Friday, August 10, 2007: 8:00 AM-11:30 AM
B2, San Jose McEnery Convention Center
COS 163 - Urban ecosystems: Design, management, and evaluation
8:00 AMCOS 163-1Stapleton's Northfield Ponds - landscape architecture, ecology and engineering
Jayne D. Kopperl, EDAW/AECOM, Douglas A. Lamson, Chroma Design Inc.
8:20 AMCOS 163-2Repairing the necklace - restoration of urbanized stream channels; integrating habitat, aesthetics, recreation, and flood flow attenuation
Michael J. Toohill, ENSR|AECOM and SERI New England Chapter
8:40 AMCOS 163-3Buildings as ecological systems: Monitoring and analyzing energy flows, material cycles, feedback control and the developmental trajectory of the lewis center for environmental studies at Oberlin College
John E. Petersen, Oberlin College
9:00 AMCOS 163-4Indicators and environmental management in Guanabara Bay (Brazil)
Lúcia H. Xavier, Fundação Joaquim Nabuco / FUNDAJ, Rosangela Cardoso, Universidade Federal da Paraíba - UFPB, Rosa M. Matos, Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro - UFRJ
9:20 AMCOS 163-5The Sustainable Sites Initiative: quantitative performance evaluation of designed landscapes
Allegra Bukojemsky, DnA Design, Steve Windhager, Lady Bird Johnson Wildflower Center
9:40 AM Break
9:50 AMCOS 163-6Contribution of urban-suburban tree care practices to reduced habitat for cavity nesting birds
Paige S. Warren, University of Massachusetts, Brian Kane, University of Massachusetts, Susannah Lerman, University of Massachusetts
10:10 AMCOS 163-7Amphibians and reptiles respond differently to land use disturbances in western Georgia, USA
Kyle Barrett, Auburn University, Craig Guyer, Auburn University
10:30 AMCOS 163-8Wildlife conflicts in the cities: How a mediation structure can help
Anne-Caroline Prévot-Julliard, University Paris-Sud CNRS, Véronique Servais, University of Liège, Paul-Louis Colon, University of Liège, Jerôme Hanol, National Museum of Natural History, Catherine Dehay, AERHO Association, Romain Julliard, National Museum of Natural History

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