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Monday, August 2nd

Monday, August 2nd, 8:00 am to 11:45 am · 556B/Convention Center
Session 2: Contributed Papers: Pteridology Section/AFS
Presiding: Michael Windham, Duke University
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2001August 2nd 8:00 am556B/Convention CenterCheilanthes lanosa spore germination initiates without measurable imbibition
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Oral PaperLoucks, K.A.; Hoffman, D.R.; Stephens, A.R.; Theisen, A.N.; Swatzell, Lucinda J..spore
Cheilanthes
Germination
water
2002August 2nd 8:15 am556B/Convention CenterThe Nature of the Extra-Cellular Matrix Surrounding the Female Gamete of Ceratopteris richardii
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Oral PaperLopez-Smith, Renee A..callose
egg cell
extra-cellular matrix
2003August 2nd 8:30 am556B/Convention CenterSporophores in Psilotum: ferns, shoots, and leaves
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Oral PaperBuzgo, Matyas; Lucas, Cran M; Miller, Annie Phanid; Witherington, Sarah.Monilophyta
Pteridophyta
Psilotaceae
Ophioglossaceae
morphology
EvoDevo
organ identity
meristem maintenance
homeosis
2004August 2nd 8:45 am556B/Convention Centerδ15N Natural abundance and nitrogen use of tropical fern gametophytes and sporophytes
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Oral PaperWatkins, Jr., James (Eddie); Mack, Michelle C..Pteridophyte
Fern
Nitrogen
uptake kinetics
resource competition
epiphyte
community assembly
2005August 2nd 9:00 am556B/Convention CenterEffects of light, flooding, and weeding on Marsilea villosa growth in a common garden experiment: Implications for in situ restoration and management
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Oral PaperChau, Marian M.; Ranker, Tom A..Marsilea villosa
Restoration Ecology
Endangered species
ferns
outplanting
management
Hawaii
2006August 2nd 9:15 am556B/Convention CenterEffects of a simulated hurricane experiment on terrestrial ferns in a subtropical wet forest in Puerto Rico
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Oral PaperSharpe, Joanne M.; Shiels, Aaron B..ferns
pteridophytes
hurricane
disturbance
2007August 2nd 9:30 am556B/Convention CenterThree new quillworts from the southeastern United States
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Oral PaperMatthews, Richard A.; Musselman, Lytton John; Taylor, W. Carl; Bray, Rebecca D.Isoetes
Sandstone outcrops
Granite outcrops
August 2nd 9:45 am556B/Convention CenterBreak
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2009August 2nd 10:15 am556B/Convention CenterExamining Botrychium species using genetics and morphology
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Oral PaperWilliams, Evelyn; Bochte, Crys.Botrychium
cryptic species
AFLP
morphology
2010August 2nd 10:30 am556B/Convention CenterAn ISSR Investigation of North American grapefern species (Sceptridium; Ophioglossaceae)
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Oral PaperCao, Daniel; Hauk, Warren.Sceptridium
grapefern
ISSR
species concept
2011August 2nd 10:45 am556B/Convention Center
Canceled
Ecology of alpine and subalpine populations of Botrychium pumicola (pumice moonwort), a rare Cascade Range endemic
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Oral PaperRoe-Andersen, Susan.Fern
Botrychium
rare plants
Cascade Range
pumice
Mycorrhizae
2012August 2nd 11:00 am556B/Convention CenterRelationships of New World Dryopteris (Dryopteridaceae) 
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Oral PaperSessa, Emily B.; Givnish, Thomas J.; Zimmer, Elizabeth. fern systematics
Neotropics
hybridization
reticulate evolution
2013August 2nd 11:15 am556B/Convention CenterBroad-scale integrity and local divergence in the fiddlehead fern Matteuccia struthiopteris (L) Todaro (Onocleaceae)
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Oral PaperKoenemann, Daniel; Maisonpierre, Jacqueline; Barrington, David S.. Matteuccia
phylogeography
AFLP
2014August 2nd 11:30 am556B/Convention CenterOf genes, scales and venation: Detecting patterns of variation in the Pleopeltis polypodioides species complex (Polypodiaceae)
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Oral PaperSprunt, Susan V; Bailer, John A.; Watson, Linda E.; Schneider, Harald; Hickey, R. James. fern
morphology
phylogenetic analysis
Pleopeltis

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