8:00 AM Garmestani, Ahjond^{*,1, 2}, Allen, Craig^{1, 2}, Bessey, K. Michael², ¹ South Carolina Cooperative Fish and Wildlife Research Unit, Clemson, SC, USA² Clemson University, Clemson, SC, USA Discontinuities in urban systems over time.

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8:15 AM Bierwagen, Britta^*,1, ¹ University of California, Santa Barbara, Santa Barbara, CA Changes in habitat connectivity resulting from different patterns of urban growth.

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8:30 AM Stiles, Arthur^*,1, Scheiner, Samuel², ¹ Department of Plant Biology, Tempe, AZ² Division of Environmental Biology, Arlington, VA Effects of habitat fragmentation on remnant Sonoran desert plant communities in the CAP-LTER, Phoenix, Arizona.

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8:45 AM Mills, April^*,1, Bjorn, Andrew¹, Waddell, Paul², Alberti, Marina¹, ¹ Department of Urban Design and Planning, Seattle, WA, USA² Evans School of Public Affairs, Seattle, WA, USA Valuing proximity to forest patches at the neighborhood scale: A hedonic model using landscape metrics.

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9:00 AM Liu, Jianguo¹, Daily, Gretchen ², Ehrlich, Paul², Luck, Gary², ¹ Department of Fisheries and Wildlife, East Lansing, MI, USA² Center for Conservation Biology, Stanford, CA, USA Implications of household dynamics for resource consumption and biodiversity.

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9:15 AM TBA.

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9:45 AM Bennett, Ashley^*,1, Sadof, Clifford², Hanks, Lawrence³, ¹ University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, Il² Purdue University, West Lafayette, In³ Univerisity of Illinois, Urbana-Chamapign, Il Manipulating floral density in ornamental landscapes to encourage natural enemies of herbivorous insects.

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10:00 AM Williams, Nicholas^{*,1, 2}, McDonnell, Mark^{1, 2}, Morgan, John³, ¹ Australian Research Centre for Urban Ecology, Royal Botanic Gardens, Melbourne, Australia, Australia² University of Melbourne, Melbourne, Australia, Australia³ Latrobe University, Melbourne, Australia, Australia The influence of plant species attributes on local extinctions in urban and rural grasslands.

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10:15 AM Warren, Paige^*,1, Kinzig, Ann², Nilon, Charles³, Grove, Morgan⁴, Cox, Mary⁵, Martin, Chris², ¹ Virginia Tech, Blacksburg, VA² Arizona State University, Tempe, AZ³ University of Missouri at Columbia, Columbia, MO⁴ USDA Forest Service, Burlington, VT⁵ Parks and People Foundation, Baltimore, MD Human socioeconomic factors and avian diversity: A cross-site comparison.

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10:30 AM Blair, Robert^*,1, Reale, Joseph², ¹ Dept of Fisheries, Wildlife, and Conservation Biology, St. Paul, MN, USA² City of Boulder, Boulder, CO, USA Life history attributes of bird communities along an urban gradient: Does nesting success influence species composition?

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