattern in early stages of primarysuccession on former lignite mining sites ineastern Germany.

9:00 FRANKLIN, J., S. WISER, D. DRAKE, L.BURROWS, AND W. SYKES. Environmentalgradients and secondary succession affectforest composition in Tonga, Western Polynesia.

9:15 KARRER, G. Trends in plant species traitsduring succession of abandoned meadowsnearby Vienna, Austria.

9:30 MALANSON, G.P., D.G. BROWN, D.R.BUTLER, D.M. CAIRNS, D.F. FAGRE, AND S.J.WALSH. Advance of tree species into alpinetundra.

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9:45 PIETSCH, W.H.O. Succession and siteconditions in the post mining landscapes inLusatia (Germany).

10:00 TALBOT, S.S. AND S.L. TALBOT. Vegetationrecovery following long-term cattle grazing atSimeonof Island, southwestern Alaska.

10:15 BREAK

Oral Contributed Papers. Session 7:Vegetation Dynamics and TheoryEkahi Room

10:30 KIEFER, S. AND R.W. BUSSMAN. Usingseedling distribution in different disturbancestages in Kakamega Forest, West Kenya asmeans for the characterization of regenerationstrategies.

10:45 LOZANO, P. AND R.W. BUSSMAN. Vegetationon natural and anthropogenic landslides at theeastern part of Podocarpus National Park.

11:00 MUNZBERGOVA, Z. Factors limiting distribu-tion of dry grassland species at different spatialscales.

11:15 EMRICK, V.R. AND J.L. DORR. Conceptualapproach to examining the spatial and temporalinteractions of disturbance on military traininglands.

11:30 GRACE, J.B. The application of multivariatehypothesis testing (MHT) to vegetation studies.

11:45 HERBEN, T., B. MANDAK, K. BIMOVA, AND Z.MUNZBERGOVA. Is there a relationshipbetween the number of alien species andspecies richness of a community?

Other Activities:

12:00 IAVS-North America Chapter. Lunch Get-togetherPaddlers’ Room

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Thursday, July 22 Afternoon

Oral Contributed Papers. Session 8:Restoration and Conservation

Eha & Ekolu Rooms

1:45 KRATOCHWIL, A., M. STROH, D. REMY, ANDA. SCHWABE. Restoration of new alluviallandscapes in Northwestern Germany.

2:00 BUISSON, E., E. CORCKET, T. DUTOIT, ANDA. PEETERS. Restoring abandoned fields bytransplanting keystone species in the steppe ofLa Crau (South-eastern France)

2:15 SCHWABE, A., K. SUSS, AND C. STORM.Successional processes in subcontinental sandecosystems: are there trends of redynamizationby restorative grazing?

2:30 SIZYKH, A. Phytoindication of the disturbedstate of ecosystems in the Lake Baikal’s shoreterritories (western shore area).

2:45 SMITH, L. AND J. FRANKLIN. Vegetationcommunity parameters in reserve designmodeling, Kingdom of Tonga.

3:00 JIANG,Y., M.Y. KANG, G.Z. GAO, AND L.H. HE.Impact of land use on plant biodiversity andmeasures for biodiversity conservation in theLoess Plateau in China.

3:15 BREAK

3:30 GRAY, J., T. WENTWORTH, AND C.BROWNIE. Community-level temporal re-sponses to fire frequency, population size, andspatial arrangement for rare vascular flora of thelongleaf pine-wiregrass ecosystem.

3:45 MARRS, R.H., J. GHORBANI, R.J. PAKEMAN,AND M.G. LE DUC. Ecosystem resistance andresilience: measuring ecological processes inapplied situations

4:00 ZIMMERMAN, N., R.F. HUGHES, S. CORDELL,P. HART, H.K. CHANG, AND D. PEREZ. Thestate of lowland wet forests in Hawaii: Variationin ecosystem dynamics and impacts of invasivespecies.

4:15 WHITEHEAD, A.N., H. FRAIOLA, AND T.TICKTIN. Conservation, ecology, and nativeHawaiian traditional environmental knowledgeof wild-plant gathering and associated manage-ment practices.

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Oral Contributed Papers. Session 9:Biogeography and Succession

Ekahi Room

1:45 SENTERRE, B. AND T. STEVAT. Submontanerain forests of the Atlantic central African centreof diversity: geographical distribution andecology, affinities, and origins.

2:00 YURKOVSKAYA, T. Mires of Barents region inRussian Arctic.

2:15 RAPSON, G.L. AND T. HODGES. Crossing theFBT (Fen-Bog Transition zone) in the SouthernHemisphere requires the restiad, Emposdismaminus, as engineer.

2:30 FUJIWARA, K. AND Z.X. WONG. Northern andsouthern limit of beech forests in East Asia:what is different in landscapes and speciesrichness.

2:45 WUCHERER, W. AND S.-W. BRECKLE. Plantcommunity development in the Aralkum desert.

3:00 RUTHERFORD, G.N., N.E. ZIMMERMAN, ANDP. BEBI. Modeling landscape change: identify-ing the driving forces of forest regeneration onabandoned land.

3:15 BREAK

Oral Contributed Papers. Session 10: Plant-Animal Interactions

Ekahi Room

3:30 CHIMERA, C. Vegetation structure determinesseed rain in a Hawaiian dry forest.

3:45 DRAKE, D., K. MCCONKEY, AND H. MEEHAN.Seed dispersal by flying foxes: evidence for athreshold effect in Polynesia.

4:00 POSTELLI, K.A. Ecological impacts of KalijPheasants (Lophura leucomelanos) in nativeHawaiian forests.

4:15 WILMSHURST, J.M. AND T.F.G. HIGHAM.Determining the earliest impacts of humans inNew Zealand: the introduction of the Pacific rat(Rattus exulans)

4:30 WILDI, O. Complexity in vegetation changecaused by species invasion.

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Friday July 23 Morning

Opening PlenaryEha & Ekolu Rooms

8:00 WEBB, C.O. AND D.D. ACKERLY. Phylogeneticfloristics: a new approach to vegetationanalysis.

Oral Contributed Papers. Session 11:Landscape EcologyEha & Ekolu Rooms

8:45 ROCCHINI, D., A. CHIARUCCI, M. BODDI, F.CASINI, C. ANGIOLINI, V. DE DOMINICIS, ANDS.A. LOISELLE. Linking spectral heterogeneityto species diversity in a wetland area.

9:00 BLASI, C., G. FILIBECK, AND L. ROSATI.Vegetation Series Map of Italy.

9:15 FRONDONI, R., M.L. CARRANZA, G.CAPOTORTI, AND C. BLASI. Changes inlandscape diversity (1954-2001) in the Munici-pality of Rome, Italy.

9:30 HONG, S.-K., J.-E. KIM, AND N. NAKAGOSHI.Landscape fragmentation and vegetationdynamics of rural area.

9:45 EDMONDS, T. AND S. PHINN. Mapping PondApple (Annona glabra) in Northeast Queenslandusing a habitat suitability map and Landsat ETMdata.

10:00 KALWIJ, J.M., H.H. WAGNER, AND O. WILDI.Predicting stand structure and dynamics in asilvo-pastoral landscape using time-series ofaerial photographs and LiDAR data.

10:15 BREAK

10:30 PELTZER, D.A., R. FITZJOHN, P. HEENAN,S.FERRISS, AND L.E. NEWSTROM. Quantify-ing wild Brassicas distribution at the landscapescale in New Zealand: a model system forunderstanding gene-flow risk.

10:45 WILL-WOLF, S. AND P. NEITLICH. A compari-son of environmental variables related to lichencommunity composition at regional andsubregional geographic scales.

11:00 HOLMES, K.W., K. VAN NIEL, AND G.A.KENDRICK. Optimizing seagrass monitoring byassessing previous mapping uncertainty.

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Oral Contributed Papers. Session 12:Community Structure and DynamicsEkahi Room

8:45 CAMPETELLA, G. S. BARTHA, R. CANULLO,S. CSETE, R. PAL, M. RAMADORI, AND N.PORFIRI. Spatial patterns and mechanisms inbeech forests at different regeneration phasesafter disturbance: a case study in the NaturalReserve of Torricchio (Central Italy).

9:00 OSTERTAG, R., R. LIKE, AND H.K. CHANG.Structural characteristics of a remnant lowlandHawaiian wet forest.

9:15 ROSSON, J.F., JR. Tree species associationsover a large-scale sampling regime on theLower Mississippi River Alluvial Plain, USA.

9:30 MULDAVIN, E.H., C.D. ALLEN, AND R.G.BALICE. Forest and woodland communities ofthe Jemez Mountains, New Mexico, USA.

9:45 SAFRONOVA, I. On the boundary between theSteppe and Desert zones in the CaspianLowland.

10:00 BREAK

10:15 VAN KLEY, J.E. AND R.E. EVANS. VegetationChange in the West Gulf Coastal Plain, USA.

10:30 ROSS, M., P.L. RUIZ, K. JAYACHANDRAN,C.L. COULTAS, AND J.P. SAH. Nutrientrelationships in the “ridge-and-slough” vegeta-tion mosaic of the southern Everglades, Florida,USA.

10:45 SANCHEZ-MATA, D., L.G. SANCHO, R.GAVILAN, A. PINTADO, AND D. PALACIOS.High mountain vegetation and snow cover: Asubmediterranean model from the IberianCentral Range.

11:00 SOLOMEHCH, A.I. AND M.G. BARBOUR.Classification and reconstruction of Californianative grasslands.

11:15 BORNKAMM, R. Fifty years of vegetationdynamics in a disturbed xerothermic grasslandin Central Europe.

11:30 WISER, S. AND R. BUXTON. Does surround-ing vegetation influence species composition ofhabitat islands?

11:45 NAKAGOSHI, N., Y. OHTA, AND M. SAKAI.Vegetation dynamics on the islands in the SetoInland Sea, Japan

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Other Activities

1:30-3 GENERAL MEMBERSHIP MEETING ANDPOSTER AWARDSEha and Ekolu Rms

6:00-9 RECEPTION AND CLOSING PARTYLu’au Grounds

ROSTER OF POSTERSElua Room

Posters will be available for viewing on Monday July 19-Thursday, July 22. A poster reception where authorsstand by their posters is scheduled for Tuesday July 20from 5-7 pm.

Community Structure and Floristics

1. MUOGHALU, J.I. AND O.O. OKEESAN. Climberspecies composition, abundance and relationshipwith trees in a Nigeria secondary forest.

2. FILIBECK, G., P.V. ARRIGONI, AND C. BLASI.Some clarifications on the Colchic forests (WesternGeorgia, former SSSR).

3. FREY, T., J. FREY, P. KASK, AND A. ERIK. On onerarity in the Norway spruce provenances.

4. HAYASAKA, D. AND K. FUJIWARA. Speciescomposition and distribution of coastal sand-duneplants in Southeast Asia (Malay Peninsula in Thailandand Taipei in Taiwan) and their Regional Nature.

5. HOLLINGSWORTH T.N., M.D. WALKER, AND A.PARSONS. Environmental controls on floristicvariability in Black Spruce communities of interiorAlaska.

6. TANAKA, A., T. NAKANO, AND Y. YAMAMURA.Effects of forest floor disturbance on structure anddynamics of subalpine larch forests near the treelineof northern slope of Mt. Fuji.

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Disturbance Ecology

7. MAGEE, T., P. RINGOLD, AND M. BOLLMAN.Relationships of alien plant species abundance toriparian vegetation, environment, and disturbance.

8. DORR, J.L., V.R. EMERICK, AND D. WIESNICHT.Geographic quantification of the interactions betweenmilitary training and fire disturbance: a case study.

9. ACOSTA, A., L. CARRANZA, S. ERCOLE, A.STANISCI, AND C. BLASI. Effects of disturbance onsandy coastal vegetation in Central Italy.

10. VAN NIEL, K.P. AND S.M. DAVEY. Temporal biomassanalysis for assessing the impact of disturbance onspecies equilibrium.

11. THAXTON, J.M. AND W.J. PLATT. Fire intensityaffects population of a rhizomatous shrub in a fre-quently-burned longleaf pine savanna.

12. POLI-MARCHESE, E., M. GRILLO, AND M.MARCHESE. Forest and shrub vegetation after fire onMt. Etna (Southern Italy).

13. OVERBECK, G., S.C. MÜLLER, J. PFADENHAUER,AND V.D. PILLAR. Fire promotes species diversity insubtropical grasslands.

14. MCDANIEL, S., D. BENETIZ, R. LOH, AND T.TUNISON. Vegetation changes after fire in seasonallydry Metrosideros polymorpha woodlands at HawaiiVolcanoes National Park.

Ecophysiology

15. KUROKAWA, H., H. NAGAMASU, AND T.NAKASHIZUKA. Factors explaining plant defensiveinvestments in tropical rain forests in Borneo.

16. TANAKA, N. Potential impact of climate changes ondwarf-bamboo species in Japan.

17. GOVOROVA, A. AND E. GOLUBEVA. Disturbance ofvegetation under pollution impact: from molecular toecosystem level.

Evolutionary Genetics

18. MARTYNOVA-VAN KLEY A., H. WANG, A. NALIAN,AND J. VANKLEY. Phylogenetic analysis of SSU rDNAsequences of arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi in EastTexas.

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Invasive Species

19. EDWARDS, P.J., H. DIETZ, AND R. BILLETER.Reciprocal analysis of ecological and genetic factorsof alien plant invasions along altitudinal gradients inthe Swiss Alps and the Wallowa Mountains (OR,USA).

20. MIKAMI, K. AND F. KOIKE. Ecological traits ofwoody invader and native species in subtropicaloceanic island.

21. LONGBRAKE, A.C.W. Effects of non-indigenousgrasses on Sophora chrysophylla forest on MaunaKea.

22. KAMADA, M., M. KOJIMA, AND T. OKABE. Invadingpattern of Eragrostis curvula at gravel bar in relationto hydro-geomorphic change in the Yoshino River,Shikoku, Japan.

23. KOBAYASHI, T. AND A. KOUKI. Stand structure andspecies diversity in secondary forests invaded bygiant bamboos (Phyllostachys spp.) at ShikokuIsland, western Japan.

Landscape Ecology

24. JACKEL, A.-K., A. DANNEMANN, P. POSCHLOD,AND M. KLEYER. BIOPOP - an expert system forlandscape planning and nature conservation basedon a database of plant traits.

25. CARRANZA, M.L., D. SMIRAGLIA, AND C. BLASI.Environmental monitoring based on the contrast andaffinity between adjacent patches.

26. CAPOTORTI, G., M. MARTA, AND C. BLASI.Vegetation and landscape diversity for defining theUrban Biosphere Reserve of Rome (Italy).

27. SMIRAGLIA, D., M.L. CARRANZA, G. PRESTI, ANDC. BLASI. Landscape quality and landscapemanagement model.

28. MUELLER-DOMBOIS, D., N. WIRAWAN, AND J.D.JACOBI. The Kahana Valley Ahupua‘a - a PABITRASite on O‘ahu, Hawaiian Islands.

29. FOLIGA, T. AND F. FALETOESE. The APN-PABITRA-NUS Biodiversity Training Workshop inSamoa.

30. LOZANO, J., S. SUAREZ-SEOANE, AND E. LUIS.Burned area mapping using Landsat TM data andassessment of the associated landscape change inthree Spanish natural parks.

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Paleoecology

31. MANTHEY, M. AND E.O. BOX. Climatic envelopesand realized climatic niches of tree species in Europeand Eastern North America.

32. LI, X. AND G.L. RAPSON. Interpreting vegetationdynamics with pollen data from disturbed andundisturbed sites in New Zealand.

Plant-Animal Interactions

33. EQUIHUA, M., G. BENÍTEZ, R. VILLAGAS, R.PALESTINA, A. HERNÁNDEZ, AND J.L. ÁLVAREZ.A positive role of Casuarina on the conservation ofnative species on the shoreline of the Gulf of Mexico.

34. ABE, S., T. TAKEUCHI, R. MATSUKI, T. ISHII, ANDM. NASHIMOTO. Modeling and mapping for canopyphenology of deciduous forests in the home range ofa pair of Golden Eagles on Mt. Akita-komagatake,Japan.

35. WELTON, P., K.D. ANDERSON, C. DEL REAL, B.EISENBERG, A. ERICKSON, B. HAUS, R. PERRY,R. RITCHIE, M. SCHULTZ, AND M. VACEK.Defoliation of Koa (Acacia koa) at Haleakala NationalPark, Maui, due to vascular wilt fungus Fusariumoxysporum F. sp koae and/or the endemic moth,Scotorythra paludicola?

36. IZHAKI, I., H. MELAMED-TADMORE, N.SINGARAVELAN, G. NE‘EMAN, M. INBAR, AND A.ARIELI. The role of secondary compounds in plant-pollinator mutualism.

Population Ecology

37. MEGURO, S., N. NAKIGUCHI, T. KAMIJO, AND T.NAKAMURA. Relationship between mechanicalcharacteristics and the ecology among Fagaceae treespecies in Japan.

38. FIDELIS, A., G. OVERBECK, E. SOSINSKI, V.D.PILLAR, AND J. PFADENHAUER. Effects ofdisturbance on the population biology of Eryngiumhorridum in grasslands in southern Brazil: the use ofplant function types.

39. KURODA, A., S. MUKAI, AND G. TOYOHARA. Ageand spatial dispersion structures of evergreenperennial fern Dicranopteris linearis(Gleicheniaceae).

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40. IKEDA, H. AND X.-Y. LUO. Effects of rice herbicideson seed germination and seedling growth of athreatened plant species, Penthorum chinense.

Restoration and Conservation

41. SCHNELL, L., S. EVANS, T. BELT, A. KELLY, L.TOMINAGA, B. TUCKER, AND D. YORK. Fountaingrass control within Intensive Management Units atPohakuloa Training Area, Hawaii Island.

42. KLIMES, L. Restoration of species-rich grasslands ina cultural landscape using a transfer of meadowblocks.

43. BENITEZ, D. AND R. LOH. Native tree regenerationfollowing eradication of invasive Kahili ginger(Hedychium gardnerianum) in Hawai‘i VolcanoesNational Park, 1998-2003.

44. CHANG, J. AND Y. GE. On the biodiversity, eco-complexity and the stability of ecosystem in ecologi-cal restoration.

Succession

45. UGURLU, E. Plant succession on and surroundingthe Kula Volcano (Turkey).

46. CHOUNG, H-L., H-J. LEE, H-C. ROH, AND J-H. KIM.Difference of floristic structure and progressivesuccession on the forest vegetation in and surround-ing Taegu, South Korea.

47. SKLENÁ_, P, R. KOVÁ_, Z. SLODÁN, D. STAN_IK,Z. PALICE, AND P. KULISEK. Primary succession ofparamo vegetation on Volcán Cotopaxi (Ecuador):patterns of diversity at different sampling scales.

Vegetation Dynamics and Diversity

48. CHEBAKOVA, N. AND E.V.N. PARFENOVA. Forestredistribution in interior Siberia in a changing climate.

49. NEMOTO, M., AND Y. HOSHINO. Explanationthrough the relationships between plant speciesrichness and plant community diversity.

50. ZACKRISSON, O., A. SHEVTSOVA, G. HÖRNBERT,M-C. NILLSON, AND A. JÄDERLUND. Limits toseedling establishment of two conifers along analtitudinal gradient of boreal forest and alpine tundra.

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51. HERMANN, J-M., J. PFADENHAUER, AND V. DEPATTA PILLAR. Woody species invading grasslandon the Planalto das Araucarias, Rio Grande do Sul,Brazil.

52. STAN_ÍK, D., P. SKLENÁ_, P. KOVÁ_, Z. SLODÁN,Z. PALICE, AND P. KULÍ_EK. Causes and dynamicsof the tropical mountain grasslands erosion: VolcánChimborazo (Ecuador) study case.

53. OHASHI, H. AND Y. HOSHINO. Effect of Sika deer(Cervus nippon) on species composition and plantspecies diversity of forest vegetation.

54. MARTÍN-OSORIO, V.E., W. W. DELATORRE, B. H.BOLAÑOS, AND I. S-P GONZÁLEZ. Vegetationchanges in the landscape of the Teide National Parkin the past 50 years using a geobotanic informationsystem (GIS).