Session: Riparian and Floodplain Habitats (93rd ESA Annual Meeting (August 3 -- August 8, 2008))

1:30 PM

Hydrologic complexity drives organism growth in floodplain river ecosystems
Andrew L. Rypel, Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources; Wendell R. Haag, USDA Forest Service, Stream Hydrology Lab; Robert H. Findlay, The University of Alabama

1:50 PM

COS 104-2

The impact of forest disturbance on Taxodium distichum forests, between 1964 and 1995, on the Lower Mississippi River Alluvial Plain, USA
James Rosson Jr., USDA Forest Service, Southern Research Station; Anita K. Rose, USDA Forest Service, Southern Research Station

2:10 PM

COS 104-3

Stand structures in floodplain and upland forests in northeastern Illinois
Xiaoyong Chen, Governors State University; Mary Carrington, Governors State University; Jon Mendelson, Governors State University

2:30 PM

COS 104-4

Fluvial sediment influences on floodplain soil biogeochemistry
J. Scott Bechtold, University of Washington; Robert J. Naiman, University of Washington

2:50 PM

COS 104-5

Effects of riparian forest harvesting on the aquatic ecosystem in northern Minnesota streams
Christopher J. Chizinski, University of Minnesota; Dickson Atuke, University of Minnesota; Eric C. Merten, University of Wisconsin - Eau Claire; Nat A. Hemstad, University of Minnesota; Bruce Vondracek, Minnesota Fish and Wildlife Cooperative Research Unit, US Geological Survey; Ray M. Newman, University of Minnesota; Charlie R. Blinn, University of Minnesota

3:10 PM

COS 104-

Break

3:20 PM

COS 104-6

A conceptual model of forest succession and diversity in eastern riparian zones
Thomas P. Diggins, Youngstown State University; Erin K. Pfeil, Youngstown State University

3:40 PM

COS 104-7

The ebb and flood of tidal freshwater rivers affect watershed denitrification: A missing link in river basin nitrogen budgets
Scott H. Ensign, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill; Michael F. Piehler, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill; Martin W. Doyle, Duke University

4:00 PM

COS 104-8

Untangling the effects of the vegetative and built landscape on breeding riparian bird communities in Cincinnati, OH, USA: Land cover, scale, and woody vegetation
Derric Pennington, World Wildlife Fund; Mary L. Cadenasso, University of California, Davis; Rob Blair, University of Minnesota

4:20 PM

COS 104-9

Linking trace gas emissions and hydrologic variability in coastal plain wetlands under contrasting land uses
Jennifer L. Morse, Portland State University; Marcelo Ardon, East Carolina University; Emily Bernhardt, Duke University

4:40 PM

COS 104-10

Arthropod community heritability, repeatability, and stability of a foundation tree species
Art R. Keith, Northern Arizona University; Joseph K. Bailey, The University of Tennessee, Knoxville; Thomas G. Whitham, Northern Arizona University

COS 104 - Riparian and Floodplain Habitats