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PARENT SESSION
Tuesday, August 8, 1:30-5:00 pm
COS 40 - Urban ecology II
Heritage Ballroom I, Marriott
Presiders: A Walz and M Walton

1:50 PMBarrett, Kyle*,1, Guyer, Craig1, 1 Auburn University, Auburn, AL, Eurycea cirrigera abundance and growth: watershed and local habitat effects.

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2:30 PMStratford, Jeffrey *,1, 2, Robinson, W2, 3, 1 Auburn University, Auburn, AL2 Center for Forest Sustainability, Auburn, AL3 Oregon State University, Corvallis, OR, Urbanization and avian communities in the southeastern US.

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2:50 PMBowman Cutway, Heather*,1, Ehrenfeld, Joan2, 1 Mercer University, Macon, GA2 Rutgers University, New Brunswick, NJ, The influence of urban land use and edge permeability on seed dispersal and wetland invasibility.

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3:10 PM, Break.

3:20 PMKaushal, Sujay*,1, Belt, Kenneth2, Stack, William2, Pouyat, Richard2, Groffman, Peter3, Findlay, Stuart3, 1 University of Maryland Center for Environmental Science, Appalachian Laboratory, Frostburg, MD2 USDA Forest Service, Baltimore, MD3 Baltimore Department of Public Works, Baltimore, MD, Variations in heavy metals across urbanizing watersheds.

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3:40 PMTripler, Chris*,1, 1 Institute of Ecosystem Studies, Millbrook, New York, USA, Tree recruitment, growth, and mortality differences between similar forests in urban and rural environments.

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4:00 PMWalton, Michael*,1, Tsatiris, Dimitrios1, Rivera-Sistre, Mary1, 1 Cleveland State University, Cleveland, OH, USA, Urbanization, non-native invertebrates, and the top-down effects of terrestrial salamanders in forest-floor food webs.

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4:20 PMFenter, Cynthia*,1, LeBuhn, Gretchen1, 1 San Francisco State University, San Francisco, CA, Bees in San Francisco: park characteristics as explanatory variables of species richness and abundance.

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