NABS 57th Annual Meeting (16-23 May, 2009): Special Session - Application of Landscape, Bioassessment and Predictive Models in Stream Ecology

Tuesday, May 19, 2009: 10:15 AM-12:15 PM

Pantlind Ballroom

Moderator:

Ian R. Waite

10:15 AM

139

Comparison of watershed-disturbance predictive models for stream benthic macroinvertebrates for three distinct western ecoregions
Jason T. May, U.S. Geological Survey; Ian R. Waite, U.S. Geological Survey; Larry R. Brown, U.S. Geological Survey; Jonathan G. Kennen, U.S. Geological Survey; Thomas F. Cuffney, U.S. Geological Survey; James L. Orlando, U.S. Geological Survey; Kimberly A. Jones, Utah Water Science Center, U. S. Geological Survey

10:30 AM

139b

Comparison of watershed disturbance predictive models for stream benthic macroinvertebrates: Multiple linear regression vs. alternative models
Ian R. Waite, U.S. Geological Survey; Larry R. Brown, U.S. Geological Survey; Jonathan G. Kennen, U.S. Geological Survey; Thomas F. Cuffney, U.S. Geological Survey; Jason T. May, U.S. Geological Survey; James L. Orlando, U.S. Geological Survey; Kimberly A. Jones, Utah Water Science Center, U. S. Geological Survey

10:45 AM

140

Can we predict the presence of benthic diatom species in streams?
Christian Parker, Portland State University; Yangdong Pan, Portland State University; Scott L. Rollins, Spokane Falls Community College

11:00 AM

141

Using a transient storage model to characterize habitat and biological conditions in urban streams of the Pacific Northwest, USA
Robert Black, U. S. Geological Survey; Andrew Gendaszek, U. S. Geological Survey; Christopher P. Konrad, U.S. Geological Survey and The Nature Conservancy

11:15 AM

142

The relative importance of physicochemical stressors in urbanizing streams: Evidence from model selection and multi-model inference
Daren M. Carlisle, National Water-Quality Assessment Program; Wade L. Bryant, US Geological Survey

11:30 AM

143

Application of a bayesian hierarchical regression model to explain multiple trait distributions of lotic insects across environmental gradients
Matthew I. Pyne, Colorado State University; N. LeRoy Poff, Colorado State University; Jennifer A. Hoeting, Colorado State University; Devin Johnson, National Marine Mammal Laboratory

11:45 AM

144

Understanding invertebrate responses to urbanization: The role of multilevel regression models
Thomas F. Cuffney, U.S. Geological Survey; Roxolana Kashuba, Duke University; Song Qian, Duke University; Gerard McMahon, U.S. Geological Survey

12:00 PM

145

The nature and consequences of systematic prediction errors in ecological assessments — or why it is inappropriate to be concerned about mice when there are tigers abroad
Charles P. Hawkins, Utah State University; Nora K. Burbank, Utah State University; Ryan A. Hill, Utah State University; John R. Olson, Utah State University

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