2018 ESA Annual Meeting (August 5 -- 10)

COS 125 - Urban Ecosystems III

Thursday, August 9, 2018: 1:30 PM-5:00 PM
235-236, New Orleans Ernest N. Morial Convention Center
1:50 PM
Living large: Invasive species thrive in cities
Kristi M Backe, North Carolina State University; Steven D. Frank, North Carolina State University; Jérôme Rousselet, L'Institut national de la recherche agronomique; Alain Roques, L'Institut national de la recherche agronomique
2:10 PM Cancelled
COS 125-3
Accessing the sustainability of urban ecological-economic systems based on emergy analysis in consideration of ecosystem services (widthdrawn)
Yuxue Pan, Chinese Research Academy of Environmental Sciences; Yu Tian, Beijing Normal University
2:30 PM
Does lead contamination have New Orleans mockingbirds singing the blues?
Jordan Karubian, Tulane University; Stephanie McClelland, Royal Holloway University of London; Myra Finkelstien, UC Santa Cruz; Renata Ribeiro, Tulane University; Jan Komdeur, University of Groningen; Howard Mielke, Tulane University
2:50 PM
Moving toward standardization in landscape gradient definition
Benjamin J. Padilla, University of Massachusetts Amherst; Christopher Sutherland, University of Massachusetts Amherst
3:10 PM
3:20 PM
Rodent communities across a gradient of urbanization and abandonment in New Orleans, Louisiana
Anna C Peterson, University of Tennessee; Bruno M. Ghersi, University of Tennessee; Joshua Lewis, Tulane University; Claudia Riegel, City of New Orleans Mosquito, Termite, Rodent Control Board; Michael J. Blum, Tulane University, University of Tennessee
3:40 PM
The un-greening of suburbia: An exploration of the patterns and drivers of tree loss across Long Island, NY
Steve M. Raciti, Hofstra University; Penelope Ramos, Hofstra University; Anthony Sisti, Hofstra University
4:00 PM
Changes in plant community composition and diversity in response to metal contaminated soil
Allyson B. Salisbury, Rutgers University-Newark; Frank J. Gallagher, Rutgers University; Liliana Meneses, Universidad Nacional Agraria La Molina; Claus Holzapfel, Rutgers University Newark
4:20 PM
Global urbanization effects on vegetation activity and temperature
María Semmartin, IFEVA, School of Agronomy University of Buenos Aires, Conicet; Martín F. Garbulsky, University of Buenos Aires; Santiago R. Verón, University of Buenos Aires; Paula Casadei, University of Buenos Aires; Tamara Propato, University of Buenos Aires
4:40 PM
A 15N isotope tracer experimentally demonstrates that nonnative plants limit energy flow to higher order consumers in residential yards
Desiree L. Narango, City University of New York; Tomás A. Carlo, The Pennsylvania State University; Douglas W. Tallamy, University of Delware; Peter P. Marra, Smithsonian Conservation Biology Institute
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