Tuesday, August 5, 2008: 8:00 AM-11:30 AM
103 DE, Midwest Airlines Center
COS 20 - Conservation Planning, Policy, and Theory
8:00 AMCOS 20-1Floristic quality assessment scores and vegetation patterns across regions, habitat types, and plant communities of Illinois
Greg Spyreas, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign
8:20 AMCOS 20-2Connectivity of protected area networks in the contiguous United States
Emily S. Minor, University of Maryland Center for Environmental Science, Todd Lookingbill, University of Maryland Center for Environmental Science
8:40 AMCOS 20-3Large-scale, population-based conservation strategies for spatially dynamic species
Regan Early, Brown University, Barbara Anderson, UKPopNet, Thomas Chris, UKPopNet
9:00 AMCOS 20-4The Nature Conservancy climate change database
Chris Zganjar, The Nature Conservancy
9:20 AMCOS 20-5Predicting wetland loss on private lands in the southeastern United States: Implications for land-use planning
Curtis H. Flather, USDA, Forest Service, Kevin J. Gutzwiller, Baylor University
9:40 AM Break
9:50 AMCOS 20-6User capacity adaptive management framework at Yosemite National Park
N. S. Nicholas, Yosemite National Park, B. Meldrum, Yosemite National Park
10:10 AMCOS 20-7Can symbiont diversity help coral reefs survive climate change?
Marissa L. Baskett, University of California, Santa Barbara, Steven D. Gaines, Marine Science Institute, University of California Santa Barbara,, Roger N. Nisbet, University of California, Santa Barbara
10:30 AMCOS 20-8Resource-diversity relationship in hummingbirds, the underlying mechanism of aggressive resource neglect, and its application to reconciliation in urban habitats
Alona Bachi, University of Arizona
10:50 AMCOS 20-9Predicting lakefront housing growth and changing bluegill growth rates using a linked economic-ecological model
Van A. Butsic, Univeristy of Wisconsin-Madison, David J. Lewis, Univeristy of Wisconsin-Madison, Volker C. Radeloff, Univeristy of Wisconsin-Madison
11:10 AMCOS 20-10Linking reserve design and implementation through integrated ecological and social assessments
Brent J. Sewall, University of California, Davis, Amy L. Freestone, Smithsonian Environmental Research Center, Mohamed F.E. Moutui, Action Comores Anjouan, Ishaka Said, Action Comores Anjouan, Nassuri Toilibou, Action Comores Anjouan, Saindou M. Toumani, Action Comores Anjouan, Daoud Attoumane, Action Comores Anjouan, Cheikh M. Iboura, Action Comores Anjouan

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