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Date

January 10, 2007

Location

Carson Ballroom, Old Main, Arizona State University

Program and abstracts

Posters

Land-use and land-cover change

Alexander Buyantuyev and Jianguo Wu. Spatiotemporal Patterns of Primary Production Across Different Land Uses in Central Arizona Phoenix LTER (pdf)

Tobias Finke, Susan Moran, and Steve Yool. Satellite-Derived Roughness Data for Hydrology Applications in Areas Affected by Urbanization (pdf)

Kris J. Gade. Ecological Paradigms and Landscape Plantings Along Freeways: A Case Study from Melbourne, Australia (pdf)

Chris Martin and Jean Stutz. Long-Term Monitoring of Tree Size Condition Across Nonresidential Patch Types in Phoenix, Arizona (pdf)

Soe W. Myint. Quantifying Impervious Surfaces in the Phoenix Metropolitan Area using Multiple Endmember Spectral Mixture Analysis (pdf)

Kaesha Neil and Jianguo Wu. Historical and Current Patterns of Flowering Phenology in the Phoenix Metropolitan Area

Jason Walker. Money Grows Trees: A Socio-Ecological Path Analysis (pdf)

Climate-ecosystems interactions

Darren Ruddell and Sharon Harlan. Phoenix as a Human Habitat in Summer: Exposure and Resources to Cope with Extreme Heat (pdf)

Ken Sweat, Thomas Zambo, and Thomas Nash III. Geographic Patterns of Mercury Deposition Using Xanthoparmelia in Maricopa County, Arizona, USA (pdf)

Nathan Toke and J Ramon Arrowsmith. Investigation of Dryland Geomorphic Response to Urbanization (pdf)

Scott Yabiku, David Casagrande, and Elizabeth Farley-Metzger. Effects of Weather on Neighborhood Human Activity (pdf)

Xiaoding Zhuo, Panjai Prapaipong, and Everett Shock. Factors that Contribute to Distribution Patterns of Trace Elements in Maricopa County (pdf)

Fluxes of materials and socio-ecosystem response

Rachel Davies and Sharon Hall. The Effects of Urbanization on Belowground Processes in the Sonoran Desert (pdf)

Carrie M. Durward and Kristin J. Gade. Dry Nitrogen Deposition on the Highway Verge (pdf)

Daniel A. Gonzales and Jonathan O. Allen, Dry Deposition of Aerosol Nitrogen and Organic Carbon in the CAP Area (pdf)

Megan Kelly and Hilairy Hartnett. Temporal Compositional Changes in DOC in Tempe Town Lake (pdf)

Elisabeth K. Larson, Kayla L. Graham, and Nancy B. Grimm. Comparison of Soil Biogeochemical Characteristics in Grassy and Xeriscaped Stormwater Retention Basins in the Phoenix Metropolitan Area (pdf)

Kathleen A. Lohse, Diane Hope, Ryan A. Sponseller, Jonathan O. Allen, and Nancy B. Grimm. Atmospheric Deposition of Nutrients across a Desert City: Spatial and Temporal Patterns of Wet and Dry Deposition (pdf)

Brandon McLean and Everett Shock. Measuring the Effects of Management on Dissolved Solutes in the Salt River, AZ, USA (pdf)

Human control of biodiversity

Bony Ahmed, Kathleen A. Lohse, Ryan A. Sponseller, and Nancy B. Grimm. Food Web Dynamics in Above-Ground Desert Remnant and Xeric Residential Landscapes (pdf)

Christofer Bang, Stanley H. Faeth, and J. Martin Anderies. Modeling Trophic Dynamics in the CAP Area (pdf)

H. Bobby Fokidis and Pierre Deviche. Variation in Avian Blood Parasite Prevalence, Insect Vectors and Haematology Associated with Recent Colonization of a City (pdf)

Susannah B. Lerman and Paige S. Warren. Landscape Design and Bird Community Structure in Phoenix, Arizona: Management Implications (pdf)

Anandamayee Majumdar, Corinna Gries, Jason Walker, and Nancy Grimm. A Nonstationary Spatial Generalized Linear Mixed Model Approach for Studying Plant Diversity (pdf)

Erica Schwartzmann and Jason Walker. The Shadowing of Avian Diversity (pdf)

Eyal Shochat, Jose Lobo, J. Martin Anderies, Paige S. Warren, Stanley H. Faeth, and Charles H. Nilon. Productivity, Inequality, and Biodiversity Loss in Human-Dominated Ecosystems (pdf)

Laura Taylor-Taft and Stanley Faeth. Neighborhood Effects on Arthropod Diversity and Food Webs (pdf)

Human dimensions of ecological research

Heather E. Campbell, Laura R. Peck, and Michael K. Tschudi. The Location of Toxic Release Inventory Facilities in Maricopa County: Economics, Collective Action, and Being Asian (pdf)

Juan Declet, Bob Bolin, and Christopher Boone. Environmental Inequity in the Phoenix Metropolitan Statistical Area, 1980 and 2000 (pdf)

Scott E. Ingram. Social Transformations and Climate Variation in the Prehistoric U.S. Southwest (pdf)

Maya L. Kapoor, Ann P. Kinzig, and Charles Perrings. The CAP LTER Ecosystem Services Assessment: Preliminary Findings and Next Steps (pdf)

Erin Lyons, Peng Zhang, Miles Costanza, Ke Li, and John Crittenden. Life Cycle Assessment of Two Water Supply Systems: Importation vs. Reclamation

Tischa A. Muñoz-Erickson. Incorporating Social Elements into the Long-Term Ecological Research Program: Institutional Lessons from the LTER Network (pdf)

Information management, outreach and education

Monica Elser and Charlene Saltz. Teacher Perceptions on the CAP LTER Ecology Explorers Summer Teacher Internship Program (pdf)

Edward Gilbert, Corinna Gries, Leslie Landrum, Elizabeth Makings, and Robin Schroeder. New Biodiversity Informatics Model for Identifying Plants (pdf)

Subhrajit Guhathakurta, Janet Holsten, Yoshihiro Kobayashi, Tim Lant, Mookesh Patel, John Crittenden, Thomas Morton, Goran Konjevod, Paul Torrens, Ke Li, Dan Stanzione, Karthikeya Date, Peyman Nayeri, Luke Shillington, Robert Pahle, Reid Baker, Steffen Eikenberry, and Chris Grasso. Digital Phoenix: A Multidimensional Journey through Time (pdf)

Darren Julian, J. Moore, and Tom Hildebrandt. Using GIS to Display and Predict Human-Wildlife Conflicts (pdf)

Darren Julian, Joseph Yarchin, M. Stewart, and Tom Hildebrandt. An Integrated Approach to Resolving Urban Wildlife Conflicts by Using Public Education and Community Involvement (pdf)

Ray Quay, Khanin Hutanuwatr, and K. David Pijawka. Visualization of Sustainability Indicators: A Conceptual Framework (pdf)

Srinivas Vadrevu, Corinna Gries, and Hasan Davulcu. Improving the Keyword Search over Ecological Datasets using a Relational Data Model (pdf)

Decision Center for a Desert City

Bethany Cutts. Water Landscapes: Representing the Effort Distribution Multiple Outreach Organizations (pdf)

Netra Chhetri, Lori Hidinger, Mark Neff, Megan O’Shea, Aliya Buttar, and Uven Chong. Decision Making Under Uncertainty: Ranking of Multiple Stressors on Central Arizona Water Resources (pdf)

Meredith Gartin, Tim Lant, Amber Wutich, Dave White, Susan Ledlow, and Pat Gober. WaterSim: A Study of Water-Related Decision-Making Under Uncertainty (pdf)

Subhrajit Guhathakurta, Patricia Gober, and Jamie Patterson. The Impact of Housing Characteristics and Surface Heat Islands on Water Use in Single-Family Residences: The Case of Phoenix Metropolitan Area (pdf)

Annie Gustafson, Kelli Larson, Paul Hirt, and Jagadeesh B. Chirumamilla. Water Conservation Policy in an Arid Metropolitan Region: A Historical and Geographical Assessment of Phoenix, Arizona (pdf)

Seung Jae Lee, Robert Balling, and Patricia Gober. A Soft Geostatistical Application in Urban Climate Research (pdf)

Claire Smith, Lilah Zautner, Kelli Larson, and Bob Bolin. Water Vulnerability on the Urban Periphery: Buckeye, Carefree and Cave Creek, Arizona (pdf)