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PARENT SESSION
Monday, August 7, 8:00-11:30 am
OOS 1 - Designing, restoring, and managing ecosystems
Ballroom C, Ballroom Level, Cook Convention Center
Organized by: MD Matlock (mmatllock@uark.edu) and WC Hession

The need for competent ecosystem design, restoration, and management criteria and methods is great. This session will explore the breadth and depth of ecosystem design, restoration, and management practices.


8:00 AMLuoni, Steve *,1, Matlock, Marty1, 1 University of Arkansas, Fayetteville, AR, Challenges for sustainable ecosystem design and management in built environments.

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8:20 AMMatlock, Marty*,1, Hession, Cully2, 1 University of Arkansas, Fayetteville, AR2 Virginia Polytechnical Institute, Blacksburg, VA, Stream restoration ecological design criteria.

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8:40 AMCollins, Beverly*,1, Minchin, Peter2, 1 Savannah River Ecology Laboratory, Aiken, SC2 Southern Illinois University Edwardsville, Edwardsville, IL, Multiple land use effects on upland forest vegetation of a heterogeneous military site.

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9:00 AMFeminella, Jack*,1, Miller, Stephanie1, Mitchell, Richard1, Maloney, Kelly1, 1 Auburn University, Auburn, AL, Can restoration using instream woody debris dam additions increase biotic integrity in disturbed coastal plains streams?

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9:20 AMZak, John*,1, Grizzle, Heath1, Campbell, Jim1, Krzysik, Anthony2, Kovacic, Dave3, Duda, Jeffrey4, Graham, John5, Balbach, Hal6, 1 Texas Tech University, Lubbock, TX2 Ecological Research Institute, Prescott College, Prescott, AZ3 University of Illinois, Champaign, IL4 USGS, Western Fisheries Research Center, Seattle, WA5 Berry College, Mount Berry, GA6 US Army Engineer Research & Development Center, CERL, Champaign, IL, Microbial dynamics, forest disturbance history, and abiotic constraints: what controls system recovery.

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9:40 AM, Break.

9:50 AMImm, Donald*,1, Sharitz, Rebecca1, Madden, Kathryn1, Collins, Beverly1, 1 Savannah River Ecology Laboratory, Aiken, SC, A predictive habitat-based model for nine rare sandhill plants of the southeastern US.

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10:10 AMJolley, Rachel*,1, Lockaby, B. Graeme1, 1 Auburn University, Auburn, AL, Effects of restoration on native vegetation and biogeochemistry of ephemeral riparian forests.

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10:30 AMRoberts, Brian*,1, Mulholland, Patrick1, Houser, Jeffrey2, 1 Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Oak Ridge, TN2 USGS, La Crosse, WI, Effects of in-stream restorations on stream hydrodynamics, nutrient uptake, and ecosystem metabolism at Fort Benning, GA.

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10:50 AMMalmstrom, Carolyn*,1, Butterfield, H. Scott1, Barber, Christopher1, 2, Schrotenboer, Abbie1, Yoshida, Toshi1, 1 Michigan State University, East Lansing, MI2 South Dakota State University, Brookings, SD, Engaging landowners and scientists in collaborative landscape-level analyses of restoration and management activities: a case study in California rangelands.

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11:10 AMHummel, Ondrea*,1, Burkes-Copes, Kelly2, Webb, Antisa2, 1 US Army Corps of Engineers, Albuquerque, NM2 US Army Corps of Engineers, Vicksburg, MS, Ecosystem analysis for the Middle Rio Grande Bosque ecosystem restoration feasibility study.

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