96th ESA Annual Meeting (August 7 -- 12, 2011)

Thursday, August 11, 2011: 8:00 AM-11:30 AM

Ballroom B, Austin Convention Center

8:00 AM

Urban green spaces: Traps or havens for migratory birds?
Julian Rondon-Rivera, Rutgers University Newark; Michael Newhouse, NJ Meadowlands Commission; Claus Holzapfel, Rutgers University

8:20 AM

Why are total soil respiration measurements higher in urban forests than rural forests
Russell Auwae, University of Hawaii at Manoa

8:40 AM

Wetland detritus effects survival, development and overall population performance of the northern house mosquito Culex pipiens
Brandon Scott, University of Maryland; Andrew H. Baldwin, University of Maryland; Paul T. Leisnham, University of Maryland

9:00 AM

Arthropod communities and arthropod-mediated ecosystem services in urban vacant lands
Mary M. Gardiner, The Ohio State University OARDC (Wooster); Scott P. Prajzner, The Ohio State University OARDC (Wooster)

9:20 AM

Understanding urban forest structure of residential landscapes in the Seattle metropolitan urban(izing) region
Karis R. Tenneson, University of Washington

9:40 AM

Break

9:50 AM

Improving Process Understanding of Urban Bottomland Hardwood Forests, and Contemporary Floodplain Management
Jason A. Hubbart, University of Missouri

10:10 AM

Foraging decisions, bird community structure, and residential landscapes: A mechanistic approach to explain the decline of urban bird diversity
Susannah B. Lerman, USDA Forest Service; Paige S. Warren, University of Massachusetts; Eyal Shochat, Arizona State University

10:30 AM

The importance of definition and scale: Soil and vegetation carbon across an urban to rural gradient
Steve M. Raciti, Boston University; Lucy R. Hutyra, Boston University; Preeti Rao, Boston University; Adrien C. Finzi, Boston University

10:50 AM

Trophic transfer of heavy metals and avian feeding ecology in an urban brownfield
Megan E. Clock, Rutgers University, Newark; Peddrick Weis, UMDNJ - New Jersey Medical School; Claus Holzapfel, Rutgers University; Frank J. Gallagher, Rutgers University

11:10 AM

Effects of a highly interactive species, the black-tailed prairie dog, on urban avian diversity
Seth B. Magle, Lincoln Park Zoo; Kristin Salamack, Wildlife Habitat Council; Kevin R. Crooks, Colorado State University; Richard Reading, Denver Zoological Foundation

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