SYMPOSIUM

Advancing Floristic Quality Assessment in Wetland Plant Assemblages

     Organized by Gary N. Ervin (gervin@biology.msstate.edu), Mississippi State University and
  Jason Bried (jbried@tnc.org), The Nature Conservancy, Albany, NY

Confirmed Speakers

Susan Carstenn, Hawaii Pacific University, Kaneohe, HI (scarstenn@hpu.edu) and E. Guinther; The influence of copious rare endemics, scarce indigenous, and ubiquitous alien species on floristic quality assessment indices in Hawaii

James O. Luken, Coastal Carolina University, Conway, SC (joluken@coastal.edu);  An index of invasion for wetland plant communities

Elizabeth A. Deimeke (edeimeke@ufl.edu), Kelly Chinners Reiss (kcr@ufl.edu), Mark T. Brown (mtb@ufl.edu), and Matthew J. Cohen (mjc@ufl.edu), University of Florida, Gainesville, FL; Landscape interference of conservatism coefficients for evidence-based floristic quality assessment

David Mushet, USGS Northern Prairie Wildlife Research Center, Jamestown, ND (david_mushet@usgs.gov) and N.H. Euliss Jr.; The effects of natural climate variation on floristic quality assessments of wetland plant communities

Siobhan Fennessy (fennessym@kenyon.edu) and Carolyn Barrett, Kenyon College, Gambier, OH; The response of wetland vegetation to surrounding land use at a variety of scales: An information-theoretic approach

Greg Spyreas, Center for Wildlife and Plant Ecology, Illinois Natural History Survey, Champaign, IL (spyreas@inhs.uiuc.edu); A comparison of Floristic Quality Assessment scores across Illinois regions, habitat types, and plant communities

Jason Bried, The Nature Conservancy, New York Conservation Office, Albany, NY (jbried@tnc.org) and Gary N. Ervin, Mississippi State University, Mississippi State, MS (gervin@msstate.edu); Making invasiveness count in Floristic Quality Assessment