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Central Arizona - Phoenix
Long-Term Ecological Research
(CAP LTER)

Seventh Annual Poster Symposium

January 19, 2005
Carson Ballroom, Old Main
Arizona State University

Land-Use and Land-Cover Changes

Accuracy assessment of vegetation cover estimated with remote sensing data.
Alexander Buyantuyev and Jianguo Wu. (pdf)

People, forests, and fire hazard vulnerability to Arizona’s White Mountains.
Tim Collins.

Variations of landscape preferences among Phoenix residents: A socio-demographic analysis.
Louis Machabee and Ann Kinzig. (pdf)

Integrating urban ecological models.
Peter McCartney, Ray Quay, Corinna Gries, Robin Schroeder, Jana Hutchins, Michael Zoldak, Joseph Zehnder, Dale Mason, Anubav Bagley, and Bill Griffins. (pdf)

Monitoring LULC dynamics in the Phoenix metropolitan area.
Matthias Moeller. (pdf)

Remote sensing and climate from north to south in CAP LTER.
Lela Prashad, Anthony J. Brazel, Jay Golden, Brent Hedquist, Sharon Harlan, and Dale Sherwood. (pdf)

Climate-Ecosystems Interactions

Stream channel morphology along the urban fringe: Flood frequency and flood hazards in the Hassayampa River region.
Jessica Block, Ted Lehman, Ramon Arrowsmith, and Nancy Grimm. (pdf)

Testing a planetary boundary layer schema in MMS for the Phoenix metropolitan region.
Susanne Grossman-Clarke, Joseph A. Zehnder, U. Liu, and J. D. Fast. (pdf)

Urbanization effects on spatio-temporal patterns of flowering phenology of plants in the Phoenix metropolitan area.
Kaesha Neil and Jianguo Wu. (pdf)

Water Policy, Use, and Supply

Initial findings of the North Desert Village Landscaping Experiment: The green, green grass of home.
Elizabeth Farley Metzger, S. Yabuki, Patricia Gober, David Casagrande, Charles Redman, Nancy Grimm, and Sharon Harlan. (pdf)

Investigating human decision making under climatic uncertainty.
Patricia Gober, Charles L. Redman, Bill Edwards, and Nancy S. Jones. (pdf)

Fluxes of Materials and Socio-Ecosystem Response

Use of the green microalga Scenedesmus obliquus for bioremediation of nitrate-contaminated agricultural runoff in an outdoor photobioreactor.
Michael Bellefeuille, Milton Sommerfeld, and Qiang Hu. (pdf)

Utilizing microalgae to remediate nitrate-contaminated groundwater.
Natalie Case, Milton Sommerfeld, and Qiang Hu. (pdf)

A distinct urban biogeochemistry?
Nancy B. Grimm, Jason P. Kaye, Sharon J. Hall, Jonathon O. Allen, and David B. Lewis. (pdf)

Children’s vulnerability to unmanaged asthma in the Phoenix metropolitan area.
Sara Grineski. (pdf)

Streamflow and demography in the lower Salt River basin of central Arizona, ca. A.D. 775 to 1450.
Scott E. Ingram. (pdf)

Nitrogen dynamics in urban man-made lakes: Denitrification potential of sediments.
Elisabeth Larson and Nancy B. Grimm. (pdf)

Effects of three landscape surface mulches on thermal processes in a drip-irrigated xeric landscape.
Catherine Singer and Chris A. Martin. (pdf)

Human Control of Biodiversity

Landscape-level influences of urbanization on reptile communities in the Phoenix metropolitan area.
Laura Becht. (pdf)

Arbuscular mycorrhizal fungal species richness is lower in the Phoenix metropolitan area in comparison to the surrounding desert.
Robert J. Bills and Jean C. Stutz. (pdf)

Long-term bird community patterns at Phoenix’s Desert Botanical Garden.
William M. Cook. (pdf)

Trophic dynamics in urban communities.
Stanley H. Faeth, Paige S. Warren, Eyal Shochat, and Wendy A. Marussich. (pdf)

The role of nitrogen in plant migration along freeway corridors in Phoenix, Arizona.
Kris Gade and Ann P. Kinzig. (pdf)

Does phosphorus limit growth in insects?
Matthew Harwood. (pdf)

Tree composition in small urban parks and surrounding neighborhoods of Phoenix, Arizona.
Chris Martin, Paige Warren, and Ann Kinzig. (pdf)

Legacies of farming in central Sweden: An archaeological perspective on modern plant communities.
Hoski Schaafsma and John Briggs. (pdf)

The legacy of former drip-irrigation and pruning practices on two landscape shrubs: Effects on growth rate and leaf morphology after two years.
Catherine K. Singer, Chris A. Martin, and Darin K. Mahkee. (pdf)

Arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi in the Phoenix metropolitan area: Diversity and functioning.
Jean C. Stutz, Robert J. Bills, Jamaica R. Cousins, Linda B. Stabler, Sean Whitcomb, and Chris A. Martin. (pdf)

Birds of a feather: A story of urban and exurban avian population biology.
Jason S. Walker. (pdf)

Effects of predators and landscaping type on avian ground-foraging behavior in Phoenix parks.
Paige Warren and Erin Adley. (pdf)

Effects of river modification on the riparian soil seed back of the Salt River, Arizona: A case study of an arid region river.
Jacqueline White and Juliet Stromberg. (pdf)

Education and Outreach

Graduate students and Ecology Explorers: Challenges and benefits.
Monica Elser and Charlene Saltz. (pdf)

Concept maps: A multipurpose tool for environmental education.
John Jung. (pdf)

Open-ended inquiry in the schoolyard.
Kathryn Kyle. (pdf)

Middle school students performing university level environmental work.
Shea Lemar, Charlene Saltz, and Monica Elser. (pdf)

Service at Salado, an urban environmental service-learning project.
Charlene Saltz, Nancy Crocker, Danielle Taddy, Debra Banks, and Monica Elser. (pdf)

Information Management

The new intranet and data management for CAP2.
Corinna Gries, Nancy B. Grimm, Charles L. Redman, Ravi Peri, and Peter McCartney. (pdf)

Reorganizing research teams into Integrated Project Areas (IPA) for CAP2.
Nancy Grimm and Charles L. Redman. (pdf)

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