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

Ninth Annual Poster Symposium

January 10, 2007
Carson Ballroom, Old Main
Arizona State University

Abstracts (requires Adobe Acrobat Reader)

Morning and Keynote Speaker Presentations
(These are .swf files and you will need Flash)

Biodiversity in Urban Areas: Patterns and Mechanisms
Stan Faeth, School of Life Sciences (swf)

The Secret Life of Xeriscapes: Hot Spots and Hot Moments on the Urban Land-Use Palette Sharon Hall, School of Life Sciences (swf)

Modeling Fluxes of Water and Salt Through the Urban Infrastructure
Paul Westerhoff, Ira A. Fulton School of Engineering (swf)

Legacy Effects on Environmental Equity in Baltimore and Phoenix: A Cross-Site Analysis
Christopher Boone, School of Human Evolution and Social Change; School of Sustainability (swf)

Keynote: Insights in Linking Forests, Trees, and People from the Air, on the Ground, and in the Lab Elinor Ostrom, Arthur F. Bentley Professor of Political Science and Co-Director of the Workshop on Political Theory and Policy Analysis, Indiana University; Founding Director, Center for the Study of Institutional Diversity and Professor, School of Human Evolution and Social Change, ASU (swf)

POSTERS

Land-Use and Land-Cover Changes

Spatiotemporal Patterns of Primary Production Across Different Land Uses in Central Arizona–Phoenix LTER. Alexander Buyantuyev and Jianguo Wu (pdf)

Satellite-Derived Roughness Data for Hydrology Applications in Areas Affected by Urbanization. Tobias Finke, Susan Moran, and Steve Yool (pdf)

Ecological Paradigms and Landscape Plantings Along Freeways: A Case Study from Melbourne, Australia. Kris J. Gade (pdf)

Long-Term Monitoring of Tree Size Condition Across Nonresidential Patch Types in Phoenix, Arizona. Chris Martin and Jean Stutz (pdf)

Quantifying Impervious Surfaces in the Phoenix Metropolitan Area using Multiple Endmember Spectral Mixture Analysis. Soe W. Myint (pdf)

Historical and Current Patterns of Flowering Phenology in the Phoenix Metropolitan Area. Kaesha Neil and Jianguo Wu

Money Grows Trees: A Socio-Ecological Path Analysis. Jason Walker (pdf)

Climate-Ecosystems Interactions

Phoenix as a Human Habitat in Summer: Exposure and Resources to Cope with Extreme Heat. Darren Ruddell and Sharon Harlan (pdf)

Geographic Patterns of Mercury Deposition Using Xanthoparmelia in Maricopa County, Arizona, USA Ken Sweat, Thomas Zambo, and Thomas Nash III (pdf)

Investigation of Dryland Geomorphic Response to Urbanization. Nathan Toke and J Ramon Arrowsmith (pdf)

Effects of Weather on Neighborhood Human Activity. Scott Yabiku, David Casagrande, and Elizabeth Farley-Metzger (pdf)

Factors that Contribute to Distribution Patterns of Trace Elements in Maricopa County. Xiaoding Zhuo, Panjai Prapaipong, and Everett Shock (pdf)

Fluxes of Materials and Socio-Ecosystem Response

The Effects of Urbanization on Belowground Processes in the Sonoran Desert. Rachel Davies and Sharon Hall (pdf)

Dry Nitrogen Deposition on the Highway Verge. Carrie M. Durward and Kristin J. Gade (pdf)

Dry Deposition of Aerosol Nitrogen and Organic Carbon in the CAP Area. Daniel A. Gonzales and Jonathan O. Allen (pdf)

Temporal Compositional Changes in DOC in Tempe Town Lake. Megan Kelly and Hilairy Hartnett (pdf)

Comparison of Soil Biogeochemical Characteristics in Grassy and Xeriscaped Stormwater Retention Basins in the Phoenix Metropolitan Area. Elisabeth K. Larson, Kayla L. Graham, and Nancy B. Grimm (pdf)

Atmospheric Deposition of Nutrients across a Desert City: Spatial and Temporal Patterns of Wet and Dry Deposition. Kathleen A. Lohse, Diane Hope, Ryan A. Sponseller, Jonathan O. Allen, and Nancy B. Grimm (pdf)

Measuring the Effects of Management on Dissolved Solutes in the Salt River, AZ, USA. Brandon McLean and Everett Shock (pdf large file)

Human Control of Biodiversity

Food Web Dynamics in Above-Ground Desert Remnant and Xeric Residential Landscapes. Bony Ahmed, Kathleen A. Lohse, Ryan A. Sponseller, and Nancy B. Grimm (pdf)

Modeling Trophic Dynamics in the CAP Area. Christofer Bang, Stanley H. Faeth, and J. Martin Anderies (pdf)

Variation in Avian Blood Parasite Prevalence, Insect Vectors and Haematology Associated with Recent Colonization of a City. H. Bobby Fokidis and Pierre Deviche (pdf)

Landscape Design and Bird Community Structure in Phoenix, Arizona: Management Implications. Susannah B. Lerman and Paige S. Warren (pdf)

A Nonstationary Spatial Generalized Linear Mixed Model Approach for Studying Plant Diversity. Anandamayee Majumdar, Corinna Gries, Jason Walker, and Nancy Grimm (pdf)

The Shadowing of Avian Diversity. Erica Schwartzmann and Jason Walker (pdf)

Productivity, Inequality, and Biodiversity Loss in Human-Dominated Ecosystems. Eyal Shochat, Jose Lobo, J. Martin Anderies, Paige S. Warren, Stanley H. Faeth, and Charles H. Nilon (pdf)

Neighborhood Effects on Arthropod Diversity and Food Webs. Laura Taylor-Taft and Stanley Faeth (pdf)

Human Dimensions of Ecological Research

The Location of Toxic Release Inventory Facilities in Maricopa County: Economics, Collective Action, and Being Asian. Heather E. Campbell, Laura R. Peck, and Michael K. Tschudi (pdf)

Environmental Inequity in the Phoenix Metropolitan Statistical Area, 1980 and 2000. Juan Declet, Bob Bolin, and Christopher Boone (pdf)

Social Transformations and Climate Variation in the Prehistoric U.S. Southwest. Scott E. Ingram (pdf)

The CAP LTER Ecosystem Services Assessment: Preliminary Findings and Next Steps. Maya L. Kapoor, Ann P. Kinzig, and Charles Perrings (pdf)

Life Cycle Assessment of Two Water Supply Systems: Importation vs. Reclamation. Erin Lyons, Peng Zhang, Miles Costanza, Ke Li, and John Crittenden

Incorporating Social Elements into the Long-Term Ecological Research Program: Institutional Lessons from the LTER Network. Tischa A. Muñoz-Erickson (pdf)

Information Management, Outreach and Education

Teacher Perceptions on the CAP LTER Ecology Explorers Summer Teacher Internship Program. Monica Elser and Charlene Saltz (pdf)

New Biodiversity Informatics Model for Identifying Plants. Edward Gilbert, Corinna Gries, Leslie Landrum, Elizabeth Makings, and Robin Schroeder (pdf)

Digital Phoenix: A Multidimensional Journey through Time. Subhrajit Guhathakurta, Janet Holsten, Yoshihiro Kobayashi, Tim Lant, Mookesh Patel, John Crittenden, Thomas Morton, Goran Konjevod, Paul Torrens, Ke Li, Dan Stanzione, Karthikeya Date, Peyman Nayeri, Luke Shillington, Robert Pahle, Reid Baker, Steffen Eikenberry, and Chris Grasso (pdf large file)

Using GIS to Display and Predict Human-Wildlife Conflicts. Darren Julian, J. Moore, and Tom Hildebrandt (pdf)

An Integrated Approach to Resolving Urban Wildlife Conflicts by Using Public Education and Community Involvement. Darren Julian, Joseph Yarchin, M. Stewart, and Tom Hildebrandt (pdf)

Visualization of Sustainability Indicators: A Conceptual Framework. Ray Quay, Khanin Hutanuwatr, and K. David Pijawka (pdf large file)

Improving the Keyword Search over Ecological Datasets using a Relational Data Model. Srinivas Vadrevu, Corinna Gries, and Hasan Davulcu (pdf)

Decision Center for a Desert City

Water Landscapes: Representing the Effort Distribution Multiple Outreach Organizations. Bethany Cutts (pdf)

Decision Making Under Uncertainty: Ranking of Multiple Stressors on Central Arizona Water Resources. Netra Chhetri, Lori Hidinger, Mark Neff, Megan O'Shea, Aliya Buttar, and Uven Chong (pdf)

WaterSim: A Study of Water-Related Decision-Making Under Uncertainty. Meredith Gartin, Tim Lant, Amber Wutich, Dave White, Susan Ledlow, and Pat Gober (pdf)

The Impact of Housing Characteristics and Surface Heat Islands on Water Use in Single-Family Residences: The Case of Phoenix Metropolitan Area. Subhrajit Guhathakurta, Patricia Gober, and Jamie Patterson (pdf)

Water Conservation Policy in an Arid Metropolitan Region: A Historical and Geographical Assessment of Phoenix, Arizona. Annie Gustafson, Kelli Larson, Paul Hirt, and Jagadeesh B. Chirumamilla (pdf)

A Soft Geostatistical Application in Urban Climate Research. Seung Jae Lee, Robert Balling, and Patricia Gober (pdf)

Water Vulnerability on the Urban Periphery: Buckeye, Carefree and Cave Creek, Arizona. Claire Smith, Lilah Zautner, Kelli Larson, and Bob Bolin (pdf)