Session: Ecosystem Management and Assessment (93rd ESA Annual Meeting (August 3 -- August 8, 2008))

8:00 AM

COS 21-1

Valuing the Arc: Mapping ecosystem services in a Tanzanian center of endemism
Taylor Ricketts, University of Vermont; Andrew Balmford, University of Cambridge; Neil Burgess, World Wildlife Fund; Guillermo Mendoza, Stanford University; Pantaleo Munishi, Sokoine University of Agriculture; Shadrack Mwakalila, WWF-Tanzania Program Office; Erik Nelson, Stanford University; Nasser Olwero, World Wildlife Fund; Mathieu Rouget, University of Cambridge; Heather Tallis, The Nature Conservancy; Sue White, Cranfield University

8:20 AM

COS 21-2

Ecological restoration planning for large sites: Assessment and planning for the John Heinz National Wildlife Refuge
Dan J. Salas, JFNew and Associates

8:40 AM

COS 21-3

Sphagnum moss harvesting in southern Chile: Capacity building for peatland management and conservation
M. Francisca Diaz, Institute of Ecology and Biodiversity and CASEB, Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile; Carolina Tapia, Instituto de Ecología y Biodiversidad (IEB) & Fundacion Senda Darwin; Juan J. Armesto, Institute of Ecology and Biodiversity

9:00 AM

COS 21-4

Testing the robustness of management decisions to uncertainty: Everglades restoration scenarios
Michael McNair Fuller, University of Toronto; Louis Gross, University of Tennessee; Scott M. Duke-Sylvester, Emory University; Mark Palmer, The Institute for Environmental Modeling

9:20 AM

COS 21-5

Does landscape position determine the optimal spatial scale defining the effects of land use on lake nutrients?
Patricia A. Soranno, Michigan State University; K. Spence Cheruvelil, Michigan State University; K.E. Webster, University of Maine; Mary Bremigan, Michigan State University; T. Wagner, Michigan State University

9:40 AM

COS 21-

Break

9:50 AM

COS 21-6

Field evidence that ecosystem service projects support biodiversity and diversify options
Rebecca L. Goldman, Stanford University; Heather Tallis, The Nature Conservancy; Peter Kareiva, The Nature Conservancy; Gretchen C. Daily, Stanford University

10:10 AM

COS 21-7

The history and fate of ecosystem services in a human-dominated landscape: A case study from Lake Wingra, Wisconsin
Amy M. Kamarainen, Harvard University; Stephen R. Carpenter, University of Wisconsin - Madison

10:30 AM

COS 21-8

Estimation of relationship between hydrologic change, seawater intrusion, and crop production by using an integrated approach
Tadanobu Nakayama, National Institute for Environmental Studies (NIES)

10:50 AM

COS 21-9

Ecosystem services: The disproportionate value of individual species in biological cold-spots
Dov F. Sax, Brown University; Osvaldo E. Sala, Arizona State University; Pedro Flombaum, Centro de Investigaciones del Mar y la Atmósfera; Laureano Gherardi, Brown University

11:10 AM

COS 21-10

Assessment of avian communities for conservation potential in central sands Wisconsin agroecosystems
M. Virginia Knight, University of Wisconsin-Madison; Nancy E. Mathews, University of Wisconsin-Madison

COS 21 - Ecosystem Management and Assessment