Printed Program (PDF) - Ecological Society of America

PS 84-196 Dyson, KL, University of Washington. Using community
gathered data to detect differences in bird community
composition across the urban gradient in the Seattle area.
PS 84-197 Montgomery, SA, BR Lee, AK Ettinger and J HilleRisLambers,
University of Washington. Conifer regeneration in Seattle’s
urban forests: Influences of seed availability, microsite
conditions, and ivy competition on germination.
PS 84-198 Nidzgorski, DA and SE Hobbie, University of Minnesota.
Can urban trees help protect our lakes and streams?
Species effects on nitrogen and phosphorus leaching.
PS 84-199 Somers, KA1, ES Bernhardt1, K Bigsby2 and D Urban1, (1)
Duke University, (2)North Carolina State University. Effects
of development configuration and subsurface connectivity
on urban streams.
PS 84-200 Huynh, CK, SR Poquette and WL Whitlow, Seattle University.
Critical creek health assessment in the Duwamish River
urban watershed.
PS 84-201 Poquette, SR, CK Huynh and WL Whitlow, Seattle
University. Pyrethroid pesticide effects on invertebrate
behavioral responses to danger cues.
PS 84-202 Hamilton, RS, Portland State University. The Community
Watershed Stewardship Program: Partnering to enhance
Portland’s neighborhoods and ecological health.
PS 84-203 Craig, SC and W Zhu, State University of New York -
Binghamton. Deicing salt inputs affected soil chemistry and
microbial respiration.
PS 84-204 Hironaka, Y and F Koike, Yokohama National University.
Guild structure in food web of grassland arthropod
community along urban-rural landscape gradient in Japan.
PS 84-205 Loyd, KAT1, SM Hernandez1, KJ Abernathy2, B Foster2,
JP Carroll1, MJ Yabsley1 and GJ Marshall2, (1)University
of Georgia, (2)National Geographic Remote Imaging.
KittyCams: A new look at suburban free-roaming cat
predation.
PS 85 - Woody Plants
Exhibit Hall DE, Oregon Convention Center
PS 85-206 Luedtke, CM, DP Aubrey, MA McGuire and RO Teskey,
University of Georgia. Dissolved [CO2] in xylem sap of C3
annuals, shrubs, vines, and bamboo.
PS 85-207 Wang, L1, H Wang1, L Bao2, X Guo1 and J Ge2, (1)State
Key Laboratory of Earth Surface Processes and Resource
Ecology & College of Life Sciences, Beijing Normal
University, (2)Beijing Normal University. Two mountain
areas share most haplotypes but not all: A phylogeography
study of Pinus koraiensi.
PS 85-208 Shaffer, JD, SK Gleeson, JJ Cox and JM Lhotka, University
of Kentucky. The influence of grass competition and
herbivory on native hardwood seedling establishment in the
Inner Bluegrass of Kentucky.
PS 85-209 Brandt, A, MH Schiebout and SB Franklin, University
of Northern Colorado. Relationships of autecology and
synecology on the shortgrass steppe.
PS 86 - Modeling
Exhibit Hall DE, Oregon Convention Center
PS 86-210 Burkhalter, JC and JL Lockwood, Rutgers University.
Modeling habitat selection of actively dispersing organisms
using statistical decision theory and its implications for
species conservation.
PS 86-211 Robinson, NS, University of Colorado. Understanding the
influence of habitat fragmentation on butterfly occurrence
patterns: Developing and testing models across global
ecosystems.
PS 86-212 Ohmann, JL1, MJ Gregory2, EB Henderson2 and HM
Roberts2, (1)Pacific Northwest Research Station, USDA
Forest Service, (2)Oregon State University. Nearest
neighbors mapping of vegetation gradients for landscape
analysis and conservation planning.
PS 86-213 Martin, KJ1, VR Osterberg2, JR Reichman3, PT Rygiewicz3,
RB McKane4 and GA King2, (1)William Paterson University,
(2)Dynamac Corporation, (3)US Environmental Protection
Agency/NHEERL, (4)Western Ecology Division, US
Environmental Protection Agency/NHEERL. Identification
Life on Earth: Preserving, Utilizing, and Sustaining our Ecosystems
4:30 pm-6:30 pm; 5 pm-6:30 pm; 7 pm-9 pm
of coniferous fine roots to species using ribosomal PCR
products of pooled root samples obtained from soil cores.
PS 86-214 Muldavin, EH1, P Arbetan2, EB Henderson3 and M
Creutzburg4, (1)Natural Heritage New Mexico, (2)Univ.
of New Mexico, (3)Oregon State University, (4)Portland
State University. Modeling vegetation dynamics among
Chihuahuan Semi-desert Grassland ecological groups
as part of the Integrated Landscape Assessment Project
(ILAP).
PS 86-215 Scarpino, R1, G Newman2, M Mueller3, A Masching4 and
LP Erb5, (1)Natural Resource Ecology Laborary, Colorado
State University, Fort Collins, CO, (2)Colorado State
University, (3)Rocky Mountain Wild, (4)Denver Zoological
Foundation, (5)University of Colorado at Boulder.
Integrating citizen science and professional data to model
habitat suitability for the American pika.
PS 86-216 Hutchinson, RA, LP Liu and TG Dietterich, Oregon State
University. Site occupancy models with regression trees
(OD-BRT): A comparison with standard site occupancy
models (OD) and boosted regression trees (BRT).
PS 86-217 He, Y1, Q Zhuang1, M Jones2, Z Yu3, BS Felzer4, E Mason3
and C Bochicchio3, (1)Purdue University, (2)University of
Alaska Faribanks, (3)Lehigh University, (4)Marine Biological
Laboratory. Impacts of enhanced climate seasonality on
productivity and CH4 emissions of Alaskan ecosystems
during the HTM.
PS 86-218 Ruan, X, Universtiy of Alberta. Power-law – A glistening
guardian for warning ecosystem degeneration caused by
disturbance?.
PS 86-219 Hobbs, FC and K Clay, Indiana University. A field study
supports the existence of many suitable, unoccupied
habitat patches predicted by local-scale species distribution
models of eastern hemlock (Tsuga canadensis).
PS 86-220 Wang, Y, University of Georgia. Sensitivity analysis of 3-PG
model for Pinus taeda (Loblolly Pine).
PS 86-221 Chernoff, B, H Poulos and ML Tipton, Wesleyan University.
The importance of landscape rearrangement on historical
environmental niche modeling: The contribution of past
hydrological landscapes to potential species’ distributions.
PS 86-222 Kim, JB1 and JR Wells2, (1)USDA Forest Service Pacific
Northwest Research Station, (2)Oregon State University.
Sensitivity of a dynamic global vegetation model to input
soil data: Trends, mechanisms and needs for better data.
PS 86-223 DeVisser, MH and JP Messina, Michigan State Univeristy.
Tsetse fly distributions in a changing world: The possible
impacts of climate change on Glossina subgenus Morsitans
in Kenya.
PS 86-224 Bentley, AL, JD Holbrook, A Suazo and R Niemeyer,
University of Idaho. A conceptual framework for researching
the sagebrush-steppe: A social-ecological approach.
PS 86-225 Osborne-Gowey, JD1, DM Bachelet1, GS Mauger2, ES
Garcia3, CL Tague3 and K Ferschweiler1, (1)Conservation
Biology Institute, (2)Joint Institute for the Study of the
Atmosphere and Ocean (JISAO), (3)University of California,
Santa Barbara. Assessing the skill of hydrology models
at simulaing the water cycle in the HJ Andrews LTER:
Assumptions, strengths, and weaknesses.
5 pm-6:30 pm
Musicians Central
Ginkoberry Concourse, Oregon Convention Center
7 pm-9 pm
ESA Closing Social Event: Portland Taiko Drums and
Portland Beer Tasting
Oregon Square Courtyard, Doubletree Hotel
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