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

PS 42-13

Importance of riparian forests as a source of cavity trees and winter den sites of the Siberian flying squirrel in an agricultural landscape in Hokkaido, northern Japan
Kiyono Katsumata, Hokkaido University; Takumi Akasaka, Hokkaido University; Futoshi Nakamura, Hokkaido University

PS 42-14

Multi-scaled habitat selection of two sympatric Myotis species in the agricultural landscape of Hokkaido in northern Japan
Takumi Akasaka, Hokkaido University; Munemitsu Akasaka, National Institute for Environmental Studies; Futoshi Nakamura, Hokkaido University

PS 42-15

Herbicide may interact with predator cues and foraging success to determine fitness in wolf spiders
Kerri M. Wrinn, Miami University; Ann L. Rypstra, Miami University

PS 42-16

Species composition and primary productivity changes after two years of goat grazing exclusion in two Canary Islands pastures
Silvia Fernández-Lugo, University of La Laguna; Lea de Nascimento, University of La Laguna; Celia García, Universidad de La Laguna; Luis Alberto Bermejo, University of La Laguna; José Ramón Arévalo, Universidad de La Laguna

PS 42-17

Carbon isotope discrimination characteristics of tall fescue–endophyte associations as a function of defoliation intensity and light availability
David P. Belesky, USDA, ARS, AFSRC; Jonathan J. Halvorson, USDA-ARS; Joyce M. Ruckle, USDA, ARS, AFSRC

PS 42-18

Predator and pollinator responses to flowering strips vary with landscape characteristics
J. Megan Woltz, Michigan State University; Julianna K. Tuell, Michigan State University; Rufus Isaacs, Michigan State University; Doug A. Landis, Michigan State University

PS 42-19

A comparison of manual interpretation and object-oriented analysis of digital photographs to assess relative cover of phenologically distinct plant groups in small-scale field plots
Laura C. Planck, Michigan State University; Carolyn M. Malmstrom, Michigan State University; Kevin J. Rice, University of California Davis; Valerie T. Eviner, University of California Davis; Natalie Repin, University of California Davis; Jennifer Wolf, University of California Davis

PS 42-20

“Country Onion” (Afrostyrax lepidophyllus): Spice and medicine of the cameroon rainforest
Rhiannon C. Thomas, Washington State University

PS 42-21

USDA Biotechnology Field Inspections in the Western U.S. in 2008
Douglas W. Grant, USDA APHIS

PS 42-22

Evaluating tillage effect on bacterial diversity in a semi-arid agroecosystem using pyrosequencing
Shashi Kumar, Texas Tech University; Rina Kumari, Texas Tech University; Scott Dowd, Research and Testing Laboratory; Randall M. Jeter, Texas Tech University; Michael J. San Francisco, Texas Tech University; John C. Zak, Texas Tech University

PS 42-23

Trends in satellite-observed vegetation trends and its environmental impacts across the Loess Plateau
Xian Teng, Beijing Normal University; Tianming Wang, Beijing Normal University; Jianguo Wu, Arizona State University; Xiaojun Kou, Beijing Normal University; Paul P. Mou, Beijing Normal University; Rumei Xu, Beijing Normal University; Jianping Ge, Beijing Normal University

PS 42-24

A soil microbial community is affected by sex-hormones originated from cattle manure: A vertical profile study
Galit Hermann, Bar-Ilan University, Israel; Laurence Shore, Kimron Veterinary Institute; Yossef Steinberger, Bar-Ilan University, Israel

PS 42 - Agricultural Landscapes