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7:00am CDT

Coffee Break (please note breakfast is on own; only coffee and fruit provided) 6th Floor Lobby

7:30am CDT

Moderator 101 Wrigley Parlor Conference Registration Desk Open 6th Floor Lobby

8:15am CDT

WELCOME & PLENARY SESSION I Adams Room

9:30am CDT

Coffee Break 6th Floor Lobby

10:00am CDT

SYMPOSIA-01: Connecting a Fragmented Landscape in the Chicago Region: Restoring a Legacy of Oak Ecosystems Hancock Parlor SYMPOSIA-02: The Global Sand Crisis Through the Lens of the Telecoupling Framework LaSalle 5 (7th Floor) SYMPOSIA-03: History and Trends of Describing and Analyzing Landscape Patterns: Where Are We Now? Spire Parlor SYMPOSIA-04: Behavioral Landscape Ecology: A Review and Framework Adams Room SYMPOSIA-05: Recent History of South Platte River Riparian Ecosystem and Channel Change Water Tower Parlor LAND USE/LAND COVER CHANGE: Identifying Drivers Behind Deforestation in Guarayos Indigenous Territory, Eastern Bolivia from 1997 to 2017 Grant Park Parlor TERRESTRIAL-AQUATIC ECOSYSTEM INTERACTIONS: Croplands Are Nibbling Away at Prairie Pothole Wetlands LaSalle 1 (7th Floor) (CANCELLED) PEOPLE AND LANDSCAPES: Using an Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (UAV) to Characterize Spatiotemporal Patterns of Recreational Use Along the San Marcos River, Texas, USA LaSalle 2 (7th Floor) Concurrent Technical Sessions & Symposia Multiple Locations

10:15am CDT

SYMPOSIA-01: Twenty Years of Changes in Floral Resources Across Urban and Rural Midwestern North America Hancock Parlor SYMPOSIA-02: Balancing Built and Natural Infrastructure for Sustainable Freshwater Supply to the World’s Cities LaSalle 5 (7th Floor) SYMPOSIA-03: Satellite-based Accounting of Forest Area and Fragmentation Spire Parlor SYMPOSIA-04: Insights from Estimating Home Ranges Using Different Currencies and Incorporating How Animals Perceive Their Environments Adams Room SYMPOSIA-05: Spatial Patterns of Riparian and Geomorphic Disturbance Following Catastrophic Record Flooding on the Blanco River, Texas, USA Water Tower Parlor LAND USE/LAND COVER CHANGE: Land use and cover change within a typical Midwest watershed in relation to socio-ecological factors Grant Park Parlor TERRESTRIAL-AQUATIC ECOSYSTEM INTERACTIONS: Mallard Distribution and Wetland Network Modularity in the Prairie Pothole Region (PPR) LaSalle 1 (7th Floor) PEOPLE AND LANDSCAPES: Place-based Characteristics Defining Trajectories of Rural Forest-based Communities LaSalle 2 (7th Floor)

10:30am CDT

SYMPOSIA-01: Putting Collaboration to Work: Long-term Monitoring and Conservation of Rare Plants and Fungi in the Chicago Wilderness Hancock Parlor SYMPOSIA-02: Operationalizing the Telecoupling Concept to Assess Land System Regime Shifts, Land Use Decision Making, and Impacts on Human Well-being in Tropical Forest Frontier Landscapes: First Empirical Results... LaSalle 5 (7th Floor) SYMPOSIA-03: Describing Landscapes by Statistics of Local Pattern Features: Application to Landscape Regionalization, Change, and Search Spire Parlor SYMPOSIA-04: Hypergraph Models of Interactive Effects in Dispersal Networks Adams Room SYMPOSIA-05: Natural Succession and Riparian Forest Recovery Following a Major Flood on the Blanco River, Texas Water Tower Parlor LAND USE/LAND COVER CHANGE: Spatiotemporal Patterns and Environmental Impacts of Land Use and Land Cover in a Grassland Landscape: The Wulagai River Basin in Inner Mongolia, China Grant Park Parlor TERRESTRIAL-AQUATIC ECOSYSTEM INTERACTIONS: Monitoring the Restoration of High-Altitude Peat-forming Cushion Bogs (bofedales) in Northern Chile Using MODIS LaSalle 1 (7th Floor) PEOPLE AND LANDSCAPES: Towards a Taxonomy of Cities: The Land Cover Composition of United States Urban Areas LaSalle 2 (7th Floor)

10:45am CDT

SYMPOSIA-01: Defining Neighborhoods to Optimize the Effectiveness of Landscape-Scale Grassland Bird Conservation Hancock Parlor SYMPOSIA-02: Impacts of International Trade on Global Sustainable Development LaSalle 5 (7th Floor) SYMPOSIA-03: Challenges of Measuring Short-term Dynamics of Agricultural Landscape Patterns Spire Parlor SYMPOSIA-04: Fine-Scale Elements of the Matrix and the Success of Inter-Patch Movements in Fragmented Landscapes Adams Room SYMPOSIA-05: Inundation Dynamics of the Upper Mississippi River Floodplain: Understanding Spatial and Temporal Patterns of a Critical Ecosystem Process to Inform Large-river Management Water Tower Parlor LAND USE/LAND COVER CHANGE: The Gradient Concept of Landscape Structure for Wildlife Habitat in Rangelands Grant Park Parlor TERRESTRIAL-AQUATIC ECOSYSTEM INTERACTIONS: Predicted Ecosystem State Changes Due to Sea-level Rise on Fire Island, New York: Implications for People and Plovers LaSalle 1 (7th Floor) PEOPLE AND LANDSCAPES: Can Urban Birds Have a Positive Effect on Neighborhoods Well-Being? LaSalle 2 (7th Floor)

11:00am CDT

SYMPOSIA-01: Using Bird Abundance Models and Ecosystem Services Valuations to Inform Grassland Bird Conservation in an Urban Context Hancock Parlor SYMPOSIA-02: Applicability and Implications of Telecoupling Framework on Rangeland Ecosystem Services LaSalle 5 (7th Floor) SYMPOSIA-03: Measuring Geodiversity to Explain Biodiversity: What Is the Effect of Spatial Grain and Spatial 'Consciousness?' Spire Parlor SYMPOSIA-04: From Animal Movement to Management: Predator-Prey Interactions Adams Room SYMPOSIA-05: Simulating the Effects of Flood Inundation on Forest Succession in the Upper Mississippi River Floodplain Using the LANDIS-II Modelling Platform Water Tower Parlor LAND USE/LAND COVER CHANGE: Mapping Dynamic Processes in Arid Rangelands Grant Park Parlor TERRESTRIAL-AQUATIC ECOSYSTEM INTERACTIONS: Forecasting Sea-level Rise Impacts on Coastal Landscapes LaSalle 1 (7th Floor) PEOPLE AND LANDSCAPES: Understanding Change and Willingness to Change in Stakeholders’ Forest Management in the Northeast Humid Rainforest of Madagascar LaSalle 2 (7th Floor)

11:15am CDT

SYMPOSIA-01: Analyzing Land Management Regimes to Inform Grassland Bird Conservation in the Chicago Wilderness Region Hancock Parlor SYMPOSIA-02: Telecoupled Fisheries: Insights and Applications for Sustainability LaSalle 5 (7th Floor) SYMPOSIA-03: USGS Gap Analysis Project Habitat Maps: Prospects for Multi-species, Multi-scale Assessments of Habitat Fragmentation Spire Parlor SYMPOSIA-04: Uniting Behavior and Demography to Predict Connectivity in Space and Time Adams Room SYMPOSIA-05: Assessing Current Stressors and Future Threats to Riparian Ecosystems Using a Hydro-Geomorphic Classification of Valley Bottoms Water Tower Parlor LAND USE/LAND COVER CHANGE: Stressors, Conditions, and Management Responses: An Environmental Report Card for the Tennessee River Basin Grant Park Parlor TERRESTRIAL-AQUATIC ECOSYSTEM INTERACTIONS: Land Cover Change: Understanding Impacts to Ecosystem Services in the Long Island Sound National Estuary LaSalle 1 (7th Floor) PEOPLE AND LANDSCAPES: Integrating Stakeholder Feedback with Land Use Change Models to Predict Future Scenarios of Forest Loss and Landscape Configuration LaSalle 2 (7th Floor)

11:30am CDT

SYMPOSIA-01: Global Reduction in Greenhouse Gas Emissions Diminishes Climate Change Vulnerability of Grassland Birds Hancock Parlor SYMPOSIA-02: Water Security Dynamics and Scenarios Along the New Silk Road: The Telecoupling Case Study LaSalle 5 (7th Floor) SYMPOSIA-03: Developing 3D Spatial Pattern Metrics to Describe and Analyze the Urban Environment Spire Parlor SYMPOSIA-04: Simulating the Relationship Between Movement Behavior of Dispersing Animals and the Distribution of Active Subsidies Adams Room SYMPOSIA-05: A Comparative Analysis of Structural Characteristics in Old-Growth Coastal Temperate Floodplain Forests Water Tower Parlor LAND USE/LAND COVER CHANGE: Impacts of Surface Coal Mining on the Environment in the Mongolian Plateau Grant Park Parlor TERRESTRIAL-AQUATIC ECOSYSTEM INTERACTIONS: Advancing Coastal Habitat Resiliency Through Landscape Metrics and Assessment LaSalle 1 (7th Floor) PEOPLE AND LANDSCAPES. Investigating the Sustainability of Southeastern United States’ Wood Pellet Production LaSalle 2 (7th Floor)

11:45am CDT

SYMPOSIA-01: Evaluating Small Mammal Community Composition, Stress, and Health Across an Urban to Exurban Gradient in the Chicago Metropolitan Area Hancock Parlor SYMPOSIA-02: The Telecoupling GeoApp: A Web-GIS Application to Systematically Analyze Telecouplings and Sustainable Development LaSalle 5 (7th Floor) SYMPOSIA-03: Amount and Adjacency Are the Two Most Fundamental Aspects of Pattern Spire Parlor SYMPOSIA-04: SODA-POP: Building Population-Level Functionality into a Spatially-Explicit Individual-based Model of Human Disturbance on Animals Adams Room LAND USE/LAND COVER CHANGE: Tracking Our Human Footprint: Trends in U.S. Land Consumption and Use Efficiency in the Urban Millennium Grant Park Parlor TERRESTRIAL-AQUATIC ECOSYSTEM INTERACTIONS: Regional Differences in Stream Network Geometry Mediate the Spatial Patterning and Extent of Aquatic-derived Resources in Terrestrial Environments LaSalle 1 (7th Floor)

12:00pm CDT

Lunch On Your Own N/A Poster Set-up Monroe Room

1:30pm CDT

SYMPOSIA-01: The Prevalence, Status, and Stewardship of Conservative Prairie and Sand Savanna Insects in the Chicago Wilderness Region Hancock Parlor SYMPOSIA-02: Telecoupled Management Decisions Affect Soil Health LaSalle 5 (7th Floor) SYMPOSIA-03: Measuring the Configuration Accuracy of Land Change Simulations Using Metrics Relevant to Landscape Ecology and Land Change Science Spire Parlor SYMPOSIA-04: Assessing Spatiotemporal Behavioral Resource Matching with Joint Sensor Networks Adams Room SYMPOSIA-06: A bright future for participatory mapping? Grant Park Parlor SYMPOSIA-07: Visualizing Spatial Resilience Under Climate Change LaSalle 1 (7th Floor) INSECT & DISEASE OUTBREAKS: Relationships Between Ground Cover and Post-Fire Conifer Regeneration Depend on Pre-Fire Disturbance History LaSalle 2 (7th Floor) URBAN/EXURBAN LANDSCAPE ECOLOGY: Urban Ecological Infrastructure as a Bridge Between Urban Ecology and Landscape Ecology Water Tower Parlor Concurrent Technical Sessions & Symposia Multiple Locations

1:45pm CDT

SYMPOSIA-01: Provisioning and Accessibility of Ecosystem Services Within the Chicago Region Hancock Parlor SYMPOSIA-02: Flows of Eucalyptus Cellulose Pulp Affect Atlantic Forest Adjacent Spillover Systems in Southeastern Brazil LaSalle 5 (7th Floor) SYMPOSIA-03: Understanding How Landscape Features Affect Gene Flow: Advances in Resistance Surface Optimization for Landscape Genetics Studies Spire Parlor SYMPOSIA-04: How Invasive Plants Alter Foraging and Space Use by Animals Adams Room SYMPOSIA-06: Integrating Biophysical Models and Participatory Mapping to Understand Ecosystem Service Trade-Offs at the Aquatic-Terrestrial Interface Grant Park Parlor SYMPOSIA-07: Hands-on Methods for Teaching Landscape Form and Processes LaSalle 1 (7th Floor) INSECT & DISEASE OUTBREAKS: Temporal Variation in Spatial Genetic Structure During Population Outbreaks: Distinguishing Among Different Potential Drivers of Spatial Synchrony LaSalle 2 (7th Floor) URBAN/EXURBAN LANDSCAPE ECOLOGY: Parcelization in the Exurbs: A Case Study in Butler County (OH) from 2004 to 2014 Water Tower Parlor

2:00pm CDT

SYMPOSIA-01: Processes Controlling the Pattern of Presettlement Vegetation in the Landscape of the Southern Tip of Lake Michigan Hancock Parlor SYMPOSIA-02: Understanding Local Land Use Changes in the Context of Global Trade Telecoupling LaSalle 5 (7th Floor) SYMPOSIA-03: Imaging of Habitats in Cancer: Life at the Edge Spire Parlor SYMPOSIA-04: Forecasting the Effects of Human Disturbance on Golden Eagles: Tolerance Cannot Mitigate Negative Effects of Increased Recreation on Wild Lands Adams Room SYMPOSIA-06: Area Accumulation Curves Can Improve Participatory Mapping Grant Park Parlor SYMPOSIA-07: Interactive Videos Enhance Learning About Socio-Ecological Systems LaSalle 1 (7th Floor) INSECT & DISEASE OUTBREAKS: Integrating Moth Flight Biophysics with Independent Validation Data to Model Atmospheric Dispersal of the Eastern Spruce Budworm (Choristoneura fumiferana) LaSalle 2 (7th Floor) URBAN/EXURBAN LANDSCAPE ECOLOGY: Quantifying the Influences of Various Ecological Factors on Land Surface Temperature of Urban Forests Water Tower Parlor

2:15pm CDT

SYMPOSIA-01: Historical Extirpations in Chicago Area Wetlands and Water Bodies Hancock Parlor SYMPOSIA-02: Regional Impacts of Wet Periods in a Telecoupling Framework LaSalle 5 (7th Floor) SYMPOSIA-03: Assessing the Performance of Different Sampling Schedules in Capturing the Temporal Complexity of Soundscapes Spire Parlor SYMPOSIA-04: Dominant Coyotes Impact Gray Fox Occupancy Across the Eastern U.S. Adams Room SYMPOSIA-06: A Tale of Two Forests: Mapping Cultural Ecosystem Services in Central Oregon Using Public Participation GIS Grant Park Parlor SYMPOSIA-07: Managing Forest Disease Spread with Tangible Landscape Technology LaSalle 1 (7th Floor) INSECT & DISEASE OUTBREAKS: Insectivorous Birds as Indicators of Future Defoliation by the Spruce Budworm LaSalle 2 (7th Floor) URBAN/EXURBAN LANDSCAPE ECOLOGY: Bicycle-based Measurement of the Intra-Urban Heat Island: Effects of Landscape Context on Fine-Scale Summer Air Temperature in Madison, WI Water Tower Parlor

2:30pm CDT

SYMPOSIA-01: 35 Years of Community Change in Temperate Forest in Illinois Hancock Parlor SYMPOSIA-02: The Identification of Opportunities for Conservation and Sustainable Tourism at the End of the World, Using a “Telecoupling Mentality” LaSalle 5 (7th Floor) SYMPOSIA-03: Computation of the Boltzmann Entropy of a Landscape Pattern: The State of the Art Spire Parlor SYMPOSIA-04: A Comparison of Myotis Roost Habitat Suitability in Forest-Dominated and Agriculture-Dominated Landscapes Adams Room SYMPOSIA-06: FUTURES in Their Hands: Participatory Modeling of Land Change in Coastal South Carolina Grant Park Parlor SYMPOSIA-07: Seeing Visualizing the Effects of Climate Change on Future Forests Through the Lens of the Menominee Theoretical Model of Sustainability LaSalle 1 (7th Floor) INSECT & DISEASE OUTBREAKS: Fragmentation of Forest Host Disrupts Cycling Behavior of Defoliator Outbreaks: Evidence from Spruce Budworm and Forest Tent Caterpillar in a Heterogeneous Mixedwood Landscape LaSalle 2 (7th Floor) URBAN/EXURBAN LANDSCAPE ECOLOGY: Quantifying and Characterizing the Dynamics of Urban Greenspace at the Patch Level: A New Approach Using Object-based Image Analysis Water Tower Parlor

2:45pm CDT

SYMPOSIA-01: Is Community Diversity Maximization a Suitable Goal for Landscape Composition? Hancock Parlor SYMPOSIA-02: Quantifying the Spatio-temporal Distribution of Marine Vessel Traffic in the Bering Sea LaSalle 5 (7th Floor) SYMPOSIA-03: Panel Discussion Spire Parlor SYMPOSIA-04: Changes in the Landscape-Level Habitat Selection of Forest Bats Within Human-Modified Landscapes Adams Room SYMPOSIA-06: Social-Ecological Systems Dynamics and Social Perceptions Toward Ecosystem Services Grant Park Parlor SYMPOSIA-07: 3D Visualization of Landscape Change Scenarios with Real-time Tangible Interaction LaSalle 1 (7th Floor) INSECT & DISEASE OUTBREAKS: Forecasting Long-term Interactions Between Forest Fire and Disease Disturbances Using Coupled Dynamic Spatial-temporal Epidemiological Modeling LaSalle 2 (7th Floor) URBAN/EXURBAN LANDSCAPE ECOLOGY: Greenspaces Over Our Heads: Mapping Green Roofs and Understanding Their Benefits in New York City Water Tower Parlor

3:00pm CDT

Coffee Break 6th Floor Lobby

3:30pm CDT

SYMPOSIA-02: Assessing the Potential Influence of Zero-Deforestation Commitments on Tropical Land Cover LaSalle 5 (7th Floor) SYMPOSIA-04: Individual Based Modeling of Dispersal by an Endangered Carnivore Can Simultaneously Be Pragmatic and Paradigmatic Adams Room SYMPOSIA-06: Contributions of Citizen Science to Regional Landscape Ecology: Using OpenStreetMap to Estimate the Impact of Hurricane Harvey on Different Land-Use Types Grant Park Parlor SYMPOSIA-07: An Immersive Experience of Wildfire Use for Ecological Restortation in the Ishi Wilderness, Southern Cascades, California LaSalle 1 (7th Floor) SYMPOSIA-08: Linking Long-term Wetland Restoration Outcomes to Landscape Conditions via Standardized Vegetation Monitoring Hancock Parlor URBAN/EXURBAN LANDSCAPE ECOLOGY: Multiple Spatial Scales Predict Species-Habitat Relationships of Urban Bats: Implications for Urban Reconciliation Water Tower Parlor LANDSCAPE PATTERN & PROCESS: Are Ecotones Zones of Intermingling or Interdigitation? Pattern and Scale of Tree Species Co-occurrence in Wisconsin’s Tension Zone Spire Parlor INSECT ECOLOGY: Spatial Variation in Diversity and Composition of Canopy Spiders in Eastern Deciduous Forests LaSalle 2 (7th Floor) Concurrent Technical Sessions & Symposia Multiple Locations

3:45pm CDT

SYMPOSIA-02: Local Adoption of Sustainability Governance in Telecoupled Systems: Certification in the Colombian Oil Palm Sector LaSalle 5 (7th Floor) SYMPOSIA-04: Inter-population Variation of Dispersal Related Traits in a Neotropical Forest Bird: A Chance for Biodiversity Persistence in Fragmented Landscapes? Adams Room SYMPOSIA-07: Immersive Experiences for Grounding Environmental Decision Making LaSalle 1 (7th Floor) SYMPOSIA-08: Designing Restorations to Inform Conservation Practice and Ecological Theory: Lessons from Long-term Studies in Tallgrass Prairie Hancock Parlor URBAN/EXURBAN LANDSCAPE ECOLOGY: Small Mites, Big City: Using Large-scale Wildlife Camera Monitoring to Examine the Spatio-Temporal Dynamics of Sarcoptic Mange in Chicago’s Urban Coyotes Water Tower Parlor LANDSCAPE PATTERN & PROCESS: Early Warning Signal of Landscape Connectivity and Resilience Towards Natural Climate Solutions Spire Parlor INSECT ECOLOGY: Local and Landscape Factors Influence Bumble Bee Foraging Dynamics in a Resource Pulse Landscape LaSalle 2 (7th Floor)

4:00pm CDT

SYMPOSIA-02: The Effect of Global Food Trade on Biodiversity in an Importing Country LaSalle 5 (7th Floor) SYMPOSIA-04: Space Use and Habitat Use of a Nomadic Wading Bird Varies by Season and Degree of Urbanization Adams Room SYMPOSIA-06: Social Demand and Cross-Scale Interactions in a Riverine Social-Ecological System Grant Park Parlor SYMPOSIA-07: Using a Digital Natural Resource Atlas to Enhance Communication and Effective Decision Making LaSalle 1 (7th Floor) SYMPOSIA-08: Succession in a Human-dominated Landscape: Lessons Learned for Land Management Hancock Parlor URBAN/EXURBAN LANDSCAPE ECOLOGY: Continental Scale Variation in the Cooling Effect of Urban Vegetation Water Tower Parlor LANDSCAPE PATTERN & PROCESS: Relationships Between the Ecological Strategies of Persistent Plant Communities and Spatial Configuration of Sites Within a Landscape Spire Parlor INSECT ECOLOGY: Local and Landscape Determinants of the Rare Cranberry Blue Butterfly (Plebejus optilete): What Matters, and How Much Does the Landscape Matter? LaSalle 2 (7th Floor)

4:15pm CDT

SYMPOSIA-02: Migratory Wildlife Link People and Ecosystems over Distances LaSalle 5 (7th Floor) SYMPOSIA-04: Response of Lesser Prairie-Chickens to Anthropogenic Structures During Long-Distance Movements Adams Room SYMPOSIA-06: Sharing the Savanna: Patterns of Hardwood Resource Utilization by Humans and Elephants in Northern Botswana Grant Park Parlor SYMPOSIA-07: Using a Landscape Approach to Strengthen Resiliency in Coastal Watersheds LaSalle 1 (7th Floor) (CANCELLED) SYMPOSIA-08: Balancing Data Collection Across Spatial and Temporal Scales to Detect Community Change over Time Hancock Parlor URBAN/EXURBAN LANDSCAPE ECOLOGY: Analyzing the Interannual and Seasonal Characteristics of Urban Heat Island and Its Influence Factors : A Case Study in Wuhan, China Water Tower Parlor LANDSCAPE PATTERN & PROCESS: Local Environmental Constrains and Chronic UV Exposure as Key Regulators of Normal Keratinocytes Immortalization and Transformation Spire Parlor INSECT ECOLOGY: Butterflies, Tallgrass Prairie, and Green Roofs LaSalle 2 (7th Floor)

4:30pm CDT

SYMPOSIA-02: Synthesis and Discussion LaSalle 5 (7th Floor) SYMPOSIA-04: When It’s Too Hot to Eat: Moose Alter Movement Behavior and Diet in Response to Changing Landscapes and Climate Adams Room SYMPOSIA-06: Community-Engaged Science and Art: Richmond National Battlefield Bioblitz Grant Park Parlor SYMPOSIA-07: People in Ecosystems/Watershed Integration (PEWI): A Dynamic Land-use and Ecosystem Service Tradeoffs Assessment Tool LaSalle 1 (7th Floor) SYMPOSIA-08: The Roles of Land-use History and Landscape Context in Shaping Plant Successional Trajectories Hancock Parlor URBAN/EXURBAN LANDSCAPE ECOLOGY: Cavity-nesting Birds in Chicago's Cemeteries Water Tower Parlor LANDSCAPE PATTERN & PROCESS: Differing Road Effects on Plant Invasion in Various Landscape Settings Spire Parlor INSECT ECOLOGY: Niche Modeling of Eastern Monarch Butterfly Roadkill Mortality from Oklahoma to Mexico LaSalle 2 (7th Floor)

4:45pm CDT

SYMPOSIA-04: Reefscapes of Fear: Effects of Habitat Quality and Predation Risk on Coral Reef Fish Adams Room SYMPOSIA-07: Using LiDAR and Immersive Geovisualization to Develop and Validate Viewscape Models for Urban Landscape LaSalle 1 (7th Floor) LANDSCAPE PATTERN & PROCESS: Differential Effect of Habitat Loss and Fragmentation on Pollinators and Seeds Dispersers of Heliconia Tortuosa in Costa Rica Spire Parlor INSECT ECOLOGY: Mapping Functional Diversity LaSalle 2 (7th Floor) SYMPOSIA-08: Panel Discussion Hancock Parlor

5:00pm CDT

SYMPOSIA-04: Panel Discussion Adams Room

5:30pm CDT

Poster Session & Social Monroe Room (CANCELLED) POSTER: Debarking and Uprooting of Trees by Forest Elephants (Elephas maximus) in Cauvery Wildlife Sanctuary, Western Ghats, Karnataka, India Monroe Room POSTER: A Genetic and Ecological Analysis of a Disjunct Amphibian Population in Southern Texas Monroe Room POSTER: A Guide to Campus Squirrels Monroe Room POSTER: Amur Honeysuckle Density and Tree Species Composition Indirectly Affect Exotic Earthworm Abundance Monroe Room POSTER: Analysis of Data of Different Spatial Scales: A Multivariate Process Approach Monroe Room POSTER: Assessing the Vegetation and Land Use “Tension” in Wisconsin’s Tension Zone Monroe Room POSTER: Bee Abundance and Flower Use in Chicago Community Gardens Monroe Room POSTER: Can the Arrangement of Jack Pine Barrens Mediate the Spread of Wildfires Under Various Climate Scenarios? Monroe Room POSTER: Canopy Structural Complexity and Light Use Efficiency: The Influence of Forest Species Richness and Stand Density on Resource Use Monroe Room POSTER: Change Detection in Hydrologically-restored Subtropical Freshwater Wetlands Using Remote Sensing Monroe Room POSTER: Combining Concept Mapping and Text Analysis for Conceptual Model Development Monroe Room POSTER: Drivers of Conservation Successes and Failures: An Analysis of Factors Affecting Mammalian Recovery in Terrestrial Protected Areas Monroe Room POSTER: Effect of Landscape Transitions on Fire Frequency in the Center Zone of Chile Monroe Room POSTER: Effects of Changing Precipitation on Connectivity in an Amphibian System with Environmentally-Responsive Dispersal Movements Monroe Room POSTER: Evaluating the Effects of Ecotourism on Forests in the Trans-Himalayan Biodiversity Hotspot Using Counterfactual Analysis Monroe Room POSTER: Examining Community Gardens as a Source of Ecological and Social Connectivity in Cities Monroe Room POSTER: Exploring Historical and Potential Future Urbanization Patterns in the Oklahoma City Metropolitan Area Monroe Room POSTER: Exploring the Nexus Between Bundles of Ecosystem Services and Human Well-Being in the Western Himalaya: A Case Study from Ganga River Basin Monroe Room POSTER: Forest Assemblages Predict Avian Assemblages Better Than Vegetation Structure in Southern Ohio’s Central Hardwoods Monroe Room POSTER: Forest Fragmentation, Harvest and Carbon Storage Along a Regional Gradient: The Great Lakes Social-Ecological Gradient Monroe Room POSTER: Forest Species Composition and Cooccurrence with Archaeological Sites in Southern Brazil Monroe Room POSTER: Forest Succession and Climate Variability Interacted to Control Fire Activity Over the Last Four Centuries in an Alaskan Boreal Forest Monroe Room POSTER: Geospatial Web Applications for NPS Fire Management at the Wildland-Urban Interface Monroe Room POSTER: How Can Green Infrastructure Better Contribute to the Sponge City Program in China? Monroe Room POSTER: How Does Soil Nutrient Availability Influence Mast Seeding Dynamics of White Spruce? Monroe Room POSTER: Hurricane Impacts to Puerto Rico’s Forests: The Importance of Topography and Chance Monroe Room POSTER: Identifying Conservation Priorities Through Participatory Ecosystem Services Mapping in Coastal Zones Monroe Room POSTER: Identifying the Relationships and Drivers of Agro-Ecosystem Services Using a Constraint Line Approach in the Agro-Pastoral Transitional Zone of China Monroe Room POSTER: Impacts of the Landscape Context on the Abundance and Body-Size of Eastern Red-backed Salamanders Monroe Room POSTER: Improving Species Distribution Models by Accounting for Land-use Legacies: A Case Study on Tree Species Distributions in Northeastern Forests Monroe Room POSTER: Integrating Ecosystem Services Trade-offs with Paddy Land-to-dry Land Decisions: A Scenario Approach in Erhai Lake Basin, Southwest China Monroe Room POSTER: Interdependent of ET-LAI-Albedo Across the Roofing Landscapes: Mongolian and Tibetan Plateaus Monroe Room POSTER: Landscape and Host Plant Effects on Reproduction by a Mobile, Polyphagous, Multivoltine Arthropod Herbivore Monroe Room POSTER: Landscape and Host Plant Effects on Two Important Omnivorous Arthropod Taxa in Field Crops Monroe Room POSTER: Landscape Characteristics Influencing Attitudes Towards Black Bears and Bear Hunting in Connecticut Monroe Room POSTER: Landscape Context Influences Microclimates in Agroecosystems Monroe Room POSTER: Landscape Drivers of Population Structure of a Forest Rodent in a Coffee Agroecosystem Monroe Room POSTER: Landscape Genetics and Connectivity Modelling of Six Native Bee Species in the Agricultural Zone of Alberta, Canada Monroe Room POSTER: Landscape Matrix Influence on the Tree Species Composition, of an Upper Montane Araucaria Forest in Southern Brazil Monroe Room POSTER: Level- and Scale-dependent Habitat Selection for Resting Sites by Two Syntopic Martes Species Monroe Room POSTER: Living with Giants: Mitigating Human-Elephant Conflict in Myanmar Monroe Room POSTER: Local and Landscape-Scale Predictors of Egg-Mass Abundance in Wood Frogs and Spotted Salamanders in Southeastern Massachusetts Monroe Room POSTER: Looking Beyond the Mean: Drivers of Variability in Postfire Stand Development of Rocky Mountain Conifers Monroe Room POSTER: Mapping Floristic Gradients of Forest Composition Using Ordination and Landsat OLI Imagery in Southern Ohio’s Central Hardwoods Monroe Room POSTER: Network Theory and Post-fire Landscapes: Linking Connectivity to Forest Reorganization in the Greater Yellowstone Ecosystem Monroe Room POSTER: North American and Asian Cities Show Contrasting Trends in Urban Greenspace Over Recent Decades Monroe Room POSTER: Ophiocordyceps Sinensis Availability and Range in Western Himalaya - Tragedy of Commons and Climate Variability Impacts on Alpine Ecosystem Monroe Room POSTER: Optimal Predictor Variables of Urban Hawk Breeding Success Monroe Room POSTER: Optimizing a UAV survey approach: implications for monitoring ecosystem services provided by floral resources Monroe Room POSTER: Patterns in Hybridization Between Native and Invasive Species Monroe Room POSTER: Predicting Invasive Species Richness with Boosted Regression Trees Monroe Room POSTER: Predicting Time Since Fire from Landscape Level Variables Within the Boreal Forest of Alaska: A Spatial Tobit Modeling Approach Monroe Room POSTER: Residential Landscape Ecology: Understanding Ecological Patterns and Processes of the Fastest Growing Land Cover Type in the U.S. Monroe Room POSTER: Retaining Fire Resilience: Twenty Years of Forest Succession in Old Growth Ponderosa Pine Forest Monroe Room POSTER: Social Values of Ecosystem Services Across Semi-Arid Watersheds in the Western United States Monroe Room POSTER: Spatial Pattern of Upper and Lower Pinyon-Juniper Treelines in the Great Basin, Nevada Monroe Room POSTER: Swallows and Sparrows in the Shop and Street Market-Interface of Nepal: Towards a First Open Access GIS Data and Model Inference on the Role of Religion in Bird Distribution Monroe Room POSTER: Tangible Landscapes Live Monroe Room POSTER: The Establishment of Urban Resilience Indicators Based on Waterlogging and Its Empirical Study Monroe Room POSTER: The Role of Biotic Complexity and Landscape Context in Controlling Arthropod Pests in Ornamental Gardens Monroe Room POSTER: The Status and Future of Nebraska’s Pinus Ponderosa Landscapes: The Wildcat Hills Monroe Room POSTER: Variation in Phenometric Lapse Rates in Pasture Resources Across Four Rayons in Kyrgyzstan Monroe Room

7:00pm CDT

NASA/MSU Dinner (New Awardees Only) Offsite - Berghoff Restaurant

9:00pm CDT

Offsite Student Social Offsite - Emerald Loop Bar & Grill