95th ESA Annual Meeting (August 1 -- 6, 2010)

Thursday, August 5, 2010: 1:30 PM-5:00 PM

407, David L Lawrence Convention Center

Presider:

Frederick R. Adler, University of Utah

1:30 PM

COS 98-1

The impacts of urbanization on the spread of exotic plants and persistence of native plant diversity
Amy Stephens Davis, UNC Charlotte; Ross Meentemeyer, University of North Carolina at Charlotte

1:50 PM

COS 98-2

Land cover-nitrogen interactions in small watersheds: patterns of variation within a semi-arid urban system
James B. McConaghie, University of California, Davis; Weiqi Zhou, University of California, Davis; Mary L. Cadenasso, University of California, Davis

2:10 PM

COS 98-3

Effect of land use on nitrogen cycling in Baltimore residential areas in MD, USA
Yulia Savva, Johns Hopkins University; Katalin Szlavecz, Johns Hopkins University; Peter M. Groffman, Cary Institute of Ecosystem Studies; Richard V. Pouyat, USDA Forest Service

2:30 PM

COS 98-4

Urban aquatic contaminants & benthic ecology: Comparing invertebrates, chemical concentrations, and water quality across a Superfund site
W. Lindsay Whitlow, Seattle University; Lindsey Youngquist, Seattle University; Ann Frost, Seattle University; Douglas Latch, Seattle University; Peter J. Alaimo, Seattle University

2:50 PM

COS 98-5

Landscape fragmentation and its relations with urbanization and social and economic developments in Beijing urban region, China
Jiangxiao Qiu, University of Wisconsin-Madison; Xiaoke Wang, Research Center for Eco-Environmental Sciences, Chinese Academy of Sciences; Fei Lu, Research Center for Eco-Environmental Sciences, Chinese Academy of Sciences; Zhiyun Ouyang, Chinese Academy of Sciences

3:10 PM

COS 98-

Break

3:20 PM

COS 98-6

Seed and feeder preferences of wild birds in the United States and Canada
David J. Horn, Millikin University

3:40 PM

COS 98-7

Urbanisation, plant traits and extinction: Evidence from the new world
Nicholas S. G. Williams, University of Melbourne; Steven E. Clemants, Brooklyn Botanic Garden; Richard T. Corlett, National University of Singapore; Amy K. Hahs, Australian Research Centre for Urban Ecology; Michael A. McCarthy, The University of Melbourne; Mark McDonnell, Australian Research Centre for Urban Ecology; Mark W. Schwartz, University of California, Davis; Ken Thompson, University of Sheffield; Peter A. Vesk, The University of Melbourne; Richard P. Duncan, University of Canberra

4:00 PM

COS 98-8

Effects of organic carbon sources on denitrification in forested, restored, and urbanized streams
Tamara A. Newcomer, University of Maryland Center for Environmental Science; Sujay S. Kaushal, University of Maryland; Paul Mayer, USEPA, National Health and Environmental Research Laboratory, Corvallis OR; Peter M. Groffman, Cary Institute of Ecosystem Studies

4:20 PM

COS 98-9

An analysis of historical wetland loss in an urban landscape
Lisa A. McCauley, South Dakota State University/ US Geological Survey; David G. Jenkins, University of Central Florida; Pedro Quintana-Ascencio, University of Central Florida

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