1:30 PM: Shmagin, Boris^*,1, Johnston, Carol², Bridgham , Scott³, ¹ Water Resources Institute, Brookings, SD² Center for Biocomplexity Studies, Brookings, SD³ Center for Ecology and Evolutionary Biology and Environmental Studies Program, Eugene, OR, Ecohydrology or hydroecology: Time-space and scale-metric aspects.

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1:50 PM: DeLuca, William ¹, Marra, Peter¹, Baker, Matthew¹, King, Ryan², Weller, Donald¹, ¹ Smithsonian Environmental Research Center, Edgewater, MD, USA² Baylor University, Waco, TX, USA, From the land to water: linking watershed land cover and estuarine condition.

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2:10 PM: Dixon, Mark^*,1, Stromberg, Juliet¹, Fremier, Alexander², Larsen, Eric², ¹ Arizona State University, Tempe, AZ, USA² University of California-Davis, Davis, CA, USA, Projecting the impacts of global climate change on a dryland river: the importance of disturbance regimes and geomorphic legacies.

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2:30 PM: Rountree, Mark^*,1, Rogers, Kevin¹, ¹ markr@gecko.biol.wits.ac.za, Johannesburg, Gauteng, South Africa, Channel pattern change in a semi-arid river: evidence of complex response from geomorphology and vegetation.

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2:50 PM: Schweizer, Peter^*,1, Matlack, Glenn¹, ¹ Environmental and Plant Biology, Athens, Ohio, USA, Influence of land use pattern on the water quality and biotic integrity of coastal plain streams in Mississippi, USA.

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3:20 PM: Brazner, John^*,1, Danz, Nick¹, Niemi, Gerald¹, Hanowski, JoAnn¹, Johnston, Carol², Johnson, Lucinda¹, ¹ University of Minnesota - Duluth, Duluth, MN, USA² South Dakota State University, Brookings, SD, Evaluating geographic and geomorphic influences on indicators of Great Lakes coastal wetland condition across multiple taxonomic groups.

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3:40 PM: Johnson, Lucinda^*,1, Ciborowski, Jan², Host, George¹, Valerie, Brady¹, Schuldt, Jeffrey³, Richards, Carl⁴, ¹ Natural Resources Research Institute, Duluth, MN, 55811² Department of Biological Sciences, Windor, Ont, CA³ Department of Biology and Earth Sciences, Superior, WI, USA⁴ Minnesota Sea Grant, Duluth, MN, USA, Strategies for Identifying Reference Conditions in Great Lakes Coastal Wetlands.

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4:00 PM: King, Ryan^*,1, Baker, Matthew², Whigham, Dennis ², Weller, Donald², Kazyak, Paul³, Hurd, Martin³, ¹ Center for Reservoir and Aquatic Systems Research, Waco, TX, USA² Smithsonian Environmental Research Center, Edgewater, MD, USA³ Maryland Department of Natural Resources, Annapolis, MD, USA, Watershed urbanization and ecological thresholds in streams: influences of physiography, watershed size and spatial arrangement of impervious cover.

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4:20 PM: Whigham, Dennis^*,1, King, Ryan^{1, 2}, DeLuca, William¹, Marra, Peter¹, ¹ Smithsonian Institution, Edgewater, MD, USA² Baylor University, Waco, TX, USA, Phragmites australis in Chesapeake Bay estuarine wetlands – linkages to past and present watershed activities.

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