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US-IALE 2018

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Thilina Surasinghe

Bridgewater State University
Assistant Professor
Bridgewater, MA

12:00pm CDT

Conference Registration Desk Open 6th Floor Lobby

6:30pm CDT

Welcome Social! Honore 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

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

LAND USE/LAND COVER CHANGE: Land use and cover change within a typical Midwest watershed in relation to socio-ecological factors Grant Park Parlor

10:30am CDT

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 LAND USE/LAND COVER CHANGE: The Gradient Concept of Landscape Structure for Wildlife Habitat in Rangelands Grant Park Parlor

11:00am CDT

SYMPOSIA-01: Using Bird Abundance Models and Ecosystem Services Valuations to Inform Grassland Bird Conservation in an Urban Context Hancock Parlor

11:15am CDT

SYMPOSIA-01: Analyzing Land Management Regimes to Inform Grassland Bird Conservation in the Chicago Wilderness Region Hancock Parlor SYMPOSIA-03: USGS Gap Analysis Project Habitat Maps: Prospects for Multi-species, Multi-scale Assessments of Habitat Fragmentation Spire Parlor

11:30am CDT

TERRESTRIAL-AQUATIC ECOSYSTEM INTERACTIONS: Advancing Coastal Habitat Resiliency Through Landscape Metrics and Assessment LaSalle 1 (7th Floor)

11:45am CDT

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

12:00pm CDT

Lunch On Your Own N/A

1:30pm CDT

URBAN/EXURBAN LANDSCAPE ECOLOGY: Urban Ecological Infrastructure as a Bridge Between Urban Ecology and Landscape Ecology Water Tower 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-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-03: Assessing the Performance of Different Sampling Schedules in Capturing the Temporal Complexity of Soundscapes Spire Parlor

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

URBAN/EXURBAN LANDSCAPE ECOLOGY: Multiple Spatial Scales Predict Species-Habitat Relationships of Urban Bats: Implications for Urban Reconciliation Water Tower Parlor

3:45pm CDT

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

4:00pm CDT

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-07: Using a Landscape Approach to Strengthen Resiliency in Coastal Watersheds LaSalle 1 (7th Floor)

4:30pm CDT

SYMPOSIA-07: People in Ecosystems/Watershed Integration (PEWI): A Dynamic Land-use and Ecosystem Service Tradeoffs Assessment Tool LaSalle 1 (7th Floor)

4:45pm CDT

SYMPOSIA-08: Panel Discussion Hancock Parlor

5:00pm CDT

SYMPOSIA-04: Panel Discussion Adams Room

5:30pm CDT

Poster Session & Social 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

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

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)

10:30am CDT

AQUATIC, COASTAL AND MARINE ANIMALS: Influences of Forest Management on Southern Appalachian Stream Salamanders LaSalle 1 (7th Floor)

10:45am CDT

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

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)

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 3. Moving From Pilot Projects to a Landscape Conservation Program: The Practitioner's Playbook LaSalle 1 (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)

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

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)

10:15am CDT

RARITY, BIODIVERSITY AND SPECIES DISTRIBUTION: Beta-diversity Patterns of Breeding Birds Influenced by Environmental and Climatic Heterogeneity in Taiwan LaSalle 2 (7th Floor) HABITAT FRAGMENTATION/CONNECTIVITY: Understanding Land-cover Change and Its Impact on Biodiversity in an Ecuadorian Fragmented Landscape Hancock Parlor

10:30am CDT

RARITY, BIODIVERSITY AND SPECIES DISTRIBUTION: Landscape Connectivity Effects on Alberta’s Biodiversity LaSalle 2 (7th Floor)

10:45am CDT

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)

11:15am CDT

RARITY, BIODIVERSITY AND SPECIES DISTRIBUTION: Macrolichen Community Structures of Newfoundland’s Forested Wetlands LaSalle 2 (7th Floor)

11:30am CDT

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)

11:45am CDT

FOREST LANDSCAPE PROCESSES: Predicting Changes in Gopher Tortoise Habitat Connectivity in Georgia, USA Spire 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

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

2:15pm CDT

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

2:30pm CDT

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

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

WILDLIFE MANAGEMENT: Investigating the Effects of Land Managment Practices on Wildlife Diversity and Abundance Through Landscape Manipulation LaSalle 1 (7th Floor)

3:45pm CDT

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

WILDLIFE MANAGEMENT: Birds in Corn Belt Cities: Patterns in Nesting Guild Communities in Eastern Iowa Urban Landscapes LaSalle 1 (7th Floor)

4:15pm CDT

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

4:30pm CDT

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)

5:30pm CDT

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