February 23, 2004
Memorial Union, Arizona Room
Arizona State University
Program Abstracts (pdf)
Large-scale Transformations
Urban fringe expansion measured by water infrastructure development: Phoenix, Arizona, 1950-2000. (pdf) Elizabeth K. Burns and E. D. Kenney
Panarchy: Applying the framework to a prehistoric socio-ecological case study. (pdf) Destiny Crider, Cathryn M. Meegan, and Steve Swanson
The history of urban park development in Seattle 1900-2000: An emergent phenomenon? (pdf) Jack DeLap, Sarah Dooling, Gregory Simon, William C. Webb, and Ken Yocom
Agrarian landscapes in transition: A cross-scale approach. (pdf) Charles L. Redman, Ann P. Kinzig, David R. Foster, Myron P Gutmann, Peter M. Kareiva, and Lauren H. Kuby
From purgatorial wasteland to reclaimed garden: Hydrological development, water politics, and social engineering in pre-statehood central Arizona. (pdf) Samuel J. Schmieding
Human and Non-Human Interaction
Evaluating urban forest functionality: A three-dimensional approach. (pdf) Andrew M. Bjorn, Adrienne I. Greve, M. David Oleyar, and John C. Withey
South Phoenix and the geography of exclusion: Past and present. (pdf)
Bob Bolin and Sara Grineski
The North Desert Village “Suburbosphere”: An experiment in urban ecology. (pdf) William Cook, David Casagrande, Diane Hope, Chris Martin, and Jean Stutz
North Desert Village landscaping experiment monitoring human-environment interactions. (pdf) E. Farley Metzger, Scott Yabiku, Patricia Gober, David Casagrande, Charles L. Redman, Nancy B. Grimm, and Sharon Harlan
Neighborhood ecosystems: Human-climate interactions in a desert metropolis (pdf) Sharon Harlan, Anthony Brazel, Darrel Jenerette, Nancy Jones, Larissa Larsen, Lela Prashad, and William Stefanov
Investigating the variations in neighborhood parks use and landscape preferences: Preliminary results of a survey questionnaire. (pdf) Louis Machabee and Ann Kinzig
Residential landscape water use, 1998 to 2003. (pdf) Chris A. Martin, Linda B. Stabler, Kathleen A. Peterson, Sarah B. Celestian, Darin Mahkee, and C. K. Singer
Water supply in Greater Phoenix: Improving regional decision making through university partnerships. (pdf) Charles L. Redman, Grady Gammage, Nancy Jones, Elizabeth Corley, Jim Holway, John Keane, Sharon Megdal, and Ray Quay
Education and Outreach
Local buggers: An inquiry-based introduction to local insect populations. (pdf) Nathan Morehouse
Dynamic nature of scientific knowledge. (pdf) Kaesha Neil
Ecology Explorers: Land-use prediction game. Charlene Saltz, C. Hill, and M. Elser
Ecology Explorers online data analysis. (pdf) Robin Schoeninger, Peter McCartney, Corinna Gries, Charlene Saltz, Elena Ortiz-Barney, Tim Craig, Sam Scheiner, and Monica Elser
Spatial Analysis
Understanding current and future job centers: An analysis of the Maricopa region. (pdf) Anubhav Bagley, Peter Burnett, Mele Koneya, Mark Roberts, Rita Walton, and Don Worley
Detecting brownfields by means of remote sensing and GIS data. (pdf, 2) Ellen Banzhaf
Estimating vegetation cover of an urban landscape using remote sensing data. (pdf) Alexander Buyantuyev and Jianguo Wu
Analysis of long-term remote-sensing imagery for the detection of changes in the CAP LTER site. (pdf) Matthias Moeller
Remote sensing and landscape metrics for global urban ecological monitoring. (pdf) Maik Netzband and Will L. Stefanov
Defining temperature and vegetation connections at neighborhood and regional scales in Phoenix, Arizona, using remotely sensed and ground-based measurements. (pdf) Lela Prashad, Will L. Stefanov, Anthony Brazel, and Sharon Harlan
Remote sensing of Phoenix’s urban forest with high-resolution aerial photography. (pdf) Jason Walker and John Briggs
Biotic Responses
Most frequently found arthropods at Pendergast School. (pdf) Chryste Berda
Differences in arbuscular mycorrhizal fungal community structure at residential and desert land use types within the CAP LTER. (pdf) Robert Bills, Sean Whitcomb, Jamaica Cousins, and Jean Stutz
Leaf physiology of four landscape trees in response to commercial parking lot location. (pdf) Sarah B. Celestian and Chris A. Martin
The manmade plant communities in the CAP LTER area. (pdf) Corinna Gries, Diane Hope, Linda B. Stabler, Arthur Stiles, Chris A. Martin, and John M. Briggs
Growth of two landscape shrubs following severe pruning: Evidence of a hysteretic effect of former irrigation and pruning practices. (pdf) Darin K. Mahkee and Chris A. Martin
Leaf morphological plasticity of two landscape shrub taxa in response to a change in shrub pruning practices. (pdf) Darin K. Mahkee and Chris A. Martin
Understanding trophic dynamics in urban and desert ecosystems using arthropod communities on brittlebush (Encelia farinosa). (pdf) Wendy A. Marussich and Stanley H. Faeth
Identification of cyanobacterial isolets from the biological soil crusts of Organ Pipe Cactus National Monument, Ajo, Arizona. (pdf) Matt Morrow
The Sonoran Desert: A palimpsest of prehistoric human activities. (pdf) Hoski Schaafsma and John Briggs
Differences in bird foraging behaviour between Sonoran Desert and urban habitats in central Arizona. Eyal Shochat, Madhusudan Katti, and Susannah Lerman
Local arbuscular mycorrhizal fungal diversity is strongly coupled to regional diversity in an urban ecosystem. (pdf) Jean C. Stutz, Sean Whitcomb, and Jamaica Cousins
Legacy effects of prehistoric farming: Isotopic analysis of maize grown in sediments from Hohokam fields. (pdf) Steve Swanson and Rebecca Calonico
Urban bioacoustics: It’s not just noise. (pdf) Paige S. Warren, Madhusudan Katti, and Michael Ermann
Biophysical Processes and Ecosystem Function
Pond chemistry at Awakening Seed School. (pdf) Tinsley Andrews, Leila Duman, Matthew Robinson, Garrett Scrivener, Natalie Settles, Ian Taylor, and Kathryn Kyle
Aerosol deposition measured by eddy-correlation mass spectrometry. (pdf) Daniel A. Gonzales and Jonathan O. Allen
Effects of land cover modifications in mesoscale meteorological and air quality models in the Phoenix metropolitan region. (pdf) Susanne Grossman Clarke, Joseph A. Zehnder, Will L. Stefanov, Diane Hope, and H.J.S. Fernando
Urban heat island (UHI) measures for the S.E. metropolitan area of CAP LTER: Transects versus fixed stations. (pdf) Brent Hedquist and Anthony Brazel
Spatial variation in inorganic soil nitrogen concentrations across an arid urban ecosystem. (pdf) Diane Hope, Weixing Zhu, Corinna Gries, Jason Kaye, Jacob Oleson, Nancy B. Grimm , Darrel Jenerette, and Larry Baker
Soil heterogeneity in six patches of the Phoenix, AZ metropolitan region: Implications for scaling. G. Darrel Jenerette and Jianguo Wu
Hierarchical regulation of ecosystem function: Material export from urban catchments. (pdf) David B. Lewis and Nancy B. Grimm
Anthropogenic modifications influence the interactions between the geomorphology and biogeochemistry of an urban desert stream. W. John Roach, Ramón Arrowsmith, Chris Eisinger, Nancy B. Grimm, Jim B. Heffernan, and Tyler Rychener
Methods of measuring nutrient spiraling in urban streams. (pdf) R. W. Sheibley, Nancy B. Grimm, C. L. Crenshaw, C. Dahm, L. H. Zeglin, H. van Vleck, and A. D. Pershall
Simulating the primary productivity of a Sonoran ecosystem: Model parameterization and validation. (pdf) Weijun Shen, Jianguo Wu, James F. Reynolds, and Nancy B. Grimm
Influences of drip irrigation rate and pruning on electrical conductivity of soil surrounding two landscape shrubs. (pdf) C. K. Singer, Chris A. Martin, Linda B. Stabler, and Darin K. Mahkee
The diazotroph community of biological soil crusts. (pdf) Joseph Dean, Shannon Siart, and Shannon Johnson
Effects of drip irrigation rate on above ground net primary productivity of a mixed landscape. Linda B. Stabler and Chris A. Martin