Thursday, May 21, 2009: 8:00 AM-10:00 AM
Ambassador East
Special Session - Using Best Available Science to Protect and Restore Aquatic Systems: Integrating Advances in Ecological Theory into Assessment Approaches and Management Applications I
Successful protection and restoration of aquatic systems relies on an ecosystem management approach that integrates best available science into assessment and management applications. With numerous recent advances in our understanding of aquatic ecology, we currently have the potential for developing more effective protection and restoration strategies than ever before. Examples of such advances include recognition that landscape pattern influences ecological processes, the ability to account for hierarchical influences of landscape-level controls (such as climate and land use change) on aquatic systems, the importance of considering impacts across spatial scales, insights into functional organization of aquatic communities, and the subtle but pervasive threat of biotic homogenization in aquatic systems. The goal of this session will be to highlight ways in which such advances in our understanding are actually being integrated into assessment and management approaches. This will not only benefit researchers hoping for their work to improve opportunities for protecting and restoring aquatic systems, it will provide managers with ideas into new developments and approaches that could enhance their efforts.
Moderators:Dana Infante
Li Wang
8:00 AM Introductory Remarks
8:15 AM496Causal inference in environmental science: Applying the scientific method to building evidence from the literature
Richard H. Norris, Susan J. Nichols
8:30 AM497A river valley segment classification of Michigan streams based on fish and physical attributes
Travis Brenden, Lizhu Wang, Paul W. Seelbach
8:45 AM498A flexible, multi-scale lotic habitat classification system for the Great Lakes
James E. McKenna Jr., Jana S. Stewart, Jeffery Schaeffer
9:00 AM499Freshwater ecosystem classification for landscape-scale management
Kendra Spence Cheruvelil, Patricia A. Soranno, Mary T. Bremigan, Katherine E. Webster, Tyler Wagner, Craig A. Stow
9:15 AM500Framework for classification of Michigan lakes
Jim Breck, Lidia, S. Kraft, Lizhu Wang, Kevin E. Wehrly
9:30 AM501Development of landscape-based fishery classifications for Michigan inland lakes
Kevin E. Wehrly, Lizhu Wang, Jim Breck, Lidia, S. Kraft
Sponsor:Special Sessions

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