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February 23, 2004
Memorial Union, Arizona Room
Arizona State University

Program Abstracts (pdf)

Large-scale Transformations

Urban fringe expansion measured by water infrastructure development: Phoenix, Arizona, 1950-2000. (pdf) Elizabeth K. Burns and E. D. Kenney

Panarchy: Applying the framework to a prehistoric socio-ecological case study. (pdf) Destiny Crider, Cathryn M. Meegan, and Steve Swanson

The history of urban park development in Seattle 1900-2000: An emergent phenomenon? (pdf) Jack DeLap, Sarah Dooling, Gregory Simon, William C. Webb, and Ken Yocom

Agrarian landscapes in transition: A cross-scale approach. (pdf) Charles L. Redman, Ann P. Kinzig, David R. Foster, Myron P Gutmann, Peter M. Kareiva, and Lauren H. Kuby

From purgatorial wasteland to reclaimed garden: Hydrological development, water politics, and social engineering in pre-statehood central Arizona. (pdf) Samuel J. Schmieding

Human and Non-Human Interaction

Evaluating urban forest functionality: A three-dimensional approach. (pdf) Andrew M. Bjorn, Adrienne I. Greve, M. David Oleyar, and John C. Withey

South Phoenix and the geography of exclusion: Past and present. (pdf)

Bob Bolin and Sara Grineski

The North Desert Village “Suburbosphere”: An experiment in urban ecology. (pdf) William Cook, David Casagrande, Diane Hope, Chris Martin, and Jean Stutz

North Desert Village landscaping experiment monitoring human-environment interactions. (pdf) E. Farley Metzger, Scott Yabiku, Patricia Gober, David Casagrande, Charles L. Redman, Nancy B. Grimm, and Sharon Harlan

Neighborhood ecosystems: Human-climate interactions in a desert metropolis (pdf) Sharon Harlan, Anthony Brazel, Darrel Jenerette, Nancy Jones, Larissa Larsen, Lela Prashad, and William Stefanov

Investigating the variations in neighborhood parks use and landscape preferences: Preliminary results of a survey questionnaire. (pdf) Louis Machabee and Ann Kinzig

Residential landscape water use, 1998 to 2003. (pdf) Chris A. Martin, Linda B. Stabler, Kathleen A. Peterson, Sarah B. Celestian, Darin Mahkee, and C. K. Singer

Water supply in Greater Phoenix: Improving regional decision making through university partnerships. (pdf) Charles L. Redman, Grady Gammage, Nancy Jones, Elizabeth Corley, Jim Holway, John Keane, Sharon Megdal, and Ray Quay

Education and Outreach

Local buggers: An inquiry-based introduction to local insect populations. (pdf) Nathan Morehouse

Dynamic nature of scientific knowledge. (pdf) Kaesha Neil

Ecology Explorers: Land-use prediction game. Charlene Saltz, C. Hill, and M. Elser

Ecology Explorers online data analysis. (pdf) Robin Schoeninger, Peter McCartney, Corinna Gries, Charlene Saltz, Elena Ortiz-Barney, Tim Craig, Sam Scheiner, and Monica Elser

Spatial Analysis

Understanding current and future job centers: An analysis of the Maricopa region. (pdf) Anubhav Bagley, Peter Burnett, Mele Koneya, Mark Roberts, Rita Walton, and Don Worley

Detecting brownfields by means of remote sensing and GIS data. (pdf, 2) Ellen Banzhaf

Estimating vegetation cover of an urban landscape using remote sensing data. (pdf) Alexander Buyantuyev and Jianguo Wu

Analysis of long-term remote-sensing imagery for the detection of changes in the CAP LTER site. (pdf) Matthias Moeller

Remote sensing and landscape metrics for global urban ecological monitoring. (pdf) Maik Netzband and Will L. Stefanov

Defining temperature and vegetation connections at neighborhood and regional scales in Phoenix, Arizona, using remotely sensed and ground-based measurements. (pdf) Lela Prashad, Will L. Stefanov, Anthony Brazel, and Sharon Harlan

Remote sensing of Phoenix’s urban forest with high-resolution aerial photography. (pdf) Jason Walker and John Briggs

Biotic Responses

Most frequently found arthropods at Pendergast School. (pdf) Chryste Berda

Differences in arbuscular mycorrhizal fungal community structure at residential and desert land use types within the CAP LTER. (pdf) Robert Bills, Sean Whitcomb, Jamaica Cousins, and Jean Stutz

Leaf physiology of four landscape trees in response to commercial parking lot location. (pdf) Sarah B. Celestian and Chris A. Martin

The manmade plant communities in the CAP LTER area. (pdf) Corinna Gries, Diane Hope, Linda B. Stabler, Arthur Stiles, Chris A. Martin, and John M. Briggs

Growth of two landscape shrubs following severe pruning: Evidence of a hysteretic effect of former irrigation and pruning practices. (pdf) Darin K. Mahkee and Chris A. Martin

Leaf morphological plasticity of two landscape shrub taxa in response to a change in shrub pruning practices. (pdf) Darin K. Mahkee and Chris A. Martin

Understanding trophic dynamics in urban and desert ecosystems using arthropod communities on brittlebush (Encelia farinosa). (pdf) Wendy A. Marussich and Stanley H. Faeth

Identification of cyanobacterial isolets from the biological soil crusts of Organ Pipe Cactus National Monument, Ajo, Arizona. (pdf) Matt Morrow

The Sonoran Desert: A palimpsest of prehistoric human activities. (pdf) Hoski Schaafsma and John Briggs

Differences in bird foraging behaviour between Sonoran Desert and urban habitats in central Arizona. Eyal Shochat, Madhusudan Katti, and Susannah Lerman

Local arbuscular mycorrhizal fungal diversity is strongly coupled to regional diversity in an urban ecosystem. (pdf) Jean C. Stutz, Sean Whitcomb, and Jamaica Cousins

Legacy effects of prehistoric farming: Isotopic analysis of maize grown in sediments from Hohokam fields. (pdf) Steve Swanson and Rebecca Calonico

Urban bioacoustics: It’s not just noise. (pdf) Paige S. Warren, Madhusudan Katti, and Michael Ermann

Biophysical Processes and Ecosystem Function

Pond chemistry at Awakening Seed School. (pdf) Tinsley Andrews, Leila Duman, Matthew Robinson, Garrett Scrivener, Natalie Settles, Ian Taylor, and Kathryn Kyle

Aerosol deposition measured by eddy-correlation mass spectrometry. (pdf) Daniel A. Gonzales and Jonathan O. Allen

Effects of land cover modifications in mesoscale meteorological and air quality models in the Phoenix metropolitan region. (pdf) Susanne Grossman Clarke, Joseph A. Zehnder, Will L. Stefanov, Diane Hope, and H.J.S. Fernando

Urban heat island (UHI) measures for the S.E. metropolitan area of CAP LTER: Transects versus fixed stations. (pdf) Brent Hedquist and Anthony Brazel

Spatial variation in inorganic soil nitrogen concentrations across an arid urban ecosystem. (pdf) Diane Hope, Weixing Zhu, Corinna Gries, Jason Kaye, Jacob Oleson, Nancy B. Grimm , Darrel Jenerette, and Larry Baker

Soil heterogeneity in six patches of the Phoenix, AZ metropolitan region: Implications for scaling. G. Darrel Jenerette and Jianguo Wu

Hierarchical regulation of ecosystem function: Material export from urban catchments. (pdf) David B. Lewis and Nancy B. Grimm

Anthropogenic modifications influence the interactions between the geomorphology and biogeochemistry of an urban desert stream. W. John Roach, Ramón Arrowsmith, Chris Eisinger, Nancy B. Grimm, Jim B. Heffernan, and Tyler Rychener

Methods of measuring nutrient spiraling in urban streams. (pdf) R. W. Sheibley, Nancy B. Grimm, C. L. Crenshaw, C. Dahm, L. H. Zeglin, H. van Vleck, and A. D. Pershall

Simulating the primary productivity of a Sonoran ecosystem: Model parameterization and validation. (pdf) Weijun Shen, Jianguo Wu, James F. Reynolds, and Nancy B. Grimm

Influences of drip irrigation rate and pruning on electrical conductivity of soil surrounding two landscape shrubs. (pdf) C. K. Singer, Chris A. Martin, Linda B. Stabler, and Darin K. Mahkee

The diazotroph community of biological soil crusts. (pdf) Joseph Dean, Shannon Siart, and Shannon Johnson

Effects of drip irrigation rate on above ground net primary productivity of a mixed landscape. Linda B. Stabler and Chris A. Martin