A major goal of landscape ecology is to understand the interactions between spatial pattern and ecological processes, the role of scale, and hierarchical linkages in heterogeneous landscapes that are increasingly shaped by human activities. This understanding is essential not only for unraveling how nature works, but also for developing a harmonious relationship between humanity and nature. In the past two decades, landscape ecologists have addressed various aspects of this goal through numerous theoretical and empirical studies. As we embark a new stage of landscape ecology in the 21^st century, it is important to reflect on the advances that have been made and to identify new directions that must be taken toward this goal. Therefore, the theme of the 2001 US-IALE Symposium will be understanding the interactions among pattern, process, scale, and hierarchy in human-dominated and natural landscapes, with a special emphasis on landscapes that have been most profoundly modified by humans — the urban environment. The symposium will focus on the following topics:

• What do we know about the relationships among pattern, process, scale, and hierarchy, and how do these relationships differ between natural and human-dominated landscapes?
• How do spatial heterogeneity and hierarchical structure affect the translations of information across scales in different landscapes, or how do we scale up pattern and process in heterogeneous landscapes?
• How can theory and principles on pattern-process interactions, scaling, and hierarchy be applied to landscape management, landscape architecture, urban planning, and nature conservation?
• What new technologies and methods are available for facilitating our study of the relationship among pattern, process, scale, and hierarchy, and how?
• What role does long term ecological research play in landscape ecology, and what have we learned from the existing urban LTER studies?
• How can natural and social sciences be more effectively integrated into landscape ecology? How can the ongoing discussion on the relationship between culture and nature influence the development of theory and practice in landscape ecology?
• How can we effectively integrate landscape ecology with the design and planning of landscapes? What is the significance of the relationship between urbanism and landscape ecology?

APRIL 25, 2001, WEDNESDAY

4/25/01	TIME	EVENTS
MORNING	10:00 - 12:00	Organizational Meeting for Student Workers Rincon Room (Rm 225)
AFTERNOON	1:00 - 5:00	REGISTRATION Second Floor, Memorial Union, Arizona State University, Tempe, AZ Outside of the Arizona Ball Room (Room 207)
	1:00 - 6:00	Slide Preview / ComputerPresentation Preview Room 208 C, MemorialUnion (35mm slide projectorand computer projector available)        NOTE: The presentationpreview room will be open from 7:30 am to 5:30 pm on April 26-28, 2001
	1:00 - 5:30	US-IALE ExecutiveCommittee Meeting Room 225, Memorial Union
EVENING	6:00-9:00	WELCOME RECEPTION Place: College of Architecture and Environmental Design Architecture and Environmental Design Building (North Building, 2nd Floor, Charlie's Café) 6:00 pm: Welcome by Dr. Laura Musacchio (Program Coordinator) and Dr. Jianguo Wu (Program Chair) 6:05 pm: Welcome Speech by Dean of the College of Architecture, Dr. John Meunier 6:15 - 9:00 pm: WELCOME MIXER

Dr. Steward T. A. Pickett received a B.S. from the University of Kentucky in 1972 and Ph.D in plant ecology in 1977 from University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign. He served on the faculty of Rutgers University until 1987 and then joined the staff of Institute of Ecosystem Studies where he currently holds the rank of Senior Scientist. His research interests encompass both conceptual and empirical studies of vegetation dynamics and natural disturbance, focusing on the mechanisms of post-agricultural vegetation development, and the role of disturbance-generated heterogeneity in the vegetation dynamics in primary forest. Studies focusing on the dynamics of ecological landscapes include experiments on the function of forest edges, the role of patchiness in diversity and productivity in the Negev Desert, and the structure and dynamics of cities as ecological systems. This last interest has led to his serving as the Director of the Baltimore Ecosystem Study, one of two urban Long-Term Ecological Research sites supported by the U.S. National Science Foundation.

Dr. Pickett has coedited five books, including the classic, The Ecology of Patch Dynamics and Natural Disturbance (1985, with P.S. White), Ecological Heterogeneity (1991, with J. Kolasa), and Humans As Components of Ecosystems (1993 with M.J. McDonnell). His approximately 110 scientific papers range from concerns with the structure of ecological theory, to the application of ecology to conservation, to the development of ecological approaches for studying urban areas. Dr. Pickett was elected a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science in 1992, and of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 1993. Contributions to the development and application of the profession of ecology include service as the inaugural Vice President for Science, Chairperson of the Membership Committee, and a member of the Council of the Ecological Society of America. He has also served on the Council of the International Association for Vegetation Science, the Science Advisory Board of the National Center for Ecological Synthesis and Analysis, the Biology Advisory Committee of the National Science Foundation, and the Board of Defenders of Wildlife.
 
 

April 26 (Thursday) Afternoon Plenary Session (1:30pm - 2:30pm)

Time:	1:30 pm - 2:30 pm, April 26 (Thursday), 2001
Location:	Ventana Room (Memorial Union, Room 226)

Pattern and process in the human-dominated landscape of central Arizona Dr. Charles L. Redman and Dr. Nancy B. Grimm Co-Directors of Central Arizona-Phoenix Long-Term Ecological Research Project Arizona State University, Tempe, AZ 85287, USA

Abstract  The Central Arizona-Phoenix Long-Term Ecological Research (CAP LTER) project is a multifaceted study aimed at answering the question, "How does the pattern of development of the city alter ecological conditions of the city and its surrounding environment, and vice versa?" Central to answering this question is understanding how land-use change is driven by societal decisions, how these decisions alter ecological pattern and process, and how changes in ecological conditions further influence human decision-making. Of the 24 sites funded under the nationwide LTER program, Phoenix and Baltimore are the only 2 established specifically to study urban ecosystems. The rationale for the study of human-dominated systems is three-pronged. First, humans dominate Earth's ecosystems; therefore, humans must be integrated into models for a complete understanding of ecological systems. Second, development of these more realistic models for ecological systems will lead to greater success in finding solutions to environmental problems. Third, although the study of ecological phenomena in urban environments is not a new area of science, the concept of city as ecosystem is relatively new for the field of ecology. Studying cities as ecosystems within new paradigms of ecosystem science will both raise the collective consciousness of ecologists about urban ecosystems and contribute to the further development of concepts that apply to all ecosystems. We will present background information on the central Arizona-Phoenix landscape, results from the first three years of CAP LTER research, and a conceptual basis for integration of social and ecological systems.

Dr. Nancy B. Grimm (Ph.D. 1985, Arizona State University) is Professor of Biology at Arizona State University and Co-Director of the Central Arizona-Phoenix Long-Term Ecological Research (LTER) project, a study of land use change and ecological processes in the Phoenix metropolis and surroundings. She has published more than 60 articles on diverse topics such as the biogeochemistry of nitrogen in streams and rivers, effects of natural and human-induced disturbance on stream communities and ecosystems, urban ecological systems, to interactions between linked ecosystems, such as rivers and groundwaters, watersheds and riparian zones. She has served on advisory panels and review teams for the National Science Foundation, the EPA, and the DOE, editorial boards (including Ecology, Ecological Monographs, and Ecosystems), as President of the North American Benthological Society, and as Chair of the Science Advisory Board for the National Center for Ecological Analysis and Synthesis.

Dr. Charles L. Redman is director of the ASU Center for Environmental Studies, and Virginia M. Ullman professor of Natural History and the Environment. Redman is trained as an archaeologist and has published eight books and numerous scholarly articles on his fielwork in the Near East, Mediterranean and the Southwest US. He is also founding member of the Southwest Center for Education and the Natural Environment (SCENE), an officer of the state chapter of The Nature Conservancy, and an executive board member of the Governor's Commission on Groundwater Management. Dr. Redman has served as principal investigator or co-principal investigator on 35 research grants, from federal, state and private agencies, totaling over $24 million. Three years ago he began co-directing the Central Arizona-Phoenix Long-Term Ecological project, and he is also co-directing the recent expansion of this urban ecological research to include an innovative interdisciplinary Ph.D. program (IGERT) sponsored by the National Science Foundation. He received his B.A. from Harvard University, and his M.A. and Ph.D. degrees in anthropology from the University of Chicago.
 
 
 
 

April 27 (Friday) Morning Plenary Session (8:30 am - 9:30 am)

Time:	8:30 am - 9:30 am, April 27 (Friday), 2001
Location:	Ventana Room (Memorial Union, Room 226)

Influencing the Social and Political Metabolism of Landscapes Prof. Orie L. Loucks Eminent Scholar of Ecosystem Ecology Department of Zoology, Miami University, Oxford, OH 45056, USA

Abstract  This paper assumes we know about the natural processes of landscapes, including hydrologic interactions, carbon capture, secondary production, population and metapopulation dynamics, perturbation processes and ecological succession. Beyond that, we've learned much in recent years about human-generated processes that overlay natural landscapes, including land clearing, abandonment, fragmentation and recovery, conversion to commercial uses, reservoir development, irrigation, chemical enrichment of land and water, deposition of stressors, and introduction of exotic species. A further level of understanding is taking shape now. Here we need to consider how local to regional organizations, public and private, use policies or decision-making to influence the above processes. The result is a social and political integration of processes, a kind of metabolism, that is different for each landscape. Our economic and policy surveys on landscapes in the greater Columbus area of central Ohio have sought to estimate the willingness of people to pay for good stream water quality and biodiversity in the face of impending urban sprawl from Columbus into the Big Darby Creek watershed. We found the institutional influence is net-like, as well as hierarchical, capable of influencing pattern and process in both the natural and human-dominated system. Although essentially homeorhetic, however, the dynamics of this landscape system are capable of being redirected by human institutions. A second case study will illustrate why we believe financial institutions, such as the national capital markets, also can be enlisted to change human influence on the metabolism of landscapes.

Dr. Orie Loucks holds the position of Ohio Eminent Scholar in Applied Ecosystem Studies and Professor of Zoology at Miami University, Oxford, Ohio. His training includes B.Sc.F. and M.Sc. F. degrees in forestry from the University of Toronto (1953 and 1955 respectively), and a Ph.D. in botany from the University of Wisconsin-Madison in 1960. He began his career in 1955 as a Research Officer for the Department of Forestry in Canada and joined the Department of Botany at the University of Wisconsin in 1962, teaching advanced courses in ecology. From 1969 to 1973 he headed an interdisciplinary watershed study of the Lake Wingra basin, as part of the U.S. contribution to the International Biological Program. From 1976 to 1978 he served as Director of the Center of Biotic Systems in the Institute for Environmental Studies, University of Wisconsin, as well as Professor of Botany. He also headed a $3 million interdisciplinary study of environmental impacts from a large coal-fired generating station on the Wisconsin River in central Wisconsin. In 1978 he joined The Institute of Ecology (TIE) in Indianapolis as Science Director and headed a series of studies concerning the regional effects of air pollutants and acidic deposition on midwest ecosystems. In 1983 Dr. Loucks became Director of the Holcomb Research Institute at Butler University in Indianapolis. From 1986 to 1991 he headed a major inter-institutional study of pollutant effects on oak-hickory forests and soils of the Ohio Valley region.

Beginning in 1990 Dr. Loucks chaired a Miami faculty study group linking the business school with the science departments, seeking a common understanding of sustainable development for undergraduate teaching. This initiative has now become the Center for Sustainable Systems Studies. In the mid-1980's Dr. Loucks was a member of the National Academy of Sciences Board on Water Science and Technology, and was U.S. Co-chair of the joint NRC-NAS/Royal Society of Canada study reviewing the 1978 Great Lakes Water Quality Agreement. He was a member of the Science Advisory Board, International Joint Commission from 1991 to 1995. From 1995 to 1997 he chaired the U.S. Vegetation Classification Panel of the Ecological Society of America and was a member of the AAAS Annual Meeting Program Committee. Dr. Loucks' public service and conservation interests are reflected in his 1960's and 70's role on the Board of Trustees, Wisconsin Chapter of The Nature Conservancy, as a member of the national Board of Governors of The Nature Conservancy from 1984 to 1994, and as a recent member of the Ohio Chapter Board of Trustees. He also serves on the Cincinnati Museum’s Edge of Appalachia Advisory Committee and the Three Valleys Conservation Trust. He was honored in 1994 with the Distinguished Service Award of the American Institute of Biological Science, and this year is the recipient of the National Wildlife Federation’s Conservation Achievement Award in Science.
 
 
 
 
 

April 27 (Friday) Evening Banquet Session (7:00 pm - 9:30 pm)

Time:	8:40 pm - 9:30 pm, April 27 (Friday), 2001
Location:	Ventana Room (Memorial Union, Room 226)

The Origins Of Phoenix Farming Dr. Katherine Crewe School of Planning and Landscape Architecture, Arizona State University, Tempe, AZ 85287, USA

Abstract  The area around Phoenix has been settled by many different farming communities over the years, from both within the country and without. Each community has brought its own customary farm practices, but adapted these to arid desert conditions. Using historic slides, this presentation traces the development of early farming, dating back from the Hohokam Indians, and including the early white settlers, then later groups following the opening of the Roosevelt Canal, growing the area's chief crops of alfalfa, cotton and citrus, but also cultivating exotic ventures such as ostrich and date farming, or specializing in cut flowers or sugar beets.

Dr. Crewe was born in South Africa, but has lived in the US for twenty years. After taking a Masters in Landscape Architecture at the University of California, Berkeley, she practiced as a landscape architect on the east coast of the US, then l997 graduated with a Ph.D. in Landscape Architecture and Planning from the University of Massachusetts, Amherst. She is currently an assistant Professor in the School of Planning and Landscape Architecture, Arizona State University.
 
 
 
 
 

April 28 (Saturday) Morning Plenary Session (8:30 am - 9:30 am)

Time:	8:30 am - 9:30 am, April 27 (Friday), 2001
Location:	Ventana Room (Memorial Union, Room 226)

Watersheds, History, Landscape Planning and Community Development: Reflections on Fifteen Years of the West Philadelphia Landscape Project Prof. Anne Whiston Spirn School of Architecture and Planning, MIT, Cambridge, MA 02139, USA

Abstract  This paper describes the West Philadelphia Landscape Project as a laboratory for developing and testing theories of urban landscape change, planning, and management since 1987. It relates how processes of development, settlement, migration and disinvestment have interacted with natural processes such as water flow to produce landscapes of poverty. It summarizes discoveries (such as the high correlation in many inner-city neighborhoods between vacant land and buried floodplains) and projects (such as the transformation of low-lying vacant land into a landscape amenity and stormwater detention facility, thereby rebuilding a neighborhood, reducing combined sewer overflows, and improving regional water quality). The paper summarizes the results of this research-in-action, sets that work within the context of broader issues in urban and environmental policy, and reflects on lessons for the theory and practice of landscape ecology and landscape planning and management.

Prof. Anne Whiston Spirn is Professor of Landscape Architecture and Planning at MIT. She received the A.B. from Harvard University and the M.L.A. from the University of Pennsylvania. Before coming to MIT, Spirn taught at the University of Pennsylvania and Harvard. Prior to teaching, Spirn worked at Wallace McHarg Roberts and Todd on diverse projects, including plans for Woodlands New Community in Houston, the Toronto Central Waterfront, and a comprehensive plan for Sanibel, Florida. Her first book, The Granite Garden: Urban Nature and Human Design, won the President‚s Award of Excellence from the American Society of Landscape Architects.  The Language of Landscape (Yale 1998), extends the ideas presented in The Granite Garden and argues that the language of landscape exists with its own grammar and metaphors. Since 1984 she has worked in inner-city neighborhoods on landscape planning and community design and development. She is director of the West Philadelphia Landscape Project, a program that integrates teaching, research, and community service, which has been featured in professional journals, newspaper articles, national radio and television broadcasts, and international conferences and symposia. WPLP was recognized as a model project by the White House Millennium Council in 1999.
 
 
 

April 25 (Wednesday) Events

MORNING
10:00-12:00	Organizational Meeting for Student Workers, Rincon Room (MU Room 225)
AFTERNOON
1:00 - 5:00	REGISTRATION Second Floor, Memorial Union, Arizona State University, Tempe, AZ Outside of the Arizona Ball Room (Room 207)
1:00 - 6:00	Slide Preview / Computer Presentation Preview Room 208 C, Memorial Union (35mm slide projector and computer projector available)
1:00 - 5:30	US-IALE Executive Committee Meeting Rincon Room (Room 225), Memorial Union
4:45 pm	A Non-IALE 2001 Event for those who are interested ASU School of Planning and Landscape Architecture Seminar: "Landscape Planning - A History of Ideas" by Dr. Carl Steinitz, Harvard University Place: AED 60
EVENING
6:00 - 6:05	Welcome by Dr. Laura Musacchio (Program Coordinator) and Dr. Jianguo Wu (Program Chair)
6:05 - 6:15	Welcome Speech by Dean of the College of Architecture, Dr. John Meunier
6:15 - 9:00	WELCOME MIXER College of Architecture and Environmental Design, Architecture and Environmental Design Building (North Building) [2nd Floor, Charlie's Café]

 
 
 
 

April 26 (Thursday) Morning Plenary Session (8:15am - 9:45am)

Chair:	Dr. Jianguo (Jingle) Wu, Arizona State University
Location:	Ventana Room (Memorial Union, Room 226)

8:15-8:20	Opening Remarks by Program Chair, Dr. Jianguo (Jingle) Wu
8:20-8:30	Welcome Remarks by Vice Provost for Research, ASU, Dr. Jonathan Fink
8:30-8:40	Welcome Address by President of US-IALE, Dr. Virginia Dale
8:40-8:45	Welcome Remarks by Program Coordinator, Dr. Laura Musacchio
8:45-9:45	Plenary Address by Dr. Steward A. Pickett, Institute of Ecosystem Studies, Millbrook, NY 12545, USA: The Landscape Paradigm in Ecology: Heterogeneity, Hierarchy, and Humans
9:45-10:00	COFFEE BREAK

 
 
 
 
 
 

April 26 (Thursday) Morning - Concurrent Session #1

Special Session  (IAM-1):	Top 10 List for Landscape Ecology in the New Century
Chairperson:	Jianguo (Jingle) Wu, Arizona State University
Location:	Pima Room (MU Room 218)

10:00-10:15	Wu, Jianguo. Department of Life Sciences, Arizona State University, West Campus, Phoenix, AZ 85069, USA. Top 10 List for Landscape Ecology in the 21 Century: Introduction.
10:15-10:30	Naveh, Zev. Technion, Israel Institute of Technology, Haifa, Israel. Naveh's Top 10 List for Landscape Ecology in the 21 Century.
10:30-10:45	Forman, Richard T. T. Harvard University, Graduate School of Design, Cambridge, MA 02138, USA. Impact Opportunities for Landscape Ecology in the Twenty-aughts.
10:45-11:00	Farina, Almo. Faculty of Environmental Sciences, The Urbino University, Urbino, Italy. Landscape Ecology acting in the real world, priorities and strategies.
11:00-11:15	COFFEE BREAK
11:15-11:30	Barrett, Gary W. and Terry L. Barrett, Institute of Ecology, University of Georgia, Athens, Georgia 30602, USA. Landscape Ecology in the 21st Century: from Youth to Maturity.
11:30-11:45	Ahern, Jack. Department of Landscape Architecture an Regional Planning, University of Massachusetts, Amherst, MA 01003, USA. Full Circle: challenges for the integration of the science and the application of landscape ecology.
11:45-12:00	Baker, William L. Department of Geography and Recreation, University of Wyoming, Laramie, WY 82071, USA. Landscape ecology in the 21st century: A view from the Rocky Mountains.
12:00-12:15	King, Anthony W. Environmental Sciences Division, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Oak Ridge, TN 37831-6335, USA. Top Ten Challenges for Landscape Ecology: A Middle-Number Systems Perspective.

 
 
 
 

April 26 (Thursday) Morning - Concurrent Session #2

Regular Session  (IAM-2):	Landscape Mapping and Characterization: Methods and Applications
Chairperson:	Pong Gong, University of California, Berkeley
Location:	Cochise Room (MU Room 212)

 
 

10:00-10:15	Gong1, P., Y. Sheng1, B. Xu1, L. Wang1, G. S. Biging1, Y. Wang2, Y.-P. Hsieh3, 1Center for Assessment and Monitoring of Forest and Environmental Resources, University of California, Berkeley, CA 94720, USA; 2Department of Geological Sciences, Florida State University, Tallahassee, FL 32306, USA; 3Wetland Ecology, Center for Water Quality, Florida A&M University, Tallahassee, FL 32307, USA. Photo-ecometrics for landscape characterization.
10:15-10:30	Rollins, Matthew, and Robert Keane, Fire Sciences Laboratory, Rocky Mountain Research Station, United States Forest Service, Missoula, Montana 59807, USA. Remote sensing and gradient modeling for ecosystem management.
10:30-10:45	Arge1, Lars, Jeff Chase1, Laura Toma1,*, Jeffrey Vitter1, Rajiv Wickremesinghe1, Pat Halpin2, and Dean Urban2. 1Levine Science Research Center, Computer Science Department, Duke University, Durham, NC 27708, USA; 2Nicholas School of the Environment, Duke University, Durham, NC 27708, USA. Digital terrain analysis for massive grids.
10:45-11:00	Kupfer1, John, and Scott Franklin2. 1Department of Geography and Regional Development, University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ 85721, USA; 2Department of Biology, University of Memphis, Memphis, TN 38152, USA. Evaluation of an Ecological Land Type Classification System, Natchez Trace State Forest, Western Tennessee, USA.
11:00-11:15	COFFEE BREAK
11:15-11:30	Hargrove, William W., and Forrest M. Hoffman. Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Oak Ridge, TN 37831, USA. Multivariate Ecoregions of the United States: A Statistical Delineation.
11:30-11:45	Hoffman, Robin. Faculty of Landscape Architecture, SUNY College of Environmental Science and Forestry, Syracuse, NY 13210, USA. Application of Computer Visualizations in the Investigation of Alternate Forest Management Practices.
11:45-12:00	Song, B1, P. Zollner2, D. J. Mladenoff1, Eric Gustafson2, H. S. He3, and V. C. Radeloff1. 1Department of Forest Ecology and Management, University of Wisconsin, Madison, WI 53706, USA. 2North Central Research Station, 5985 Highway K, Rhinelander, WI, USA. 3School of Natural Resources, University of Missouri, Columbia, MO, USA. 3-D Visualization of Management Alternatives on the Chequamegon National Forest.
12:00-12:15	Bolliger1, Janine, Erik V. Nordheim 2, and David J. Mladenoff 3. 1Department of Forest Ecology and Management, University of Wisconsin, Madison, WI, 53706, USA; 2Department of Statistics and Department of Forest Ecology and Management, University of Wisconsin, Madison, WI, 53706, USA; 3 Department of Forest Ecology and Management, University of Wisconsin, Madison, WI, 53706, USA. A probabilistic and spatially explicit method to assign individual tree species to ambiguously identified trees in Historical Land Office Surveys.

 
 
 
 

April 26 (Thursday) Morning - Concurrent Session #3

Special Session  (IAM-3):	Landscape Fire Succession Modeling
Chairpersons:	Robert Keane1 and Sandra Lavorel2, 1USDA Forest Service, Rocky Mountain Research Station, Missoula, MT 59807, USA; 2CEFE - CNRS UPR 9056, France.
Location:	Alumni Room (MU Room 202)

10:00-10:15	Keane, R.E. and R. Parsons. USDA Forest Service Fire Sciences Laboratory, Missoula, MT 59807, USA. Limitations of the Simulation Approach to Estimate Historical Range and Variation of Landscape Patch Dynamics.
10:15-10:30	Chew, Jimmie D., USDA Forest Service, Rocky Mountain Research Station, Missoula, MT 59807, USA. Integrating the Simulation of Disturbance Processes at Landscape Scales.
10:30-10:45	Li, Chao. Northern Forestry Centre, Canadian Forest Service, Edmonton, Alberta, Canada T6H 3S5. Landscape Structure Based Simulation of Natural Fire Regimes.
10:45-11:00	Yemshanov, Dennis and Ajith H. Perera. Ontario Forest Research Institute, 1235 Queen St. E., Sault Ste. Marie, P6A 2E5, ON, Canada. Modelling boreal forest landcover dynamics after fire disturbance: a Markovian approach.
11:00-11:15	COFFEE BREAK
11:15-11:30	Andison, David W. Bandaloop Landscape-Ecosystem Services, 3426 Main Ave., Vancouver, BC, Canada. Practical Science using the LANDMINE Landscape Fire Simulation Model.
11:30-11:45	McGarigal1, Kevin, William Romme2, Edward Roworth1, and Michele Crist1. 1Department of Natural Resources Conservation, University of Massachusetts, Amherst, MA 01003, USA; 2Biology Department, Fort Lewis College, Durango, CO 81301, USA. Rocky Mountain Landscape Simulator (RMLANDS): Characterizing the expected range of variation in landscape structure and function.
11:45-12:00	McKenzie, Donald, Amy E. Hessl, Susan Prichard, and David L. Peterson. Cascadia Field Station, Box 352100, University of Washington. Seattle, WA 98195, USA. Linking multi-scale empirical approaches to process-based models of fire and succession.
12:00-12:15	Keane1, R.E., and S. Lavorel2. USDA Forest Service, Rocky Mountain Research Station, Fire Sciences Laboratory. P.O. Box 8089, Missoula, MT 59807, USA; 2CEFE - CNRS UPR 9056, 1919 Route de Mende, 34293 Montpellier Cedex 05, France. A classification of landscape fire succession models: Presentation and Discussion.

 
 
 
 

April 26 (Thursday) Morning - Concurrent Session #4

Regular Session  (IAM-4):	Landscape Management: Approaches and Practices
Chairperson:	Patrick A. Zollner, USDA Forest Service, North Central Research Station, Rhinelander, WI 54501, USA.
Location:	Mohave Room (MU Room 222)

10:00-10:15	Zollner1, Patrick A., Eric J. Gustafson1, S. He Hong2, and David J. Mladenoff3 1USDA Forest Service, North Central Research Station, Rhinelander, WI 54501; 2University of Missouri, Department of Forestry, Columbia, MO 65211. 3University of Wisconsin Madison, Department of Forest Ecology and Management, Madison, WI 53706. Modeling the Influence of Dynamic Zoning on Forest Composition in the Northern Lake States.
10:15-10:30	Adair, William A., and John A. Bissonette. USGS Utah Cooperative Fish and Wildlife Research Unit, Department of Fisheries and Wildlife, Utah State University, 5210 Old Main Hill, Logan, UT 84322-5210, USA. Spatially explicit models and landscape planning: A case study with the endangered Newfoundland marten (Martes americana atrata).
10:30-10:45	Nielsen, Clayton K., and Alan Woolf. Cooperative Wildlife Research Laboratory and Department of Zoology, Southern Illinois University at Carbondale, Mailcode 6504, Carbondale, IL 62901, USA. Considering Landscape Physiognomy in Studies of Habitat Use-availability.
10:45-11:00	Green, Glen M. and Laura A. Carlson*, Center for the Study of Institutions, Population, and Environmental Change (CIPEC), Indiana University, Bloomington, IN 47408, USA. Control of forest distribution by bio-geophysical and social/institutional factors: Does conservation management make a difference?
11:00-11:15	COFFEE BREAK
11:15-11:30	Haire, Sandra L. USGS-Biological Resources Division, Fort Collins, CO 80525, USA. Landscape ecology as an integrative science: An application in the Greater Yellowstone Ecosystem.
11:30-11:45	Poiani1, Karen, Kent Gilges2, Ayn Shlisky1, and Jeff Hardesty3. 1The Nature Conservancy, Department of Natural Resources, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY 14853, USA; 2 The Forest Bank, Center for Compatible Economic Development, The Nature Conservancy, Rochester, NY 14604; and 3The Nature Conservancy, Department of Botany, University of Florida, Gainesville, FL 32611, USA. Compatible Forest Management, Conservation, and Landscape Ecology: A Forest Management Network.
11:45-12:00	Brooks, Kerry, and Michael Bishopp. GIS and Simulation Laboratory, Interdisciplinary Design Institute and Department of Horticulture and Landscape Architecture, Washington State University-Spokane, Spokane, WA 99202, USA. Evaluating Conflicts and Costs Associated with Proposed Landscape-based Salmon Habitat Protection Measures.
12:00-12:15	Tanizaki, K.F. and R.P.F. Pedrosa. Ecology Sector/DBAV/ Universidade do Estado do Rio de Janeiro, São Francisco Xavier, 524/PHLC sala220, Maracanã - Rio de Janeiro; Brazil. Establishing priorities for conservation and management in the Atlantic Coastal Forests: Case study of Rio de Janeiro State, Brazil.

 
 
 
 

12:15 - 1:30pm:

Lunch with Mentors for Grad Students Organized by US-IALE Student Reps: Marlene Cole and Rebecca Hess  (Gold Room, Rm# 203, MU)

 
 
 
 
 

April 26 (Thursday) Afternoon Plenary Session (1:30pm - 2:30pm)

Chair:	Dr. Jianguo (Jingle) Wu, Arizona State University
Location:	Ventana Room (Memorial Union, Room 226)

 
 

1:30 - 2:30	Plenary Address by Dr. Charles L. Redman and Dr. Nancy B. Grimm, Arizona State University, Tempe, AZ 85287, USA: Pattern and process in the human-dominated landscape of central Arizona
2:30 - 2:45	COFFEE BREAK

 
 
 
 
 
 

April 26 (Thursday) Afternoon - Concurrent Session #1

Special Session  (IPM-1):	Top 10 List for Landscape Ecology in the New Century (continued from AM)
Chairperson:	Jianguo (Jingle) Wu, Arizona State University
Location:	Pima Room (MU Room 218)

 
 

2:45-3:00	Mladenoff, David J. Department of Forest Ecology and Management, University of Wisconsin, Madison, Wisconsin 54706, USA. Challenges for Landscape Ecology.
3:00-3:15	Dale, Virginia H. Environmental Sciences Division, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Oak Ridge, TN 37831-6036, USA. Top Ten Landscape Ecology Issues for the Next Millennium.
3:15-3:30	Wiens, John A., National Center for Ecological Analysis and Synthesis, University of California Santa Barbara, Santa Barbara, CA 93101 and Department of Biology, Colorado State University, Fort Collins, CO 80523. Looking Ahead by Looking Back: What are the Central Issues of Landscape Ecology?
3:30-3:45	Wu, Jianguo (Conveyor). Department of Life Sciences, Arizona State University, Phoenix, AZ 85069, USA. Top 10 Lists for Landscape Ecology from M. Anthrop, R. J. Hobbs, S. A. Levin, Arthur S. Lieberman, R. V. O'Neill and M. G. Turner.
3:45-4:00	Questions for all speakers
4:00-4:15	COFFEE BREAK

 
 

Special Session  (IPM-5):	Scaling Issues Related to Ecological and Hydrological Landscape Analyses
Chairperson:	Bruce Jones and Iris Goodman, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, Landscape Ecology Branch, Las Vegas, Nevada 89193, USA
Location:	Pima Room (MU Room 218)

 
 

4:15-4:30	Berk1, Richard, Jan de Leeuw1, Richard Ambrose2, and Cindy Lin2. 1Department of Statistics, University of California - Los Angeles, CA 90095-1554, USA ; 2 Department of Environmental Science and Engineering, School of Public Health, University of California - Los Angeles, CA 90095-1554, USA. Multilevel Statistical Modeling for Generalizing from Case Studies.
4:30-4:45	Mueller, Felix and Ernst-Walter Reiche. Ecology Center, University of Kiel, Schauenburgerstrasse 112, D 24118 Kiel, Germany. Ecological gradients as hierarchical indicators of ecosystem and landscape integrity.
4:45-5:00	Chen, Grace F. Department of Geography, The University of Iowa, Iowa City, IA 52242, USA. Relating Landscape Patterns to Hydrological Processes in a Watershed Hierarchy.
5:00-5:15	Jennings, David B. and S. Taylor Jarnagin*. U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, NERL/LEB, Environmental Photographic Interpretation Center, Reston, VA 20192, USA. Impervious Surfaces and Streamflow Discharge: A Historical Remote Sensing Perspective in a Northern Virginia Subwatershed.
5:15-5:30	Cardille1, Jeffrey A., Jonathan A. Foley1, Marcos Heil Costa2. Center for Sustainability and the Global Environment, University of Wisconsin, Madison, WI 53706, USA; 2Department of Agricultural Engineering, Federal University of Viçosa, Viçosa, MG, Brazil. Scaling Down Successfully: A New Method For Integrating Census and Satellite Data

 
 
 
 

April 26 (Thursday) Afternoon - Concurrent Session #2

Regular Session  (IPM-2):	Scale Effects in Landscape Analysis
Chairperson:	Richard Sutton, Agronomy and Horticulture, UN-Lincoln Lincoln, NE 68583, USA
Location:	Cochise Room (MU Room 212)

 
 

2:45-3:00	Sutton, Richard K. Agronomy and Horticulture, UN-Lincoln Lincoln, NE 68583-0724, USA. Effects of Grain, Extent and Scale in a Hierarchical Test on Mystery, Legibility and Preference in Rural Landscapes.
3:00-3:15	Qi, Ye. Department of Environmental Science, Policy and Management, University of California, Berkeley, CA 94720-3310, USA; Estimating Species Richness by Family: Does Scale Matter?
3:15-3:30	Schulte, Lisa A., and David M. Mladenoff. Department of Forest Ecology and Management, University of Wisconsin, Madison, WI 53706, USA. Effect of scale on the study of pattern and process in a historical landscape.
3:30-3:45	Thompson, Craig M., and Kevin McGarigal. Department of Natural Resource Conservation, University of Massachusetts, Amherst, MA, 01003-4210, USA. Effects of Scale on Bald Eagle (Haliaeetus leucocephalus) Habitat Selection along the lower Hudson River.
3:45-4:00	Xu, Ming, Qinghua Guo, and Ye Qi. Department of ESPM, University of California, CA 94720, USA. Detecting spatial patterns in a young ponderosa pine plantation using 0.5 m resolution digital imagery.
4:00-4:15	COFFEE BREAK

 
 
 
 

Special Session  (IPM-6):	Pollinators in Heterogeneous and Dynamic Landscapes
Chairperson:	Nancy McIntyre, Department of Biological Sciences, Texas Tech University, Lubbock, TX 79409, USA
Location:	Cochise Room (MU Room 212)

 
 

4:15-4:30	McIntyre1, Nancy, and Mark Hostetler2. 1Department of Biological Sciences, Texas Tech University, Box 43131, Lubbock, TX 79409-3131, USA; and 2Department of Wildlife Ecology and Conservation, University of Florida, Gainesville, FL 32611-0430, USA. Effects of Urban Land Use on Pollinator Communities in a Desert Metropolis.
4:30-4:45	Turner1, S. J., and A.R. Johnson2. 1The Department of Biological Sciences, St. Cloud State University, St. Cloud, MN 56301, USA; 2The Department of Environmental Toxicology, Clemson University, 509 Westinghouse Road, Pendleton, SC 29670, USA. Fragmented Native Populations in Agricultural Landscapes: The Case of an Orchid and its Pollinators.
4:45-5:00	Reed, Catherine C. Entomology Department, University of Minnesota, St. Paul, MN 55108, USA. Native Bee Species Persistence and Recolonization on Midwestern Prairie Fragments.
5:00-5:15	Waser, Nickolas M. Department of Biology, University of California, Riverside CA 92521, USA. Isolation and low density: two effects of fragmentation on plant populations, and their implications for pollination by animals.
5:15-5:30	Silbernagel1, Janet, and T.F.H. Allen2. 1Department of Landscape Architecture, University of Wisconsin, Madison, WI 53706, USA; 2Department of Botany, University of Wisconsin, Madison, WI 53706, USA. Negotiating the Cultural Landscape as a Bumblebee: Complex Foraging Behavior and Levels of Organization.

 
 
 
 

April 26 (Thursday) Afternoon - Concurrent Session #3

Regular Session  (IPM-3):	Vegetation Pattern and Plant-Environment Relationships
Chairperson:	Mark Dixon, Department of Zoology, University of Wisconsin, Madison, WI 53706, USA
Location:	Alumni Room (MU Room 202)

2:45-3:00	Dixon, Mark and Monica Turner. Department of Zoology, University of Wisconsin, Madison, WI 53706, USA. Modeling the Effects of Flow Variation on Recruitment Dynamics of Riparian Trees.
3:00-3:15	Hess1, Rebecca S. and Thomas A. Spies2. 1Department of Forest Science, Oregon State University, Corvallis, OR 97331, USA; and 2USDA Forest Service, Pacific Northwest Research Station, Corvallis, OR, 97331, USA. Snag and Down Wood Patterns in Forests of the Coast Range of Oregon.
3:15-3:30	Lookingbill, Todd, Kenneth Pierce and Dean Urban. Nicholas School of the Environment, Duke University, Durham, NC 27708, USA. Temperature in Montane Systems: Testing DEM-derived Proxies with Field Data.
3:30-3:45	McDonald1, Robert I., Robert K. Peet2, and Dean L. Urban3. 1Nicholas School of the Environment, Box 90328, Duke University, Durham, NC 27708, USA; 2Department of Biology, Box 3280, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, NC 27599, USA; and 3Nicholas School of the Environment, Box 90328, Duke University, Durham, NC 27708, USA. Landscape Impacts on Oak Decline and Red Maple Increase.
3:45-4:00	Bunn1, Andrew G., Dean L. Urban2, Lisa J. Graumlich1. 1Mountain Research Center, Montana State University, Bozeman, MT, USA; 2Nicholas School of the Environment, Duke University, Durham, NC, USA. Fine Scale Variability in the Physical and Biotic Templates of 3 Alpine Treelines.
4:00-4:15	COFFEE BREAK

 
 
 
 

Regular Session  (IPM-7):	Landscape Pattern and Species Invasion and Disease Spread
Chairperson:	Cindy Huebner, USDA Forest Service, Northeastern Research Station, Morgantown, WV 26505, USA
Location:	Alumni Room (MU Room 202)

 
 

4:15-4:30	Huebner, Cynthia D. USDA Forest Service, Northeastern Research Station, Morgantown, WV 26505, USA. Invasive Plant Species in Eastern Oak-Hickory Forests: Actual and Potential Landscape Impacts.
4:30-4:45	Glenn, Susan. Forest Sciences Department, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, B.C., V4K 3C9, Canada. Responses of Grassland/Forest Boundaries to Surprising Changes in Climate in Central British Columbia, Canada.
4:45-5:00	Hatfield, Colleen A. Department of Ecology, Evolution and Natural Resources, Rutgers University, New Brunswick, NJ 08901, USA. Discontinuities in habitat features inhibit the spread of exotic species.
5:00-5:15	Bickel1, Kathryn A., Laura C. Philips2, and Dean L. Urban3. 1Nicholas School of the Environment, Duke University, Box 90328, Durham, NC 27708-0328, USA; 2Department of Biology, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Box 3280, Chapel Hill, NC 27599, USA; 3Nicholas School of the Environment, Duke University, Box 90328, Durham, NC 27708-0328, USA. Land use, Disturbance, and the Spread of Non-native Plant Species in a Piedmont Forest Ecosystem.
5:15-5:30	Nicholson1, Matthew and Thomas Mather2. 1Cooperative Wildlife Research Laboratory, Southern Illinois University, Carbondale, IL 62901, USA; 2Center for Vector-Borne Disease, University of Rhode Island, Kingston, RI 02881, USA. Spatial and Temporal Trends in Deer Tick Abundance: Implications for Human Lyme Disease Risk.

 
 
 
 

April 26 (Thursday) Afternoon - Concurrent Session #4

Regular Session  (IPM-4):	Land Use and Land Cover Change: Pattern and Process
Chairperson:	J. Morgan Grove1 (2:45-4:00 pm) and Tamara Shapiro2 (4:15-5:30 pm). 1USDA Forest Service, 705 Spear Street, South Burlington, VT 05403, USA; 2Department of Landscape Architecture, Rutgers University, New Brunswick, NJ 08901, USA.
Location:	Mohave Room (MU Room 222)

2:45-3:00	Shapiro, Tamara1, Emily W.B. Russell2, and Jean Marie Hartman3. 1Department of Landscape Architecture, Rutgers University, New Brunswick, NJ 08901, USA; 2Department of Geologic Sciences, Rutgers University, Newark, NJ 07102, USA; and 3Department of Landscape Architecture, Rutgers University, New Brunswick, NJ 08901, USA. Forces of Environmental Change in the Hackensack Meadowlands: A Historic Analysis.
3:00-3:15	McConnell, William J. Indiana University, Bloomington, IN 47405, USA. Human-Environment Relations in Madagascar: The importance of spatial and temporal perspective.
3:15-3:30	Binford1, M.W., C. Leslie2, R. Britts1, G. Barnes2, H. L. Gholz3, S.E. Smith2. 1Department of Geography; 2Geomatics Program, Department of Civil Engineering, 3School of Forest Resources and Conservation, University of Florida, Gainesville, FL 32611. Decadal-Scale Spatial Dynamics of Land Cover, Land Ownership, Land Management in Industrial and Non-industrial Forests in the Southeastern Coastal Plain Region of the U.S.
3:30-3:45	Lioubimtseva, Elena. Department of Geography and Planning, Grand Valley State University, Allendale, MI 49401, USA. Monitoring Changes in Arid Landscapes of Central Asia.
3:45-4:00	Hockner1, Tom, Jim Newman2, Jeffrey Jones3, Mark Brown4, Joseph Delfino5, Michael Binford6, 1Department of Urban and Regional Planning, University of Florida, Gainesville, FL, 32611, USA; 2Pandion Systems, Inc., Gainesville, FL 32611, USA; 3East Central FL Regional Planning Council, Maitland, FL 32751, USA; 4Department of Environmental Engineering, University of Florida, Gainesville, FL 32611, USA, Department of Environmental Engineering, 6Department of Geography, University of Florida, Gainesville, FL 32611, USA. Assessing Impacts of Incremental Landscape Changes on the Wekiva River Ecosystem: A Dynamic Urban Ecology Model.
4:00-4:15	COFFEE BREAK
4:15-4:30	Nagendra, Harini, Southworth, Jane, and Tucker, Catherine M. Center for Study of Institutions, Population, and Environmental Change, Indiana University, Bloomington, IN 47408, USA. Using landscape metrics to interpret trajectories of land cover change: A case study in Western Honduras.
4:30-4:45	Nugranad1, Jarunee, Peter August2, Daniel Civco 3, Y. Q. Wang 2. 1Remote Sensing Division, National Research Council of Thailand, 196 Paholyothin Road, Chatuchak, Bangkok 10900, Thailand; 2Department of Natural Resources Science, University of Rhode Island, Kingston, RI 02881, USA; 3Department of Natural Resources Management and Engineering, University of Connecticut, Storrs, CT 06269, USA. Biophysical and Socio-economic Correlates of Land Cover in the Mae Taeng Watershed of Northern Thailand.
4:45-5:00	Batistella1, Mateus, and Fabio de Castro2. 1Indiana University-ACT, Bloomington, IN 47405, USA; 2NEPAM-UNICAMP, Campinas, SP 13081-970, Brazil. Institutional design and landscape fragmentation: a comparative study of rural colonization projects in the Brazilian Amazon.
5:00-5:15	Fernandez, Luis E. School of Natural Resources and Environment, University Of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI 48109-1115, USA. Modeling the Agents of Tropical Deforestation: Integrating Social Survey Data into Spatial Models of Land Use Change on the Atlantic Coast of Nicaragua (1959-1996).
5:15-5:30	Zebisch1, Marc, Hartmut Kenneweg1, Valentina Krysanova2, and Frank Wechsung2. 1Institute for Landscape Development, Technical University Berlin, Germany; 2Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research, Germany. Landscape responses to external driving forces in Brandenburg, Germany.

 
 
 

April 26 (Thursday) Poster Session (8:00am - 5:30pm)

Place: Arizona Ballroom (Room 207)

Set-up time: 7:30am - 8:00am

Duration: 8:00am - 5:30pm

Author Available for questions: 11:00am - 12:15pm and 4:00pm - 5:30 pm
 
 
 

Landscape Characterization and Pattern Analysis

	Camelo-de-Castro, Ernesto. Department of Plant Biology, Arizona State University, Tempe, AZ 85287, USA. Landsat MSS and TM Data Preparation for Vegetation Cover Change Analysis: Evaluation on a Cerrado Environment in Mato Grosso, Brazil.
	Chen, Jiquan1, Eugenie Euskirchen1, Tom Hayes2, Siyan Ma1, Treneice Marshall1, and Sari Saunders1. 1School of Forestry & Wood Products, Michigan Technological University, Houghton, MI 49931, USA; 2University of California, Berkley, CA 94720, USA. Are Edge Effects More Pronounced at Edges?
	Chen, Yufu, Ming Dong. Institute of Botany, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100093, P.R.China. Quantifying spatial pattern of a sandy landscape in northern China by lacunarity analysis.
	da Costa Gurgel1, Helen, Nelson Jesus Ferreira2. 1 INPE - Instituto Nacional de Pesquisas Espaciais, Caixa Postal 515 - 12201-097 - São José dos Campos - SP, Brazil; 2 INPE - Instituto Nacional de Pesquisas Espaciais Caixa Postal 515 - 12201-097 - São José dos Campos - SP, Brazil. Spatial and Temporal Variability of NDVI over Brazil and its Connections with the Climate.
	Helmer, E. H., Olga Ramos, Tania del Mar Lopez, Maya Quiñones and Wilmari Diaz. International Institute of Tropical Forestry, USDA Forest Service, P.O. Box 25000, Río Piedras, Puerto Rico, USA. Mapping forest type and land use of a biodiversity hotspot.
	Hudak1, Andrew, Janet Ohmann1, Matt Gregory1, Melinda Moeur1, Michael Lefsky2, and Warren Cohen1. 1Pacific Northwest Research Station, U.S. Forest Service; and 2Department of Forest Science, College of Forestry, Oregon State University, Corvallis, OR, USA. Comparison of Two Methods to Map Forest Structure from Inventory Plot and Environmental Data in Western Oregon.
	Kirkpatrick1, Lee Anne, and John F. Weishampel2. 1Liberal Studies Program and 2Department of Biology, University of Central Florida, Orlando, FL 32816-2368, USA. Quantifying structure in volumetric neutral landscapes.
	Townsend, Philip A., Robert A. Chastain, Brian R. Sturtevant, and Steven W. Seagle. Appalachian Laboratory, University of Maryland Center for Environmental Science, 301 Braddock Road, Frostburg, MD 21532, USA. Characterization of forest vertical structure for landscape studies.
	Wu1, X. Ben, and Daniel Z. Sui2. 1Department of Rangeland Ecology and Management, Texas A&M University, College Station, TX 77843, USA; 2Department of Geography, Texas A&M University, College Station, TX 77843, USA. Exploring urban residential segregation using a lacunarity-based measure.
Scaling: Methods and Case Studies
	Bossenbroek1, Jonathan M., Helene H. Wagner1, Michelle M. Hawks1, John A. Wiens2, Beatrice Van Horne1. 1Biology Department, Colorado State University, Ft. Collins, CO 80523, USA; 2National Center for Ecological Analysis and Synthesis, Santa Barbara, CA 93101-3351, USA. Scale dependency from Colorado to Kansas: How the environment and the beetles come together.
	Hawks, Michelle M., Helene H. Wagnar, Jonathan M. Bossenbroek, John A. Wiens, and Beatrice Van Horne. Department of Biology, Colorado State University, Fort Collins, CO 80521, USA. Multi-scale Analysis of Butterflies Response to Environmental Factors Using Causal Modeling.
	Li1, Harbin, Zhengquan Wang2, and Carl C. Trettin1. 1USDA Forest Service, Southern Research Station, Charleston, SC 29414, USA; 2College of Forest Resources and Environment, Northeast Forestry University, Harbin, Heilongjiang 150040, P.R. China. Scaling up Carbon Estimates in Peat Soils: Sources and Consequences of Uncertainty.
	Ohmann1, Janet L., and Matthew J. Gregory2. 1USDA Forest Service, Pacific Northwest Research Station, Corvallis, OR 97330, USA; 2Department of Forest Science, Oregon State University, Corvallis, OR 97330, USA. Alternative approaches for scaling up fine-resolution, mapped vegetation data for regional analysis.
	Schooley1, Robert L., and John A. Wiens 1,2. 1Department of Biology, Colorado State University, Fort Collins, CO 80523, USA; 2National Center for Ecological Analysis and Synthesis, Santa Barbara, CA 93101, USA. Predicting the Distribution and Abundance of a Habitat Specialist: Grain Size and Spatial Effects.
	Wagner, Helene H.1, Jonathan M. Bossenbroek1, Michelle M. Hawks1, Beatrice Van Horne1, and John A. Wiens2. 1Department of Biology, Colorado State University, Fort Collins, CO 80523, USA; 2National Center for Ecological Analysis and Synthesis, Santa Barbara, CA 93101, USA. Spatial covariance in plant communities: An integration of variogram modeling, multi-scale ordination and the testing for assembly rules.
	Wiens1, John A., Helene H. Wagner2, Michelle M. Hawks2, Jonathan M. Bossenbroek2, and Beatrice Van Horne2. 1National Center for Ecological Analysis and Synthesis, Santa Barbara, CA 93101, USA; 2Department of Biology, Colorado State University, Fort Collins, CO 80523, USA. Changes in the structure of grassland dominated landscapes along a precipitation and productivity gradient in the central plains.  (Cancelled)
	Wu, Jianguo. Department of Life Sciences, Arizona State University, West Campus, Phoenix, AZ 85069, USA. Effects of changing grain size and extent in Landscape Characterization and Pattern Analysis: Generalities and idiosyncrasies.
Land Use Change and Urban Ecology
	Alberti1,2, Marina, Derek Booth3, Kristina Hill4, John Marzluff5, Stefan Coe1,2, Roarke Donnelly5, Vivek Shandas1,2, and Daniele Spirandelli2,4. 1Department of Urban Design and Planning, University of Washington, Seattle, WA 98195. USA; 2Urban Ecology Research Lab, University of Washington, Seattle, WA. USA; 3Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, University of Washington, Seattle, WA 98115, USA; 4Department of Landscape Architecture, University of Washington, Seattle, WA 98195, USA; 5College of Forest Resources, University of Washington, Seattle, WA 98195, USA. The Impacts of Urban Patterns on Ecosystem Dynamics.
	Berling-Wolff, Sheryl1,2, and Jianguo Wu2. 1Department of Plant Biology, Arizona State University, Tempe, AZ 85287, USA; 2Landscape and Systems Ecology Lab, Arizona State University-West, Phoenix, AZ 85069, USA. Simulating Urban Growth in the Phoenix Metropolitan Region: Relating Pattern to Process.
	Chen, Chang-Jui. Department of Landscape, Chinese Culture University, 100,2F, 125, Chung-Hua Rd., Sec.2, Taipei, Taiwan. Landscape spatial patterns of three kinds of irrigation areas in Taoyuan Terrace, Taiwan.
	Clagget1, Peter, Michael Strager2. 1Canaan Valley Institute, Valley Forge, Pennsylvania 19482-0964, USA; 2West Virginia University, Morgantown, WV 26506-6108, USA. An Interactive GIS Landscape Change and Analysis Tool.
	Fisher, Christopher T. Archaeological Research Institute, Department of Anthropology, Arizona State University, Tempe, AZ 85287, USA. 2000 years of landscape change in the Lake Pátzcuaro Basin, Michoacán, Mexico.
	Gomide, Marcia1, Vladmir Luft2, Mônica Serrão3. 1Núcleo de Estudos de Saúde Coletiva, Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro, Rio de Janeiro, Brasil; 2CREP, Visconde do Rio Branco, Minas Gerais, Brasil; 3SENAC, CEAD, Rio de Janeiro, Brasil. From Tropical Forest to Eroded Lands: The Cost of the Natural Landscape in the Urbanization Process.
	Gomide1, Marcia, Roberto Medronho1, and Heinrich haasenack2. 1Núcleo de Estudos de Saúde Coletiva - NESC/UFRJ/ Rio de Janeiro, Brasil; and 2Departamento de Ecologia/UFRGS/Porto Alegre, Brasil. Precarious Urbanization and Transmission of the Hepatitis A in a Poor Area of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.
	Jaiteh1, Malanding S., Paul V. Desanker2 and Jiquan Chen3. 1Center for International Earth Science Information Network (CIESIN), Columbia University, P.O. Box 1000, The Palisades, NY 10964; 2Department of Environmental Science, University of Virginia, Clark Hall, Charlottesville, VA 22903; 3 School of Forestry and Wood Products, Michigan Technological University, 1400 Townsend Drive, Houghton MI 49931, USA. Land Use and Landscape Patterns in Miombo Ecosystems.
	Alberti1,2, Marina, Erik Botsford1, and Alex Cohen1,2. 1Department of Urban Design and Planning, University of Washington, Seattle, WA 98195, USA; 2Urban Ecology Research Lab, University of Washington, Seattle, WA 98195, USA. Quantifying Urban Ecological Gradients in the Puget Sound Region.
	Mauz, Kathryn. Arid Lands Resource Sciences, Office of Arid Lands Studies, University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ 85719, USA. Quantifying Land Cover Change on the Catalina Piedmont, Tucson, Arizona, 1984-1998: Application of remote sensing and GIS analysis techniques.
	Wimberly, Michael C., and Janet L. Ohmann. USDA Forest Service Pacific Northwest Research Station, Corvallis, OR 97331, USA. Spatial Patterns of Forest Landscape Change in the Oregon Coast Range Between 1936 and 1996.
	Zhang, Jiahua and Hiroshi Kanzawa. Atmospheric Environment Division, National Institute for Environmental Studies, Tsukuba, Japan. Landscape dynamics in typical ecological regions of China based on remote sensing and GIS.
Landscape Pattern and Ecosystem Processes
	Charpentier1,2, M, C. Wigand2, R. McKinney2, M. Chintala2, G. Thursby2, and J. Kiddon2. 1OAO Corporation, 27 Tarzwell Drive, Narragansett, RI 02882, USA; 2EPA, NHEERL, 27 Tarzwell Drive, Narragansett, RI 02882, USA. A geographic information system (GIS) analysis of water transit through watersheds of subestuaries in Narragansett Bay, RI.
	Paul1, John F., Randy L. Comeleo2, Jane Copeland3. 1U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, Narragansett, RI 02882, USA; 2OAO Corporation, Corvallis, OR 97333 USA; and 3OAO Corporation, Narragansett, RI 02882, USA. Landscape Structure and Estuarine Condition in the Mid-Atlantic Region of the United States: I. Developing Quantitative Relationships.
	Hollister1, Jeff W., John F. Paul2, Jane Copeland3, Randy L. Comeleo4, Mike Charpentier3, Peter V. August1, Mark Brush5. 1University of Rhode Island, Department of Natural Resources Science, Kingston, RI, 02881; 2United States Environmental Protection Agency, Atlantic Ecology Division, Narragansett, RI 02882; 3OAO Corporation, Narragansett, RI 02882; 4OAO Corporation, Corvallis, OR 97333; 5University of Rhode Island, Graduate School of Oceanography, Narragansett, RI 02882. Landscape Structure and Estuarine Condition in the Mid-Atlantic Region of the United States: II. Assessing the Accuracy of the National Land Cover Dataset at Multiple Extents.
	Koerner, Brenda A., and Jeffrey M. Klopatek. Department of Plant Biology, Arizona State University, Tempe, AZ, USA. Anthropogenic and Natural CO2 Efflux in an Arid Urban Environment: Pattern and Processes.
	Lin1,3, Yu-Pin, Tsun-Kuo Chang2, Tung-po Teng3 and Chen-Fa Wu1. 1Department of Landscape Architecture, Chinese Culture University, Taipei, Taiwan 11114; 2Graduate Institute of Agricultural Engineering, National Taiwan University, Taipei, Taiwan 10617; 3Department of Geography, Chinese Culture University, Taipei, Taiwan, 11114. A study of Landscape diversity and soil heavy metal pollution in an agricultural landscape.
	Jenerette1,2, G. Darrel, Matthew A. Luck1,2, Jianguo Wu1, Nancy B. Grimm2, Diane Hope3, and Weixing Zhu4. 1Landscape and Systems Ecology Lab, Arizona State University-West, Phoenix, AZ 85069, USA; 2Department of Biology, Arizona State University, Tempe, AZ 85287, USA; 3Center for Environmental Studies, Arizona State University, Tempe, AZ 95287, USA; 4Department of Biological Sciences, Binghamton University - SUNY, Binghamton, NY 13902, USA. Linking spatial pattern of soil organic matter to ecological processes in an urban landscape.
	Tueller1, Paul T., Michael2 Limb1 and Jianguo Wu3. 1Department of Environmental and Resource Sciences, University of Nevada Reno, Reno, Nevada 89512, USA; 2Bureau of Land Management, Klamath Falls, OR, USA; 3Landscape and Systems Ecology Lab, Arizona State University, Phoenix, AZ 85069, USA. Landscape Pattern and ecosystem attributes on a western Nevada Rangeland Ecosystem.
	Wu, Wanli. School of Natural Resource Sciences, University of Nebraska-Lincoln, Lincoln, NE 68583, USA. Scales and Processes of Flow Regime, Hydrologic Connectivity, and Riverine Landscape Patterns on Braided River Floodplains.
	David, John (EBo) and Jianguo (Jingle) Wu. Department of Life Sciences, Arizona State University West, Phoenix, AZ 85069 and Department of Plant Biology, Arizona State University, Tempe, AZ 85069, USA. Toward Developing a Hierarchical Patch Dynamics Modeling Platform.

 
 

5:30pm-6:30pm	US-IALE General Business Meeting  Open to All Members, Ventana Room (Room 226)
7:00pm - 9:30pm	NASA-MSU Awards Dinner, Gold Room (Room 203)
9:00pm - 11:00pm	Student Social, Bandersnatch Brew Pub, 125 E 5th Street, Tempe (480) 966-4438

 
 
 
 

April 27 (Friday) Morning Plenary Session (8:30am - 9:30am)

Chair:	Dr. Jianguo (Jingle) Wu, Arizona State University
Location:	Ventana Room (Memorial Union, Room 226)

 
 

8:30 - 9:30	Plenary Address by Dr. Orie L. Loucks, Department of Zoology, Miami University, Oxford, OH 45056, USA:  Influencing the Social and Political Metabolism of Landscapes
9:30 - 9:45	COFFEE BREAK

 
 
 
 

April 27 (Friday) Morning - Concurrent Session #1

Regular Session  (IIAM-1):	Landscape Pattern Analysis: Theory and Methods
Chairperson:	X. Ben Wu, Department of Rangeland Ecology and Management, Texas A&M University, College Station, TX 77843, USA
Location:	Pima Room (MU Room 218)

 
 

9:45-10:00	Ludwig, John. CSIRO Sustainable Ecosystems, PMB 44, Winnellie, Darwin, Australia 0822. Monitoring Landscape Health: A New Resource Retention Index based on Remote-sensing.
10:00-10:15	Hay1, G.J., P. Dubé1, D.J. Marceau1, A. Bouchard2. 1Geocomputing Laboratory, Department of Geography, University of Montreal, Montreal, Que, Canada, H3C 3J7; 2IRBV, University of Montreal, Jardin Botanique de Montreal, Montreal, Que. Canada, H1X 2B2. Scale-Space for Landscape Ecologists: A Novel Approach for Defining Multi-Scale Landscape Structure In High-Resolution Imagery.
10:15-10:30	Blaschke, Thomas. Department of Geography and Geoinformation, University of Salzburg, Hellbrunner Str. 34 A-5020 Salzburg, Austria. Hierarchical patch dynamics and object-oriented image analysis: Multi-scale exploration of a cultural landscape.
10:30-10:45	He1, Hong S., Stephen J. Ventura2, and David J. Mladenoff3. 1School of Natural Resources, University of Missouri-Columbia, Columbia, MO 65211, USA; 2Land Information & Computer Graphic Facilities, University of Wisconsin, Madison, 53706, USA; and 3Department of Forest Ecology & Management, University of Wisconsin, Madison, WI 53706, USA. Effects of GIS Aggregation Approaches on Landscape Patterns Using Landsat TM Satellite Imagery.
10:45-11:00	Lin1,2, Yu-Pin, Tung-po Teng2 and Chen-Fa Wu1. 1Department of Landscape Architecture and 2Department of Geography, Chinese Culture University, Taipei, Taiwan 11114. Spatial continuity and fragmentation analysis of vegetation landscape at Lugiakan conservation area in Taiwan.
11:00-11:15	COFFEE BREAK
11:15-11:30	Guo, Qinghua, Wei Luo*, Ye Qi. Department of Environmental Science, Policy and Management, University of California, Berkeley, CA, 94704, USA. Semivariance techniques in point pattern analysis: A comparison with Ripley K.
11:30-11:45	de-Camino-Beck, Tomas and Arturo Sanchez-Azofeifa. Earth and Atmospheric Science Department, University of Alberta, Edmonton AB, Canadá T6G 2E3. A critical review of landscape fragmentation measures using cellular automata.
11:45-12:00	Bert, Daniel G., and Kathryn Freemark. Ottawa-Carleton Institute of Biology, Carleton University, Ottawa, On. Canada K1S 5B6 (DGB); National Wildlife Research Centre, Environment Canada, 100 Gamelin Blvd., Hull, Quebec, Canada K1A 0H3 (KEF). Nested species subsets in a regional context: effects of landscape structure, scale and error.
12:00-12:15	Tinker1, Daniel B., William H. Romme2, and Don G. Despain3. 1Department of Geosciences and Natural Resources Management, Western Carolina University, Cullowhee, NC 28723, USA; 2Biology Department, Fort Lewis College, Durango, CO 81301, USA; and 3USGS, Department of Biology, Montana State University, Bozeman, MT 59717, USA. Historic Range of Variability in Landscape Structure in Subalpine Forests of the Greater Yellowstone Area.

 
 
 
 

April 27 (Friday) Morning - Concurrent Session #2

Special Session  (IIAM-2):	Assessing Current and Future Regional Vulnerabilities
Chairperson:	Betsy R. Smith, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, National Exposure Research Laboratory, Research Triangle Park, NC 27711, USA
Location:	Cochise Room (MU Room 212)

 
 

9:45-10:00	Smith1, Elizabeth R., R.V. O’Neill2, K. Bruce Jones3, James D. Wickham1, and Kurt H. Riitters4. 1U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, National Exposure Research Laboratory, Research Triangle Park, NC 27711; 2Oak Ridge, TN 37830, 3 U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, National Exposure Research Laboratory, Las Vegas, NV 89119; 4USDA Forest Service, Forest Health Monitoring Program, Research Triangle Park, NC 27709. A Strategy for Assessing Current and Future Regional Vulnerabilities.
10:00-10:15	Tankersley Jr.1, Roger D., Kenneth H. Orvis2, and Elizabeth R. Smith3. 1Tennessee Valley Authority, Norris, TN 37828 USA; 2Department of Geography, University of Tennessee, Knoxville, TN 37996; 3EPA Office of Research and Development, Research Triangle Park, NC 27711, USA. The Geography of Migration: A Landscape View of Stopover Habitats and Pathways in the Eastern United States.
10:15-10:30	Riitters1, Kurt, Jim Wickham2, Bob O'Neill3, and Bruce Jones4. 1US Forest Service, Research Triangle Park, NC 27709, USA; 2US EPA, Research Triangle Park, NC, 27709, USA; 3 Oak Ridge, TN 37830, USA; and 4US EPA, Las Vegas, NV, 89173, USA. Modeling the risk of forest fragmentation in the mid-Atlantic region.
10:30-10:45	Wickham1, J., E. Smith1, R. O'Neill2, T.Wade1, K. Riitters3, K. Jones4. 1National Exposure Research Laboratory, EPA, RTP, NC 27711, USA; 2Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Oak Ridge, TN 37831, USA; 3Forest Health Monitoring Unit, Forest Service, RTP, NC, 27709, USA. 4National Exposure Research Laboratory, EPA, Las Vegas, NV 89119, USA. Propagating nutrient export risk across watersheds.
10:45-11:00	Jackson1, Laura, Sandra Bird2*, Ronald Matheny3, Robert V. O’Neill4, Denis White5, Kristen Boesch6, and Jodi Kovach6. 1US EPA, National Health and Environmental Effects Laboratory, Research Triangle Park, NC, 27711, 2US EPA, National Exposure Research Laboratory, Athens, GA, 3 US EPA, National Exposure Research Laboratory, Research Triangle Park, NC 27711,4 Oak Ridge, TN 37830, 5US EPA, National Health and Environmental Effects Laboratory, Corvallis, OR, 6University Of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, NC, USA. Projecting Ecological Vulnerability to Land-Use Change across the Mid-Atlantic Region.
11:00-11:15	COFFEE BREAK
11:15-11:30	Hess, George. Forestry Department, North Carolina State University, Raleigh NC 27695-8002, USA. Measuring Suburban Sprawl.
11:30-11:45	Wainger, Lisa A. and Dennis M. King. University of Maryland, Center for Environmental Science, CBL, Solomons, MD 20688, USA. Linking Environmental Indicators to Socio-Economic Indicators to Communicate Trade-Offs.
11:45-12:00	Tran1, Liem T., C. Gregory Knight1,2, Robert V. O'Neill3, Elizabeth R. Smith4, Kurt H. Riitters5, and James Wickham4. 1Center for Integrated Regional Assessment, the Pennsylvania State University, University Park, PA 16802, USA; 2Department of Geography, Pennsylvania State University, University Park, PA 16802, USA; 3Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Environmental Sciences Division, Oak Ridge, TN, USA; 4U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, Office of Research and Development, National Exposure Research Laboratory, Research Triangle Park, NC, USA; and 5U.S. Department of Agriculture, Forest Service, Forest Health Monitoring Program, Research Triangle Park, NC, USA. Fuzzy decision analysis for integrated environmental vulnerability assessment of the Mid-Atlantic region.

 
 
 
 

April 27 (Friday) Morning - Concurrent Session #3

Regular Session  (IIAM-3):	Pattern and Process in Urban Landscapes
Chairperson:	Mark J. McDonnell, Australian Research Centre for Urban Ecology, Royal Botanic Gardens Melbourne and Botany School, University of Melbourne, Victoria, 3010, Australia
Location:	Alumni Room (MU Room 202)

9:45-10:00	McDonnell, Mark J. and Kirsten Parris, Australian Research Centre for Urban Ecology, Royal Botanic Gardens Melbourne, c/o Botany School, University of Melbourne, Victoria, 3010, Australia. Creation of a Human Dominated Landscape (Melbourne) has Increased the Breeding Range of Grey-headed Flying Foxes (Pteropus poliocephalus) in Australia.
10:00-10:15	Theobald, David M. Natural Resource Ecology Laboratory, Colorado State University, Fort Collins, CO 80523, USA and The Nature Conservancy’s Smith Fellowship Program. Quantitative measures of the urban-rural gradient.
10:15-10:30	Cadenasso1, M.L., S.T.A. Pickett1, and W.C. Zipperer2. 1Institute of Ecosystem Studies, Millbrook, NY 12545, USA; and 2USDA Forest Service, Syracuse, NY 13210, USA. Spatial Heterogeneity in an Urban Watershed: Baltimore, Maryland.
10:30-10:45	Lister1, Tonya, Rachel Riemann1, Mike Hoppus1, and Wayne Zipperer2. 1USDA Forest Service, Northeastern Research Station, 11 Campus Boulevard, Suite 200, Newtown Square, PA 19073, USA; 2USDA Forest Service, SUNY College of Environmental Science and Forestry, 5 Moon Library, Syracuse, NY 13210, USA.  Changes in land use patterns and forest fragmentation over fifty years in the Baltimore area and their effects on forest composition and structure.
10:45-11:00	Grove1, J. Morgan and Ann P. Kinzig2. 1USDA Forest Service, 705 Spear Street, South Burlington, VT 05403, USA; 2Department of Biology, Arizona State University, Tempe, AZ 85287, USA. Synthesis of social and ecological approaches for the spatial analyses of human ecosystems, with examples from Phoenix, Arizona and Baltimore, Maryland.
11:00-11:15	COFFEE BREAK
11:15-11:30	Decker1, E. H., B. T. Milne1, F. A. Smith1, and S. M. Elliott2. 1Department of Biology, University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, New Mexico, 87131, USA; 2Division of Earth and Environmental Sciences, Los Alamos National Laboratory, Los Alamos, New Mexico, USA. General Patterns in The Spatial Structure of Urban Networks.
11:30-11:45	Mehaffey, Megan, H., Maliha S. Nash, Tim G. Wade, and Curt M. Edmonds. U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, Las Vegas, Nevada, 89119, USA. New York City Water Supply: A 25 Year Landscape Analysis of the Catskill/Delaware Watersheds.
11:45-12:00	Noorizan, Mohamed. Department of Landscape Architecture, Faculty of Design and Architecture, Universiti Putra Malaysia, 43400 UPM, Serdang, Selangor, Malaysia. The Revitalisation of Malaysian Urban Landscapes.
12:00-12:15

 
 
 
 

April 27 (Friday) Morning - Concurrent Session #4

Regular Session  (IIAM-4):	Landscape Pattern and Ecosystem Processes
Chairperson:	Jiquan Chen, School of Forestry and Wood Products, Michigan Tech University, Houghton, MI 49931, USA
Location:	Mohave Room (MU Room 222)

9:45-10:00	Euskirchen, Eugenie1, Jiquan Chen1, Harbin Li2, and Eric Gustafson3. 1Michigan Technological University, Houghton, MI 49931, USA; 2USDA Forest Service Center for Forested Wetlands Research, Charleston, SC, 29414, USA; and 3USDA Forestry Sciences Laboratory, Rhinelander, WI, 54501, USA. Modelling net carbon across a hypothetical landscape under alternative harvesting strategies.
10:00-10:15	Sturtevant, Brian R., Steven W. Seagle, and Philip Townsend. Appalachian Laboratory, University of Maryland Center for Environmental Science, 301 Braddock Road, Frostburg, MD 21532, USA. Comparing terrain-based models of forest productivity in western Maryland: Extending to regional scales.
10:15-10:30	Pennington, Deana D. Department of Geosciences, Oregon State University, Corvallis, OR 97331, USA. Spatiotemporal Analysis of Landscape Structure, Function and Change in the Western Cascades of Oregon.
10:30-10:45	Tang, Jianwu, Ming Xu, and Ye Qi. Department of Environmental Science, Policy, and Management. University of California, 135 Giannini Hall Berkeley, CA 94720-3312, USA. The impact of forest thinning on soil respiration.
10:45-11:00	Bennett, Elena and Stephen R. Carpenter. Center for Limnology, 680 N. Park St., Madison, WI 53706. Phosphorus distribution along an urban-rural gradient.
11:00-11:15	COFFEE BREAK
11:15-11:30	Zheng, Daolan, and Stephen D. Prince. Department of Geography, University of Maryland, College Park, MD 20742, USA. Grid net primary production estimates in Finland and Sweden at 1-km and 0.5 degree cell sizes.
11:30-11:45	Kerkhoff, Andrew J., Scott N. Martens, and Bruce T. Milne. Department of Biology, University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, NM 87131, USA. Landscape ecohydrology and patterns of tree cover in semi-arid woodlands.
11:45-12:00	Krysanova, Valentina and Frank Wechsung. Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research, P.O.Box 601203, Telegrafenberg, 14412 Potsdam, Germany. West-European trends in agriculture and their impact on ecohydrological processes: A modelling study in the state of Brandenburg.

 
 
 
 

April 27 (Friday) Morning - Concurrent Session #5

Special Session  (IIAM-5):	Workshop: The Decline of Agricultural Landscapes in the Phoenix Metropolitan Area
Chairperson:	Laura Musacchio, School of Planning and Landscape Architecture, Arizona State University, Tempe, AZ 85287, USA
Co-Organizers:	Frederick Steiner, Office of the Vice Provost for Research, Arizona State University Katherine Crewe, Assistant Professor, School of Planning and Landscape Architecture, Arizona State University Jeff Schmidt, Community Assistance Coordinator, USDA - Natural Resources Conservation Service, Phoenix, AZ
Location:	La Paz Room (MU Room 223)
9:45-11:00		Workshop activities
11:00-11:15		COFFEE BREAK

 
 

Special Session  (IIAM-6):	Workshop: The Equity of Regional Open Space Conservation and Restoration Projects in the Phoenix Metropolitan Area: Is a Planning Framework Needed?
Chairperson:	Laura Musacchio, School of Planning and Landscape Architecture, Arizona State University, Tempe, AZ 85287, USA
Co-Organizers:	Joseph Ewan, Assistant Professor, School of Planning and Landscape Architecture, Arizona State University Ruth Yabes, Associate Professor, School of Planning and Landscape Architecture, Arizona State University
Location:	La Paz Room (MU Room 223)
11:15-12:15		Workshop activities

 
 
 
 

12:15 - 1:30 pm

LUNCH BREAK Silent Book Auction: Second Floor, Outside of the Arizona Ball Room (Room 207)

 
 
 
 

April 27 (Friday) Afternoon - Half-Day Field Trips

1:00pm-5:00pm

Half-Day Field Trips See information on field trips for details.

 
 

April 27 (Friday) Evening Banquet (7:00pm - 9:30pm)

 
 

Chair:	Virginia Dale
Place:	Tempe Mission Palms Hotel, 60 East 5th Street, Tempe
6:00pm-7:00pm	Banquet Reception
7:00pm-8:00pm 8:00pm-8:10pm 8:10pm-8:20pm 8:20pm-8:30pm 8:30pm-8:40pm     8:40pm-9:30pm	Banquet Dinner Eric Gustafson: Award Committee Announcement Pete August: Foreign Scholar Travel Awards Announcement Jack Lou: NASA-MSU Professional Enhancement Awards Announcement Virginia Dale: Election Results Banquet Address: (Introduction to the speaker by Dr. Laura Musacchio) Dr. Katherine Crewe: The Origins Of Phoenix Farming

 
 
 
 

April 28 (Saturday) Morning Plenary Session (8:30am - 9:30am)

Chair:	Laura Musacchio, School of Planning and Landscape Architecture, Arizona State University, Tempe, AZ 85287, USA
Location:	Ventana Room (Memorial Union, Room 226)

 
 

8:30 - 9:30	Plenary Address by Prof. Anne W. Spirn,: Watersheds, History, Landscape Planning and Community Development: Reflections on Fifteen Years of the West Philadelphia Landscape Project
9:30 - 9:45	COFFEE BREAK

 
 
 
 

April 28 (Saturday) Morning - Concurrent Session #1

Special Session  (IIIAM-1):	Complexity Theory and Ecological Applications
Chairpersons:	Darrel Jenerette and Jianguo Wu, Arizona State University, Tempe, AZ 85287, USA
Location:	Ventana Room A (MU Room 226)

9:45-10:00		Jenerette1,2, G. Darrel, Jianguo Wu1, Nancy B. Grimm2. 1Dept. of Life Sciences, Arizona State University-West, Phoenix, AZ 85069, USA; 2Department of Biology, Arizona State University, Tempe, AZ 85287, USA. Spatial nitrogen dynamics and self-organization.
10:00-10:15		Stein, D. L. Department of Physics, University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ 85721, USA. Spin glasses, disorder, and complexity.
10:15-10:30		Bascompte, Jordi. Estación Biológica de Doñana, CSIC, Sevilla, Spain. Complex Systems and Habitat Loss.
10:30-10:45		Keitt, Timothy H. Department of Ecology and Evolution, State Univeristy of New York at Stony Brook, Stony Brook, NY 11794, USA. Statistical Mechanics of a Continent-Wide Biological Survey.
10:45-11:00		Müller, Felix. Ecology Center, University of Kiel, Schauenburgerstrasse 112, D 24118 Kiel, Germany. Ecosystem Synergetics - Applying Systems Theoretical Concepts to Ecosystem and Landscape Development.
11:00-11:15	COFFEE BREAK
11:15-11:30		Li, Bai-Lian. Department of Biology, University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, New Mexico 87131, USA. Spatiotemporal Complexity of Nonlinear Ecological Interactions.
11:30-11:45		With1, Kimberly A., and Anthony W. King2. 1Division of Biology, Kansas State University, Manhattan, KS 66506, USA; and 2Environmental Sciences Division, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Oak Ridge, TN 37831, USA. The effect of landscape structure on critical biodiversity.
11:45-12:00		Restrepo, Carla, Bruce T. Milne*, D. Bader, W. Pockman, and A. Kerkhoff. Department of Biology, The University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, NM 871131, USA. Variation in vegetation growth rates: Implications for the evolution of semi-arid landscapes.
12:00-12:15		Washington-Allen1,2, Robert A., Neil E. West1, R. Douglas Ramsey3 and Carolyn T. Hunsaker4. 1Department of Rangeland Resources, Utah State University, Logan, Utah 84322, USA; 2Environmental Sciences Division, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, MS 6407, Oak Ridge, TN 37831, USA; 3Remote Sensing/GIS Laboratory and Department of Geography and Earth Resources, Utah State University, Logan, Utah 84322, USA; 4USDA Forest Service, Pacific Southwest Research Laboratory, Fresno, CA 93710, USA. A Dynamical Systems Perspective on Being Dried, Eaten, and Burned: What is a semi-arid landscape to do?

 
 
 
 

April 28 (Saturday) Morning - Concurrent Session #2

Special Session  (IIIAM-2):	Landscape Ecology Comes to Town: An exploration of concepts, issues, strategies and case studies of applied urban landscape ecology
Chairperson:	Jack Ahern, Department of Landscape Architecture an Regional Planning, University of Massachusetts, Amherst, MA 01003, USA
Location:	Cochise Room (MU Room 212)

9:45-10:00
10:00-10:15	Yokohari, Makoto, Takashi Watanabe and Takashi Hirohara. University of Tsukuba, Tsukuba, Ibaraki, 305-8573, Japan. Restoring ecological relationships between urban and rural landscapes: A new ecological planning concept for Asian mega-cities.
10:15-10:30	Condon, Patrick, and Sara Muir. University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada. The Headwaters Sustainable Community for 13,000: The East Clayton Neighborhood Concept Plan.
10:30-10:45	Tjallingii, Sybrand P. Alterra, Green World Research, P.O. 47 6700 AA Wageningen, The Netherlands. Carrying Structures of the Urban Landscape.
10:45-11:00	Woodward, Joan and Kyle Brown. Department of Landscape Architecture, CaliforniaState Polytechnic University, Pomona, California. Patterns of Perseverance: Thirty Years of Ecological Planning in Los Angeles.
11:00-11:15	COFFEE BREAK
11:15-11:30	Snep, Robbert. Department of Landscape Ecology, Alterra, Green World Research, 6700 AA Wageningen, The Netherlands. Modelling and planning nature & biodiversity in cities: The (urban) landscape ecological approach.
11:30-11:45	Ahern, Jack. Department of Landscape Architecture and Regional Planning, University of Massachusetts, Amherst, MA, USA. Future Landscape Scenarios in Urban Watershed Planning.
11:45-12:00	Questions/Session Summary

 
 
 
 

April 28 (Saturday) Morning - Concurrent Session #3

Regular Session  (IIIAM-3):	Landscape Pattern and Species Distribution
Chairperson:	Marlene B. Cole, Department of Ecology, Evolution and Natural Resources, Rutgers University, New Brunswick, NJ 08901, USA
Location:	Alumni Room (MU Room 202)

 

9:45-10:00
10:00-10:15	Cole, Marlene B. and Richard G. Lathrop. Department of Ecology, Evolution and Natural Resources, Rutgers University, 14 College Farm Road, New Brunswick, NJ 08901, USA. Spatial relationships of environmental and sonar backscatter-derived variables to fish abundance data in the New York Bight.
10:15-10:30	Krawchuk, Meg and Phil Taylor. Biology Department, ACWERN, Acadia University, Wolfville, NS B0P 1X0, Canada. The relative importance of habitat structure changes within a nested hierarchy of spatial scales for three species of insects.
10:30-10:45	Aukema, Juliann E. Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ 85719 USA. Mistletoe distribution at multiple scales: Patterns, processes, and mechanisms.
10:45-11:00	Hoffman1, Aaron L., and John A. Wiens2. 1Department of Biology, Colorado State University, Fort Collins, CO 80523, USA; 2Department of Biology and Graduate Degree Program in Ecology, Colorado State University, Fort Collins, CO 80523, USA. The use of semivariance analysis for scale detection in beetle diversity and landscape properties on the shortgrass steppe of Colorado.
11:00-11:15	COFFEE BREAK
11:15-11:30	Tyler1, Marnie W., Don McKenzie1, and David L. Peterson2. 1College of Forest Resources, University of Washington, Seattle, WA 98195, USA; and 2USGS Forest & Rangeland Ecosystem Science Center, Cascadia Field Station, University of Washington. Effects of Human Land Use on Landscape Structure on the Western Olympic Peninsula, Washington, U.S.A.
11:30-11:45	Giladi, Itamar, Michael Bokamper, and H. Ronald Pulliam. Institute of Ecology, The University of Georgia, Athens, GA. 30602. Distribution, dispersal, and habitat suitability of Hexastylis arifolia in a mosaic landscape.
11:45-12:00	Fairbanks1, Dean H.K., and Albert S. van Jaarsveld1. 1Conservation Planning Unit, Department of Zoology & Entomology, University of Pretoria, Pretoria 0002, South Africa. Human-Ecosystem Co-evolution: Avian Diversity and Structure within African Land Transformation Systems.
12:00-12:15

 
 
 
 

April 28 (Saturday) Morning - Concurrent Session #4

Regular Session  (IIIAM-4):	Landscape-Scale Ecological Assessment
Chairperson:	Kevin McGarigal, Department of Natural Resources Conservation, University of Massachusetts, Amherst, MA 01003, USA.
Location:	Mohave Room (MU Room 222)

9:45-10:00	McGarigall, Kevin, Scott Jackson, Brad Compton, Kasey Rolih, Ede Ene, Kirstin Seleen, and Curt Griffin. Department of Natural Resources Conservation, University of Massachusetts, Amherst, MA 01003, USA. Biodiversity assessment: A coarse-filtered landscape ecological approach.
10:00-10:15	Smith1, Jonathan, James D. Wickham1, Douglas Norton2, Tim G. Wade3 and K. Bruce Jones3. 1Landscape Characterization Branch (MD-56), US EPA, Research Triangle Park, NC 27711, USA; 2Office of Water, US EPA, 1200 Pennsylvania Ave. NW, Washington DC, 20460; 3Landscape Ecology Branch, US EPA, PO Box 93478, Las Vegas, NV 89193. Utilization of Landscape Indicators to Model Water Quality.
10:15-10:30	Kepner1, W.G., S.N. Miller2, M. Hernandez2, R.C. Miller2, D.C. Goodrich2, C.M. Edmonds1, F. K. Devonald3, L. Li4, and P. Miller2. 1U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, National Exposure Research Laboratory, Las Vegas, Nevada, USA; 2USDA—Agricultural Research Service, Southwest Watershed Research Center, Tucson, Arizona, USA; 3U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, National Center for Environmental Research, Washington, D.C., USA; 4University of New Mexico, Department of Biology, Albuquerque, New Mexico, USA. An Evaluation of Hydrologic Response to 25 Years of Landscape Change in a Semi-arid Watershed.
10:30-10:45	Richey, David J. Department of Landscape Architecture, University of Oregon, Eugene, OR 97403-5247, USA. Design and Prioritized Implementation of Woody Riparian Buffers for Increasing Effective Shade in Agricultural Landscapes of the Willamette River Valley, Oregon.
10:45-11:00	Desimone, Steven M., Brian L. Cosentino, Joseph B. Buchanan, D. John Pierce, and Timothy Quinn. Washington Department of Fish and Wildlife, 600 Capitol Way North, Olympia, WA 98501, USA. Riparian Buffers as Habitat for Northern Goshawks: A Spatial Assessment at Three Scales on Managed Forest Landscapes in Western Washington.
11:00-11:15	COFFEE BREAK
11:15-11:30	Baker1, Matthew E., Michael J. Wiley1, and Paul W. Seelbach2. 1School of Natural Resources and Environment, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI 48109-1115, USA; 2Institute for Fisheries Research, Michigan Department of Natural Resources, Ann Arbor, MI 48109, USA. Predicting spatial variation in riparian hydrology and forest composition across Lower Michigan.
11:30-11:45	Hayman, Alicia A., and Hans Schreier. Institute for Resources and Environment, May Pen, Clarendon, Jamaica W.I. The effects of land use practices on water quality and quantity in the Hope River watershed, Jamaica.
11:45-12:00

 
 
 

April 28 (Saturday) Morning - Concurrent Session #5

Regular Session  (IIIAM-5):	Landscape Pattern and Biodiversity Conservation
Chairperson:	Paul C. Hellmund, Landscape Architecture Program, Colorado State University, Fort Collins, CO 80523, USA
Location:	La Paz Room (MU Room 223)

9:45-10:00	Hellmund1, Paul Cawood, Theresa Tiehen2, and Raymond Sperger3, 1Landscape Architecture Program, Colorado State University, Fort Collins, CO 80523, USA; 2 Colorado Department of Transportation, Aurora CO 80011, USA; 3South Platte Park, South Suburban Park and Recreation District, Littleton, CO 80121, USA. Wildlife, a Highway, and Community-based Conservation: A Case Study on Denver Urbanizing Fringe.
10:00-10:15	Weber, Whitney L., John L. Roseberry, and Alan Woolf. Cooperative Wildlife Research Laboratory, Southern Illinois University, Carbondale, IL 62901, USA. Contribution of the Conservation Reserve Program to general landscape structure in Illinois.
10:15-10:30	Meegan1, Rebecca P., David S. Maehr1, and Thomas S. Hoctor 2. 1Department of Forestry, University of Kentucky, Lexington, KY 40546-0073; and 2Department of Landscape Architecture, University of Florida, Gainesville, FL 32611-5704. Recovering the Florida Panther through Regional Conservation Planning.
10:30-10:45	Beazley, Karen F., Tamaini V. Snaith, and Peter J. Austin-Smith, Jr. School for Resource and Environmental Studies, Dalhousie University, Halifax, N.S. B3H 3J5. Canada. Delineating Critical Habitat for Viable Populations of Focal Species: An Example From Nova Scotia.
10:45-11:00	Sanchez-Azofeifa1, G. Arturo, Gretchen Daily2, and Paul Ehrlich3. 1Earth and Atmospheric Sciences Department, University of Alberta, Edmonton, AB, Canada T6G 2E3; 2 Center for Conservation Biology, Department of Biological Sciences, Stanford University, Stanford, CA 94305-5020, USA; and 3Center for Conservation Biology, Department of Biological Sciences, Stanford University, Stanford, CA 94305-5020, USA. Isolation of National Parks in the Tropics.
11:00-11:15	COFFEE BREAK
11:15-11:30	Tole, L. Center for Development Studies, University of Glasgow, Glasgow, U.K. Habitat Loss and Anthropogenic Disturbance in Jamaica's Hellshire Hills Region.
11:30-11:45	Liu1, Jianguo, Marc Linderman 1, Zhiyun Ouyang2, Li An 1, Jian Yang 3, and Hemin Zhang 3. 1Department of Fisheries and Wildlife, Michigan State University, East Lansing, Michigan, USA; 2 Department of Systems Ecology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China; and 3 China Center for Giant Panda Research and Conservation, Sichuan Province, China. Panda Habitat Pattern and Process across Space and Time: Integrating Landscape Ecology with Human Demography, Behavior and Socioeconomics at Multiple Scales.
11:45-12:00	Metzger, Jean Paul. Department of Ecology, University of Sao Paulo, Rua do Matao 321, trv. 14, 05508-900, Sao Paulo, Brazil. Effects of deforestation pattern and private nature-reserves on the forest conservation in agricultural areas of the Brazilian Amazon.

 
 
 
 

12:15 - 1:30pm:

Lunch Break

 
 
 
 

April 28 (Saturday) Afternoon - Concurrent Session #1

Special Session  (IIIPM-1):	Premises and Problems with Spatial Analysis
Chairpersons:	Marie-Jose Fortin1 and Maria Miriti2, 1School of Resource and Environmental Management, Simon Fraser University, Burnaby, B.C., Canada; 2Department of Ecology and Evolution SUNY at Stony Brook Stony Brook NY 11794, USA
Location:	Ventana Room A (MU Room 226)

 

1:30-1:45		Fortin, Marie-José1, Mathieu Philibert2, Tarmo Remmel and Ferenc Csillag3. 1School of Resource and Environmental Management, Simon Fraser University, Burnaby, B.C., Canada V5A 1S6; Department of Geography, Simon Fraser University, Burnaby, B.C., Canada V5A 1S6; 3Department of Geography, University of Toronto, Mississauga, Ontario, Canada L5L 1C6. Sensitivity analysis of boundary detection on spatial features of heterogeneous landscape.
1:45-2:00		Dale1, M.R.T., M.-J. Fortin2, and P. Legendre3. 1Department of Biological Sciences, University of Alberta, Edmonton, T6G 2E9, Canada. 2School of Resource and Environmental Management, Simon Fraser University, Burnaby, V5A 1S6, Canada. 3Département de sciences biologiques, Université de Montréal, Montréal, H3C 3J7, Canada.Accounting for spatial autocorrelation in statistical tests of landscape characteristics.
2:00-2:15		Li1, Harbin, and Jianguo Wu2. 1USDA Forest Service Southern Research Station, Charleston, SC 29414, USA; 2Landscape and Systems Ecology Lab, Arizona State University-West, Phoenix, AZ 85069, USA. Landscape Analysis with Pattern Indices: Problems and Solutions.
2:15-2:30		Miriti, Maria. Department of Ecology and Evolution SUNY at Stony Brook Stony Brook NY 11794, USA. What can distort the identification of landscape spatial pattern?
2:30-2:45		COFFEE BREAK
2:45-3:00		Urban, Dean L. Nicholas School of the Environment, Duke University, Durham, NC 27708 USA. Extending community ecological analyses to landscape scales.
3:00-3:15		Anthony1, J.A., and G.A. Bradshaw2. 1Department of Fisheries and Wildlife, 104 Nash Hall, Oregon State University, Corvallis, OR 97331, USA; 2USDA Forest Service- PNW Research and Rogue-Siskiyou National Forest, Applegate Ranger District, Jacksonville, OR 97530-9341, USA. Wavelet analysis as an approach to investigate the reciprocal relationship between ecological pattern and process.
3:15-3:30		Hughes, Josie, Andrew Fall, Marie-Josee Fortin and Ken Lertzman. School of Resource and Environmental Management, Simon Fraser University, Burnaby, B.C., Canada V5A 1S6. Predicting the effect of pattern on congregative dispersal: A comparison of landscape indices.
3:30-3:45		Questions/Session Summary
4:00-4:15	COFFEE BREAK

 
 

Regular Session  (IIIPM-6):	Land Use and Land Cover Change: Modeling
Chairperson:	Bryan C. Pijanowski, Land Use Cover Change Enterprise, Michigan State University, East Lansing, MI, USA.
Location:	Ventana Room A (MU Room 226)

 

4:15-4:30	Pijanowski, Bryan C. College of Natural Science, Michigan State University, East Lansing, Michigan 48824, USA. Can a neural network based land use change model generalize across space and time? An application of the Land Transformation Model for the Twin Cities and Detroit Metropolitan Areas.
4:30-4:45	Meretsky1, Vicky, Tom Evans2, Eduardo Brondizio3, Cynthia Croissant2, and Dawn Parker4. 1School of Public and Environmental Affairs, 2Department of Geography, 3Department of Anthropology, 4Center for the Study of Institutions, Population and Environmental Change, Indiana University, Bloomington, IN 47405, USA. Characterizing landscape composition and pattern: Cross-site comparison of social and biophysical factors.
4:45-5:00	Alberti1,2, Marina and Paul Waddell1,3. 1Department of Urban Design and Planning, University of Washington, Seattle, WA. 98195 USA; 2Urban Ecology Research Lab, University of Washington, Seattle, WA 98195, USA; 3Daniel J. Evans School of Public Affairs, University of Washington, Seattle, WA 98195, USA. Urbansim: An Integrated Urban Development and Land Cover Change Model.
5:00-5:15	Obbink, Marion (M.H.) and Jan (J.G.P.W.) Clevers. Centre for Geo-Information, Wageningen University and Research, Wageningen, The Netherlands. Aggregate sets, a new hierarchical approach to link change processes and complex spatial patterns.
5:15-5:30	Fritsch1, Uta, Daniel Katzenmaier1 and Axel Bronstert2, 1Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research, Potsdam, Germany; 2Institute for Geo-ecology, University of Potsdam, Potsdam, Germany. Land-Use Scenarios for Flood Risk Assessment Studies.

 
 
 
 

April 28 (Saturday) Afternoon - Concurrent Session #2

Special Session  (IIIPM-2):	Pattern and Process in Aquatic Ecosystems: How patches and networks affect ecosystem function
Chairpersons:	Lisa Dent and Elena M. Bennett, Center for Limnology, University of Wisconsin, Madison, WI 53706, USA
Location:	Cochise Room (MU Room 212)

 
 

1:30-1:45	Fisher, Stuart G., Julia Henry, John Schade, and Jill Welter. Department of Biology, Arizona State University, Tempe, AZ 85287, USA. Challenges of Applying the Concepts and Approaches of Landscape Ecology to Running Waters.
1:45-2:00	Henry, Julia C., S.G. Fisher, J.D. Schade, and J.R. Welter. Department of Biology, Arizona State University, Tempe AZ 85287, USA. Periphyton-sandbar edge interactions in an arid-land stream.
2:00-2:15	Schade, John D., Stuart G. Fisher, Julia C. Henry, and Jill, R. Welter. Department of Biology, Arizona State University, Tempe, AZ 85287, USA. Hydrologic and nutrient exchange between stream and riparian zone in an arid-land watershed.
2:15-2:30	Welter, Jill R., Stuart G. Fisher, Julia C. Henry and John D. Schade. Department of Biology, Arizona State University, Tempe, AZ 85287, USA. Nutrient transport and processing in the uplands and intermittent drainage network: linking terrestrial and aquatic ecosystems.
2:30-2:45	COFFEE BREAK
2:45-3:00	Weller, Donald E., Thomas E. Jordan, and David L. Correll. Smithsonian Environmental Research Center, Edgewater, MD 21037, USA. Effects of riparian buffer configuration on nutrient inputs to streams.
3:00-3:15	Findlay1, Stuart, Nina Caraco1, Jonathon Cole1, William Nieder2, and David Strayer1. 1Institute of Ecosystem Studies, Box AB, Millbrook, NY 12545, 2Hudson River National Estuarine Research Reserve, Annandale, NY 12504. Functioning of submersed vegetation patches in the tidal freshwater Hudson River.
3:15-3:30	Johnson, Lucinda B., Natural Resources Research Institute, University of Minnesota, Duluth, MN 55811, USA. Influence of landscape versus local scale factors on wood in low gradient streams.
3:30-3:45	Swanson1, Frederick J., Sherri L. Johnson2, Kai U. Snyder3, and Steven A. Acker4. 1USDA Forest Service, Forestry Sciences Lab, Corvallis, OR 97331, USA; 2Department of Fisheries and Wildlife, Oregon State University, Corvallis, OR 97331, USA; 3E&S Environmental, 2162 NW Fillmore Ave, Corvallis, OR 97330, USA; and 4National Park Service, 909 First Ave, Seattle, WA 98104, USA. Disturbance of Aquatic and Riparian Systems in a Mountain River Network.
3:45-4:00	Pringle, Catherine, Elizabeth Anderson, Effie Greathouse, and James March. Institute of Ecology, University of Georgia, Athens, GA 30606, USA. How do different spatial patterns of disturbance along stream networks affect ecosystem function?
4:00-4:15	COFFEE BREAK
4:15-4:30	Kratz1, Tim K., Thomas R. Hrabik1, John J. Magnuson1, and Katherine E. Webster1,2. 1Center for Limnology, University of Wisconsin, Madison, WI 53706, USA; 2Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources, 1350 Femrite Dr., Monona, WI 53716, USA. The Role of Landscape Position in Lake Structure and Dynamics.
4:30-4:45	Bradshaw, Gay A., and Marie-Josèe Fortin2. 1National Centre for Ecological Analysis and Synthesis and USDA, Forest Service, Santa Barbara, California 93101 and 2School of Resource and Environmental Management, Simon Fraser University, Burnaby, B.C., Canada V5A 1S6. Considerations of landscape heterogeneity effects on scaling and monitoring of aquatic networks.
4:45-5:15	Summary and Discussion led by Lisa Dent and Elena M. Bennett

 
 
 
 

April 28 (Saturday) Afternoon - Concurrent Session #3

Regular Session  (IIIPM-3):	Disturbance and Vegetation Pattern and Dynamics
Chairperson:	Louis Iverson1 (1:30 - 2:30 pm) and Janet Franklin2,(2:45 - 5::00 pm), 1USDA Forest Service, Northeastern Research Station, Delaware, OH 43015, USA; 2Department of Geography, San Diego State University, San Diego, CA 92182, USA
Location:	Alumni Room (MU Room 202)

1:30-1:45	Franklin, Janet. Department of Geography, San Diego State University, San Diego, CA 92182-4493, USA. Simulating the effects of altered fire regimes on plant succession in the shrublands and forests of Southern California using LANDIS.
1:45-2:00	Howe, Elisabeth Bartlett and William L. Baker. Department of Geography and Recreation, University of Wyoming, Laramie, WY 82071, USA. Disturbance Interactions and Severe Blowdown in a Rocky Mountain Subalpine Forest Landscape.
2:00-2:15	Ehle, Donna S. and William L. Baker, Department of Geography and Recreation, University of Wyoming, Laramie, WY 82071, USA. Influence of the Spatial Distribution of Pre-European Disturbance Events on Ponderosa Pine Age Structure in Rocky Mountain National Park, USA.
2:15-2:30	Lindemann, Jeremiah D. and William L. Baker. Department of Geography and Recreation, University of Wyoming, Laramie, WY 82071, USA. GIS analysis of factors influencing blowdown in a Rocky Mountain landscape.
2:30-2:45	COFFEE BREAK
2:45-3:00	Iverson, Louis R., and Todd F. Hutchinson. USDA Forest Service, Northeastern Research Station, Delaware, OH 43015, USA. The effects of prescribed fire on soil temperature and moisture, litter consumption, and sapling topkill across a forested landscape in Ohio.
3:00-3:15	Beaty, R. Matthew and Alan H. Taylor. Department of Geography, The Pennsylvania State University, University Park, PA 16802, USA. Stand and Landscape Scale Variablity of Fire Effects and Vegetation Dynamics in a Mixed Conifer Forest Landscape, Southern Cascades, California.
3:15-3:30	Curtin, Charles, G. Arid Lands Project, Box 29, Animas, NM. 88020. Long-term experimental studies of the interaction of herbivory, fire, and climate in the US. / Mexico borderlands.  (Cancelled)
3:30-3:45	Wilmer, Henry. The Wilderness Society, Center for Landscape Analysis, 1424 4th Ave. Suite 816, Seattle, WA 98101, USA. Effects of Fire and Logging on Landscape Structure in the Greater Yellowstone Ecosystem.
3:45-4:00	Andison, David W. Bandaloop Landscape-Ecosystem Services, 3426 Main Ave., Vancouver, BC, Canada, V3H 4R3. Fire in riparian zones: The perfect hierarchical model.
4:00-4:15	COFFEE BREAK
4:15-4:30	Skinner1, Carl N., and Scott L. Stephens2. 1US Forest Service, Pacific Southwest Research Station, 2400 Washington Ave., Redding, CA 96001; 2College of Natural Resources, Department of Environmental Science, Policy, and Management, University of California, Berkeley, CA. Changes in fire regimes in mixed conifer forests of the Sierra San Pedro Martir, Baja California, Mexico.
4:30-4:45	Franklin1, Scott, Amy Webbeking1 and John Kupfer2. 1Department of Biology, University of Memphis, Memphis, TN 38152, USA; 2Department of Geography and Regional Development, University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ 85721, USA. The Effects of Landscape Structure on Plant Regeneration Patterns in Shifting Cultivation Fields Near Indian Church, Belize.
4:45-5:00

 
 
 
 

April 28 (Saturday) Afternoon - Concurrent Session #4

Regular Session  (IIIPM-4):	Land Use Planning and Landscape Architecture
Chairperson:	Frederick Steiner, School of Planning and Landscape Architecture, Arizona State University, Tempe, AZ 85287, USA
Location:	Mohave Room (MU Room 222)

1:30-1:45	Dalton, Deborah W. Division of Landscape Architecture, University of Oklahoma, Norman, OK, 73019, USA. Eco-Revelatory Design: A Cautionary Tale of Two Designs in the City.
1:45-2:00	Kosek, Sandra E. and Joan Iverson Nassauer. Department of Landscape Architecture, School of Natural Resources and Environment, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI 48109, USA. Scale Influences on the Perception of Landscapes Designed for Ecological Function.
2:00-2:15	Canzonieri, Carmela. Faculty of Environmental Studies, York University, Toronto ON, Canada. Reinforcing the ecological structure to artificial infrastructure ratio in suburban/rural landscapes.
2:15-2:30	Nassauer, Joan Iverson and Robert C Corry*. School of Natural Resources and Environment, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI 48109-1115, USA. A GIS-Based Spatial Model of Cultural Landscape Preferences for Altrenative Agricultural Landscape Scenarios.
2:30-2:45	COFFEE BREAK
2:45-3:00	Harris, Virginia. Department of Agricultural and Consumer Economics, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, Urbana, IL 61801, USA. Using Remote Sensing Data to Estimate the Value of Open Space in the Chicago Metropolitan Area.
3:00-3:15	Swaffield, Simon R. Environmental Management and Design Division, Lincoln University, Canterbury, New Zealand. Society, Culture and Landscape Ecology: Connections and Tensions.
3:15-3:30	Willems, Geert P.A., Wim G.M. van der Knaap, and Catharinus F. Jaarsma*. Department of Environmental Sciences, Land Use Planning Group, Wageningen University, Generaal Foulkesweg 13, 6703 BJ Wageningen, The Netherlands. Planning within heterogeneous landscapes: Confronting the patterns of movement and processes in time and space of man and animal.
3:30-3:45	Skabelund, Lee R. Department of Landscape Architecture, Virginia Polytechnic Institute & State University, Blacksburg, Virginia 24061, USA. Grounding Community Planning/Design with an Understanding of Site and Landscape Ecology: Learning from the Brown Farm Park Master Planning Process - Blacksburg, Virginia.
3:45-4:00	Ewan1, Joseph M., and James P. Burke2. 1School of Planning and Landscape Architecture, Arizona State University, Tempe, Arizona, USA; 2 Parks, Recreation and Library Department, City of Phoenix, Phoenix, Arizona, USA. The Sonoran Preserve Master Plan: Integration of Landscape Ecology with the Design and Planning of Open Space.
4:00-4:15	COFFEE BREAK
4:15-4:30	Mouat1, David, Carl Steinitz2, Robert Anderson3, Hector Arias4, Scott Bassett2, Mary Cablk1, Michael Flaxman2, Tomas Goode5, Robert Lozar6, Thomas Mattock, III5, Winifred Rose6, Richard Peiser2, and Allan Shearer2. 1Desert Research Institute, Reno, NV 89512, USA; 2Department of Landscape Architecture, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA 02138, USA; 3Environmental Division, U.S. Army Training and Doctrine Command, Fort Monroe, VA 23651, USA; 4Gabinete de Estudios Ambientales, A.C., Hermosillo, Sonora, Mexico; 5Department of Hydrology and Water Resources, University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ 85721; and 6U.S. Army Construction Engineering Research Laboratory, Champaign, IL 61862, USA. Alternative Futures of the Upper San Pedro River Watershed, Arizona and Sonora: Politics of Landscape Change.
4:30-4:45	Steinitz1, Carl, David Mouat2, Robert Anderson3, Hector Arias4, Scott Bassett1, Mary Cablk2, Micahel Flaxman1, Tomas Goode5, Rbert Lozar6, Thomas Maddock, III5, Winifred Rose6, Richard Peiser1, and Allan Shearer1. 1Department of Landscape Architecture, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA 02138, USA; 2Desert Research Institute, Reno, NV 89512, USA; 3Environmental Division, U.S. Army Training and Doctrine Command, Fort Monroe, VA 23651, USA; 4Gabinete de Estudios Ambientales, A.C., Hermosillo, Mexico; 5Department of Hydrology and Water Resources, University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ 85721, USA; 6U.S. Army Construction and Engineering Research Laboratory, P.O. Box 9005, Champaign, IL 61826, USA. Alternative Futures of the Upper San Pedro River Watershed, Arizona and Sonora: A Modeling Approach.
4:45-5:00	Mohamed, AbuBakr AbdelAziz. Crop, Soil and Water Sciences Division, International Rice Research Institute, P. O. Box 3127, MCPO1271 Makati City, Philippines. Modeling spatial heterogeneity for planning land use in rainfed environment.
5:00-5:15	Ismail, Nafeesa Ahmed and AbuBakr AbdelAziz Mohamed. Crop, Soil and Water Sciences Division, International Rice Research Institute, P. O. Box 3127, MCPO1271 Makati City, Philippines. Farm aggregation and scaling for land use planning: methodology and application.

 
 
 
 
 
 

April 28 (Saturday) Afternoon - Concurrent Session #5

Regular Session  (IIIPM-5):	Landscape Pattern and Population Processes
Chairpersons:	Henriette Jager1 (1:30-2:30 pm) and David Howerter2 (2:45-5:00pm), 1Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Oak Ridge, TN, USA; 2Institute for Wetland and Waterfowl Research, Ducks Unlimited Canada, Stonewall, MB, R0C 2Z0, Canada
Location:	La Paz Room (MU Room 223)

1:30-1:45	Jager1, Henriette, Jim Chandler2, Ken Lepla2, Annett Sullivan1, Webb Van Winkle3. 1Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Oak Ridge, TN, USA, 2Idaho Power Co., Boise, ID, USA; 3Environmental consultant, Boise, ID, USA. A simulation study of how dams influence white sturgeon populations at three spatial scales.
1:45-2:00	Lee1, Pey-Yi, Tom Scott1,2. 1Department of Earth Sciences, University of California, Riverside, CA 92521, USA; 2Department of Environmental Science, Policy, and Management. University of California, Berkeley, CA 94720, USA. Hierarchical pattern of spatial structure of Loggerhead Shrike at different scales.
2:00-2:15	Springborn1, Elizabeth G., and David S. Maehr2. 1Departments of Animal Science and Forestry, University of Kentucky, Lexington, KY 40503, U.S.A.; 2Department of Forestry, University of Kentucky, Lexington, KY 40503, U.S.A. Conduits, filters, and barriers to elk movement in a heterogeneous landscape in eastern Kentucky.
2:15-2:30	McPherson, A. Michelle, and Philip D. Taylor. ACWERN, Department of Biology, Acadia University, Wolfville, NS B0P 1X0, Canada. Effects of Landscape Change and Forest Regeneration on Peatland Dragonflies (Odonata) in Western Newfoundland.
2:30-2:45	COFFEE BREAK
2:45-3:00	Howerter1,2, David, Jay J. Rotella2, James H. Devries 1, Robert B. Emery1, Brian L. Joynt1, Llwellyn M. Armstrong1, and Michael G. Anderson1 . 1Institute for Wetland and Waterfowl Research, Ducks Unlimited Canada, Stonewall, MB, R0C 2Z0, Canada; and 2Department of Ecology, Montana State University, Bozeman, MT 59717, USA. Landscape attributes predict hatching rates: Effects of classification and scale.
3:00-3:15	Smith1, Eric L., and Drew McMahan2. 1Forest Health Technology Enterprise Team, USDA Forest Service, Fort Collins, CO 80526, USA; 2Intecs International, Fort Collins, CO 80526, USA. An Integrated System to Model and Display Bark Beetle and Management Impacts on a Forest Landscape.
3:15-3:30	Frank, Karin. Department of Ecological Modelling, UFZ-Centre for Environmental Research Leipzig-Halle, D-04301 Leipzig, Germany. An index for assessing habitat networks from the perspective of metapopulation viability.    (Cancelled)
3:30-3:45	Brandwine, Shlomo. Life Sciences Department, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Israel. Binding ideas in the response of populations to the dynamics of landscape mosaics.
3:45-4:00	Guo, Linhai Larry, John Morrison, and John Marthick. Environmental Research Institute, University of Wollongong, NSW 2522, Australia. Multi-scale Analysis of Landscape Connectivity in Kangaroo Valley, NSW Southeastern Australia in the Context of Landscape Ecology.
4:00-4:15	COFFEE BREAK
4:15-4:30	Tluk v. Toschanowitz1, Katharina, Timothy J. Roper2, Karin Frank3. 1Institute of Environmental Systems Research, University of Osnabrueck, D-49076 Osnabrueck, Germany; 2School of Biological Sciences, University of Sussex, Brighton BN1 9QG, Great Britain; 3Department of Ecological Modelling, UFZ-Centre for Environmental Research Leipzig-Halle, D-04318 Leipzig, Germany. Assessing the effect of traffic on different hierarchical levels of population ecology: Lessons from an individual-based model.
4:30-4:45	Gruber1, Bernd, Klaus Henle1, Karin Frank2. 1Department of Conservation Biology and Natural Resources, UFZ - Centre for Environmental Research Leipzig-Halle, D-04318 Leipzig, Germany; and 2Deparment of Ecological Modelling, UFZ - Centre for Environmental Research Leipzig-Halle, D-04318 Leipzig, Germany. Movement models as tools for analyzing the effect of landscape structure on population processes.
4:45-5:00	Wilkerson, Cynthia R. Department of Wildlife Ecology and Conservation, University of Florida, Gainesville, Fl 32611, USA. Isolated Temporary Wetlands as Prey Refugia for Anuran Communities.
5:00-5:15	Foltete, Jean-Christophe, and Didier Josselin. THEMA, 32 rue Megevand, 25030 Besancon Cedex. Using spatio-temporal co-occurrence matrices to delineate spatial patterns about vole swarming.

 
 
 

April 28 (Saturday) Poster Session (8:00am - 5:30pm)

Place: Arizona Ballroom (Room 207)

Set-up time: 7:30am - 8:00am

Duration: 8:00am - 5:30pm

Author Available for questions: 11:00am - 12:15pm and 4:00pm - 5:30 pm
 
 
 

Landscape Pattern and Population Dynamics and Species Distribution

	Baum1, Kristen A., William L. Rubink2, and Robert N. Coulson1. 1Department of Entomology, Texas A&M University, College Station, TX 77843, USA; 2Beneficial Insects Research Unit, Agricultural Research Service, United States Department of Agriculture, Weslaco, TX, USA. Habitat associations of feral honey bees and non-Apis pollinators in South Texas.
	Butaye, Jan, Hans Jacquemyn, and Martin Hermy. Department of Land and Water Management, University of Leuven, Vital Decosterstraat 102, B-3000 Leuven, Belgium. Differential colonization causing non-random forest plant species community structure in a fragmented agricultural landscape.
	Henebry, Geoffrey, Brian Putz, and James Merchant. Center for Advanced Land Management Information Technologies (CALMIT), University of Nebraska, Lincoln, NE 68588-0517, USA. Modeling Herpetile Range Distributions from Species Occurrences and Landscape Variables.
	Jacquemyn, Hans, Jan Butaye, and Martin Hermy. Department of Land and Water Management, University of Leuven, Vital Decosterstraat 102, B-3000 Leuven, Belgium. Spatio-temporal effects of forest fragmentation on plant species composition in mixed deciduous forest patches.
	Katti, Madhusudan and Eyal Shochat. Central Arizona - Phoenix Long-Term Ecological Research Project and Center for Environmental Studies, Arizona State University, Tempe, AZ 85287, USA. Phoenix Or Tucson - Does Landscape Determine Where Abert's Towhees Choose To Live?
	Laurent1, E.J., and Bruce Kingsbury. Center for Reptile and Ampibian Conservation and Management and the Department of Biology, Indiana-Purdue University, Fort Wayne, IN 46805-1499, USA; 1Department of Fisheries and Wildlife, Michigan State University, East Lansing, MI 48824-1222, USA. Validation and Nullification of a Predictive Model for Habitat Context: the Effects of Location and Landcover Classification.
	Pinto1, M. A., K. Baum1, W. Rubink 2, S. Johnston1, R. N. Coulson1. 1Knowledge Engineering Laboratory, Department of Entomology, Texas A&M University, College Station, TX, USA; 2USDA/ARS, Weslaco, TX, USA. Spatial and Temporal Patterns of Mitochondrial DNA in Feral Honey Bees: Impact of Africanization.
	Seagle, Steven W., Brian R. Sturtevant, Robert A. Chastain, and Philip A. Townsend. Appalachian Laboratory, University of Maryland Center for Environmental Science, Frostburg, MD 21532, USA. Spatial variation of forest-floor litter invertebrates in topographically diverse landscapes.
	Stralberg, Diana, Nadav Nur, and Hildie Spautz. Point Reyes Bird Observatory, 4990 Shoreline Highway, Stinson Beach, CA 94970, USA. Landscape-level Influences on Breeding Songbirds in San Francisco Bay Tidal Marshes.
	Wunneburger1, D. F., R. N. Coulson2, S. T. O'Keefe2, and S. B. Vinson2. 1GeoInformatics Studio, College of Architecture, Texas A&M University, College Station, TX 77843, USA; 2Knowledge Engineering Laboratory, Department of Entomology, Texas A&M University, College Station, TX 77843, USA. Hazard and Risk Rating Post Oak Savanna Landscapes for the Red Imported Fire Ant.
Landscape Conservation, Management and Design
	Anderson, Linda, and Theodore Eisenman. Landscape Architecture Department, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY 14853, USA. Conceptual vision for integrating wetland restoration and tourism development at the Montezuma Wetlands Complex in New York State.
	Bestelmeyer1, Brandon, Joel Brown1, Kris Havstad1, Robert Alexander2, and George Chavez3, and Jeffrey Herrick1. 1 USDA-ARS Jornada Experimental Range, New Mexico State University, Las Cruces, NM, 88003, 2 Bureau of Land Management, 1474 Rodeo Rd., Santa Fe, NM 87502; 3 USDA Natural Resources Conservation Service, 6200 Jefferson, Albuquerque, NM 87109. An integrated approach to managing landscape pattern and dynamics in southern New Mexico.
	DeFee II, Buren B., Douglas Wunneburger, Department of Landscape Architecture and Urban Planning, Texas A&M University, College Station, TX 77840, USA. Integrating Stakeholder Concerns Into Open Space Planning Decisions.
	Drummond1, Mark A., Raymond D. Watts2, Roger Compton3. 1 USGS, MESC, 4512 McMurry Ave., Fort Collins, CO 80525; 2 USGS/CIRA, Colorado State Univ. Foothills Campus, Fort Collins, Colorado 80523; 3 USGS, RMMC, Box 25046, MS516, Denver, CO 80225, USA. Temporal Effects of Human Influence on Rural Landscape Pattern and Wildlife Habitat in Teton County, Wyoming.
	Flamm1, R. O.*, Alexander Smith1., Suzanne Tarr1, Susan Jacobson2, and Sampreethi Aipanjiguly2. 1Florida Marine Research Institute, Department of Environmental Protection, St. Petersburg, Florida. 2Department of Wildlife Ecology and Conservation, University of Florida, Gainesville, Florida, USA. Manatee 'places' in and around Tampa Bay Florida.
	Fraser, John. Science Development and Technology Branch Ontario Ministry of Natural Resources, Peterborough, Ontario, Canada K9J 8M5. Landscape Ecology approaches to the protection of natural heritage features and the sustainable management of mineral aggregate resources, Oak Ridges Moraine, Ontario Canada.
	Harden1, Charles, and Matthew Nicholson2. 1Cooperative Wildlife Research Laboratory, Southern Illinois University, Carbondale, Illinois 62901-6504, USA; 2Cooperative Wildlife Research Laboratory, Southern Illinois University, Carbondale, Illinois 62901-6504, USA. Impacts of Human Development on Deer Herd Management in the Ex-urban Landscape.
	Johnson, Alan R. and Karen M. Eisenreich. Department of Environmental Toxicology, Clemson University, Pendleton, SC, 29670, USA. Integrating Landscape Ecology into Ecological Risk Assessment.
	Ng, Evelyn. Department of Geography & Recreation, University of Wyoming, Laramie, WY 82071, U.S.A. Environmental Policies for Solar Energy Use in a Closed Micro-Business System.
	Paranjape, Anagha. School of Planning and Landscape Architecture, Arizona State University, Tempe, AZ 85287, USA. Adaptation of Visual Resource Management (VRM) Systems for the Visual Quality Assessment of Urban-Natural Landscapes.
	Rubino, Matt J., Terri J. King and George R. Hess. North Carolina State University, Forestry Department, Raleigh NC 27695-8002 USA. A Focal Species Approach to Wildlife Planning.
	Sun-Kee Hong1, In-Ju Song2, Eun-Kyong Lee1, Do-Won Lee3, and Ji-Hae Shin2 1Environmental Planning Institute, Seoul National University, Seoul 151-742, Korea; 2Seoul Development Institute, Seoul 100-250, Korea; and 3Graduate School of Environmental Studies, Seoul National University, Seoul 151-742, Korea. Changes in landscape pattern and their effects on ecosystem functions in the Seoul area: Guidelines for urban landscape conservation and ecological planning.
	Vanucchi-Hartung, Jamie. Department of Landscape Architecture, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY 14850, USA. Landscapes, Process and Time: Past and Future in the Present.
	Yamashita, Sampei. Department of Civil Engineering, Kyushu Sangyo University, Fukuoka, Japan. Attractiveness of a Wooded River Landscape and Changes in its Colors in the Daytime.
Vegetation Pattern and Plant-Environment Relationships
	Allen1, Thomas, and John Kupfer2. 1Department of Political Science & Geography, Old Dominion University, Norfolk, VA 23529, USA; and 2Department of Geography and Regional Development, University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ 85721, USA. Scales of pattern and process in Fraser fir forest disturbance and fegeneration, Great Smoky Mountains, USA.
	Bean, David A., and Greg H.R. Henry. Department of Geography, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, BC, Canada, V6T 1Z2. The Spatial Pattern of Vegetation in a High Arctic Oasis.
	Hooten1, Mevin B., David R. Larsen2, and Christopher K. Wikle2. 1Department of Forestry, University of Missouri, Columbia, MO 65211, USA; 2Department of Forestry, University of Missouri, Columbia, MO 65211, USA. Modeling and mapping the distribution of legumes in the Missouri Ozarks: A Bayesian Approach.
	Zhang, Huayong. Center of Eco-Environmental Sciences and Institute of Botany, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, P. R. China. Vegetation Pattern and Climatic Conditions: A Statistical Thermodynamics Theory.
	Ki-Hwan Cho1*, Do-Soon Cho1 and Sun-Kee Hong2. 1Department of Environmental Sciences, The Catholic University of Korea, Puchon, Korea; and 2Environmental Planning Institute, Seoul National University, Seoul, Korea. Landscape ecological functions of mountain ridges between a bioreserve and its neighboring forest in the Kwangnung area, Korea.
	Marshall, Treneice and Jiquan Chen. School of Forestry and Wood Products, Michigan Technological University, Houghton, MI 49931, USA. Contribution of wetland ecotones on vascular plant diversity within a northern hardwood landscape.
	Mast1, Joy N. and Lawrence E. Stevens2, 1Department of Geography and Public Planning and 2Department of Biological Sciences, Northern Arizona University, Flagstaff, AZ 86011, USA. Dendroecological study of black cottonwood dynamics along regulated and unregulated rivers in British Columbia.
	Pierce, Kenneth B., Todd Lookingbill, and Dean Urban. Nicholas School of the Environment, Duke University, Durham, NC 27708, USA. An Assessment of Proximate Climate Variables and their Relative Impact of Vegetation Patterns in Montane Systems.
	Powell1, Scott L., Andrew J. Hansen1, and Rick L. Lawrence2. 1Ecology Department, Montana State University, Bozeman, MT 59717, USA; 2Department of Land Resources and Environmental Sciences, Montana State University, Bozeman, MT 59717, USA. Monitoring Forest Response to Past and Future Global Change in the Greater Yellowstone Ecosystem.
Disturbance and Landscape Pattern Interactions
	Fleming1, Richard A., and Jean-Noël Candau2. 1Great Lakes Forest Research Centre, Canadian Forest Service, Sault Ste. Marie, ON, P6A 5M7, CANADA; 2Ontario Forest Research Institute, Ontario Ministry of Natural Resources, Sault Ste. Marie, ON, P6A 5N5, CANADA. Pattern and Process in the Interaction of Spruce Budworm and Wildfire Disturbance Regimes at Landscape Scales.
	Kashian1, Daniel M. and Monica G. Turner2. 1Departments of Zoology and Forest Ecology and Management, University of Wisconsin, Madison, WI 53706, USA; 2Department of Zoology, University of Wisconsin, Madison, WI 53706, USA. The persistence of landscape legacies following catastrophic fire in Yellowstone National Park.
	Peters, D.P.C. Jornada Experimental Range, Las Cruces, NM 88003. Landscape-scale consequences of small-scale disturbances at a grassland-shrubland ecotone.
	Schoennagel1, Tania, Monica G. Turner2, and William H. Romme3. 1Depts.of Botany and Zoology, University of Wisconsin, Madison, WI, USA; 2Dept. of Zoology, University of Wisconsin, Madison, WI, USA; 3Dept. of Biology, Fort Lewis College, Durango, CO, USA. Spatial and temporal influences of fire regimes on initial pathways of succession across the Yellowstone landscape.
	Wolf, Joy J. Department of Geography, University of Wisconsin — Parkside, Kenosha, WI 53141, USA. Effects of Prescribed Burning as a Control for Exotic Invasion in Rocky Mountain National Park Grasslands.

 
 
 
 

April 29 (Sunday) Full-Day Field Trip

 
 

GRAND CANYON via SEDONA Pickup at the hotels by the bus: 6:30 AM Holiday Inn 6:45 AM Twin Palms Hotel 7:00 AM Marriott Courtyard Arrival back at Tempe: approximately 9 PM  Due to numerous requests, we have arranged a field trip to the South Rim of the Grand Canyon via the spectacular red rock country of Sedona. The trip is definitely a full day, but you will see some of the most scenic areas of Arizona. The route to the South Rim will pass through five biomes: Arizona Upland Sonora Desertscrub, Interior Chaparral, Juniper-Pinyon Woodland, Petran Montane Conifer Forest, and Great Basin Desertscrub. You will stop in Sedona for a coffee break and continue to the South Rim via Oak Creek Canyon and Flagstaff. You will spend several hours at the South Rim before heading back to Phoenix. A professional guide will provide narration during the trip.