The 2008 Joint Meeting of the Society for Range Management and the America Forage and Grassland Council.

Monday, January 28, 2008: 1:30 PM-5:00 PM
French - E3 (Galt House Hotel & Suites)
Ecology
Moderator:Geoffrey E. Brink
1:30 PMWelcoming Remarks
1:40 PMEffects of Plant Community Structure and Composition on Insect Abundance and Diversity: Implications for Sage-Grouse Brood Rearing
Erica A. Ersch, Tamzen K. Stringham, Jeffrey C. Miller, Richard F. Miller, Michael Gregg
2:00 PMValue of Rangeland Ecosystem Services at Various Grazing Intensities
Mengli Zhao, Guodong Han
2:20 PMPlant Community Ordination Analysis of the Arid Zone of Uzbekistan
Wolfgang Pittroff, José Ramón Arévalo, Bakhtiyor Mardonov, Gustave Gintzburger
2:40 PMImpacts of Bivouacking on Plant Community Dynamics in the Transitional Grasslands of the Northern Plains
Joshua M. Peterson, Kevin K. Sedivec, Dennis L. Whitted, William T. Barker
3:00 PMBreak
3:20 PMComparisons of Bee Diversity between Contiguous Stands of Pinyon/Juniper, Sagebrush, Crested Wheatgrass, and Cheatgrass in the Eastern Great Basin
Robert L. Johnson, Val Jo Anderson, Shawn M. Clark
3:40 PMImpacts of Sustainable Livestock Production Systems on Soil Carbon Levels and Plant Community Composition of Post-contract Conservation Reserve Program Lands
Miranda A. Vlaminck, C.S. Schauer, Kevin K. Sedivec
4:00 PMCombined Effects of Litter and Defoliation on Soil Moisture and Associated Forage Production in Aspen Parkland Grasslands
Eliza S. Deutsch, Edward W. Bork
4:20 PMRenovation and Management Effects on Pasture Productivity Under Rotational Grazing
Geoffrey E. Brink, Randall D. Jackson
4:40 PMLandscape Scale Assessment of Aspen Decline in the Owyhee Mountains, Idaho
Eva K. Strand, Stephen C. Bunting, Lee A. Vierling
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