Poster # 124. Carlson, Chrissa^*,1, Cadenasso, Mary², Barrett, Gary¹, ¹ Institute of Ecology, Athens, Georgia, USA² Hixon Center for Urban Ecology, New Have, Connecticut, USA, The relationship between breeding bird diversity in urban forest patches and the human-mediated resources located in the surrounding residential matrix.

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Poster # 125. Temple, Susan^*,1, Allak, Amir², Kelley, Allison ³, Lumbi, Zamda¹, Ditzler, Kristin¹, Wilson, James⁴, Cocking, Dean¹, ¹ James Madison University, Harrisonburg, VA² University of Virginia Medical School, Charlottesville, VA³ Augusta Medical Center, Fishersville, VA⁴ Old Dominion University, Norfolk, VA, Utilization of a landscape level airborne mercury survey network to evaluate residual contamination from agricultural use in the Shenandoah Valley, VA.

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Poster # 126. Lumbi, Zamda^*,1, Allak, Amir², Kelley, Allison³, Wilson, James ⁴, Cocking, Dean¹, ¹ James Madison University, Harrisonburg, VA² University of Virginia Medical School, Charlottesville, VA³ Augusta Medical Center, Fishersville, VA⁴ Old Dominion University, Norfolk, VA, Spatial distribution of airborne mercury in an urban landscape as related to point source river contamination in Waynesboro, VA.

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Poster # 127. Lookingbill, Todd^*,1, Carter, Shawn², Schmit, John Paul², Ferrari, Joseph¹, ¹ University of Maryland Center for Environmental Science, Frostburg, MD, USA² NPS Center for Urban Ecology, Washington, DC, USA, A multi-staged approach to defining monitoring targets in a fragmented urban landscape.

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Poster # 128. Kalkhan, Mohammed^*,1, Stohlgren, Thomas, ¹ Natural Resource Ecology Laboratory (NESB- B236), Fort Collins, Colorado, USA, The effects of plot size on scale and patterns of plant species richness: a landscape-scale assessment approach using geospatial information and geostatistics.

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Poster # 129. Smith, Daniel^*,1, Hoctor, Thomas², Noss, Reed¹, ¹ University of Central Florida, Orlando, FL² University of Florida, Gainesville, FL, Restoring functional landscape connectivity in northwest Florida: the Nokuse Plantation linkage.

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Poster # 130. Rodenbeck, Brian^*,1, ¹ University of Central Florida, Orlando, FL, Bird populations in geographically isolated freshwater marshes: the importance of patch area and isolation on habitat utilization.

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Poster # 131. Li, Wei^*,1, Stevens, M. Henry¹, ¹ Miami University, Oxford, OH, The impacts of area, isolation, and dissimilarity on coexistence along a productivity gradient.

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Poster # 133. Madson, Stephanie^*,1, Rachel, Gary^*,2, Hinckley, Thomas¹, Markewitz, Daniel², ¹ College of Forest Resources, Seattle, WA, USA² Warnell School of Forest Resources, Athens, GA, USA, Rapid assessment of ecosystem condition within southeastern and northwestern forest stands using the Ecosystem Services Scorecard.

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Poster # 134. Alvarez-Yepis, Juan Carlos^*,1, Martinez-Yrizar, Angelina¹, ¹ Institute of Ecology, UNAM, Hermosillo, Sonora, Mexico, Does history make the difference?: Land use practices and the ever-changing tropical dry forest of Sonora, Mexico.

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Poster # 135. Klubnikin, Kheryn^*,1, Arthaud, Greg^*,1, ¹ USDA Forest Service Research & Development, Rosslyn, VA, Where the deer, the antelope, and the snowmobiles play: ecoregions and ownership.

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Poster # 136. Cappellato, Rosanna^*,1, Bohnert, Kenneth¹, ¹ Rhodes College, Memphis, TN, Valuation of ecosystem services of Overton Park, Memphis, TN.

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