2018 ESA Annual Meeting (August 5 -- 10)

COS 107 - Urban Ecosystems II

Thursday, August 9, 2018: 8:00 AM-11:30 AM
235-236, New Orleans Ernest N. Morial Convention Center
8:00 AM
Quantifying nitrogen and phosphorus recycling, recovery and loss from urban agricultural practices
Paliza Shrestha, University of Saint Thomas; Small E. Gaston, University of Saint Thomas; Adam Kay, University of St. Thomas
8:20 AM
Using ecohydrological landscape characteristics to define an urban forest typology
Amy M. Blood, Virginia Tech; Susan D. Day, Virginia Tech; Valerie A. Thomas, Virginia Tech
8:40 AM
Effect of legacy on hydric forest structure in a subtropical urban watershed
John J. Lagrosa IV, University of Maryland Baltimore County; Michael G. Andreu, University of Florida; Melissa H. Friedman, University of Florida; Wayne Zipperer, USDA Forest Service; Robert J. Northrop, University of Florida
9:00 AM
Citizen science, people's perception and community based conservation of nocturnal slender loris in a megacity
Kaberi Gupta, Urban Slender Loris Project; Varsha Bhaskar, Tata Energy Research Institute
9:20 AM
Assessing social and biophysical drivers of spontaneous urban plant diversity and structure in Chicago’s vacant lots
Elsa Anderson, University of Illinois at Chicago; Emily Minor, University of Illinois at Chicago
9:40 AM
9:50 AM
Effect of nonnative vegetation on Carabid beetle community composition in urban forests
Jennifer Mitchell, North Carolina State University; Steven D. Frank, North Carolina State University; Vincent D'Amico III, USDA Forest Service
10:10 AM Cancelled
COS 107-7
Urbanization-driven variation in thermal and water content limits for three bee genera (widthdrawn)
Justin D. Burdine, Bowling Green State University; Kevin E. McCluney, Bowling Green State University
10:30 AM
Soil carbon and nitrogen elemental content and isotopic composition in residential lawns across six U.S. cities
Carl Rosier, University of Delaware; Tara L.E. Trammell, University of Delaware; Diane Pataki, University of Utah; Richard Pouyat, Chesapeake Bay Career Consulting; Meghan L. Avolio, Johns Hopkins University; Neil D. Bettez, Cary Institute of Ecosystem Studies; Jeanine M. Cavender-Bares, University of Minnesota; Peter M. Groffman, Cary Institute of Ecosystem Studies; Morgan Grove, U.S. Forest Service; Sharon J. Hall, Arizona State University; James B. Heffernan, Duke University; Sarah E. Hobbie, University of Minnesota; Kelli L. Larson, Arizona State University; Jennifer L. Morse, Portland State University; Christopher Neill, Woodwell Climate Research Center; Kristen C. Nelson, University of Minnesota; Laura A. Ogden, Dartmouth College; Jarlath O'Neil-Dunne, University of Vermont; Colin Polsky, Florida Atlantic University; R. Roy Chowdhury, Indiana University; Meredith K. Steele, Virginia Tech; Megan M. Wheeler, School of Life Sciences
10:50 AM
Post-industrial ecosystems and old-fields: A comparison of succession in abandoned ecosystems
David J. Spiering, SUNY - University at Buffalo; Chris P.S. Larsen, SUNY - University at Bufalo
11:10 AM
Novel community assembly on post-industrial soils: The role of soil heterogeneity and pollution
Xiang Lin, New Jersey Institute of Technology; Claus Holzapfel, Rutgers University Newark; Gareth J. Russell, New Jersey Institute of Technology and Rutgers University
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