Benjamin J. Cogger,^1,*,** Nathan R. De Jager,^2,*** Meredith Thomsen,^1,**** Carrie Reinhardt Adams<sup>3,*****

1</sup>1Department of Biology and River Studies Center University of Wisconsin-La Crosse La Crosse, Wiscons
²2USGS Upper Midwest Environmental Sciences Center La Crosse, Wisconsin 54603
³3Environmental Horticulture Department University of Florida 107 Building 68, P.O. Box 110675 Gaines

^*Corresponding author: cogge013@d.umn.edu
^**Ben Cogger is a Senior Lecturer at the University of Wisconsin-Superior. His interests include restoration ecology and working with land managers to apply evidence-based management strategies in restoration of disturbed bottomland ecosystems.
^***Nathan De Jager is a research ecologist with the U.S. Geological Survey's Upper Midwest Environmental Sciences Center and an adjunct faculty member in the Biology Department at the University of Wisconsin-La Crosse. He is interested in the landscape ecology of river and floodplain environments.
^****Meredith Thomsen is an Associate Professor in the Biology Department and River Studies Center at the University of Wisconsin-La Crosse. She is interested in understanding how plant communities are altered by humans, particularly through invasive species, climate change, and restoration. Through collaboration with land managers, she seeks to broaden our understanding of basic ecological interactions, while simultaneously generating information applicable to natural resource management.
^*****Carrie Reinhardt Adams is an Associate Professor in the Environmental Horticulture Department at the University of Florida, with an emphasis in restoration and plant ecology. She studies the transition from invasive species dominance to native species establishment, and focuses on approaches to scale-up experimental manipulations to become applications in natural resource management at the landscape scale. Cooperation with state and federal land management agencies is integral to her research, teaching, and extension programs.