8:20 AM: Davis, Adam^*,1, ¹ Department of Geological Sciences, Bloomington, IN, USA, Geoecology of abandoned agricultural fields in Southern Indiana.

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8:40 AM: Schaafsma, Hoski^*,1, Briggs, John ¹, ¹ School of Life Sciences, Tempe, Arizona, Legacies of Bronze Age and Medieval Period farming in central Sweden: An archaeological perspective on modern plant communities.

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9:00 AM: He, Xingyuan^*,1, Zhao, Yonghua^{1, 2}, Hu, Yuanman¹, ¹ Chinese Academy of Sciences, Shenyang, China² Chang'an University, Xi’an, Landscape change in the Upper Min River, southwestern China.

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9:20 AM: Ingram, Jane^{*,1, 2}, ¹ Columbia University, New York, NY, USA² University of Oxford, Oxford, Oxfordshire, England, A multi-scale assessment of anthropogenic and climatic influences on forest cover in Madagascar.

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9:50 AM: Cogbill, Charles¹, ¹ Sterling College, Craftsbury Common, VT, The presettlement vegetation of the northeastern United States at various scales.

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10:10 AM: Woolmer, Gillian¹, Trombulak, Steve², Doran, Patrick^*,3, Morgan, Alexis⁴, Ray, Justina¹, Anderson, Mark⁵, Sanderson, Eric⁶, ¹ WCS Wildlife Conservation Society Canada, Toronto, Ontario, Canada² Department of Biology, Middlebury, Vermont, USA³ The Wildlands Project, Richmond, Vermont, USA⁴ World Wildlife Fund, Toronto, Ontario, Canada⁵ The Nature Conservancy, Boston, MA, USA⁶ Wildlife Conservation Society-Living Landscapes Program, Bronx, NY, A regional human footprint for the transboundary Northern Appalachians ecosystem: Quantifying direct human impact on the land from New York State to Nova Scotia.

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10:30 AM: Schulte, Lisa¹, Merrick, Laura^*,1, Crow, Thomas², Mladenoff, David³, Cleland, David⁴, ¹ Iowa State University, Ames, IA² USDA Forest Service, Washington, DC³ University of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison, WI⁴ USDA Forest Service, Rhinelander, WI, Regional forest homogenization in the northern U.S. Lake States: pre-Euro-American settlement vs. present.

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10:50 AM: Suffling, Roger^*,1, Munoz-Marquez, Rafael¹, Perera, Ajith², Zhao, Junlin², ¹ University of Waterloo, Waterloo, On, Canada² Ontario Forest Research Institute, Sault Ste. Marie, On, Canada, The implications of forest fires in an anthropogenically warmed and harvested boreal forest in Northwest Ontario, Canada.

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11:10 AM: Gonzalez-Abraham, Charlotte^*,1, Radeloff, Volker¹, Hawbaker, Todd¹, Hammer, Roger¹, Stewart, Susan ², ¹ University of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison, Wisconsin, USA² USDA, Forest Service, Evanston, Illinois, USA, Landscape fragmentation due to housing growth in northern Wisconsin, USA from 1938 to 1998.

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