COS 50 - Land-Use and Land-Use History

Wednesday, August 4, 2010: 8:00 AM-11:30 AM
334, David L Lawrence Convention Center
Presider:
Ana Elisa Pérez-Quintero, University of Puerto Rico - Río Piedras and SEEDS
8:20 AM
 Carryover effects of forestry practices on wood frogs
Julia E. Earl, University of Tennessee; Raymond D. Semlitsch, University of Missouri
8:40 AM
 Shell middens change soil chemistry on a Georgia (USA) barrier island
Deborah A. McGrath, Sewanee University of the South; C. Ken Smith, Sewanee University of the South
9:00 AM
 Drivers of land use change and rural livelihood diversification in the Southern Huasteca, Mexico
Mónica Ribeiro Palacios, Universidad Autónoma de Querétaro; Elisabeth Huber-Sannwald, Instituto Potosino de Investigación Cientifica y Tecnológica; Luis E. Garcia Barrios, El Colegio de la Frontera Sur (ECOSUR); Francisco Peña, El Colegio de San Luis; Jaime Carrera Hernandez, Instituto Potosino de Investigacion Cientifica y Tecnologica (IPICYT); Maria G. Galindo Mendoza, Universidad Autonoma de San Luis Potosi
9:20 AM
 Net Ecosystem CO2 Exchange among contrasting land-uses types in the semiarid short-grass steppe in Central Mexico
Josué Delgado, Instituto Potosino de Investigación Científica y Tecnológica A. C.; Tulio Arredondo, Instituto Potosino de Investigación Científica y Tecnológica A. C.; Henry W. Loescher, University of Colorado; Elisabeth Huber-Sannwald, Instituto Potosino de Investigación Cientifica y Tecnológica
9:40 AM
9:50 AM
 Making the best of a bad situation: The effect of agriculture on the life history traits of amphibian populations
Jenise M. Brown, University of South Florida; Rickey D. Cothran, University of PIttsburgh; Rick A. Relyea, University of Pittsburgh
10:10 AM
 Variations of runoff and soil moisture in North America caused by climate and land use change during 1978-2008
Mingliang Liu, Washington State University; Hanqin Tian, Auburn University; Guangsheng Chen, Oak Ridge National Laboratory; Jia Yang, Auburn University; Xiaofeng Xu, Auburn University, AL
10:30 AM
 Landscape carbon and nitrogen trajectories in the decades following conversion to exurban residential development
Sarah Kiger, University of Michigan; William S. Currie, University of Michigan; Daniel G. Brown, University of Michigan; Rick Riolo, University of Michigan; Meghan Hutchins, University of Michigan; Derek Robinson, University of Waterloo
10:50 AM
 The effects of deforestation on soil carbon and nutrient stocks in a premontane rainforest of southern Costa Rica
Timothy J. Huth, Brown University; Joaquin Chaves, Brown University; Stephen Porder, Brown University
11:10 AM
 Change in land use surrounding U.S. National Parks from 1900 to 2007
Cory R. Davis, Montana State University; Andrew Hansen, Montana State University - Bozeman
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