COS 115 - Land-Use And Land-Use History

Wednesday, August 8, 2012: 1:30 PM-5:00 PM
Portland Blrm 255, Oregon Convention Center
1:30 PM
 The importance of spatiotemporal scale in understanding agroforestry management effects on grassland vegetation
Laura J. Six, Weyerhaeuser NR; Jonathan D. Bakker, University of Washington; Robert E. Bilby, Weyerhaeuser NR
1:50 PM Cancelled
 Solute concentrations and annual export from Amazon headwater streams following conversion from forest to intensive soybean agriculture
Shelby Hayhoe Riskin, Brown University; Christopher Neill, Marine Biological Laboratory; Stephen Porder, Brown University; Richard McHorney, Woods Hole Marine Biological Laboratory; Helmut Elsenbeer, Universität Potsdam, Potsdam, Germany; Alex V. Krusche, CENA/USP
2:10 PM
 Intensive agriculture erodes beta-diversity at large scales
Daniel S. Karp, University of California, Berkeley; Andrew Rominger, University of California Berkeley; Jai Ranganathan, National Center for Ecological Analysis and Synthesis; James Zook, Unión de Ornitólogos de Costa Rica.; Paul R. Ehrlich, Stanford University; Gretchen C. Daily, Stanford University
2:30 PM
 Scale-dependant legacies of agricultural land-use on soils and understory plant communities in longleaf pine woodlands
Christopher Habeck, Kutztown University; Lars A. Brudvig, Michigan State University; John L. Orrock, University of Wisconsin - Madison
2:50 PM
 Climate and logging history influence native forest herb performance in the Southern Appalachians
Michelle M. Jackson, University of Wisconsin; Monica G. Turner, University of Wisconsin, Madison; Scott M. Pearson, Mars Hill University
3:10 PM
3:20 PM
 Socioeconomics drive invasive woody plants in New England through forest fragmentation
Jenica M. Allen, University of Connecticut; Thomas J. Leininger, Duke University; James D. Hurd Jr, University of Connecticut; Daniel L. Civco, University of Connecticut; Alan E. Gelfand, Duke University; John A. Silander Jr., University of Connecticut
3:40 PM
 Unclassified landsat TM predicts bird distributions at fine resolutions in forested landscapes
Susan M. Shirley, Oregon State University; Yang Zhiqiang, Oregon State University; Rebecca A. Hutchinson, Oregon State University; Matthew G. Betts, Oregon State University
4:00 PM
 From forest to farmland and meadow to metropolis: Integrated modeling of Holocene land cover change
Jed O. Kaplan, Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne; Kristen M. Krumhardt, Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne; Mirjam Pfeiffer, Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne; Basil A. S. Davis, Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne; Marco Zanon, Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne
4:20 PM
 The effect of copper and contamination history on micro-algal type and abundance
David James McElroy, School of Biological Sciences; Ross A. Coleman, The University of Sydney
4:40 PM
 Topographic controls on the distribution of tree cover from local to global scales
Brody Sandel, Aarhus University; Lars Arge, Aarhus University; Jens-Christian Svenning, Aarhus University