8:00 AM: Talley, Theresa^*,1, ¹ Department of Environmental Science & Policy, Davis, CA, USA, Determining the interactions between an insect and its environment across spatial scales; from host plants to landscapes.

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8:20 AM: Franc, Niklas^*,1, ¹ Göteborg University, Göteborg, Sweden, Species richness and composition of saproxylic beetles in temperate oak forest: Landscape seems more important than stand or regional factors.

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8:40 AM: Byrne, Loren^*,1, Bruns, Mary Ann¹, Kim, Ke Chung¹, ¹ The Pennsylvania State University, University Park, PA, USA, The effects of landscape patchiness and heterogeneity on arthropod communities.

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9:00 AM: Visser, Ute ¹, Wiegand, Kerstin², Johst, Karin¹, Koehler, Wolfgang³, ¹ UFZ Centre for Environmental Research, Leipzig, Germany² Friedrich-Schiller-University Jena, Jena, Germany³ Justus-Liebig-University Giessen, Giessen, Germany, Biological control in fragmented landscapes: Survival and parasitation in a spatially explicit host-parasitoid model.

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9:20 AM: Middleton, Beth¹, ¹ USGS National Wetlands Research Center, Lafayette, Louisiana, USA, Seed banks and regeneration potential of baldcypress swamps across a latitudinal gradient.

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9:50 AM: Dam , Amanda^*,1, Fahrig, Lenore¹, ¹ Carleton University, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada, Does landscape structure affect different eastern Ontario anuran species at different spatial scales?

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10:10 AM: Boyce, Richard^*,1, Long, Andrew¹, Whittle, Elizabeth¹, ¹ Northern Kentucky University, Highland Heights, KY, United States, Incorporating spatial statistics into ordination techniques: A case study with fuzzy set ordination (FSO).

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10:30 AM: Léonard, Rosalie^*,1, Jean, Martin², Bouchard, André¹, ¹ Institut de recherche en biologie végétale, Montréal, Québec, Canada² Centre Saint-Laurent, Montréal, Québec, Canada, Spatial patterns in macrophyte beds in Lake Saint-François (St.Lawrence River, Québec, Canada).

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10:50 AM: Mihuc, Timothy ^*,1, Woodcock, Thomas ¹, Romanowicz, Edwin ¹, Mihuc, Janet ², Allen, Eileen¹, ¹ Plattsburgh State University of New York, Plattsburgh, New York, USA² Paul Smith's College, Paul Smith's, New York, USA, Ecosystem integrity in Adirondack upland headwater catchments.

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11:10 AM: Polivka, Karl^*,1, Kill, Joshua¹, Knutsen, Karinne¹, ¹ Pacific Northwest Research Station, Wenatchee, WA, USA, The importance of watersheds to fishes in an oligotrophic lake: Food, temperature, predation risk, and near-shore habitat selection.

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