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THURSDAY
1:30 pm-5 pm
1:30 PM COS 158-1 Nelson, HE 1 , TE Essington 1 and A
Beaudreau 2 , (1)University of Washington, (2)University
of Alaska Fairbanks at Juneau. Movement patterns and
distributional shifts of Dungeness crab (Cancer magister)
in response to hypoxia.
1:50 PM COS 158-2 Ferraro, SP, U.S. Environmental Protection
Agency. Ecological periodic tables for nekton and benthic
macrofaunal community usage of estuarine habitats.
2:10 PM COS 158-3 Power, JH 1 , C Folger 1 , D Beugli 2 and K
Marko 3 , (1)U.S. EPA, (2)Dynamac Corporation, (3)
Western Ecology Division, Pacific Coastal Ecology
Branch. Pacific Northwest tide channel utilization by fish
as an ecosystem service.
2:30 PM COS 158-4 Cockrell, ML 1 , JR Bernhardt 2 and HM
Leslie 1 , (1)Brown University, (2)University of British
Columbia. Consumer pressure in estuarine rocky shores
varies with ecological context.
2:50 PM COS 158-5 Flitcroft, R, K Burnett and K Christiansen,
USDA Forest Service. Potential effects of sea level rise on
salmonid estuarine and freshwater habitat in Oregon, USA.
3:10 PM Break
3:20 PM COS 158-6 Huber, ER and SM Carlson, University
of California, Berkeley. Fish assemblage shifts track
ecosystem states in a Central California intermittent
estuary.
3:40 PM COS 158-7 Miller, AK and CE de Rivera, Portland State
University. Migratory shorebird stop-over sites: Habitat
and prey associations in Oregon estuaries.
4:00 PM COS 158-8 Kicklighter, CE, MK Hearl and HE Locke,
Goucher College. The effects of nutrients and grazing on
the estuarine marsh invader, Phragmites australis.
4:20 PM COS 158-9 Rowell, K 1 and D Dettman 2 , (1)University of
Washington, (2)University of Arizona. Today’s food chain
length – nearly half the size it used to be? Prehistoric
skeletal remains document ecosystem change in the
upper Gulf of California.
4:40 PM COS 158-10 Koo, KA, E Davenport and CS Hopkinson,
University of Georgia. Ecosystem considerations about
Mya arenaria in urbanizing estuaries.
COS 159 - Fire
E143, Oregon Convention Center
1:30 PM COS 159-1 Gavin, DG1 and LB Brubaker2 , (1)University
of Oregon, (2)University of Washington. Postglacial
climate and fire-mediated forest diversity on the western
Olympic Peninsula, Washington.
1:50 PM COS 159-2 Emery, NC, University of California Santa
Barbara. Fog and the fire regime in coastal California.
2:10 PM COS 159-3 Schafer, JL1 , BP Breslow1 , SN Hollingsworth1 ,
MG Hohmann2 and WA Hoffmann1 , (1)North Carolina
State University, (2)US Army Corps of Engineers ERDC -
CERL. Enhanced water relations during post-fire recovery:
The role of plant height and leaf area.
2:30 PM COS 159-4 Parmenter, RR1 , RW Oertel1 , TS Compton1 ,
S Kindschuh1 , M Peyton1 , W Meyer1 , C Caldwell2 , GZ
Jacobi3 , O Myers4 , M Zeigler5 and K Yule6 , (1)Valles Caldera
Trust, (2)USGS Wildlife Coop Unit, (3)Consultant, (4)
University of New Mexico, (5)New Mexico State University,
(6)Rice University. Fire and floods in the Valles Caldera
National Preserve, New Mexico: The 2011 Las Conchas
Fire impacts on montane species diversity and food webs.
2:50 PM COS 159-5 Howard, LF, Arcadia University. The roles
of fire and environmental factors in plant community
dynamics of high-elevation yellow pine woodlands in
northeastern West Virginia.
3:10 PM Break
3:20 PM COS 159-6 Van Mantgem, PJ 1 , JCB Nesmith 2 , M Keifer 3
and EE Knapp 4 , (1)United States Geological Survey, (2)
University of California, (3)National Park Service, (4)
USDA Forest Service. Can climate change increase fire
severity independent of fire intensity?.
3:40 PM COS 159-7 Lybbert, AH and SB St Clair, Brigham
Young University. Reproductive consequences of fire
disturbance on Joshua tree in the Mojave Desert.
4:00 PM COS 159-8 Badik, KJ and PJ Weisberg, University
of Nevada, Reno. A landscape scale assessment of
cheatgrass density effects on fire occurrence and
severity in central Nevada.
4:20 PM COS 159-9 Peterson, DW, USDA Forest Service, Pacific
Northwest Research Station. Coarse woody debris
dynamics following stand-replacing wildfires in dry
coniferous forests of the interior Pacific Northwest.
4:40 PM COS 159-10 Halofsky, J 1 , SK Hart 1 , MC Johnson 2 ,
JS Halofsky 3 and M Hemstrom 4 , (1)University of
Washington, (2)Pacific Northwest Research Station, (3)
Washington Department of Natural Resources, (4)Pacific
Northwest Research Station, USDA Forest Service.
Simulating fire hazard across forested landscapes in
Oregon and Washington through integration of the
Vegetation Dynamics Development Tool (VDDT) and the
Fuel Characteristic Classification System (FCCS).
COS 160 - Fisheries Management And Models I
E144, Oregon Convention Center
1:30 PM COS 160-1 Francis, TB and P Levin, NOAA-Fisheries.
Qualitative food-web modeling to support ecosystembased
management: A case study of California current
groundfish.
1:50 PM COS 160-2 Osterback, AMK 1 , DM Frechette 2 , SA
Hayes 2 , MH Bond 3 , SA Shaffer 4 and JW Moore 5 , (1)
University of California Santa Cruz, (2)NOAA Southwest
Fisheries Science Center, (3)University of Washington,
(4)San Jose State University, (5)Simon Fraser University.
Subsidized predation on imperiled species: Gulls, landfills,
and salmonids.
2:10 PM COS 160-3 Claisse, JT 1 , JP Williams 1 , T Ford 2 , DJ
Pondella 1 , B Meux 3 and L Protopapadakis 2 , (1)Occidental
College, (2)Santa Monica Bay Restoration Foundation, (3)
Santa Monica Baykeeper. The potential impact of kelp
forest habitat restoration on the gonad production of a sea
urchin fished commercially.
2:30 PM COS 160-4 Polivka, KM, LM Friedli and JL Novak, PNW
Research Station USDA Forest Service. Microhabitatscale
numerical and behavioral responses by juvenile
salmonids to instream habitat restoration.
2:50 PM COS 160-5 Satterthwaite, WH 1 and SM Carlson 2 , (1)
University of California Santa Cruz, (2)University of
California, Berkeley. Temporal trends in portfolio effects
and stability of a salmon population complex.
3:10 PM Break
3:20 PM COS 160-6 Rassweiler, A 1 , C Costello 1 and DA Siegel 2 ,
(1)University of California, Santa Barbara, (2)University of
California Santa Barbara. Marine Protected Area network
design and the value of spatial fisheries management.
3:40 PM COS 160-7 Biedenweg, K 1 , K Akyuz 2 and R Skeele 3 ,
(1)Institute for Culture and Ecology, (2)King County
Rivers and Floodplain Management, (3)CNMI. Balancing
riparian management and river recreation: Methods for
incorporating recreation data in wood management
decisions.
4:00 PM COS 160-8 Shelton, AO, Center for Stock Assessment
158 ESA 97th Annual Meeting, August 5 - 10, 2012, Oregon Convention Center