8:00 AM: XINGYUAN, HE^*,1, WEI, CHEN, ¹ Institute of Applied Ecology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, 72 Wenhua Road, Shenyang, 110016, P. R. China, SHENYANG, LIAONING, CHINA, Structure and heterogeneity of urban vegetation landscape in Shenyang.

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8:20 AM: Walker, Jason^*,1, Briggs, John¹, ¹ School of Life Sciences, Tempe, AZ, USA, Successional dynamics of the urban forest in the Phoenix metropolitan.

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8:40 AM: McHale, Melissa^*,1, Lefsky, Michael¹, Burke, Ingrid ¹, ¹ Colorado State University, Fort Collins, CO, USA, Carbon Assimilation, Allocation and Storage Capacity of Urban Forests.

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9:00 AM: Carreiro, Margaret^*,1, Tripler, Christopher¹, ¹ University of Louisville, Louisville, KY, Contrasting patterns of tree recruitment in urban and rural forest stands in Louisville, Kentucky.

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9:20 AM: Benvie, Sam^*,1, ¹ University of Manitoba, Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada, Plant community development over an eight-year period on seven sites in the Toronto urban core.

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10:10 AM: Hinners, Sarah ^*,1, Kearns, Carol¹, Wessman, Carol¹, ¹ University of Colorado, Boulder, CO, USA, Pollination in an urbanizing environment: effects of habitat fragmentation on wild bee assemblages.

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10:30 AM: Bush, Susan¹, Pataki, Diane², Hultine, Kevin¹, West, Adam¹, Ehleringer, James¹, ¹ University of Utah, Salt Lake City, UT, USA² University of California, Irvine, Irvine, CA, USA, Physiology and water use of native and non-native trees in the Salt Lake City, Utah, urban forest.

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