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US-IALE 2018

Allison Borges

The Evergreen State College
The Evergreen State College
Olympia, WA

7:00am CDT

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

8:15am CDT

WELCOME & PLENARY SESSION I Adams Room

9:30am CDT

Coffee Break 6th Floor Lobby

10:00am CDT

SYMPOSIA-03: History and Trends of Describing and Analyzing Landscape Patterns: Where Are We Now? Spire Parlor

10:15am CDT

SYMPOSIA-03: Satellite-based Accounting of Forest Area and Fragmentation Spire Parlor

10:30am CDT

SYMPOSIA-03: Describing Landscapes by Statistics of Local Pattern Features: Application to Landscape Regionalization, Change, and Search Spire Parlor 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

10:45am CDT

SYMPOSIA-01: Defining Neighborhoods to Optimize the Effectiveness of Landscape-Scale Grassland Bird Conservation Hancock Parlor 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 LAND USE/LAND COVER CHANGE: The Gradient Concept of Landscape Structure for Wildlife Habitat in Rangelands Grant Park Parlor 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-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 LAND USE/LAND COVER CHANGE: Mapping Dynamic Processes in Arid Rangelands Grant Park Parlor 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-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 LAND USE/LAND COVER CHANGE: Stressors, Conditions, and Management Responses: An Environmental Report Card for the Tennessee River Basin Grant Park Parlor 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-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 LAND USE/LAND COVER CHANGE: Impacts of Surface Coal Mining on the Environment in the Mongolian Plateau Grant Park Parlor

11:45am CDT

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

1:45pm CDT

SYMPOSIA-04: How Invasive Plants Alter Foraging and Space Use by Animals Adams Room

2:15pm CDT

INSECT & DISEASE OUTBREAKS: Insectivorous Birds as Indicators of Future Defoliation by the Spruce Budworm LaSalle 2 (7th Floor)

2:45pm CDT

SYMPOSIA-04: Changes in the Landscape-Level Habitat Selection of Forest Bats Within Human-Modified Landscapes Adams Room

3:45pm CDT

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-08: Designing Restorations to Inform Conservation Practice and Ecological Theory: Lessons from Long-term Studies in Tallgrass Prairie Hancock Parlor

4:00pm CDT

SYMPOSIA-08: Succession in a Human-dominated Landscape: Lessons Learned for Land Management Hancock Parlor

4:30pm CDT

SYMPOSIA-08: The Roles of Land-use History and Landscape Context in Shaping Plant Successional Trajectories Hancock Parlor

4:45pm CDT

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)

5:30pm CDT

Poster Session & Social Monroe Room POSTER: Analysis of Data of Different Spatial Scales: A Multivariate Process Approach Monroe Room POSTER: Drivers of Conservation Successes and Failures: An Analysis of Factors Affecting Mammalian Recovery in Terrestrial Protected Areas Monroe Room POSTER: Identifying Conservation Priorities Through Participatory Ecosystem Services Mapping in Coastal Zones Monroe Room

7:00am CDT

Coffee Break (please note breakfast is on own; only coffee and fruit provided) 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 CONSERVATION AND RESTORATION PLANNING: Improving the Utility of the National Conservation Easement Database Using Hierarchical Mixture Models LaSalle 5 (7th Floor)

10:15am CDT

CONSERVATION AND RESTORATION PLANNING: Variation in Human Influence in Conservation Easements Among US Counties: Development of a Methodology LaSalle 5 (7th Floor)

10:30am CDT

CONSERVATION AND RESTORATION PLANNING: Quantifying the Contribution of Conservation Easements to Landscape-scale Conservation Goals LaSalle 5 (7th Floor)

10:45am CDT

CONSERVATION AND RESTORATION PLANNING: Systematically prioritizing landscape conservation on the basis of climatic vulnerabilities LaSalle 5 (7th Floor)

11:00am CDT

CONSERVATION AND RESTORATION PLANNING: Impacts of Projected Landscape Transformation on Conservation Corridors in the Southeastern U.S LaSalle 5 (7th Floor)

11:15am CDT

CONSERVATION AND RESTORATION PLANNING: Modeling Priority Areas for Forest Landscape Restoration in Madagascar: An Operational Participative and Inter-Sectoral Approach LaSalle 5 (7th Floor)

11:30am CDT

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)

11:45am CDT

CONSERVATION AND RESTORATION PLANNING: MEGA-Transect: Creating a Seamless Vegetation Map for the Appalachian National Scenic Trail LaSalle 5 (7th Floor)

12:00pm CDT

Lunch On Your Own N/A

1:00pm CDT

WORKSHOP 5. Status and Trends in Landscapes Fragmentation Grant Park Parlor

7:30pm CDT

AWARDS CELEBRATION & BUFFET DINNER Empire Ballroom (Lobby Level)

7:00am CDT

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

8:15am CDT

PLENARY SESSION III & Announcement of Upcoming US-IALE Annual Meeting Adams Room

9:30am CDT

Coffee Break 6th Floor Lobby

10:00am CDT

HABITAT FRAGMENTATION/CONNECTIVITY: Graph Theory Analysis in Highly Fragmented Atlantic Forest Remnants of Eastern Paraguay Hancock Parlor

10:15am CDT

HABITAT FRAGMENTATION/CONNECTIVITY: Understanding Land-cover Change and Its Impact on Biodiversity in an Ecuadorian Fragmented Landscape Hancock Parlor

10:30am CDT

HABITAT FRAGMENTATION/CONNECTIVITY: An integrated GIS-based toolkit for land use planners: evaluating impact of development and restoration planning in Sabah (Borneo) on clouded leopard connectivity Hancock Parlor

10:45am CDT

(CANCELLED) HABITAT FRAGMENTATION/CONNECTIVITY: Impacts of High Voltage Electricity Transmission Lines on Liana and Tree Communities in Two Forest Ecosystems Hancock Parlor

11:00am CDT

HABITAT FRAGMENTATION/CONNECTIVITY: Seeing the Forest Through the Trees: An Assessment of Habitat Fragmentation’s Impacts on Woody Plant Communities Across Scales Hancock Parlor

11:15am CDT

HABITAT FRAGMENTATION/CONNECTIVITY: Evaluating the Contribution of Pine Plantations to Habitat Fragmentation in the Southeastern U.S. Hancock Parlor

12:00pm CDT

Lunch On Your Own N/A

1:30pm CDT

HABITAT FRAGMENTATION/CONNECTIVITY: A Multi-Scale Modeling Framework for Landscape-Level Assessment of Core Habitats, Connectivity, and Gene Flow of Rare Species Hancock Parlor

1:45pm CDT

HABITAT FRAGMENTATION/CONNECTIVITY: Shifts in Plant Species Composition Along a Utility Right-of-way Hancock Parlor

2:00pm CDT

HABITAT FRAGMENTATION/CONNECTIVITY: Effects of neotropical savanna fragmentation on the reproductive dynamics of a key tree species Hancock Parlor

2:15pm CDT

HABITAT FRAGMENTATION/CONNECTIVITY: Ranking Core Areas, Corridor and Conflict Hotspots for Lion Conservation in Southern Africa Hancock Parlor

2:30pm CDT

HABITAT FRAGMENTATION/CONNECTIVITY: The Traits That Predict Forest Bird Responses to Urbanization Intensity Hancock Parlor

2:45pm CDT

HABITAT FRAGMENTATION/CONNECTIVITY: Meso-predator Presence Along an Urban-Rural Gradient in a Mono-Culture Matrix Hancock Parlor

3:00pm CDT

Coffee Break 6th Floor Lobby

3:30pm CDT

HABITAT FRAGMENTATION/CONNECTIVITY: Keeping Common Common: Landscape Genetics of Black Needlerush (Juncus roemerianus Scheele) Across Northeastern Gulf of Mexico Salt Marshes Hancock Parlor WILDLIFE MANAGEMENT: Investigating the Effects of Land Managment Practices on Wildlife Diversity and Abundance Through Landscape Manipulation LaSalle 1 (7th Floor)

3:45pm CDT

HABITAT FRAGMENTATION/CONNECTIVITY: Determining the Transferability of Amphibian Landscape Genetics Models Hancock Parlor WILDLIFE MANAGEMENT: A Hybrid Approach to Modeling Habitat Selection Reveals Preferences of Brown Bears on the Kenai Peninsula, Alaska, USA LaSalle 1 (7th Floor)

4:00pm CDT

HABITAT FRAGMENTATION/CONNECTIVITY: A Landscape of Hope and Fear: The Future of Tigers in Eastern Vidarbha, Maharashtra, India Hancock Parlor

4:15pm CDT

HABITAT FRAGMENTATION/CONNECTIVITY: Effectiveness of Protected Areas in Reducing Deforestation Hancock Parlor

4:30pm CDT

SYMPOSIA-17: Can We Adequately Represent the Spatial Interplay Between Humans and Nature? LaSalle 5 (7th Floor) HABITAT FRAGMENTATION/CONNECTIVITY: Long-Term Declines in Urban Prairie Dogs Hancock Parlor

5:30pm CDT

Dinner On Your Own - Explore Downtown Chicago! N/A