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

Program Abstracts

Morning and Keynote Speaker Presentations

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

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

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

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

Keynote: Insights in Linking Forests, Trees, and People from the Air, on the Ground, and in the Lab (swf) 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

Land-Use and Land-Cover Changes

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

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

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

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

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

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 (pdf) Jason Walker

Climate-Ecosystems Interactions

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

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

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

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

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

Fluxes of Materials and Socio-Ecosystem Response

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Human Control of Biodiversity

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

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

Variation in Avian Blood Parasite Prevalence, Insect Vectors and Haematology Associated with Recent Colonization of a City (pdf)

H. Bobby Fokidis and Pierre Deviche

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

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

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

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

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

Human Dimensions of Ecological Research

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

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

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

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

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 (pdf) Tischa A. Muñoz-Erickson

Information Management, Outreach and Education

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

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

Digital Phoenix: A Multidimensional Journey through Time (pdf) 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

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

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

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

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

Decision Center for a Desert City

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

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

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

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

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

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

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