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US-IALE 2018

jennifer selgrath

Stanford University
Post-doc
San Francisco, CA

projectseahorse.org/research-geomapping-philippines

spatial resilience, participatory mapping, species distributions, small-scale fisheries, historical ecology

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 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

10:15am CDT

SYMPOSIA-02: Balancing Built and Natural Infrastructure for Sustainable Freshwater Supply to the World’s Cities LaSalle 5 (7th Floor) SYMPOSIA-04: Insights from Estimating Home Ranges Using Different Currencies and Incorporating How Animals Perceive Their Environments Adams Room

10:30am CDT

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-04: Hypergraph Models of Interactive Effects in Dispersal Networks Adams Room

10:45am CDT

SYMPOSIA-02: Impacts of International Trade on Global Sustainable Development LaSalle 5 (7th Floor)

11:00am CDT

SYMPOSIA-02: Applicability and Implications of Telecoupling Framework on Rangeland Ecosystem Services LaSalle 5 (7th Floor)

11:15am CDT

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

11:30am CDT

SYMPOSIA-02: Water Security Dynamics and Scenarios Along the New Silk Road: The Telecoupling Case Study LaSalle 5 (7th Floor) SYMPOSIA-04: Simulating the Relationship Between Movement Behavior of Dispersing Animals and the Distribution of Active Subsidies Adams Room

11:45am CDT

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

1:30pm CDT

SYMPOSIA-06: A bright future for participatory mapping? Grant Park Parlor

1:45pm CDT

SYMPOSIA-06: Integrating Biophysical Models and Participatory Mapping to Understand Ecosystem Service Trade-Offs at the Aquatic-Terrestrial Interface Grant Park Parlor

2:00pm CDT

SYMPOSIA-06: Area Accumulation Curves Can Improve Participatory Mapping Grant Park Parlor

2:15pm CDT

SYMPOSIA-06: A Tale of Two Forests: Mapping Cultural Ecosystem Services in Central Oregon Using Public Participation GIS Grant Park Parlor

2:30pm CDT

SYMPOSIA-06: FUTURES in Their Hands: Participatory Modeling of Land Change in Coastal South Carolina Grant Park Parlor

2:45pm CDT

SYMPOSIA-06: Social-Ecological Systems Dynamics and Social Perceptions Toward Ecosystem Services Grant Park Parlor

3:30pm CDT

SYMPOSIA-02: Assessing the Potential Influence of Zero-Deforestation Commitments on Tropical Land Cover LaSalle 5 (7th Floor) 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

3:45pm CDT

SYMPOSIA-02: Local Adoption of Sustainability Governance in Telecoupled Systems: Certification in the Colombian Oil Palm Sector LaSalle 5 (7th Floor) LANDSCAPE PATTERN & PROCESS: Early Warning Signal of Landscape Connectivity and Resilience Towards Natural Climate Solutions Spire Parlor

4:00pm CDT

SYMPOSIA-02: The Effect of Global Food Trade on Biodiversity in an Importing Country LaSalle 5 (7th Floor) SYMPOSIA-06: Social Demand and Cross-Scale Interactions in a Riverine Social-Ecological System Grant Park Parlor

4:15pm CDT

SYMPOSIA-02: Migratory Wildlife Link People and Ecosystems over Distances LaSalle 5 (7th Floor) 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)

4:30pm CDT

SYMPOSIA-02: Synthesis and Discussion LaSalle 5 (7th Floor) SYMPOSIA-06: Community-Engaged Science and Art: Richmond National Battlefield Bioblitz Grant Park Parlor SYMPOSIA-08: The Roles of Land-use History and Landscape Context in Shaping Plant Successional Trajectories Hancock Parlor

4:45pm CDT

SYMPOSIA-04: Reefscapes of Fear: Effects of Habitat Quality and Predation Risk on Coral Reef Fish Adams Room LANDSCAPE PATTERN & PROCESS: Differential Effect of Habitat Loss and Fragmentation on Pollinators and Seeds Dispersers of Heliconia Tortuosa in Costa Rica Spire Parlor

5:30pm CDT

Poster Session & Social Monroe Room POSTER: Examining Community Gardens as a Source of Ecological and Social Connectivity in Cities Monroe Room POSTER: Social Values of Ecosystem Services Across Semi-Arid Watersheds in the Western United States Monroe Room

9:00pm CDT

Offsite Student Social Offsite - Emerald Loop Bar & Grill

10:00am CDT

CONSERVATION AND RESTORATION PLANNING: Improving the Utility of the National Conservation Easement Database Using Hierarchical Mixture Models LaSalle 5 (7th Floor) DISTURBANCE LEGACIES AND RESILIENCE: Risk and Resilience in an Uncertain World Water Tower Parlor

10:15am CDT

SYMPOSIA-09: Social Media in Psychological Research Adams Room 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

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-09: Improving High Performance Super Computer Aquatic Ecosystem Models with the Integration of Real-time Citizen Science Data Adams Room CONSERVATION AND RESTORATION PLANNING: Systematically prioritizing landscape conservation on the basis of climatic vulnerabilities LaSalle 5 (7th Floor) 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)

11:00am CDT

SYMPOSIA-09: BloomFinder: Leveraging Crowdsourced Data to Understand Climate Change Impacts on Mountain Wildflowers in the Western USA Adams Room 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

11:15am CDT

SYMPOSIA-09: Mapping and Modeling Recreational Use with Social Media as Data Adams Room CONSERVATION AND RESTORATION PLANNING: Modeling Priority Areas for Forest Landscape Restoration in Madagascar: An Operational Participative and Inter-Sectoral Approach LaSalle 5 (7th Floor) DISTURBANCE LEGACIES AND RESILIENCE: The Impacts of Fire Disturbances on Forest Community Structures and Species Composition in the United States Water Tower Parlor

11:30am CDT

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

11:45am CDT

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

1:00pm CDT

WORKSHOP 1. From Drone to Landscape - UAS Data Processing Hancock Parlor

7:30pm CDT

AWARDS CELEBRATION & BUFFET DINNER Empire Ballroom (Lobby Level)

8:15am CDT

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

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

SYMPOSIA-11: Using Social Science To Inform Monarch Conservation Strategies In Diverse Urban Landscapes Grant Park Parlor CLIMATE CHANGE EFFECTS AND ADAPTATION: Connectivity to Address Climate-induced Range Shifts: Emerging Approaches and Future Challenges LaSalle 1 (7th Floor) HABITAT FRAGMENTATION/CONNECTIVITY: Understanding Land-cover Change and Its Impact on Biodiversity in an Ecuadorian Fragmented Landscape Hancock Parlor

10:30am CDT

SYMPOSIA-12: Phenocams Bridge the Gap Between Field and Satellite Observations: Applications from Agro-ecosystems Adams Room RARITY, BIODIVERSITY AND SPECIES DISTRIBUTION: Landscape Connectivity Effects on Alberta’s Biodiversity LaSalle 2 (7th Floor) FOREST LANDSCAPE PROCESSES: Spatial Modeling and Inventories for Targeting Investment Into Oak-Hickory Restoration Spire Parlor 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-12: Advanced Geospatial Technologies for Agricultural Landscapes: 3D Immersion and Geovisualization System (3DIG) Adams Room RARITY, BIODIVERSITY AND SPECIES DISTRIBUTION: Human-induced Rapid Environmental Change and Spatial Mismatches in Species Distribution LaSalle 2 (7th Floor)

11:00am CDT

RARITY, BIODIVERSITY AND SPECIES DISTRIBUTION: A Decision Support Tool for Metapopulation Management in Dynamic Landscapes LaSalle 2 (7th Floor) FOREST LANDSCAPE PROCESSES: Modeling the Vulnerability of Forest Patches to Non-Native Plant Invasion Spire Parlor 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

SYMPOSIA-13: Applying Google Earth Engine to Wildfire Disturbance Detection in the State of Alaska Water Tower Parlor

11:30am CDT

SYMPOSIA-12: Identifying Agro-ecoregions for the Long-Term Agroecosystem Research (LTAR) Network Adams Room SYMPOSIA-14: A Citizen Scientist Project: Determining Drivers of Crane Resources Across the Coastal Landscape LaSalle 5 (7th Floor) RARITY, BIODIVERSITY AND SPECIES DISTRIBUTION: Multi-scale Effects of Land Use on Bee Communities Along Habitat Edges Between Forest and Agriculture LaSalle 2 (7th Floor) FOREST LANDSCAPE PROCESSES: Regional Variation in Landscape-level Forest Biomass Trends Before and During a Multi-year Drought Spire Parlor CLIMATE CHANGE EFFECTS AND ADAPTATION: Assessing Species Distribution Model Performance for Vulnerability Assessment and Search LaSalle 1 (7th Floor)

11:45am CDT

SYMPOSIA-12: Long-Term Agroecosystem Research Advancing Sustainable Intensification in Fields, Farms, and Regions Across the United States Adams Room

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 PROCESSES IN AGRICULTURAL LANDSCAPES: Blue and Green: Modeling Rain-fed and Irrigated Agriculture on the Landscape Adams Room MODELLING CLIMATE AS PROCESS DRIVERS: Predicting Microclimate Temperatures in the Great Smoky Mountains Using Statistical Downscaling and LiDAR-derived Vegetation Information LaSalle 1 (7th Floor) ECOSYSTEM SERVICES: Understanding Relationships Among Ecosystem Services Across Scales LaSalle 2 (7th Floor)

1:45pm CDT

HABITAT FRAGMENTATION/CONNECTIVITY: Shifts in Plant Species Composition Along a Utility Right-of-way Hancock Parlor ECOSYSTEM SERVICES: Constraint Relationships Between Ecosystem Services in the Agro-Pastoral Transitional Zone of China LaSalle 2 (7th Floor)

2:00pm CDT

SYMPOSIA-15: Integration of Landscape and Social Factors That Predict Attitudes Toward Roadside Vegetation Management Spire Parlor HABITAT FRAGMENTATION/CONNECTIVITY: Effects of neotropical savanna fragmentation on the reproductive dynamics of a key tree species Hancock Parlor PROCESSES IN AGRICULTURAL LANDSCAPES: Amphibian Amblings Amid Arid-land Agriculture: Wetland Connectivity and Species Dispersal in the Great Plains Using Least-Cost Path and Landscape Resistance Modelling Adams Room MODELLING CLIMATE AS PROCESS DRIVERS: The Importance of Climate Uncertainty for Projections of Forest Ecosystem Services LaSalle 1 (7th Floor)

2:15pm CDT

SYMPOSIA-16: Parsing the Independent Effects of Habitat Amount and Fragmentation Using an Experimental Model Landscape System Grant Park Parlor HABITAT FRAGMENTATION/CONNECTIVITY: Ranking Core Areas, Corridor and Conflict Hotspots for Lion Conservation in Southern Africa Hancock Parlor

2:30pm CDT

SYMPOSIA-15: Backyards, Buckthorn, and Landscape Scale Conservation: Homeowner Engagement in Managing Invasive Plants Spire Parlor SYMPOSIA-16: Are Good or Poor Dispersers More Sensitive to Land Use Intensification? A Quantitative Review Grant Park Parlor HABITAT FRAGMENTATION/CONNECTIVITY: The Traits That Predict Forest Bird Responses to Urbanization Intensity Hancock Parlor ECOSYSTEM SERVICES: Urban Growth in the Western United States and Implications for Human Well-being LaSalle 2 (7th Floor)

2:45pm CDT

SYMPOSIA-15: Social Benefits of Urban Forests for the Anthropocene Spire Parlor HABITAT FRAGMENTATION/CONNECTIVITY: Meso-predator Presence Along an Urban-Rural Gradient in a Mono-Culture Matrix Hancock Parlor PROCESSES IN AGRICULTURAL LANDSCAPES: Examining the Potential Agricultural Benefits of Pollinator Habitat at Utility-Scale Solar Facilities in the United States Adams Room MODELLING CLIMATE AS PROCESS DRIVERS: Identification of the Spatio-temporal Contiguous Carbon Cycle Extreme Events LaSalle 1 (7th Floor)

3:30pm CDT

SYMPOSIA-15: Forest Edge-ucation: Patterns and Mechanistic Drivers of Forest Carbon Dynamics in Fragmented Landscapes Spire Parlor SYMPOSIA-17: Using Random Forests to Map Floodplains for the Conterminous USA LaSalle 5 (7th Floor) WILDLIFE MANAGEMENT: Investigating the Effects of Land Managment Practices on Wildlife Diversity and Abundance Through Landscape Manipulation LaSalle 1 (7th Floor)

3:45pm CDT

SYMPOSIA-17: Greenness and Self-reported Well-being in a Representative Sample of the U.S. Population LaSalle 5 (7th Floor) PROCESSES IN AGRICULTURAL LANDSCAPES: Assessing the Population Response of Grassland Birds to Mid and End of 21st Century Landscape Change Predictions in the Great Plains (USA) Adams Room

4:00pm CDT

HABITAT FRAGMENTATION/CONNECTIVITY: A Landscape of Hope and Fear: The Future of Tigers in Eastern Vidarbha, Maharashtra, India Hancock Parlor REMOTE SENSING/IMAGE ANALYSIS: Enhancing Bird Habitat in Late Successional Forests of the Central Appalachians by Managing for Structural Complexity Water Tower Parlor

4:15pm CDT

SYMPOSIA-17: EnviroAtlas’ National Assessment of Cultural Ecosystem Services: Leveraging Social Media to Understand America’s Most Valued Landscapes LaSalle 5 (7th Floor) HABITAT FRAGMENTATION/CONNECTIVITY: Effectiveness of Protected Areas in Reducing Deforestation Hancock Parlor

4:30pm CDT

SYMPOSIA-15: Structure, Function and Value of Urban Forests in California Spire Parlor SYMPOSIA-17: Can We Adequately Represent the Spatial Interplay Between Humans and Nature? LaSalle 5 (7th Floor) PROCESSES IN AGRICULTURAL LANDSCAPES: Landowners, Non-Native Plants, and Grassland Birds: Exploring Possibilities for Management on Privately-Owned Pastures That Serve as Wildlife Habitat Adams Room REMOTE SENSING/IMAGE ANALYSIS: Reconstructing Historical Boreal Forest Structure by Using Archived Landsat and National Forest Inventory Water Tower Parlor WILDLIFE MANAGEMENT: Wisconsin's Potential Sandhill Crane Hunt LaSalle 1 (7th Floor)

4:45pm CDT

SYMPOSIA-16: Experimental Landscape Ecology Grant Park Parlor PROCESSES IN AGRICULTURAL LANDSCAPES: Deforestation and Forest Degradation in the Amazon’s Agriculture Frontier Adams Room WILDLIFE MANAGEMENT: Sea Turtle Abundance, Distribution, and Habitat Selection in the Gulf of Mexico Following the Deepwater Horizon Oil Spill LaSalle 1 (7th Floor)

5:30pm CDT

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