Poster # 1. Braun, Karolyn ^*,1, ¹ American Samoa Community College, Pago Pago, AS, USA, The Keys to Science Education.

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Poster # 2. Hall, Richard^*,1, Courchamp, Franck¹, Angulo, Elena ¹, Bull, Leigh¹, Meinard, Yves¹, Rivalan, Philippe¹, Signoret, Laetitia¹, ¹ Universite Paris-Sud, Orsay, Ile-de-France, France, Endangering the endangered: how the value we place in rarity can trigger extinction.

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Poster # 3. Balbach, Harold^*,1, Meyer, William¹, ¹ US Army ERDC-CERL, Champaign, IL, USA, Strategy for better management of at-risk species.

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Poster # 4. Littnan, Charles^*,1, Stewart, Brent², Yochem, Pamela², Braun, Robert¹, ¹ NOAA Fisheries, Honolulu, HI, USA² Hubbs-SeaWorld Research Institute, San Diego, CA, USA, Survey for selected pathogens and evaluation of disease risk factors for endangered Hawaiian monk seals in the main Hawaiian Islands.

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Poster # 5. Gil-Weir, Karine^{*,1, 2}, Grant, William¹, Slack, Douglas¹, ¹ Texas A&M University, College Station, TX, USA² The Beijer International Institute of Ecological Economics, Stockholm, Stockholm, Sweden, Life history and demography of the Whooping Crane (Grus americana): a new life table.

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Poster # 6. Hagen, Robert ^{1, 2}, Martinko, Edward ^{*,1, 2}, ¹ Kansas Biological Survey, Lawrence, KS² University of Kansas, Lawrence, KS, Successional change in the insect community of a fragmented habitat.

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Poster # 7. Das, Anoop^*,, Vijayan, Lalitha, , The effect of altitude on bird community structure in Silent Valley National Park, Western Ghats, India.

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Poster # 8. Diaz, David^{*,1, 2}, Tuross, Noreen¹, ¹ Harvard University, Cambridge, MA² Harvard Forest, Petersham, MA, Nitrogen isotope concentrations in the foliage of four New England plant species show diverse responses to persistent legacies of historical agricultural land-use.

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Poster # 9. Barth, Leah^*,1, Morris, Sherri¹, McConnaughay, Kelly¹, ¹ Bradley University, Peoria, IL, Alterations to soil microbial activity following 80 years of agriculture at Emiquon.

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Poster # 10. Allen, Bruce ¹, Goebel, P. Charles¹, Sharitz, Rebecca², ¹ School of Evironment and Natural Resources, Wooster, Ohio² Savannah River Ecology Laboratory, Aiken, South Carolina, How long do lianas live and how fast do they grow in a temperate floodplain forests?

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Poster # 11. Pandit, Shubha ^*,1, Kolasa, Jurek¹, ¹ Biology Department, McMaster University, Hamilton, Ontario, Canada, Population synchrony in aquatic microcosms in rock pools.

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Poster # 12. Wickings, Kyle ^*,1, ¹ University of Georgia, Athens, GA, The effects of Bt cotton on arthropod communities relative to the effects of tillage strategy, and cover crop identity.

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Poster # 13. Tanaka, Yoshinari^*,1, ¹ Reserach Center for Environmental Risk, National Institute for Environmental Studies, Tsukuba, Ibaraki, Japan, Dynamics of community phenotypes by environmental changes: a trait-based community model.

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Poster # 15. Perkins, Alex^*,1, Staaterman, Erica², Harte, John³, ¹ University of Tennessee, Knoxville, TN² Duke University, Durham, NC³ University of California, Berkeley, Berkeley, CA, Effects of climate change on growth and seedling establishment in young lodgepole pine and subalpine fir.

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Poster # 16. Shrader, Adrian^*,1, Brown, Joel², Kerley, Graham¹, Kotler, Burt³, ¹ Nelson Mandela Metropolitan University, Port Elizabeth, South Africa² University of Illinois, Chicago, Chicago, IL³ Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Midreshet Ben-Gurion, Israel, Does fear affect the foraging of domestic ungulates? A test with free ranging goats in South Africa.

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Poster # 17. McCutcheon, Meghan^*,1, ¹ Hampshire College, Amherst, MA, Effects of nectar robbing on female fitness of Ipomopsis aggregata: high nectar production does not confer tolerance.

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Poster # 18. Ye, Xujun^*,1, Sakai, Kenshi¹, Asada, Shin-Ichi², Akita, Tetsuya¹, Sasao, Akira¹, ¹ Tokyo University of Agriculture and Technology, Fuchu, Tokyo, Japan² Kanagawa Prefectural Agricultural Research Institute, Odawara, Kanagawa, Japan, Inter-relationships between canopy features and fruit yield in citrus as detected by airborne multispectral imagery.

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Poster # 19. Serrano Volpe, Daniel^*,1, McKenna, Mary², ¹ Virginia Tech, Blacksburg, VA, USA² Howard University, Washington, DC, USA, Competitive ability of Ni-hyperaccumulator Alyssum corsicum in a low-Ni medium: implications for invasiveness.

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Poster # 20. Kiger, Sarah^*,1, Hermann, Jennifer^*,1, Malik, Vikas¹, Klips, Robert ¹, Curtis, Peter¹, Miriti, Maria^*,1, ¹ The Ohio State University, Columbus, OH, Competitive ability and root growth in native and non-native prairie species at contrasting nutrient levels.

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Poster # 21. Thomas, John^*,1, ¹ Director of Water Resources, Camp Pendleton, CA, USA, An operational framework for ecosystem management.

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Poster # 22. Meynard, Christine^*,1, ¹ University of California, Davis, Davis, CA, Combining different statistical tools to study local bird species diversity: an example in the temperate forest of South America.

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Poster # 23. Silva, Fabiana^{1, 2}, Lowman, Margaret^{1, 2}, Wheeler, Jessica¹, Jones, Charissa ^{1, 2}, Mitchell, Colleen ², Miller, Evan ^{1, 2}, ¹ New College of Florida, Sarasota, Fl² Tree Foundation, Sarasota, Fl, Science Outreach for Students: new initiatives to connect local schools to ecology.

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Poster # 24. Sakai, Kenshi^*,1, Noguchi, Yuko¹, Asada, Shin-Ichi², ¹ Tokyo University of Agriculture and Technology, Fuchu, Tokyo, Japan² Kanagawa Agricultural Reaerach Center, Odawara, Kanagawa, Japan, Detecting chaos in a citrus orchard: ensemble reconstruction of non-linear dynamics from very short ecological time series.

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Poster # 25. Aldosari, Saleh^*,1, Al-Suhaibani, Ali², Ali, A³, ¹ King Saud Universtiy, Riyadh, Riyadh² King Saud Universtiy, Riyadh, Riyadh³ King Saud Universtiy, Riyadh, Riyadh, Susceptibility of some dry date palm varieties to infestation by Oryzawphilus surinamensis (L.) (Coleoptera: Silvanidae) in relation to their chemical composition.

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Poster # 26. Johnson, Mara^*,1, Crowe, Elizabeth², ¹ Center for Invasive Plant Management, MSU-Bozeman, Bozeman, MT² National Park Service Inventory and Monitoring Network, Bozeman, MT, Developing existing species information matrices for planning invasive plant monitoring strategies.

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Poster # 27. Halsey, Jenna^*,1, ¹ Indiana University, Bloomington, Bloomington, IN, Edge effects on understory Rubiaceae communities in lower montane moist forest at Monteverde, Costa Rica.

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Poster # 28. Gao, Qiong^*,1, Yu, Mei², Zhang, Xinshi¹, ¹ College of Resources Sciences and Technology, Beijing, Beijing, P.R. China² Institute of Botany, the Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, Beijing, P.R. China, Net ecosystem carbon balance of a crop-pasture transition band in northern China from 1959 to 2001 - impacts of climatic shift and soil erosion.

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Poster # 29. Park, Byung Bae¹, Yanai, Ruth ¹, Germain, Rene¹, ¹ SUNY College of Environmental Science and Forestry, Syracuse, NY, Effects of silvicultural treatments on carbon and nutrient storage of coarse woody debris in the Catskill region.

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Poster # 30. Hashiba, Hideki^*,1, ¹ Nihon University., Tokyo, JAPAN, Analysis of seasonal changes in the green tract in central Tokyo by using high resolution satellite data.

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Poster # 31. Thapa, Ram^*,1, Kush, John¹, Gjerstad, Dean¹, ¹ Auburn University, Auburn, AL, Carbon sequestration and natural longleaf pine (Pinus palustris) ecosystems.

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Poster # 32. Alard, Glynn^*,, Scholes, Mary, , Comparing grass quantity and quality in sodic and crest patches in the semi-arid granitic savanna of the southern Kruger National Park, South Africa.

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Poster # 33. Barberena-Arias, Maria ^*,1, Cuevas, Elvira¹, ¹ University of Puerto Rico, San Juan, PR, Do tree species differ in their understory microclimate and the thermal buffering of the soil?

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Poster # 34. Kahmen, Ansgar^*,1, Merchant, Andrew², Callister, Andrew³, Arndt, Stefan ³, ¹ University of California, Berkeley, Berkeley, CA, USA² University of New South Wales, Sydney, NSW, Australia³ University of Melbourne, Melbourne, VIC, Australia, Leaf water ¹⁸O enrichment in different Eucalyptus species - effects of leaf physiology and morphology.

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Poster # 35. Schmid, HaPe¹, Wayson, Craig^*,1, Katul, Gaby², Oren, Ram², Novick, Kim², Post, Mac³, Rahman, Faiz¹, Sims, Dan⁴, ¹ Indiana University, Bloomington, Indiana² Duke University, Durham, North Carolina³ Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Oak Ridge, Tennessee⁴ Ball State University, Muncie, Indiana, Scaling up of carbon exchange dynamics from AmeriFlux sites to a super-region in eastern North America.

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Poster # 36. Naples, Brendan ^*,1, Fisk, Melany¹, ¹ Appalachian State University, Boone, NC, Evidence for phosphorus limitation of young hardwood forests in the northeastern United States.

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Poster # 37. Tufford, Daniel^*,1, Sundberg, Karen², Kelley, Joe³, Morris, James^{1, 2}, Joyner, David⁴, ¹ University of South Carolina, Columbia, SC² University of South Carolina, Columbia, SC³ TheCitadel, Charleston, SC⁴ College of Charleston, Charleston, SC, Tidal material exchanges in freshwater wetlands along the Cooper River, South Carolina.

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Poster # 38. Blinkova, Olga^*,1, ¹ Oklahoma State University, Stillwater, OK, Lichen species richness and composition response to substrate in the Teberdinsky preserve, NW Caucasus (Russia).

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Poster # 39. Wiltz, Beverly^*,1, Hooper-Bùi, Linda¹, ¹ Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge, LA, The effect of Hurricanes Katrina and Rita on south Louisiana ant populations.

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Poster # 40. Rios, Roxanne^*,1, Klopatek, Jeffrey¹, ¹ Arizona State University, Tempe, Az, Soil carbon analysis in the Antarctic Peninsula.

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Poster # 41. Ojima, Dennis^*,1, Schimel, David², Hicke, Jeffery¹, Running, Steve³, Stephens, Britt², Hilinski, Tom¹, ¹ Natural Resource Ecology Lab, Colorado State University, Fort Collin, CO, USA² NCAR, Boulder, CO, USA³ University of Montana, Missoula, MT, USA, Estimation of regional carbon dynamics in complex landscapes of the Colorado Rockies by model-data fusion.

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Poster # 42. Johnston, David^*,1, Littnan, Charles^*,1, Baker, Jason¹, ¹ NOAA Fisheries - PIFSC, Honolulu, HI, 96822, Integrating the effects of climate variability into conservation strategies for marine mammals.

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Poster # 43. Wood, Spencer^*,1, ¹ University of British Columbia, Vancouver, BC, Canada, The importance of species identity for community-wide species interactions.

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Poster # 44. Drobyshev, Igor ^*,1, Pinheiro, Natalie¹, Semko-Duncan, Marie¹, Holmes, Kathryn¹, Hix, David, Goebel, Charles², ¹ School of Environment and Natural Resources, Wooster, OH, USA² School of Environment and Natural Resources, Columbus, OH, USA, Composition, structure, and history of an old-growth beech-maple forest of the Lower Great Lakes region, US.

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Poster # 45. Kitchell, Ken ^*,1, Milligan, Heather^*,1, Barth, Leah^*,1, Dreager, Dan¹, McConnaughay, Kelly ¹, Morris, Sherri¹, Fan, Sam¹, ¹ Bradley University, Peoria, IL, usa, Possible shifts of microbial community structure in temperate forests of central Illinois: the adverse effects of an invasive species, Alliaria petiolata, on pine plantation stands.

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Poster # 46. Kaminski, Cynthia^*,1, Scarborough, Phaedra, Reynolds, Barbara, ¹ University of North Carolina, Asheville, Asheville, NC, Effects of forest canopy gaps on leaf litter decomposition and microarthropods in the southern Appalachians.

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Poster # 47. Hartman, JeanMarie ^*,1, ¹ Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey, New Brunswick, NJ, Three wetland restorations in the New Jersey Meadowlands.

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Poster # 48. Packett, Diane^*,1, Dunning, John¹, ¹ Purdue University, West Lafayette, IN, USA, Stopover habitat selection by nearctic-neotropical migrant landbirds in a fragmented forest-agricultural landscape.

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Poster # 49. Mathias, Andrea¹, Chesson, Peter¹, ¹ University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ, Exact quantification of the storage effect in desert ecosystems.

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Poster # 50. O'Dell, Ryan^*,1, Claassen, Victor¹, ¹ University of California, Davis, Davis, CA, USA, Vertical distribution of organic amendment influences the rooting depth of revegetation species on barren, subgrade serpentine substrate.

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Poster # 51. Harding, Karin^*,1, ¹ University of Goteborg, Sweden, Goteborg, Sweden, Emerging disease dynamics. age dependent mortality and aquired immunity of harbour seals exposed to Phocine Distemper Virus.

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Poster # 52. Kang, Sanghoon^{*,1, 2}, Schadt, Christopher¹, Garten, Charles¹, Zhou, Jizhong^{1, 2}, ¹ Environmental Sciences Division, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Oak Ridge, TN² Institute for Environmental Genomics, University of Oklahoma, Norman, OK, Spatial analysis of soil microbial functionality using functional gene array.

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Poster # 53. Low, Candace^*,1, ¹ University of California, Santa Barbara, Santa Barbara, CA, A trade-off between host detectability and escape may reflect inefficient searching by parasitoids.

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Poster # 54. Nomann, Benjamin¹, Buchanan, Amanda^*,1, ¹ Florida State University, Tallahassee, FL, Influence of floral diversity and fire management on pollination success in rewardless orchids.

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Poster # 55. Kwit, Charles^{*,1, 2}, Platt, William³, Turner, Susan^{1, 4}, ¹ Savannah River Ecology Laboratory, Aiken, SC² Miami University, Oxford, OH³ Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge, LA⁴ Greenville Technical College, Greenville, SC, Evidence for drought causing rapid population decline of a forest tree.

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Poster # 56. White, Will^*,1, Warner, Robert¹, ¹ University of California, Santa Barbara, Santa Barbara, CA, Group size benefits and the spatial scaling of density dependence in a coral reef fish.

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Poster # 57. Strigul, Nikolay^*,1, Pristinski , Denis ², Pacala, Stephen ¹, ¹ Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, Princeton, NJ, USA² Stevens Institute of Technology, Hoboken, NJ, USA, Crown plasticity and large-scale forest dynamics. A new method of modeling vegetation dynamics: analytical results.

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Poster # 59. Reynolds, Julie^*,1, ¹ Duke University, Durham, NC, Teaching students to write about science: does Calibrated Peer Reveiw™ help?

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Poster # 60. Carah, Jennifer^*,1, Chavez, Anastasia ¹, Bohnett, Lucas¹, Connor, Edward¹, ¹ San Francisco State University, San Francisco, CA, Time costs and sampling efficiencies for different sized and shaped quadrats.

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Poster # 61. Hoeppner, Susanne^*,1, Shaffer, Gary², Zoller, Jason², Christiano, Mark³, ¹ Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge, LA² Southeastern Louisiana University, Hammond, LA³ University of Rhode Island, Kingston, RI, Restoration versus logging: are most coastal swamps in the Mississippi Delta non-sustainable?

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Poster # 62. Robinson Fastring, Danielle ^{1, 2}, Griffith, Jerry ^*,1, ¹ The University of Southern Mississippi, Hattiesburg, MS² The University of Southern Mississippi, Long Beach, MS, Modeling favorable mosquito habitat conditions to predict malaria outbreaks in Kenya.

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Poster # 63. Toepfer, Conrad^*,1, ¹ Brescia University, Owensboro, KY, Undergraduate teaching without a net: a student-driven environmental course.

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Poster # 64. Bowers, Michael^*,1, Jerkins, Diana^*,1, ¹ Cooperative State Research, Education & Extension Service-USDA, Washington, DC, The National Research Initiative - it is not just for research!.

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Poster # 65. Girvetz, Evan^*,1, ¹ University of California, Davis, Davis, CA, A model for hierarchically delineating habitat patches: theoretical behavior and ecological applications.

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Poster # 66. Hollister, Emily^*,1, Boutton, Thomas¹, Ansley, R^{1, 2}, ¹ Texas A&M University, College Station, TX² Texas Agricultural Experiment Station - Vernon, Vernon, TX, Influence of fire and woody plant invasion on the carbon dynamics of a southern Great Plains grassland system.

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Poster # 67. Kay, Isabelle¹, Demopoulos, Amanda^*,2, Levin, Lisa², ¹ University of California, San Diego, La Jolla, CA² Scripps Institution of Oceanography, University of California, San Diego, La Jolla, CA, Resurrection: a case study of introduced mangroves re-infesting the Mission Bay Marsh, San Diego, California.

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Poster # 68. Braunskill, Kesha^*,1, Vulinec, Kevina¹, ¹ Delaware State University, Dover, DE, Seed dispersal by feral horses on Assateague Barrier Island, Maryland.

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Poster # 69. Rypel, Andrew^*,1, Kennedy, Thomas¹, Pounds, Keke¹, Findlay, Robert¹, ¹ The University of Alabama, Tuscaloosa, AL, USA, Phenotypic diversification of bluegill (Lepomis macrochirus) in unregulated southeastern USA floodplain rivers.

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Poster # 70. Walker, Denise^*,1, Clark, Jennifer ¹, Leff, Adam¹, ¹ Kent State University, Kent, Ohio, 44242, Investigation of black shell disease in a population of crayfish from northeast Ohio.

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Poster # 71. Radomski, Andrew ^*,1, Ludwig, Gerald¹, Hobbs, Melissa¹, Thompson, Steven ², Perschbacher, Peter³, ¹ USDA ARS, Stuttgart, AR, USA² USDA ARS, Stoneville, MS, USA³ Univeristy of Arkansas, Pine Bluff, Pine Bluff, AR, USA, Can manipulating water color deter piscivorous bird activity with an artificial environment?

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Poster # 72. Bohn, Kimberly^*,1, Yanai, Ruth², Nyland, Ralph², ¹ University of Florida, Milton, FL² State University of New York, Syracuse, NY, Effects of different partial cutting treatments on structural dynamics in uneven-aged northern hardwood stands.

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Poster # 73. Grote, Kristin^*,1, Gentile, Roberta ¹, Vanlauwe, Bernard¹, Six, Johan¹, ¹ University of California, Davis, Davis, CA, Interactions between soil texture, organic residue quality, and mineral fertilizer affect the rate of carbon and nitrogen cycling.

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Poster # 74. Paulsen, Steven^*,1, Hawkins, Charles², Holdsworth, Susan³, ¹ U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, Corvallis, OR, USA² Utah State University, Logan, Utah, USA³ U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, Washington, DC, USA, National assessment of the condition of wadeable streams in the conterminous US.

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Poster # 75. Graham, Kayla^*,1, Larson, Elizabeth¹, Grimm, Nancy^{1, 2}, ¹ School of Life Sciences, Tempe, AZ, USA² Global Institute of Sustainability, Tempe, AZ, USA, Denitrification potential in retention basins in Phoenix, AZ.

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Poster # 76. Santana, Mirna^*,1, Lodge, Deborah², Warren, Mattew ³, Lebow, Patricia⁴, ¹ University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, Milwaukee, WI, USA² Center for Forest Mycology Research, Palmer, PR, USA³ University of Puerto Rico, Rio Piedras, PR, USA⁴ USDA -Forest Service, Forest Product Laboratory, Madison, WI, USA, Home court advantage and drought influences in the decomposition of tropical leaves.

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Poster # 77. Yahdjian, Laura¹, Sala, Osvaldo^{*,1, 2}, ¹ University of Buenos Aires - School of Agronomy, Buenos Aires, Argentina² Environmental Change Initiative, Providence, RI, Responses of nitrogen fluxes to N and water pulses in an arid ecosystem in the Patagonian Steppe.

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Poster # 78. Hermann, Sharon¹, Gilbert, John^*,1, Kush, John¹, ¹ Auburn University, Auburn, AL, Evaluating the feasibility of using natural regeneration to restore longleaf pine on Horseshoe Bend National Military Park.

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Poster # 79. Talley, Drew^{*,1, 2}, Whitcraft, Christine³, Crooks, Jeff⁴, Boland, John⁵, Gaskin, John ⁶, ¹ San Francisco Bay NERR/SFSU, Tiburon, CA, USA² University of California Davis, Davis, CA, USA³ Scripps Institution of Oceanography, La Jolla, CA⁴ Tijuana River NERR, Imperial Beach, CA⁵ Boland Ecological Services, San Diego, CA⁶ USDA-ARS-NPARL, Sidney, MT, Invasion of Tijuana River Estuary salt marshes by a hybrid swarm of tamarisk.

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Poster # 80. Nonaka, Etsuko^*,1, Holme, Petter ², ¹ Department of Biology, University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, NM² Department of Computer Science, University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, NM, Landscape configuration affects the energy intake rates of foragers: an agent-based approach to optimal foraging in heterogeneous landscapes.

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Poster # 81. Anderson, Christopher^{*,1, 2}, Mitsch, William², ¹ School of Forestry & Wildlife Sciences, Auburn, AL, USA² Wilma H. Schiermeier Olentangy River Wetland Research Park, Columbus, OH, USA, Bottomland hardwood forest productivity as a result of hydrologic restoration and flood connectivity.

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Poster # 82. Cherry, Julia^{*,1, 2}, McKee, Karen ¹, Grace, James¹, ¹ USGS National Wetlands Research Center, Lafayette, LA, USA² University of Alabama, Tuscaloosa, AL, USA, Predicting the persistence of coastal wetlands to global climate change: a greenhouse study of the interactive effects of CO₂, salinity, and flooding on marsh surface elevations.

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Poster # 83. Wakeley, Gretchen^*,1, Burgess, Macdonald¹, Brown, Kim¹, ¹ Dept. of Environmental and Plant Biology, Athens, OH, USA, Spatial variability of soil physical properties and soil water potential at Dysart Woods, an old-growth oak forest in southeastern Ohio.

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Poster # 84. Anchor, Theodore^*,1, Knuteson, Deana¹, Barzen, Jeb ², Gratton, Claudio¹, Mathews, Nancy¹, Zedler, Paul¹, ¹ University of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison, WI² International Crane Foundation, Baraboo, WI, Standards for the management of natural lands on Wisconsin vegetable farms.

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Poster # 85. Moll, Jason^*,1, Brown, Joel¹, ¹ University of Illinois at Chicago, Chicago, IL, USA, Evolutionarily stable strategies with complex life cycles.

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Poster # 86. Elias, Emile^*,1, Dougherty, Mark¹, ¹ Auburn University, Auburn, AL, Long-term seasonal water quality trends categorized by watershed impervious area in AL, 1974 – 1998.

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Poster # 87. Lensing, Janet^*,1, Wise, David¹, ¹ University of Kentucky, Lexington, KY, Impacts of altered rainfall predicted by climate-change models on arthropods, litter decay, and trophic cascades in a forest-floor food web.

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Poster # 88. Spigler, Rachel^*,1, Chang, Shu-Mei¹, ¹ Department of Plant Biology, Athens, GA, Examining the prevalence of inbreeding depression among 6 natural populations of the native biennial Sabatia angularis (Gentianaceae) and its potential demographic consequences.

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Poster # 89. Bowne, David^*,1, ¹ Franklin and Marshall College, Lancaster, PA, USA, Can ecology inform security? A metapopulation analysis of the insurgency in Iraq.

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Poster # 90. Whitbeck, Julie^*,1, ¹ University of New Orleans, New Orleans, LA, United States, Listening to the landscape through time: developing an integrative program for ecological hurricane research.

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Poster # 91. Artman, Vanessa^*,1, Buehler, C¹, Byers, C¹, Drake, S¹, ¹ DePauw University, Greencastle, IN, Leaf litter, nutrient cycling, and forest ecology in the vicinity of an abandoned limestone quarry.

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