Wednesday, August 4, 2010: 8:00 AM-11:30 AM
335, David L Lawrence Convention Center
COS 51 - Conservation Ecology & Ecosystem Management
8:00 AMCOS 51-1Interacting edge effects and their broad-scale consequences: Manipulating the density and spacing of anthropogenic nutrient hotspots in a semi-arid landscape
Lauren E. McGeoch, University of California at Davis
8:20 AMCOS 51-2Limited ecosystem response to alternative stable-state manipulation: Results from a whole-lake deepening experiment to completely remove macrophytes
Richard J. Vogt, University of Regina, Peter Leavitt, University of Regina
8:40 AMCOS 51-3An adaptive approach to invasive plant management on Fish and Wildlife Service-owned native prairies in the northern Great Plains:  Decision support under uncertainty
Jill J. Gannon, USGS Northern Prairie Wildlife Research Center, Clinton T. Moore, USGS Patuxent Wildlife Research Center, Terry L. Shaffer, USGS Northern Prairie Wildlife Research Center
9:00 AMCOS 51-4Fire history, fire regimes, and climate change – integrating information for management and planning
William T. Sommers, George Mason University, Susan G. Conard, George Mason University, Stanley G. Coloff, George Mason University, Josh McDaniel, Wildland Fire Lessons Learned Center
9:20 AMCOS 51-5The role of the ecosystem concept in the transfer of ecology across the science-policy interface: evidence from a watershed in the southeastern US
Rachel J. Pawlitz, University of Florida
9:40 AM Break
9:50 AMCOS 51-6Fishing catch shares in the face of global change: A framework for integrating cumulative impacts and single species management
Isaac Kaplan, NOAA Northwest Fishery Science Center
10:10 AMCOS 51-7Distribution of reproductive potential across stages determines extinction risk in a stochastic world
Benjamin G. Van Allen, Rice University, Chris M. Asquith, Virginia Commonwealth University, Volker H.W. Rudolf, Rice University
10:30 AMCOS 51-8Experimental manipulation of biotic and abiotic factors to determine their implications for conservation of an endangered endemic orchid (Spiranthes parksii)
Carissa L. Wonkka, Texas A&M University, William E. Rogers, Texas A&M University, Sarah J. Haller, Archbold Biological Station, Fred E. Smeins, Texas A&M University, J. Ryan Hammons, Texas A&M University
10:50 AMCOS 51-9Small mammal population implications for wetland conservation and restoration dynamics
Alicia N. Shenko, Rutgers University, Rebecca C. Jordan, Rutgers University, Walter F. Bien, Drexel University
11:10 AMCOS 51-10Conflicts between biodiversity representation and persistence in spatial networks
Evan P. Economo, University of Michigan

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