8:00 AM: Lopes, Vicente^*,1, ¹ Texas State University, San Marcos, TX, Watershed science: An emerging paradigm for linking social and natural sciences.

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8:20 AM: Wozniak, Jeffrey ^*,1, Dewsbury, Bryan ¹, Gibson, Patrick ¹, Goss, Chuck ¹, Green, David ¹, Iwaniec, David ¹, ¹ Florida International University, Miami, Florida, USA, Evaluation of ecosystem processes to analyze landscape management boundaries.

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8:40 AM: Busch, David¹, ¹ U. S. Geological Survey, Portland, OR, USA, Adaptive ecosystem monitoring: Answers and questions relating to the determination of status and trend associated with implementing ecoregional initiatives.

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9:00 AM: Breitburg, Denise^*,1, Adamack, Aaron², Fulford, Richard¹, Jordan, Thomas ¹, Weller, Donald¹, Lipton, Douglas³, Nice, Alex ⁴, Lung, Wu-seng⁴, Rose, Kenneth², ¹ Smithsonian Environmental Research Center, Edgewater, MD² Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge, LA³ University of Maryland, College Park, MD⁴ University of Virginia, Charlottesville, VA, The importance of scale and location to the ecological and economic benefits of restoration.

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9:20 AM: Grundel, Ralph^*,1, Pavlovic, Noel¹, ¹ U.S. Geological Survey, Porter, Indiana, USA, Selecting landscape composition targets during restoration of degraded oak savannas.

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9:50 AM: Bragg, Don^*,1, ¹ USDA Forest Service, Monticello, AR, US, Institutional biases influencing the ecological interpretation of General Land Office public land survey notes.

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10:10 AM: Gao, Qiong^*,1, Yu, Mei², Zhang, Xinshi¹, ¹ MOE Key Lab of Environmental Change and Disasters, Beijing, China² Institute of Botany, Beijing, China, Connecting global change studies to ecosystem restoration and management using cross-scale modelling.

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10:30 AM: Minchin, Peter^*,1, Folk, Monica², Gordon, Doria³, ¹ Southern Illinois University Edwardsville, Edwardsville, Illinois² The Nature Conservancy, Kissimmee, Florida³ The Nature Conservancy, Gainesville, Florida, Trajectory Analysis: A new statistical tool for the assessment of success in community restoration.

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10:50 AM: Wiersma, Yolanda^*,1, Nudds, Thomas^*,1, ¹ University of Guelph, Guelph, Ontario, Canada, The effect of spatial scale on reserve design in Canada.

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11:10 AM: Coles-Ritchie, Marc^*,1, Whitbeck, Kristen¹, ¹ US Forest Service, Logan, UT, USA, Evaluation of plant identification accuracy and implications for riparian monitoring.

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