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7:00am CDT

Landscape Ecology Editorial Board Meeting Wrigley Parlor Coffee Break (please note breakfast is on own; only coffee and fruit provided) 6th Floor Lobby

7:30am CDT

Conference Registration Desk Open 6th Floor Lobby

8:15am CDT

PLENARY SESSION II Adams Room

9:30am CDT

Coffee Break 6th Floor Lobby

10:00am CDT

SYMPOSIA-09: Check out That Bird! Observations of Birds in Chicago from Social Media and Crowd-Sourced Data Adams Room SYMPOSIA-10: Not so vacant? Evaluating vacant lots as passive green infrastructure for the rendering of hydrologic ecosystem services Hancock Parlor URBAN AND REGIONAL PLANNING: A Solution to the Conflicts of Multiple Planning Boundaries: Landscape Functional Zoning in a Resource Based City of China Grant Park Parlor CONSERVATION AND RESTORATION PLANNING: Improving the Utility of the National Conservation Easement Database Using Hierarchical Mixture Models LaSalle 5 (7th Floor) INVASIVE SPECIES: Dense Landsat Time Series Reveal Spatial and Temporal Patterns of Non-native Pine Invasion in Chile Spire Parlor DISTURBANCE LEGACIES AND RESILIENCE: Risk and Resilience in an Uncertain World Water Tower Parlor AQUATIC, COASTAL AND MARINE ANIMALS: Understanding Influences of Landscape on Aquatic Fauna Across the Central and Southern Appalachians LaSalle 1 (7th Floor) BELOWGROUND PROCESSES: Understanding Spatial Soil Moisture as a Driver of Ecohydrological Processes: Does One Relationship Rule Them All? LaSalle 2 (7th Floor) Concurrent Technical Sessions & Symposia Multiple Locations

10:15am CDT

SYMPOSIA-09: Social Media in Psychological Research Adams Room SYMPOSIA-10: Urban Landscape Heterogeneity and Variation in Green Infrastructure on Vacant Lots Hancock Parlor URBAN AND REGIONAL PLANNING: Ecologies as a Complement to Ecosystem Services? Exploring How Landscape Planners Might Advance Understanding About Human-Nature Relationships in Changing Landscapes Grant Park Parlor CONSERVATION AND RESTORATION PLANNING: Variation in Human Influence in Conservation Easements Among US Counties: Development of a Methodology LaSalle 5 (7th Floor) INVASIVE SPECIES: Understanding the Effect of Beta Diversity on Invasibility Across Scales Spire Parlor DISTURBANCE LEGACIES AND RESILIENCE: How Is Community Structure of Southern Québec Temperate Forest Affected by Land-uses of the Last 80 Years? An Insight Using Tree Species and Functional Diversity Water Tower Parlor AQUATIC, COASTAL AND MARINE ANIMALS: Resource Shifts as a Function of Lake Proximity Affect Songbird Communities in a North Temperate Forest LaSalle 1 (7th Floor) BELOWGROUND PROCESSES: Roles of Soil Methane Dynamics on Contemporary and Future Global Natural Methane Emission LaSalle 2 (7th Floor)

10:30am CDT

SYMPOSIA-09: A Hierarchical Bayesian Analysis of the Trends in Salience of Gray Wolf Media over 55 Years Adams Room SYMPOSIA-10: Towards a more holistic framework for a health-led approach at the green and blue infrastructure and human health interface Hancock Parlor URBAN AND REGIONAL PLANNING: Assessing Landscape Ecological Risk in Metropolitan Areas Through an Adaptive Cycle Framework Grant Park Parlor CONSERVATION AND RESTORATION PLANNING: Quantifying the Contribution of Conservation Easements to Landscape-scale Conservation Goals LaSalle 5 (7th Floor) INVASIVE SPECIES: Scale-Dependent Correlates of Invasive Species Presence in Western US Forests Spire Parlor (CANCELLED) DISTURBANCE LEGACIES AND RESILIENCE: Toward Quantifying Both Extent and Severity of Historic Forest Disturbance Water Tower Parlor AQUATIC, COASTAL AND MARINE ANIMALS: Influences of Forest Management on Southern Appalachian Stream Salamanders LaSalle 1 (7th Floor) BELOWGROUND PROCESSES: Meso-scale Drivers and Stocks of Soil Organic Carbon in Temperate Rainforests, and a Spatially Explicit Assessment of Carbon Across the North Pacific Coast LaSalle 2 (7th Floor)

10:45am CDT

SYMPOSIA-09: Improving High Performance Super Computer Aquatic Ecosystem Models with the Integration of Real-time Citizen Science Data Adams Room SYMPOSIA-10: Impacts of seed pool diversity on established plant community diversity in a long-term vacant lot management experiment Hancock Parlor URBAN AND REGIONAL PLANNING: Forecasting Urbanization and Future Water Demands of a Rapidly Growing Megaregion Grant Park Parlor CONSERVATION AND RESTORATION PLANNING: Systematically prioritizing landscape conservation on the basis of climatic vulnerabilities LaSalle 5 (7th Floor) INVASIVE SPECIES: Relationship Between Dominant Forest Mycorrhizal Type and Understory Invasions in Eastern US Forests Spire Parlor DISTURBANCE LEGACIES AND RESILIENCE: Under Extreme Weather Conditions, Dry Mixed-conifer Forests in the Western U.S. Benefit from Spatial Optimization of Fuel Treatments Water Tower Parlor AQUATIC, COASTAL AND MARINE ANIMALS: Integrating Historical, Ecological, and Social Data to Understand Patterns of Amphibian Occupancy and Habitat Availability in an Agroecosystem LaSalle 1 (7th Floor) BELOWGROUND PROCESSES: Changing Patterns of Soil Water and Plant Water Isotopes in Response to a Rainfall Event in a Peri-Urban Zone with Shallow Soils LaSalle 2 (7th Floor)

11:00am CDT

SYMPOSIA-09: BloomFinder: Leveraging Crowdsourced Data to Understand Climate Change Impacts on Mountain Wildflowers in the Western USA Adams Room SYMPOSIA-10: Does a city’s land market affect its greening strategies? A cross-case study of Baltimore, Boston, and Philadelphia Hancock Parlor URBAN AND REGIONAL PLANNING: Scale-Dependent Metric Value for a System of Mexican Cities Grant Park Parlor CONSERVATION AND RESTORATION PLANNING: Impacts of Projected Landscape Transformation on Conservation Corridors in the Southeastern U.S LaSalle 5 (7th Floor) INVASIVE SPECIES: Network Centrality as a Method for Identifying High Priority Ports for Aquatic Invasive Species Management on the Laurentian Great Lakes Spire Parlor DISTURBANCE LEGACIES AND RESILIENCE: Spatial Variability in Tree Regeneration and Potential Fire-Driven Range Shifts at a Dry Forest Ecotone Water Tower Parlor AQUATIC, COASTAL AND MARINE ANIMALS: Estimating Biological Risk in Alaska's Arctic: Ecological Synthesis of the Western Beaufort Corridor LaSalle 1 (7th Floor) BELOWGROUND PROCESSES: Co-contamination of Antibiotics and Metals in Peri-urban Agricultural Soils and Sources Identification by Landscape Development Intensity LaSalle 2 (7th Floor)

11:15am CDT

SYMPOSIA-09: Mapping and Modeling Recreational Use with Social Media as Data Adams Room SYMPOSIA-10: Biodiversity in Chicago’s Vacant Lots Hancock Parlor URBAN AND REGIONAL PLANNING: Development of a Regional Flood Susceptibility Index Using a GIS-based Frequency Ratio Approach Grant Park Parlor CONSERVATION AND RESTORATION PLANNING: Modeling Priority Areas for Forest Landscape Restoration in Madagascar: An Operational Participative and Inter-Sectoral Approach LaSalle 5 (7th Floor) INVASIVE SPECIES: Fire Regimes, Plant Invasions, and Tick-Borne Disease Risk Across a Climate Gradient in the Southeast U.S. Spire Parlor DISTURBANCE LEGACIES AND RESILIENCE: The Impacts of Fire Disturbances on Forest Community Structures and Species Composition in the United States Water Tower Parlor AQUATIC, COASTAL AND MARINE ANIMALS: Why Protect Top Predators? The Value of Seabirds and Marine Mammals on the Social-Ecological Seascape in the Beagle Channel LaSalle 1 (7th Floor) BELOWGROUND PROCESSES: Exploring the Spatial Distribution of Heavy Metals in Typical Peri-urban Area of East China LaSalle 2 (7th Floor)

11:30am CDT

SYMPOSIA-09: Light Pollution Predicts Firefly Abundance and Species Richness at Multiple Spatial Scales Adams Room SYMPOSIA-10: Clean and Green: Vacant Lot Stewardship and the Creation of New Natures in Chicago Hancock Parlor URBAN AND REGIONAL PLANNING: Towards Better Understanding of Urban Thermal Environment from a Multiscale Perspective Grant Park Parlor CONSERVATION AND RESTORATION PLANNING: Managing breeding and wintering habitat for the conservation of the endangered Kirtland’s Warbler in a changing climate LaSalle 5 (7th Floor) INVASIVE SPECIES: (Meta)population Dynamics Determine Effective Spatial Distributions of Mosquito-borne Disease Control Spire Parlor DISTURBANCE LEGACIES AND RESILIENCE: Is Increased Fire Frequency Likely to Erode Resilience of Lodgepole Pine Forests in Yellowstone? Water Tower Parlor AQUATIC, COASTAL AND MARINE ANIMALS: River Temperatures at Spatial and Temporal Scales Relevant to Juvenile Salmon: Using Distributed Wireless Technologies to Connect Sensors for Real-time Sampling LaSalle 1 (7th Floor)

11:45am CDT

SYMPOSIA-09: Symposium Conclusion Adams Room SYMPOSIA-10: Symposium Conclusion Hancock Parlor CONSERVATION AND RESTORATION PLANNING: MEGA-Transect: Creating a Seamless Vegetation Map for the Appalachian National Scenic Trail LaSalle 5 (7th Floor) INVASIVE SPECIES: Integration of Radar and Optical Satellite Data for Great Lakes Coastal Wetland Monitoring Spire Parlor DISTURBANCE LEGACIES AND RESILIENCE: Space, Stochasiticity, Succession, and the Limits of Chronosequence Methods: Why 101-year-old History Matters to Primary Succession Communities and Ecosystems Water Tower Parlor

12:00pm CDT

Lunch On Your Own N/A Open Forum Meeting with US-IALE Officers (members welcome) Wrigley Parlor

1:00pm CDT

CANCELED: SCIENTIFIC EXCURSION 3. Parks by Bus Offsite SCIENTIFIC EXCURSION 1. Chicago Architecture Foundation River Cruise Aboard Chicago's First Lady Cruises Offsite - Depart from Conference Registration Desk SCIENTIFIC EXCURSION 2. Behind the Scenes at The Field Museum of Natural History Offsite - Depart from Wabash Street Entrance of Hotel WORKSHOP 1. From Drone to Landscape - UAS Data Processing Hancock Parlor WORKSHOP 2. Telecoupling Framework: Concepts, Applications, and Hands-on Exercises with the New Cloud-based Telecoupling Toolbox Water Tower Parlor WORKSHOP 3. Moving From Pilot Projects to a Landscape Conservation Program: The Practitioner's Playbook LaSalle 1 (7th Floor) WORKSHOP 4. Ecohydrological Modeling for Land and Climate Change Studies LaSalle 2 (7th Floor) WORKSHOP 5. Status and Trends in Landscapes Fragmentation Grant Park Parlor

6:00pm CDT

Networking Reception & "We'll Pick Up The Tab" Social Mezzanine

7:30pm CDT

AWARDS CELEBRATION & BUFFET DINNER Empire Ballroom (Lobby Level)