NEBC 120th Anniversary Research Conference
Celebrating Botanical Research!
June 5-7, 2015
Smith College
Northampton, Massachusetts
Oral Presentations
NEBC June 2015 Conference: Oral Presentation
* = Presenter
Keynote Address
- Keynote
- Video
- Title: “Learned Societies” — Past, Present, and Future?
- Author: Dr. Pamela Diggle
Regional Floras and Analyses
(Morning Session A, Weinstein Auditorium)
- AM-A-1
- Video
- Title: Patterns and Changes in the Flora of Franklin County, Massachusetts
- Authors: Robert Bertin,* Katherine R. McKenna, Karen B. Searcy, Matthew G. Hickler, Glenn Motzkin
- AM-A-2
- Video
- Title: Plants of Maine’s Lakes and Rivers
- Authors: Keith Williams,* Jacolyn Bailey, Roberta Hill
- AM-A-3
- Video
- Title: Changes in the Vascular Plant Diversity of the Monomoy Islands, Massachusetts
- Authors: Richard Stalter,* Eric E. Lamont
- AM-A-4
- Video
- Title: Transatlantic Connections: Marsh Floras and Vegetation Along the Gradient from Freshwater to Ocean Salinities Along the Elbe (northern Europe) and Connecticut (northeastern North America) Rivers
- Authors: Kai Jensen, C. John Burk,* Marjorie Holland
- AM-A-5
- Video
- Title: Shifting Conservation Focus from Species Occurrence to Habitat Forming Process: The importance of Lateral Channel Migration to Persistence of Floodplain Forest Plant Populations
- Authors: Christian Marks,* Erik Martin
- AM-A-6
- Video
- Title: State of the Plants: Challenges and Opportunities for Conservation of the New England Flora
- Authors: Elizabeth Farnsworth,* William E. Brumback
Vascular Plant and Fungal Ecology and Life History
(Morning Session B, McConnell)
- AM-B-1
- Video
- Title: Not out of the woods yet: Wild blueberry illustrates that flower removal studies haev a ways to go to get mechanical
- Authors: Alex Bajcz,* Francis Drummond
- AM-B-2
- Video
- Title: The Impact of Invasive Honeysuckle Removal on Black-legged Tick Density in and Exurban Residential Setting
- Authors: Emily Marsh,* Alan Giese
- AM-B-3
- Video
- Title: Bud Set in Temperate Woody species: Variation in Dormant Bud Size across Species and Range, with Implications for Springtime Phenology
- Authors: Jehane Samaha,* Elizabeth Wolkovich, Daniel Flynn, Timothy Savas
- AM-B-4
- Video
- Title: Herpomyces chaetophilus, a New Record of Laboulbeniales for North America
- Authors: Tristan Wang,* Danny Haelewaters, Donald H. Pfister
- AM-B-5
- Video
- Title: The Highly Invasive Grass Brachypodium sylvacticum – A Candidate for Early Detection/Rapid Response in Eastern North America?
- Authors: David Werier, Steven Daniel*
Plant Adaptations and Stress Effects
(Afternoon Session A, Weinstein Auditorium)
- PM-A-1
- Video
- Title: Horticultural Escape and Naturalization of Magnolia tripetala (L.) L. north of Its Native Range Will Give Tree Species a ‘Head Start’ on Climate Change
- Authors: Jesse Bellemare,* Claudia Deeg, Dov F. Sax, Regan Early
- PM-A-2
- Video
- Title: Local Adaptation to Environment is Observed from Genome-Wide SNP Data in Populus balsamifera (L.).
- Authors: Karl Fetter,* V. E. Chhatre, S. R. Keller
- PM-A-3
- Video
- Title: Adapatation, Performance and Host-Resistance: Tsuga Research in the Northeast
- Authors: Rick Harper,* Paul Weston
- PM-A-4
- Video
- Title: Potential Effects of Eastern Hemlock Decline on the Hemlock-associated Liverwort Bazznia trilobata
- Authors: Michelle Jackson,* Jesse Bellemare
- PM-A-5
- Video
- Title: Combiniing Incidence and Demographic Modeling Approacches to Evaluate Metapopulation Parameters for Furbish’s Lousewort (Pedicularus furbishiae)
- Authors: Sydne Record,* Noah Charney
Botanical History: Herbarium Collections and Paleobotany
(Afternoon Session B, McConnell)
- PM-B-1
- Video
- Title: Pigeon Peas and Pawpaw: Frederick Pursh’s Plants of Onondaga
- Authors: Catherine Landis,* Donald J. Leopold, Robin W. Kimmerer
- PM-B-2
- Video
- Title: Herbarium Treasure Hunt: Botanical Consortium Portals as Teaching Tools for Undergraduate Research
- Authors: Janet Sullivan,* Christopher D. Neefus
- PM-B-3
- Video
- Title: The Historic Flora of Franklin County, Massacchusetts 1816-1990: Major Collectors and Collection Patterns
- Authors: Karen Searcy,* Robert I. Bertin, Matthew G. Hickler
- Title: The Historic Flora of Franklin County, Massacchusetts 1816-1990: Major Collectors and Collection Patterns
- PM-B-4
- Video
- Title: Digitization of the New York Botanical Garden Herbarium
- Authors: Barbara Thiers*
- PM-B-5
- Video
- Title: Examination of pollen profiles and frequency dit ribution of diatom species, found in 8500 years of peat at Poutwater Pond, Holden, Massachusetts
- Authors: Peter Bradley,* Jennifer Marino, Benjamin Parmentier, Adrienne P. Smyth