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US-IALE 2018

Hayley Tumas

University of Georgia
Doctoral Candidate

2:00pm CDT

UPDATE! Student Activity: Walking Tour of Historic Chicago Cultural Center Offsite - Meet at Conference Registration Desk

6:30pm CDT

Welcome Social! Honore Ballroom (Lobby Level)

8:15am CDT

WELCOME & PLENARY SESSION I Adams Room

10:00am CDT

SYMPOSIA-01: Connecting a Fragmented Landscape in the Chicago Region: Restoring a Legacy of Oak Ecosystems Hancock Parlor

10:30am CDT

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

10:45am CDT

SYMPOSIA-04: Fine-Scale Elements of the Matrix and the Success of Inter-Patch Movements in Fragmented Landscapes Adams Room

11:00am CDT

SYMPOSIA-03: Measuring Geodiversity to Explain Biodiversity: What Is the Effect of Spatial Grain and Spatial 'Consciousness?' Spire Parlor

11:15am CDT

SYMPOSIA-03: USGS Gap Analysis Project Habitat Maps: Prospects for Multi-species, Multi-scale Assessments of Habitat Fragmentation Spire Parlor

11:30am CDT

SYMPOSIA-04: Simulating the Relationship Between Movement Behavior of Dispersing Animals and the Distribution of Active Subsidies Adams Room

11:45am CDT

SYMPOSIA-04: SODA-POP: Building Population-Level Functionality into a Spatially-Explicit Individual-based Model of Human Disturbance on Animals Adams Room

1:30pm CDT

SYMPOSIA-03: Measuring the Configuration Accuracy of Land Change Simulations Using Metrics Relevant to Landscape Ecology and Land Change Science Spire Parlor

1:45pm CDT

SYMPOSIA-03: Understanding How Landscape Features Affect Gene Flow: Advances in Resistance Surface Optimization for Landscape Genetics Studies Spire Parlor

2:00pm CDT

SYMPOSIA-04: Forecasting the Effects of Human Disturbance on Golden Eagles: Tolerance Cannot Mitigate Negative Effects of Increased Recreation on Wild Lands Adams Room

2:15pm CDT

SYMPOSIA-04: Dominant Coyotes Impact Gray Fox Occupancy Across the Eastern U.S. Adams Room

2:30pm CDT

SYMPOSIA-04: A Comparison of Myotis Roost Habitat Suitability in Forest-Dominated and Agriculture-Dominated Landscapes Adams Room

2:45pm CDT

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

3:30pm CDT

SYMPOSIA-04: Individual Based Modeling of Dispersal by an Endangered Carnivore Can Simultaneously Be Pragmatic and Paradigmatic 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

4:00pm CDT

SYMPOSIA-04: Space Use and Habitat Use of a Nomadic Wading Bird Varies by Season and Degree of Urbanization Adams Room

4:15pm CDT

SYMPOSIA-04: Response of Lesser Prairie-Chickens to Anthropogenic Structures During Long-Distance Movements Adams Room

4:30pm CDT

SYMPOSIA-04: When It’s Too Hot to Eat: Moose Alter Movement Behavior and Diet in Response to Changing Landscapes and Climate Adams Room

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

10:00am CDT

AQUATIC, COASTAL AND MARINE ANIMALS: Understanding Influences of Landscape on Aquatic Fauna Across the Central and Southern Appalachians LaSalle 1 (7th Floor)

10:15am CDT

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

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

SYMPOSIA-10: Impacts of seed pool diversity on established plant community diversity in a long-term vacant lot management experiment Hancock Parlor

11:00am CDT

AQUATIC, COASTAL AND MARINE ANIMALS: Estimating Biological Risk in Alaska's Arctic: Ecological Synthesis of the Western Beaufort Corridor LaSalle 1 (7th Floor)

11:15am CDT

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)

11:30am CDT

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

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

6:00pm CDT

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

7:30pm CDT

AWARDS CELEBRATION & BUFFET DINNER Empire Ballroom (Lobby Level)

10:00am CDT

RARITY, BIODIVERSITY AND SPECIES DISTRIBUTION: Where the Rare Things Are: A Multi-Scale Assessment of Geographic and Evolutionary Rarity Across U.S. Forests LaSalle 2 (7th Floor) 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

SYMPOSIA-14: Modeling Transition Rates of Sandhill Cranes Using a Multi-state Model and Estimating Stage-specific Elasticities LaSalle 5 (7th Floor)

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

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

3:30pm CDT

HABITAT FRAGMENTATION/CONNECTIVITY: Keeping Common Common: Landscape Genetics of Black Needlerush (Juncus roemerianus Scheele) Across Northeastern Gulf of Mexico Salt Marshes Hancock Parlor

3:45pm CDT

HABITAT FRAGMENTATION/CONNECTIVITY: Determining the Transferability of Amphibian Landscape Genetics Models Hancock Parlor

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

4:45pm CDT

WILDLIFE MANAGEMENT: Sea Turtle Abundance, Distribution, and Habitat Selection in the Gulf of Mexico Following the Deepwater Horizon Oil Spill LaSalle 1 (7th Floor)