Monday, May 26, 2008: 1:30 PM-3:15 PM
Salt Palace Convention Center - Room 255 E
Special Session - Integrating Biological/Biogeochemical Measurements with Complexity in Hydraulics and Geomorphology in Streams I
The growing field of ecohydrology has arisen through collaboration of ecologists, geologists, hydrologists, and engineers interested in an integrated approach to understanding heterogeneous stream ecosystems and the two-way interaction of physical and ecological processes. While progress has been made in developing an interdisciplinary understanding, methods for combining measurements across disciplines are not well established. This situation makes interpreting results and comparisons to other streams/watersheds difficult. This session will bring together researchers who have attempted to correlate an ecological response with varying hydrologic conditions, scale point measurements to a reach-scale or broader, or compare results among streams of varying geomorphological, hydrological and ecological composition. A major goal of this special session is to compare extrapolation methods of measurements across disciplines and to address the questions: Is there universality in ecological-geological-physical interactions? What is the best way to scale and model these interactions across space and time?
Organizers:	Ben O'Connor Cailin Huyck Orr Michael Limm
1:30 PM	87		The effect of food web structure on ecosystem processes in a coastal river Michael Limm, Mary E. Power
1:45 PM	88		An empirical and modeling analysis of the spatial structure and trophic energy flow through a small temperate stream Jerry V. Mead, Michael J. Connerton, Charles A.S. Hall, Neil H. Ringler
2:00 PM	89		What is the minimum number of sites needed for precisely assessing the ecological status of mainstem rivers? Robert M. Hughes, Alan T. Herlihy, Philip R. Kaufmann
2:15 PM	90		Stability restoration projects on coastal plain stream channels: Geomorphic and biologic effects Brian Laub, Margaret Palmer
2:30 PM	91		Interaction between land use and climate variability amplifies stream nitrate export Sujay S. Kaushal, Peter M. Groffman, Lawrence E. Band, Catherine A. Shields, Raymond P. Morgan, Margaret Palmer, Kenneth T. Belt, Paul M. Mayer
2:45 PM	92		STREON: Stream experimental and observational network Walter Dodds, Margaret Palmer, Bradley J. Cardinale, Patrick J. Mulholland
3:00 PM			Discussion
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