8:00 AM Volin, John^*,1, Givnish, Thomas², Glaser, Paul³, Muss, Jordan¹, Owen, Dianne¹, Volin, Valeria¹, ¹ Florida Atlantic University, Davie, FL, USA² University of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison, WI, USA³ University of Minnesota, St. Paul, MN, USA Are spatially coupled positive and negative feedbacks among the most important determinants of hydrology, substrate, and vegetation in the Florida Everglades?

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8:20 AM Braatne, Jeffrey^*,1, Rood, Stewart², Gom, Lori², Mahoney, John³, Simons, Robert⁴, ¹ Dept. of Fish and Wildlife Resources, Mosocw, ID, USA² Dept of Biological Sciences, Lethbridge, AB, CANADA³ Alberta Environment, Lethbridge, AB, CANADA⁴ Simons & Associates, Inc, Fort Collins, CO, USA Life history modeling of floodplain vegetation.

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8:40 AM Perotto-Baldivieso, Humberto^*,1, Wu, Xinyuan¹, Peterson, Markus², Silvy, Nova², Smeins, Fred², ¹ Texas A&M University, College Station, Texas, United States² Texas A&M University, College Station, Texas, United States Flooding induced landscape changes along the North Prong Medina River and their impacts on Rio Grande wild turkey habitat.

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9:00 AM TBA.

9:20 AM Kroes, Daniel¹, Hupp, Cliff¹, ¹ US Geological Survey, Reston, VA, USA Patterns of riparian sedimentation and subsidence along channelized and unchannelized reaches of the Pocomoke River, Maryland.

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9:50 AM Johnson, Derek^*,1, Bjornstad, Ottar ¹, Liebhold, Andrew², ¹ Pennsylvania State University, University Park, PA, USA² USDA Forest Service, Northeast Forest Experimental Station, Morgantown, WV, USA Landscape geometry and spatial waves of defoliation by an insect pest.

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10:10 AM Hupp, Cliff^*,1, Rinaldi, Massimo², ¹ U.S. Geological Survey, Reston, Virginia, USA² University of Florence, Florence, Italy Riparian vegetation and fluvial geomorphic surfaces along selected rivers of Tuscany, Italy.

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10:30 AM Boucher, Douglas^*,1, Snitzer, John¹, Kyde, Kerrie², Rodick, Christine¹, ¹ Hood College, Frederick, MD, USA² USDA-ARS Foreign Weeds and Diseases Research Unit, Frederick, MD, USA Increasing temperate forest vulnerability to weak storms: Hurricane Isabel and the Piedmont of Maryland.

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10:50 AM Jones, Suzanne¹, Anderson, Roger^*,2, ¹ Oregon Parks and Recreation Department, Gold Hill, Oregon, United States² Illinois State University, Normal, Illinois, United States Analysis of historical vegetation patterns in the eastern portion of the Illinois Lesser Shawnee Hills, USA.

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11:10 AM Cobo, María del Carmen^*,1, Carreira, José Antonio¹, ¹ University of Jaén., Jaén., Andalusia., Spain. Spatial variability patterns in semiarid soils and vegetation under varying topography-conditioned land uses in southeastern Spain.

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