8:15 AM Bradford, John^{*,1, 2}, Lauenroth, William^{1, 2, 3}, Burke, Ingrid ^{1, 2, 3}, Paruelo, Jose⁴, ¹ Graduate Degree Program in Ecology, Fort Collins, CO, USA² Department of Forest, Rangeland and Watershed Stewardship, Fort Collins, CO, USA³ Natural Resource Ecology Laboratory, Fort Collins, CO, USA⁴ Facultad de Agronomía, Buenos Aires, B.S.A.S., ARGENTINA Controls over large-scale ecosystem processes: The role of land use.

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8:30 AM Sauer, Suzanne¹, Anderson, Roger^*,1, ¹ Illinois State University, Normal, Illinois, United States Modifying distance methods to estimate historical tree density from General Land Survey Records.

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8:45 AM Wimberly, Michael^*,1, ¹ Warnell School of Forest Resources, Athens, GA Simulating ecological responses to static versus dynamic landscape patterns.

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9:00 AM Porder, Stephen^*,1, Vitousek, Peter ¹, Paytan, Adina ², Bullen, Thomas ², ¹ Dept. of Biological Sciences, Stanford, CA² Dept. of Geological and Environmental Sciences, Stanford, CA Landscape development and ecosystem function: Results from the Hawaiian Islands.

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9:15 AM Qi, Shi¹, Sun, Ge², McNulty, Steve², Moore, Jennifer², ¹ Beijing Forestry University, Beijing, Beijing, P.R.China² SGCP, USDA Forest Service, Raleigh, NC Modeling the Effects of Land Use and Climate Change on Water Yield in a Costal Watershed of North Carolina.

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9:45 AM Cade, Brian^*,, Quantile regression estimates of animal response to spatially structured resources.

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10:00 AM White, Joseph^*,1, Gutzwiller, Kevin¹, Barrow, Wylie², Randall, Lori², ¹ Baylor University, Waco, TX² U.S. Geological Survey, Lafayette, LA Modeling vegetation community response to climate change and CO₂ increases in the Chihuahuan Desert.

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10:15 AM McAuliffe, Joseph^*,1, Hamerlynck, Erik², Eppes, Martha³, ¹ Desert Botanical Garden, Phoenix, AZ² Rutgers University, Newark, NJ³ University of North Carolina, Charlotte, NC Repeated geological perturbations and long-lived creosotebush in the Mojave Desert.

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10:45 AM Sponseller, Ryan^*,1, Welter, Jill ¹, Fisher, Stuart¹, ¹ Arizona State University, Tempe, AZ Soil organic matter storage in a Sonoran Desert landscape: Patterns according to scale.

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11:00 AM Snyder, Keirith^*,1, Huxman, Travis ², Breshears, David³, Wilcox, Bradford⁴, Small, Eric⁵, Scott, Russell⁶, Jackson, Rob⁷, Hultine, Kevin², ¹ USDA-ARS Jornada Experimental Range, Las Cruces, NM² University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ³ Los Alamos National Laboratory, Los Alamos, NM⁴ Texas A&M University, College Station, TX⁵ University of Colorado - Boulder, Boulder, CO⁶ USDA-ARS Southwest Watershed Research Center, Tucson, AZ⁷ Duke University, Durham, NC An ecohydrological framework for determining the landscape effects of woody plant encroachment.

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