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Oral Session # 74: Riparian Ecology I: Nutrient Cycling; Decomposition.
Presiding: K Bushaw-Newton
Thursday, August 7. 8:00 AM to 11:30 AM, SITCC Meeting Room 205.

8:00 AM Follstad Shah, Jennifer*,1, Crenshaw, Chelsea1, 1 University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, NM, USA Allometric scaling of whole stream metabolism.

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8:15 AM Dress, William*,1, Whitmire, Stefanie1, 2, Walbridge, Mark1, 1 West Virginia University, Morgantown, WV2 Kellogg Biological Station, Hickory Corners, MI Chemical characteristics of river and floodwaters of forested floodplains in the SE United States.

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8:30 AM Forshay, Kenneth*,1, Stanley, Emily, 1 University of Wisconsin Madison, Madison, WI, USA Nitrogen removal in water bodies of the Wisconsin River floodplain following flooding and experimental nitrate additions.

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8:45 AM Griffith, Michael*,1, Daniel, F.2, Lazorchak, James2, Troyer, Michael1, 1 USEPA, ORD, National Center for Environmental Assessment, Cincinnati, OH, USA2 USEPA, ORD, National Exposure Research Laboratory, Cincinnati, OH, USA Nutrients, canopy cover, and grazers: Their effects on summer periphyton in small Midwestern streams.

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9:00 AM Swan, Chris*,1, Palmer, Margaret1, 1 Department of Entomology, College Park, MD, USA Non-additive effects of leaf diversity on litter decomposition: The role of compensatory feeding by detritivores.

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9:15 AM Baer, Nicholas*,1, Lamp, William1, 1 University of Maryland, College Park, MD Detrital foodweb response to dissolved organic carbon and nutrient changes: Exploring Coastal Plain stream dynamics.

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9:30 AM Break.

9:45 AM Moore, Jonathan *,1, Schindler, Daniel 1, Scheuerell, Mark1, 1 Univeristy of Washington, Seattle, Washington Ecosystem consequences of disturbance by spawning salmon in Alaska.

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10:00 AM Irvine, Robyn*,1, 1 University of Calgary, Calgary, Alberta, Canada Detecting disturbance in aquatic ecosystems in theory and in the field: Matching variance and experimental design.

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10:15 AM Geraci, Christy*,1, 2, 1 University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, NC, USA2 Clemson University, Clemson, SC, USA Land cover effects on benthic macroinvertebrate community structure in Orange County, NC.

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