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

Program Abstracts

Land-Use and Land-Cover Changes

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Fluxes of Materials and Socio-Ecosystem Response

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

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

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

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

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

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

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) (pdf) Alona Bachi and Michael L. Rosenzweig

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

Urban Behavioral Ecology of the Western Black Widow (

Latrodectus hesperus

): From Solitary Desert Predator to Urban Pest (pdf) J. Chadwick Johnson, Kathryn Kitchen, Claudia Ibeth Torres, Patricia Trubl, Ashley Gohr, and Melissa Rife

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 (pdf) Kathryn Kitchen and J. Chadwick Johnson

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

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

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

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

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

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

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 (pdf) Kate J. Darby, Bethany B. Cutts, Christopher G. Boone, and Alexandra Brewis

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

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

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

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

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

Information Management, Outreach, and Education

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

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 (pdf) Hung V. Nguyen, Corinna Gries, and Hasan Davulcu

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

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

Decision Center for a Desert City

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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