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

Tenth Annual Poster Symposium

January 10, 2008
Carson Ballroom, Old Main
Arizona State University

Abstracts (requires Adobe Acrobat Reader)

Land-Use and Land-Cover Changes

Public Park Ecology and Neighborhood Crime: Assessing Resident Perceptions of Crime and Park Quality
Darren M. Ruddell, Sharon L. Harlan, Genevieve Luikart, and Susannah Lerman (pdf) (swf)

Ancient Agriculture of the Perry Mesa Tradition in Central Arizona: Interpreting Ancient Land-use and Modern Landscapes
Hoski Schaafsma, Melissa Kruse, Will Russel, John Briggs, Kate Spielmann, and Sharon Hall (pdf) (swf)

Characterization of Microclimates in North Desert Village Sites
Kendra D. Busse and Chris A. Martin (pdf) (swf)

Effects of Land Cover Transformations on Surface Microclimate along an Urban-Rural Gradient in Phoenix Analyzed with Satellite Data
Alex Buyantuyev, Jianguo Wu, and Yun Ouyang (pdf) (swf)

How Evapotranspiration Varies Across Urban Neighborhoods — Application of LUMPS Model
J. Elder, Susanne Grossman-Clarke, Anthony Brazel, H. Butler, and Chris Martin (pdf) (swf)

Heat-Related Morbidity in Metropolitan Phoenix, Arizona (2001-2006)
Donna A. Hartz, Jay Golden, and Anthony J. Brazel (pdf) (swf)

Prehistoric Population and Climate Variation in the Agua Fria Watershed of Arizona
Cara S. Kiggins and Scott Ingram (pdf) (swf)

Annual Patterns of Below-Ground Thermodynamics and Surface Temperatures at the North Desert Village
Chris Martin (pdf) (swf)

Effect of Landscape Design and Irrigation on Summertime Gas Exchange of Landscape Trees, Shrubs, and Herbs
Chris A. Martin and Kendra D. Busse (pdf) (swf)

Rural to Urban Temperature Gradients: CAP LTER in Context of the Recent Trends in the Mojave and Sonora Desert Region
Hannah Mensing and Anthony Brazel (pdf)

Fluxes of Materials and Socio-Ecosystem Response

Observing Extracellular Enzyme Activity(EEA) in the Sonoran Desert
Bony Ahmed, Ryan A. Sponseller, Nancy B. Grimm, and Sharon J. Hall (pdf) (swf)

Residential Landscapes: Synthesis of the Literature and Preliminary Survey Results
Elizabeth M. Cook, Sharon J. Hall, and Kelli L. Larson (pdf) (swf)

Atmospheric Dry Deposition of Gaseous and Particulate Nitrogen to Urban-Influenced Sonoran Desert Sites
Daniel A. Gonzales, Jonathan O. Allen, Ryan A. Sponseller, Sharon J. Hall, and Nancy B. Grimm (pdf) (swf)

Aridland Urban Hydrology in Phoenix, AZ
Rebecca Hale, Nathan Toke, Nancy Grimm, and Ramon Arrowsmith (pdf)

Biogeochemical Processes in Tempe Town Lake: Trends and Patterns in the Amount and Composition of Dissolved Organic Carbon
Hilairy Hartnett, Megan Kelly, and H. Waterman (pdf) (swf)

Comparison of Trace Metal Deposition in Northern and Central Arizona
Ken C. Sweat, Thomas H. Nash III, Panjai Prapaipong, and Paul T. Gremillion (pdf) (swf)

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

Human Control of Biodiversity

The Tucson Hummingbird Project: An Experimental Study of Community Ecology and Reconciliation on a City-Wide Scale (http://hummingbirds.arizona.edu)
Alona Bachi and Michael L. Rosenzweig (pdf) (swf)

Variation in Arthropod Diversity, Guild Composition and Abundances along an Urban-Rural Gradient: Nine Years of CAP LTER Monitoring
Christofer Bang and Stanley H. Faeth (pdf) (swf)

Urban Behavioral Ecology of the Western Black Widow (Latrodectus hesperus): From Solitary Desert Predator to Urban Pest
J. Chadwick Johnson, Kathryn Kitchen, Claudia Ibeth Torres, Patricia Trubl, Ashley Gohr, and Melissa Rife (pdf) (swf)

The Social and Ecological Construction of Protected Rainforests in Costa Rica's Osa Peninsula
Maya Kapoor and Ann Kinzig

The Effects of Relatedness, Age Differences, and Maternal Investment on Juvenile Cannibalism in the Black Widow Spider, Latrodectus hesperus
Kathryn Kitchen and J. Chadwick Johnson (pdf) (swf)

Foraging Decisions, Bird Community Structure and Residential Landscapes: Finding the Links
Susannah Lerman and Paige S. Warren (pdf) (swf)

Effects of Urbanization on Avian Species Richness in the Phoenix Metropolitan Area: Patterns in Vegetation Remnants
Jennifer E. Litteral and Jianguo Wu (pdf) (swf)

Ground Arthropod Diversity at North Desert Village
Laura Taylor-Taft and Stanley Faeth (pdf) (swf)

Do People Notice Birds?
Paige Warren, Susannah Lerman, and Sharon Harlan (pdf) (swf)

Urban Tree Health in the Phoenix Metropolitan Area
Jean C. Stutz (pdf) (swf)

Landscape Treatment and Residents' Satisfaction: Results from Wave 2 of the North Desert Village Social Survey
Scott Yabiku, David Casagrande, and Elizabeth Farley-Metzger (pdf) (swf)

Human Dimensions of Ecological Research

Residential Water Use in Phoenix: Exploring Myths and Realities
Janet Clemens, Adam Greenwade, Annette Humm-Keen, David Keen, Paul Lucas, Adam Miller, Mary Lu Nunley, Ray Quay, Steve Rossi, and Dale Vieregge

An Environmental Justice Framework for Analyzing Obesigenic Environments: A GIS Analysis of Walkability, Park Access, and Neighborhood Demographics in Phoenix, Arizona
Kate J. Darby, Bethany B. Cutts, Christopher G. Boone, and Alexandra Brewis (pdf) (swf)

An Assessment of Municipal Water Conservation Policy in Greater Phoenix, Arizona, 1980-2007
Annie Gustafson, Kelli Larson, Paul Hirt, and Lilah Zautner (pdf) (swf)

Declining Cotton Cultivation in Maricopa County, Arizona: An Examination of Macro and Micro-Scale Driving Forces
Gabriel Judkins (pdf) (swf)

Valuing the Environment in Metropolitan Phoenix
Elisabeth K. Larson and Charles Perrings (pdf) (swf)

Opportunities and Challenges to Linking Science and Policy in the Luquillo LTER: Preliminary Findings on Stakeholder Perspectives of Water Governance and Sustainability
Tischa A. Muñoz-Erickson, Kelli Larson, and Juan Declet (pdf) (swf)

Park Access and Equity in Phoenix
Chona Sister and Christopher Boone (pdf) (swf)

Information Management, Outreach, and Education

Another Piece for the Metadata Management System at CAP
Raul Aguilar, Corinna Gries, and Inigo San Gil (pdf) (swf)

Ecology Explorers: K-12 Student Contributions to the CAP LTER Project
Birgit Musheno and Monica Elser K-12 Student posters:

• Which location do the birds think is the safest? By Jackson Du (pdf)
• How does the amount of species differ between urban and desert yards? By Hannah Fay and Jacob van Raaphorst (pdf)
• Does the presence of water influence the magnitude of bird activity? By Nathan Jack and Stephanie Kim (pdf)
• Does the presence of water effect the birds in a backyard? By Charmi Vasoya and Christina Manuele (pdf)

AHIS Dataset Search Engine: An Intelligent Approach to EML Data Management
Hung V. Nguyen, Corinna Gries, and Hasan Davulcu (pdf) (swf)

The Arizona Hydrologic Information System: Enhanced data Accessibility Using Web Services
Shankara Subramanya, Corinna Gries, Kathy Jacobs, Wolf-Dieter Otte, Ramon Vazquez, Joe Abraham, Raul Aguilar, James McGill, and Huan Liu (pdf) (swf)

New Informatic Model for Identifying Urban Plant Problems
Jean C. Stutz, Jordan Costello, Andrea Gerbasio, Corinna Gries, and Edward Gilbert (pdf) (swf)

Decision Center for a Desert City

An Ethnohydrologic Evaluation of Water Quality in Phoenix, AZ
Stacy Avent, Amber Wutich, Beatrice Crona, Patricia Gober, Mohan Seetharam, and Paul Westerhoff (pdf) (swf)

Sensitivity of Residential Water Consumption to Variations in Weather and Climate: An Intra-Urban Analysis of Phoenix, Arizona
Robert C. Balling, Jr., Patricia Gober, and Nancy Jones (pdf) (swf)

Information Distribution Across Organizational Networks
Bethany B. Cutts, Allyn. K. Knox, and Nicholas R. Moore (pdf) (swf)

A Scenario Based Assessment of Future Groundwater Resources in the Phoenix Active Management Area
Vanessa Escobar, Tim Lant, Jessica Block, Perry Miller, Michael Tschudi (pdf) (swf)

Focusing on Higher Quality Focus Groups
Meredith Gartin, Amber Wutich, Timothy Lant, Dave White, Kelli Larson, Susan Ledlow and Patricia Gober (pdf) (swf)

Water Managers' Strategies for Addressing Uncertainty in Their Use of GIS for Decision-Making
Jason Howard, Kelli Larson, Dave White, and Elizabeth Wentz (pdf) (swf)

Spatial Extrapolation Mapping Based on Aggregated Data: Countywide Extrapolation of Phoenix Water Use Data
Seung-Jae Lee and Elizabeth A. Wentz (pdf) (swf)

Temporal Geographic Information System (TGIS) to Forecast Future Water Consumption in Phoenix, Arizona
Seung-Jae Lee, Elizabeth A. Wentz, and Patricia Gober (pdf) (swf)

Water Resources, Climate Change and Institutional Vulnerability: A Case Study of Phoenix, Arizona
Mohan Seetharam, Bob Bolin, Brian Pompeii, and Patricia Gober (pdf) (swf)

“Missed Opportunities” in Central Arizona Management: Reconciling the Local Supply of and Demand for Science
Clea Senneville, Kelli Larson, Amber Wutich, Tim Lant, Meredith Gartin, Dave White, Susan Ledlow, and Pat Gober (pdf) (swf)

Using WaterSim for Education: A Work in Progress
Michael Tschudi (pdf)

Pricing for Conservation: Response to Growth and Drought in Tucson and Phoenix
Victoria K. Turner (pdf) (swf)

Water Vulnerability on the Urban Periphery: The Case of Metropolitan Phoenix, Arizona
Lilah Zautner, Kelli Larson, and Bob Bolin (pdf) (swf)