COS 158 - Estuarine

Thursday, August 9, 2012: 1:30 PM-5:00 PM
E142, Oregon Convention Center
1:30 PM
 Movement patterns and distributional shifts of Dungeness crab (Cancer magister) in response to hypoxia
Halley E. Nelson, University of Washington; Timothy E. Essington, University of Washington; Anne Beaudreau, University of Alaska Fairbanks at Juneau
2:10 PM Cancelled
 Pacific Northwest tide channel utilization by fish as an ecosystem service
James H. Power, U.S. EPA; Christina Folger, U.S. EPA; David Beugli, Dynamac Corporation; Katharine Marko, U.S. EPA, Western Ecology Division, Pacific Coastal Ecology Branch
2:30 PM
 Consumer pressure in estuarine rocky shores varies with ecological context
Marcy L. Cockrell, Brown University; Joanna R. Bernhardt, University of British Columbia; Heather M. Leslie, Brown University
2:50 PM
 Potential effects of sea level rise on salmonid estuarine and freshwater habitat in Oregon, USA
Rebecca Flitcroft, US Department of Agriculture Forest Service; Kelly Burnett, USDA Forest Service; Kelly Christiansen, USDA Forest Service
3:10 PM
3:20 PM
 Fish assemblage shifts track ecosystem states in a Central California intermittent estuary
Eric R. Huber, University of California, Berkeley; Stephanie M. Carlson, University of California, Berkeley
3:40 PM
 Migratory shorebird stop-over sites: Habitat and prey associations in Oregon estuaries
Aileen K. Miller, Portland State University; Catherine E. de Rivera, Portland State University
4:00 PM
 The effects of nutrients and grazing on the estuarine marsh invader, Phragmites australis
Cynthia E. Kicklighter, Goucher College; M. Kathleen Hearl, Goucher College; Hannah E. Locke, Goucher College
4:40 PM
 Ecosystem considerations about Mya arenaria in urbanizing estuaries
Kyung-Ah Koo, University of Georgia; Emily Davenport, University of Georgia; Charles S. Hopkinson, University of Georgia