Session: Special Session - Using Best Available Science to Protect and Restore Aquatic Systems: Integrating Advances in Ecological Theory into Assessment Approaches and Management Applications III


Thursday, May 21, 2009: 1:30 PM-3:15 PM
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 III

Moderators:	Dana Infante Li Wang
1:30 PM	577	Decision support tools for Michigan's inland waters Troy G. Zorn, Todd C. Wills, Kevin E. Wehrly
1:45 PM	578	Volunteer monitoring data: An untapped resource for large-scale assessments and ecosystem management Jo A. Latimore
2:00 PM	579	An evaluation of the validity of fish species richness estimates from species distribution models Peter Esselman
2:15 PM	580	A biodiversity conservation strategy for Lake Huron Patrick Doran, Greg Mayne, Jennifer Read, Amy Derosier, Audrey Lapenna, Dan Kraus, Barb Barton
2:30 PM	581	A sustainable approach to water use in Southwest Michigan's Paw Paw River Watershed Matt Herbert, Patrick Doran, John Legge, Scott Sowa, Jeremiah Asher, Jon Bartholic, Glenn O'Neil
2:45 PM	582	Conserving critical ecosystem linkages: Native fish migrations in Great Lakes watersheds Peter B. McIntyre, J. David Allan
3:00 PM	583	Aquatic plants out of water: Implications of desiccation tolerance for predicting invasiveness Matthew A. Barnes, Christopher L. Jerde, Anna Noveroske, Elise K. DeBuysser, W. Lindsay Chadderton, David M. Lodge
Sponsor:	Special Sessions