8:00 AM McLachlan, Jason^*,1, Clark, James¹, Manos, Paul¹, ¹ Biology, Durham, NC Conservation lessons from the Last Glacial Maximum.

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8:15 AM Henne, Paul^*,1, Hu, Feng Sheng¹, ¹ University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Urbana, IL, 60801 Holocene ecosystem change in the Great Lakes snow belt: Initial results from Huffman Lake.

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8:30 AM Booth, Robert^*,1, Jackson, Stephen¹, ¹ University of Wyoming, Laramie, WY Influence of late Holocene moisture variability on forest dynamics in the western Great Lakes region.

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8:45 AM Bell, Christopher^*,1, Gauthier, Jacques², ¹ The University of Texas at Austin, Austin, TX² Yale University, New Haven, CT North American Quaternary Squamata: Re-evaluation of the stability hypothesis.

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9:00 AM Anderson, Lynn^*,1, Hu, Feng Sheng¹, Paige, Ken¹, ¹ University of Illinois, Champaign/Urbana, IL, USA Using morphology to infer environmental conditions: Genetics, environment, or both?

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9:15 AM Nelson, David^*,1, Hu, Feng Sheng¹, Tian, Jian¹, Brown, Thomas², Stefanova, Ivanka³, Wright, Herbert³, ¹ University of Illinois, Urbana, IL² Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, Livermore, CA³ University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN Response of C3/C4 plants to mid-Holocene aridity in west-central Minnesota.

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9:30 AM Break.

9:45 AM Finkelstein, Sarah^*,1, Davis, Anthony¹, ¹ University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, Canada The interpretability of wetland pollen records.

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10:00 AM Townsend, Philip^*,1, Brown, Roger¹, Willard, Debra², ¹ University of Maryland Center for Environmental Science, Frostburg, Maryland² U.S. Geological Survey, Reston, Virginia Long-term geomorphic and vegetation change on the Roanoke River floodplain, North Carolina.

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10:15 AM Pellatt, Marlow^{*,1, 2}, Holtham, Anita ³, Bos, Darren^{1, 2}, ¹ Parks Canada, Western Canada Service Centre, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada² Simon Fraser University, Burnaby, British Columbia, Canada³ Queens University, Kingston, Ontario, Canada Paleoecology of salmon lakes on the west coast of Canada.

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10:30 AM Leavitt, Peter^*,1, Cumming, Brian², Smol, John², Reasoner, Mel³, Pienitz, Reinhard ⁴, Hodgson, Dominic⁵, ¹ University of Regina, Regina, SK, Canada² Queen's University, Kingston, ON, Canada³ Mountain Research Initiative Coordination Office, Bern, n/a, Switzerland⁴ Universite Laval, Quebec, QC, Canada⁵ British Antarctic Survey, Cambridge, n/a, UK Climatic control of UV radiation impacts on lakes.

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10:45 AM Ponomarenko, Elena ^*,1, Ponomarenko, Serguei², ¹ ArchEco 5A-601 Laurier Ave.W., Ottawa, Ontario, Canada² NatureServe-Canada, c/o Parks Canada Agency, Ecological Integrity Branch 25 Eddy Street, K1A 0M5, Hull, Quebec, Canada Beavers as a trigger of peat bog development.

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