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Table of Contents

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• In Memoriam: Michael Heathcoat Amory (1941 - 2016)
   
• Foreword: Twenty-one Years After - Charles Snyers d'Attenhoven
   
• Preface: From Small Acorns - Sara Oldfield
   
• Introduction: Oak Research in 2015: a Snapshot from the IOS Conference - Andrew L. Hipp
   
• Systematics and Biogeography of the American Oaks - Paul S. Manos
   
• Diversity, Distribution and Ecosystem Services of the North American Oaks - Jeannine Cavender-Bares
   
• Drought Tolerance and Climatic Distributions of the American Oaks - Matthew Kaproth and Jeannine Cavender-Bares
   
• Phylogeny and Introgression of California Scrub White Oaks (Quercus section Quercus) - Victoria L. Sork, Erin Riordan, Paul F. Grugger, Sorel Fitz-Gibbon, Xinzeng Wei, and Joaquín Ortego
   
• A Tough Little Survivor: The West Texas Oak, Quercus hinckleyi - Janet Rizner Backs
   
• Landscape and Conservation Genetics of the Island Oak, Quercus tomentella - Mary V. Ashley, Janet R. Backs, and Saji T. Abraham
   
• Hybridization and Adaptive Divergence in Oaks - Olivier Gailing and Jennifer Riehl
   
• Asexual Propagation of Oak Hybrids: Our Progress, and the Challenges of Producing Clonal Plants - Nina L. Bassuk, Bryan R. Denig, and Miles Schwartz Sax
   
• Eating Acorns: What Story do the Distant, Far, and Near Past Tell Us, and Why? - Béatrice Chassé
   
• New and Lesser-Known Cultivars 2013-2015 - Ryan Russell and Eike Jablonski
   
• Anther Culture of Turkey Oak (Quercus cerris) - Joseph Rothleutner
   
• The Plant Collections Network and the Quercus Multisite Collection - Greg Paige
   
• Rescuing Plant Species with Extremely Small Populations in China: the Case of the Xichou oak, Quercus sichourensis - Weibang Sun, Zhekou Zhou, Wenyun Chen, Yuan Zhou, Lei Cai, Murphy Westwood, and Jessica Turner
   
• Conservation of Quercus arbutifolia, a Rare Oak, from Southern China’s Montane Cloud Forests - Min Deng, Xu Jun, Yi-Gang Song, and Xiao-Long Jiang
   
• A Genetic Map for the Lobatae - Arpita Konar, Olivia Choudury, Oliver Gailing, Mark V. Coggeshall, Margaret E. Staton, Scott Emrich, John E. Carlson, and Jeanne Romero-Severson
   
• Development of New Genomic Resources for Northern Red Oak, Quercus rubra - Christopher R. Heim, Mark V. Coggeshall, Arpita Konar, and Jeanne Romero-Severson
   
• Sustaining Oaks in the Chicago Region Landscape: Developing a Plan for Maintaining Oak Dominance in an Urban Landscape - Lindsay Darling and Robert T. Fahey
   
• Pathfinder: the Last Prairie Sentinel - Guy Sternberg
   
• Oaks in Puebla: Growing Successes and Failures, and New Research Topics - Maricela Rodríguez-Acosta, Allen J. Coombes, Carlos A. Paredes-Contreras, Stephanie Fernández-Velázquez, and Citlali Guevara-González
   
• Searching for the Hardy Southern Live Oak - Anthony Aiello
   
• The Last Basketmaker: Indiana’s Forgotten History of Oak-Rod Baskets - Jon Kay
   
• Are Resource Dynamics a Necessity for Oak Masting? - Ian Pearse
   
• Preserving Oak (Quercus sp.) Germplasm to Promote Ex-Situ Conservation - Christina Walters, Lisa Hill, Jennifer Crane, Marcin Michalak, Xia Ke, Jeffrey Carstens, Kevin Conrad, Murphy Westwood, Alison Colwell, Joanna Clines, and Pawel Chmielarz
   
• The Pace of Microevolution of European Oaks During Environmental Change - Antoine Kremer
   
• Launching the Global Oak Conservation Initiative at The Morton Arboretum - Lisa Kenny and Murphy Westwood
   
• Workshops
   
• Poster Sessions:
  1. Bud-Forcing and Tissue Culture Propagation of Quercus
  2. Best Under Stress: Does An Episodic Hybrid Advantage Suppress Reproductive Barriers in Oaks?
  3. Oakcoding: a Nuclear DNA Barcode for Evolutionary Studies In Oaks
  4. An Audit of The Morton Arboretum Quercus Collection
  5. The Oak Collection of the Texas Arboretum at the Lady Bird Johnson Wildflower Center
  6. Acorns As Food in the Republic of Korea
  7. In-Vitro Tools for the Ex-Situ Conservation of Quercus Species
  8. Documenting Quercus at the Chicago Botanic Garden
  9. The Red List of Oaks
      
• Pre-Conference Tour - Roderick Cameron
   
• The Morton Arboretum - Charles Snyers d’Attenhoven
   
• Post-Conference Tour - James Hitz
   
• International Oak Society Service Awards
   
• First International Oak Society Silent Auction