94th ESA Annual Meeting (August 2 -- 7, 2009)

COS 83 - Aquatic Ecology: Streams and Rivers

Thursday, August 6, 2009: 8:00 AM-11:30 AM

Taos, Albuquerque Convention Center

Presider:

Deborah K. Hersha, The Ohio State University

8:00 AM

COS 83-1

Summer warming and the activation of an ephemeral wetland ecosystem in the McMurdo Dry Valleys, Antarctica
Uffe N. Nielsen, University of Western Sydney; Diane M. McKnight, University of Colorado; Diana H. Wall, Colorado State University; Byron J. Adams, Brigham Young University; Ross A. Virginia, Dartmouth College

8:20 AM

COS 83-2

Evidence for ecosystem-level stress: Stream acidification impairs ecosystem respiration while altering nitrogen dynamics
Damon T. Ely, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University; H. Maurice Valett, University of Montana

8:40 AM

COS 83-3

Protist assemblage structure: The effect of habitat and landuse parameters in agriculturally-influenced headwater streams
Deborah K. Hersha, The Ohio State University; Lance R. Williams, The University of Texas at Tyler; Virginie Bouchard, Ohio State University

9:00 AM

COS 83-4

Influence of sediment clogging on the microbial community structure and functions of the river hyporheic zone
Geraldine Nogaro, Wright State University; Thibault Datry, CEMAGREF; Florian Mermillod-Blondin, Université Claude Bernard Lyon 1; Stephane Descloux, EDF; Bernard Montuelle, CEMAGREF

9:20 AM

COS 83-5

Community level impacts of low flow disturbance in streams
Annika W. Walters, USGS Wyoming Cooperative Fish and Wildlife Research Unit; David M. Post, Yale University

9:40 AM

COS 83-

Break

9:50 AM

COS 83-6

Spatial trends in large woody debris (LWD) storage and transport on the Lower Roanoke River, North Carolina
Edward R. Schenk, US Geological Survey; Cliff R Hupp, US Geological Survey; Bertrand Moulin, BEMGEO

10:10 AM

COS 83-7

River engineers: Evidence that spawning fish can alter small-scale stream hydrology
Tracy Bowerman, University of Idaho; Phaedra Budy, Utah State University

10:30 AM

COS 83-8

Brook trout growth: Context specific influence of water temperature in the field
Cailin Xu, The Nature Conservancy, Connecticut River Program; Benjamin H. Letcher, US Geological Survey, SO Conte Anadromous Fish Research Center; Keith H. Nislow, Northeast Climate Science Center

10:50 AM

COS 83-9

Regional coherence of smolt body size for Coho salmon at the southern end of their range: Causes, consequences, and exceptions
Jason L. Hwan, University of California, Berkeley; Eric Ettlinger, Marin Municipal Water District; Brannon Ketcham, National Park Service; Michael Reichmuth, National Park Service; Stephanie M. Carlson, University of California, Berkeley

11:10 AM

COS 83-10

Caught in the crossfire: Phytoplankton response to nutrient management and anadromous fish restoration
Scott H. Ensign, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill; Michael F. Piehler, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill; Dina M. Leech, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

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