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January 19, 2001 Memorial Union, Arizona Room Arizona State University

Program Abstracts (pdf)

Education

Ecology Explorers: K-12 student contributions to the CAP LTER project. (pdf) Monica M. Elser and Charlene Saltz.

Modeling

Simulating the urban growth pattern in the Phoenix metropolitan region: Relating pattern to process. David John L., and Jianguo Wu.

Developing a hierarchical patch dynamics modeling platform. Sheryl Berling-Wolff and Jianguo Wu.

Modeling land use change and ecosystem processes of the Phoenix metropolitan landscape. (pdf) Jianguo Wu, John L. David, G. Darrel Jenerette, Matt Luck, and Sheryl Berling-Wolff.

Survey 200

Trap cultures reveal higher species richness of arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi in comparison to soil samples in the Phoenix metropolitan area. (pdf) Jamaica R.Cousins and Jean C. Stutz.

Application of integrated inventory to the study of urban ecosystem: An extensive 200-site field survey of the Central Arizona-Phoenix LTER. (pdf) Diane Hope, Corinna Gries, Weixing Zhu, Steve Carroll, Amy Nelson, Linda Stabler, Charles L. Redman, Nancy B. Grimm, and Ann Kinzig.

200 point survey: Vegetative arthropod community structure. (pdf) Jessamy Rango, Maggie Tseng, and Eyal Shochat.

Spatial patterns of soil organic matter in central Arizona. (pdf) G. Darrel Jenerette, Matt A. Luck, Jianguo Wu, Nancy B. Grimm, Diane Hope, and Weixing Zhu.

Analysis of desert vegetation data from the 200 sites survey. (pdf) Art Stiles and Sam M. Scheiner.

Human Dimensions

Projecting new growth using SAM-IM. Anubhav Bagley.

Tracking growth in the Valley of the Sun residential completions (1990-1999). Chris Bruce and Don Worley.

South Phoenix assessment of community and environment. (pdf) Bob Bolin, Amy Nelson, Ed Hackett, David Pijawka, Maureen O’Donnell, Scott Smith, Diane Sicotte, and Edward Sadalla.

Phoenix area social survey: Long-term monitoring of social interaction, and environmental change in urban neighborhoods. (pdf) Sharon Harlan, Amy Nelson, Ed Hackett, Andrew Kirby, Bob Bolin, David Pijawka, Tom Rex, and Diane Hope.

Historic Land Use Phase II. (pdf) Jana Fry, Leslie Nogue, Chris Patterson, and C. Scott Smith.

The ecological footprint workshop: Creating an ecological and social sciences interface. (pdf) Darrel Jenerette, Kristin Gade, Nancy Grimm, Diane Hope, Matt Luck, Wendy Marussich, John Roach.

Dynamic political institutions and water policy in Central Arizona-Phoenix. (pdf) Glen Krutz and Gina Woodall.

The ecology of risk in a Sunbelt city: A multi-hazard analysis. (pdf) Amy Nelson, Bob Bolin, Ed Hackett, David Pijawka, Ed Sadalla, Diane Sicotte, Debbie Brewer, and Eric Matranga.

Labor market dynamics in a postindustrial city: A spatial and sectoral analysis of employment changes in the Phoenix MSA. (pdf) Amy Nelson and Sharon Harlan.

Human dimension of CAP LTER research. (pdf) Charles L. Redman and Patricia Gober.

Political and legal controversies over hazardous industrial waste in three central Arizona communities. (pdf) Diane Sicotte.

Data Management

Ecological informatics at CAP LTER. (pdf) Peter McCartney.

Populations

Phoenix Or Tucson – Does landscape determine where Abert’s Towhees choose to live? (pdf) Madhusudan Katti and Eyal Shochat.

Urban ecology: Population and community patterns. Wendy A. Marussich, Jeanne MacHeffner, William F. Fagan, and Stanley H. Faeth.

Cactus Wren condos: Does urbanization affect the characteristics of Cactus Wren roost nests? (pdf) Christopher Putnam.

Ground arthropod community composition in a heterogeneous urban environment. (pdf) Jessamy Rango, Eyal Shochat, Maggie Tseng, William Fagan, and Stanley Faeth.

Bird species diversity in the greater Phoenix area. (pdf) Eyal Shochat and Madhusudan Katti.

Ecological and social factors predicting avian diversity in urban parks. (pdf) Paige Warren and Ann Kinzig.

Primary Production

Primary productivity at the CAP LTER. (pdf) Chris Martin, Thomas Day, John Briggs, Jean Stutz, and Milton Sommerfeld.

Potential effects of mycorrhizal associations on urban tree carbon storage potential. L. Brooke Stabler, Chris A. Martin, and Jean C. Stutz.

Spatial patterns of belowground respiration and related soil parameters in a simulated xeric urban landscape. (pdf) Sean A. Whitcomb, Jean C. Stutz, and Chris A. Martin.

Biogeochemical Processes

Biogeochemical processes in an urban ecosystem, metropolitan Phoenix, Arizona. (pdf) Nancy B. Grimm, Larry A. Baker, Diane Hope, Weixing Zhu, James Anderson, Aisha Coppola, Jennifer Edmonds, Susanne Grossman-Clarke, G. Darrel Jenerette, Ann P. Kinzig, Jeff Klopatek, David B. Lewis, Matt A. Luck, Milton Sommerfeld, Paul Westerhoff, Jianguo Wu, and Y. Xu.

Atmospheric deposition of major nutrients across an urban-desert gradient in central Arizona. (pdf) Diane Hope, Nancy B. Grimm, James Anderson, and Michael Clary.

Modeling nitrogen dry deposition inputs to the CAP LTER urban ecosystem. (pdf) Diane, Hope, Susanne Grossman-Clarke, Will Stefanov, and Peter Hyde.

Nutrient dynamics in arid urban fluvial systems: Canals and streams. (pdf) W. John Roach, Aisha Coppola, and Nancy B. Grimm.

Spatial and temporal variation of elemental deposition in Maricopa County, Arizona. (pdf) Toralf Zschau, Steve Getty, Corinna Gries, and Thomas H. Nash III.

Geophysical Changes

CAPLTER geology and geophysics(pdf) J Ramon Arrowsmith, Sarah E. Robinson, Kenneth Fergason, James A. Tyburczy, Stephen D. Holloway, and Steve E. Wood.

Historic Channel Changes in the Salt River, Arizona 1890-1931 (pdf) Wendy Bigler.

CAP LTER climate (pdf) Anthony J. Brazel, Chris A. Martin, Diane Hope, Andrew Ellis, Gordon Heisler, Larry Baker, Sharolyn Anderson, Nancy Selover, Linda Stabler, Roger Tomalty, and John Blair.

Investigation of changes in groundwater elevation associated with Tempe Town Lake Kenneth Fergason, Ramon Arrowsmith, and James Tyburczy.