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Monday, August 7

1:30 PM

Organic carbon storage change in China’s urban landfills from 1978 to 2014
Shidong Ge
Contributed Talks, room E146

1:50 PM

Urban greenspace design influences the taxonomic and functional composition of ground-dwelling beetle communities
Yvan A. Delgado
Contributed Talks, room E146

1:50 PM

What controls native plant regeneration in urban forest restoration?
Kiri Joy Wallace
Contributed Talks, room B115

2:10 PM

Homogenization of vegetation structure across US residential neighborhoods: Effects of climate, urban morphology, and socio-economics
Alessandro Ossola
Contributed Talks, room E146

2:10 PM

To irrigate or not: Understanding the impact of drought on Los Angeles’ urban forests through historical satellite data
Andrew Marx
Contributed Talks, room B114

2:30 PM

Assessing urban aquatic services in the face of climate-driven extreme events
Nancy Grimm
Symposia, room Portland Blrm 251

2:50 PM

Exotic trees contribute to urban forest diversity and ecosystem services in inner-city Cleveland, OH
Christopher B. Riley
Contributed Talks, room E146

3:20 PM

Sloths in the city: Unexpectedly high density of pale-throated three-toed sloths (Bradypus tridactylus) found in an urban forest patch in Paramaribo, Suriname
George Middendorf
Contributed Talks, room E146

3:20 PM

Community composition of forage fish in the littoral zone of Florida urban ponds
Laura K. Solinger
Contributed Talks, room B116

4:00 PM

Human diversity and nearby nature: Serving the changing urban realm
Charles H. Nilon
Organized Oral Sessions, room Portland Blrm 254

4:00 PM

Impacts of urban land-use on ecosystem services and management implications
Feng Li
Contributed Talks, room E146

4:20 PM

Impact of native plant restoration in urban yards on arthropod and bird abundance in Portland, Oregon
Marion Dresner
Contributed Talks, room E146

4:30 PM

Characterization of soil phosphorus and its potential for mobilization following drying and flooding in urban stormwater bioretention facilities
Benjamin J Shetterly
Contributed Posters, room Exhibit Hall

4:40 PM

Design strategies to promote ecosystem services in urban landscapes
Heather L. Bass
Contributed Talks, room E146

Tuesday, August 8

8:00 AM

The vertical structure of urban soils
Dustin L. Herrmann
Contributed Talks, room E146

8:20 AM

Urban pollinators and ecosystem service flow to adjacent agricultural systems
Gail Langellotto
Organized Oral Sessions, room Portland Blrm 257

8:20 AM

Dimensions of urban tree biodiversity are inversely related across continental-scale climate gradients
Julie Ripplinger
Contributed Talks, room E146

8:40 AM

Population density and thermal stress in an urban salamander population near its southern range edge
Lily M. Thompson
Contributed Talks, room D131

8:40 AM

A functional approach to understanding patterns of bee species distribution across an urban environment
Paige A. Muñiz
Contributed Talks, room E146

9:00 AM

Increasing biodiversity in designed urban green spaces through simple vegetation interventions
Nicholas S. G. Williams
Organized Oral Sessions, room Portland Blrm 257

9:20 AM

Beyond interception: Hydrological ecosystem services of urban street trees for cooling runoff
Kevan B Moffett
Contributed Talks, room B112

9:50 AM

Drivers of ecoystem services in urban spontaneous vegetation
Jeremy Lundholm
Organized Oral Sessions, room Portland Blrm 257

10:10 AM

Urban microclimate influences dengue dynamics in the invasive mosquito, Aedes albopictus
Michelle V. Evans
Contributed Talks, room D137

10:10 AM

Urban microclimate influences dengue dynamics in the invasive mosquito, Aedes albopictus
Michelle V. Evans
Contributed Talks, room D137

10:10 AM

Denitrification potential in urban green stormwater infrastructure
Erin N. Looper
Contributed Talks, room E146

10:30 AM

Ecohydrology Toolbox: Understanding stormwater management structures as miniature urban ecosystems
Caitlin G. Eger
Contributed Talks, room E146

10:50 AM

Will green roofs foster or deter global urban homogenization?
Olyssa Starry
Organized Oral Sessions, room Portland Blrm 257

10:50 AM

Connecting ecosystem services of urban forest canopies and socioeconomic status in a semi-arid city
Mitchell Pavao-Zuckerman
Contributed Talks, room E146

11:10 AM

Riparian plant communities in human-dominated landscapes: Evidence of resilience, invasion, and management drivers across urban and agricultural land uses in California’s Central Valley
Alex J. Webster
Contributed Talks, room E146

11:10 AM

Hosts as landscapes: Ticks are distributed differently on long nosed bandicoots and black rats along the peri-urban fringe
Henry W. Lydecker
Contributed Talks, room E147-148

11:10 AM

Hosts as landscapes: Ticks are distributed differently on long nosed bandicoots and black rats along the peri-urban fringe
Henry W. Lydecker
Contributed Talks, room E147-148

1:30 PM

Urban blues: Both oscine and non-oscine birds adjust their songs in noisy cities
Caroline Dingle
Contributed Talks, room E146

1:30 PM

Takin’ it to the streets: Morpho-physiological acclimation of urban trees
Bert Cregg
Ignite-style, room C124

1:30 PM

Water use and drought sensitivity of urban trees in water limited regions and conditions
Heather R. McCarthy
Ignite-style, room C124

1:30 PM

Habitat- and trait-based selection to identify alternative urban tree species
Christopher Szota
Ignite-style, room C124

1:30 PM

A macroecology of urban trees
G. Darrel Jenerette
Ignite-style, room C124

1:50 PM

Testing Holling’s Textural-Discontinuity Hypothesis along an urban gradient
Sara A. Gagné
Contributed Talks, room E146

2:10 PM

Future urban sustainability and resilience in Valdivia, Chile: Assessing social-ecological-technological scenarios with ecosystem services
Elizabeth M. Cook
Contributed Talks, room E146

2:30 PM

The uneven effects of urbanity on wild bee populations: The importance of functional groups in determining wild bee responses to urban development
Paul R Glaum
Contributed Talks, room E146

3:20 PM

Leaf hydraulic vulnerability influences sapflow responses to vapor pressure deficit in Los Angeles urban trees
Grace P. John
Contributed Talks, room D138

3:40 PM

Urban ecology research mentoring experiences can broaden participation in the ecological sciences
Jason M. Aloisio
Contributed Talks, room E146

4:20 PM

“Re-oaking” in Silicon Valley: Can restoring lost ecosystems to urban green spaces benefit biodiversity?
Erica N. Spotswood
Contributed Talks, room E146

4:30 PM

Contrasting water relations in two frequently occurring urban street trees
Sasha W. Eisenman
Contributed Posters, room Exhibit Hall

4:30 PM

One Swallow Does Not an Ecosystem Make: Using Avian Diversity to Guide Urban Forest Management
Noah Blumenthal
Contributed Posters, room Exhibit Hall

4:30 PM

Barriers to urban forest recruitment: Seed predator preference and removal rates
Max R. Piana
Contributed Posters, room Exhibit Hall

4:30 PM

Decadal resistance and resilience of the Los Angeles urban forest in response to drought and temperature stress
Dion C. Kucera
Contributed Posters, room Exhibit Hall

4:30 PM

How to: a guide to urban ecology research on private property
Karen L. Dyson
Contributed Posters, room Exhibit Hall

4:30 PM

Assessment of the impact of an exotic snail on epilithic communities in a subtropical urban stream
Juleyska Vázquez-Cardona
Contributed Posters, room Exhibit Hall

4:30 PM

Monitoring biodiversity at the edge of the urban growth boundary
Valance E. F. Brenneis
Contributed Posters, room Exhibit Hall

4:30 PM

Biophysical parameters and tree canopy cover across an urban suburban gradient: Patterns and relationships to prolonged drought
Tracy L. Benning
Contributed Posters, room Exhibit Hall

4:30 PM

Fine-scale urban vegetation patterns shape airborne microbial community composition
Gwynne Mhuireach
Contributed Posters, room Exhibit Hall

4:30 PM

Fine-scale urban vegetation patterns shape airborne microbial community composition
Gwynne Mhuireach
Contributed Posters, room Exhibit Hall

4:30 PM

The role of anthropogenic food sources in the diets of urban raccoons (Procyon lotor) and Virginia opossums (Didelphis virginiana) in the Pacific Northwest
Mairan Smith
Contributed Posters, room Exhibit Hall

4:30 PM

Examining Amphibian Diversity in Exurban Landscape: Can Residents Bolster Local Amphibian Populations?
Aura Y. Muñiz
Contributed Posters, room Exhibit Hall

4:30 PM

Using a Bird feeder Network to Characterize Bird Diversity Across a Suburban University Campus
Troy Ellick
Contributed Posters, room Exhibit Hall

4:30 PM

Linking stormwater BMP implementation to resident socioeconomic status, knowledge, and attitudes in two suburban watersheds
P. Kanoko Maeda
Contributed Posters, room Exhibit Hall

4:30 PM

A pilot project to assess street tree condition and diversity in suburban New Jersey
Dirk Vanderklein
Contributed Posters, room Exhibit Hall

4:30 PM

Arthropods community structure in dead woods: urban fragments and mature large forests
Satoshi Miyazaki
Contributed Posters, room Exhibit Hall

4:30 PM

Effects of stormwater and wastewater on diversity of benthic macroinvertebrates and heavy metal transfer in urban stream food webs
Bin Zhu
Contributed Posters, room Exhibit Hall

4:30 PM

Urban water quality and bacterial loading in the South Platte River
Emily Mullins
Contributed Posters, room Exhibit Hall

4:30 PM

From Rochester to Malmö: An international cross-institutional urban ecology course
Elizabeth N. Hane
Contributed Posters, room Exhibit Hall

4:30 PM

Unlocking the potential functions of urban soil microbial communities
Dietrich Epp Schmidt
Contributed Posters, room Exhibit Hall

4:30 PM

Does land cover predict avian nest box occupancy across a suburban campus?
Laura Stark
Contributed Posters, room Exhibit Hall

4:30 PM

A comparative study of urban expansion in six megacities of China over the past four decades
Weicheng Fei
Contributed Posters, room Exhibit Hall

4:30 PM

Ecological ramifications of the foreclosure crisis on urban arthropod communities
Riley Andrade
Contributed Posters, room Exhibit Hall

4:30 PM

Study on the Green Infrastructure for multifunctional use of open space in urban area
Shiori Takahashi
Contributed Posters, room Exhibit Hall

4:30 PM

Acer rubrum L. physiological and biochemical response to urbanization and plant invasion in urban forest fragments
Covel R. McDermot
Contributed Posters, room Exhibit Hall

Wednesday, August 9

8:00 AM

Socio-ecological feedbacks affecting bee diversity in urban farms and community gardens
Gerardo R. Camilo
Organized Oral Sessions, room Portland Blrm 253

8:00 AM

Ruderal strategists and generalist dispersers in a novel urban hardscape habitat
Lauren J. Frazee
Contributed Talks, room C125-126

8:00 AM

Landscape and host individual-to-community level predictors of zoonotic pathogen infection in urban rodents
Anna C Peterson
Contributed Talks, room D137

8:20 AM

Bee community structure across urban prairie fragments and gardens
Shalene Jha
Organized Oral Sessions, room Portland Blrm 253

8:20 AM

Identifying the proccessess that drive native plant community assembly patterns in urban habitats
Dorothy Borowy
Organized Oral Sessions, room Portland Blrm 255

8:20 AM

Urban agriculture supports diverse wild bee communities in Detroit, St. Louis and Chicago: A social science and ecological approach
Rebecca K. Tonietto
Contributed Talks, room E146

8:40 AM

Is the future of cities green? Historical perspectives on urban greening reveal priorities for landscape management
Dieter F. Hochuli
Contributed Talks, room E146

9:00 AM

Temporal changes in leaf area index within an urban brownfield
Frank Gallagher
Contributed Talks, room B112

9:00 AM

Effects of extreme climate on suites of functional traits in the urban forest of Southern California
Peter Ibsen
Contributed Talks, room C125-126

9:20 AM

The independent and interactive effects of plant functional and phylogenetic diversity on urban ecosystem services
Anna L. Johnson
Organized Oral Sessions, room Portland Blrm 255

9:50 AM

Herbivore regulation in urban community gardens: Direct and indirect pathways of control
Heidi Liere
Organized Oral Sessions, room Portland Blrm 253

10:10 AM

Restoring coastal marshes: How can we recover nitrogen-removal services in urban estuaries?
Mary Alldred
Contributed Talks, room B115

10:10 AM

Functional and phylogenetic structure of urban wild bee communities
Garland Xie
Contributed Talks, room E146

10:10 AM

Conservation of sacred groves of the Western Ghats: Contrast in perception among rural and urban neighborhood communities
U. Prashanth Ballulaya
Contributed Talks, room E145

10:30 AM

The effect of local and landscape scale land cover on microclimate and water use in urban gardens
Brenda B. Lin
Organized Oral Sessions, room Portland Blrm 253

10:50 AM

Developing a longitudinal research design for assessing the social, ecological, and health and dietary impacts of urban agriculture in a low-income community in Greater Providence, RI
John R. Taylor
Organized Oral Sessions, room Portland Blrm 253

11:10 AM

Urban agroecology and assessing resiliency of urban farms in the San Francisco Bay Area
Joshua Arnold
Organized Oral Sessions, room Portland Blrm 253

11:10 AM

Restoration of Pope Branch: Aquatic and wetland habitat improvements, parkland enhancement, and infrastructure protection in an urban watershed
Joe Berg
Contributed Talks, room B115

1:30 PM

Contrasting activity times and habitat use of Virginia opossums (Didelphis virginiana) and raccoons (Procyon lotor) in urban natural areas
Mark J. Jordan
Contributed Talks, room E146

1:50 PM

Valuation and management of vacant lots in urban ecosystems
Christine C. Rega-Brodsky
Contributed Talks, room E146

1:50 PM

Urban infrastructure drives aquatic bacterial communities
Erin F. Jones
Contributed Talks, room C120-121

2:10 PM

Quantifying nutrient recycling and loss in urban agriculture
Gaston E. Small
Contributed Talks, room E146

2:30 PM

Fluxes of N2O and N2 gas from urban crow-roost sites and non-roost sites
Weixing Zhu
Contributed Talks, room D132

2:50 PM

Urban trees: What do we know about the services they provide?
Heikki Setälä
Organized Oral Sessions, room Portland Blrm 256

2:50 PM

Human-ignited fires at the wildland-urban interface: Consequences and costs
Nathan Mietkiewicz
Contributed Talks, room B116

2:50 PM

The role of urban forests in mediating the impacts of climate change: Heat waves and vulnerable populations
Vivek Shandas
Contributed Talks, room E146

2:50 PM

Theory and application in urban mosquito ecology: Managing a new landscape of risk
Shannon L. LaDeau
Contributed Talks, room E141

3:20 PM

Ecological engagement determines ecosystem service valuation: A case study from Rouge National Urban Park in Toronto, Canada
Stuart W. Livingstone
Contributed Talks, room B110-111

3:20 PM

Antibiotic resistance genes in an urban stream
Alescia Roberto
Contributed Talks, room C120-121

3:40 PM

Linking landscape structure, biodiversity, and ecosystem services in urban and agricultural landscapes
Matthew G.E. Mitchell
Organized Oral Sessions, room D136

4:00 PM

Drainage network structure, urban development, and data limitations in cities
Christopher J. Nytch
Contributed Talks, room E146

4:20 PM

Urban forest in deep time: An urban landscape develops over seventy-five years
Glenn R. Matlack
Contributed Talks, room E146

4:30 PM

Rebuilding Indy urban agriculture from the ground up: Effects of agricultural methods on heavy metals, nutrients, and soil physical characteristics
Sean T. Berthrong
Contributed Posters, room Exhibit Hall

4:30 PM

Winter soil respiration varies across mountain to urban transitions
Kerri A. Russell
Contributed Posters, room Exhibit Hall

4:30 PM

Capturing rapid changes in water quality with high frequency networks across mountain to urban transitions
Andrew B. Gabel
Contributed Posters, room Exhibit Hall

Thursday, August 10

9:00 AM

Contrasting nitrogen and phosphorus retention in urban watersheds
Sarah E. Hobbie
Contributed Talks, room E142

10:40 AM

An interdisciplinary human and ecological health approach to revitalising urban slums
Rebekah Brown
Symposia, room Portland Blrm 252

11:10 AM

Movement in the matrix: Ladybeetle dispersal in an urban agricultural landscape
Monika Egerer
Contributed Talks, room C122

1:30 PM

From frontier science to textbook science: Articulating a new vision for urban ecology
Sharon Kingsland
Symposia, room Portland Blrm 251

1:30 PM

Urban landscapes can slow viral spread and evolution in a fragmentation-sensitive carnivore
Scott Carver
Contributed Talks, room D137

1:50 PM

Seed deposition in urban riparian forests: The role of streams in passive restoration
Christa von Behren
Contributed Talks, room B115

1:50 PM

Colony development and reproductive success of bumblebees in an urban gradient
Chatura Vaidya
Contributed Talks, room C125-126

1:50 PM

The role of identity and community in urban ecological restoration programs
Amanda E Sorensen
Contributed Talks, room B110-111

2:00 PM

Streams are not pipes: The expected and unexpected relationships between streams, watersheds, and urban dynamics
Peter M. Groffman
Symposia, room Portland Blrm 251

3:40 PM

Long term urban ecological change: Slow-rates, lags, and legacies
Daniel L. Childers
Symposia, room Portland Blrm 251

4:10 PM

Future directions for urban ecology and the essential role of long term, social-ecological research
Lucy R. Hutyra
Symposia, room Portland Blrm 251

4:30 PM

Shared pollinators drive interactions between intentional urban plants and wild remnant plant populations
Andrea M. Fetters
Contributed Posters, room Exhibit Hall

4:30 PM

Foraging patters of bark foraging birds in response to an emerald ash borer (Agrilus planipennis) outbreak in suburban Saint Paul, Minnesota
Dale J. Gentry
Contributed Posters, room Exhibit Hall

4:30 PM

Pollination in the city: Restored native species interact with spontaneous urban weeds via pollen transfer in vacant lots
M. Stefan Poost
Contributed Posters, room Exhibit Hall

4:30 PM

Bumblee bee pollen abundance and richness along a urban garden management gradient
Stacy M. Philpott
Contributed Posters, room Exhibit Hall

4:30 PM

This town ain’t big enough for the two of us… or is it? Interaction between exotic and native species in an urban reserve
Israel Solano-Zavaleta
Contributed Posters, room Exhibit Hall

Friday, August 11

8:00 AM

Reinventing urban ecosystems through designed experiments
Alexander J. Felson
Organized Oral Sessions, room Portland Blrm 255

8:20 AM

Developing climate change-adaptive species palettes for urban forests restoration
Helen M. Forgione
Organized Oral Sessions, room Portland Blrm 255

8:30 AM

Role of environmental filters in the restoration of degraded peri-urban ecosystems
Pawel Waryszak
Latebreaking Posters, room Exhibit Hall

8:30 AM

Survival and cover distribution of sedum species on an urban green roof in the Rocky Mountain region
Christopher G. Meloche
Latebreaking Posters, room Exhibit Hall

8:30 AM

The Urban Biodiversity Inventory Framework
Jalene Littlejohn
Latebreaking Posters, room Exhibit Hall

8:30 AM

Assessment of the current state of the field of urban ecology and its alignment with the information needs of municipal sustainability workers
Michael L. Simeon
Latebreaking Posters, room Exhibit Hall

8:30 AM

Idiosyncrasies in cities: Challenging the assumptions of biodiversity loss in urban environments
Abe Perez
Latebreaking Posters, room Exhibit Hall

8:30 AM

What Characterizes a Healthy Wetland in an Urban Environment?
Melanie Rathburn
Latebreaking Posters, room Exhibit Hall

8:30 AM

Assessing the nutrient imbalance from compost application in urban agriculture
Katherine R. Connelly
Latebreaking Posters, room Exhibit Hall

8:30 AM

Variation of urban radiation reduction due to urban vegetation expansion
Chae Yeon Park
Latebreaking Posters, room Exhibit Hall

8:30 AM

Long-term ecological research in Forest Park, Portland, Oregon: Investigating urban impacts to forest structure and productivity
Andrew D. Addessi
Latebreaking Posters, room Exhibit Hall

8:30 AM

Urban soils a possible carbon source via increases in respiration rates due to intensive management practices
Carl Rosier
Latebreaking Posters, room Exhibit Hall

8:30 AM

Impact of invasive dog-strangling vine on urban plant-pollinator networks
Adriano Nicola Roberto
Latebreaking Posters, room Exhibit Hall

9:20 AM

Backyard habitats: How yard management decisions influence urban wildlife
Susannah B. Lerman
Organized Oral Sessions, room Portland Blrm 255

9:50 AM

Intrinsic and extrinsic drivers of yard vegetation in urban residential areas: Implications for conservation planning
Elvia Melendez-Ackerman
Organized Oral Sessions, room Portland Blrm 255

10:10 AM

Before, during, and after: The role of plant invasion in urban forests
Vincent D’Amico
Organized Oral Sessions, room Portland Blrm 255

10:50 AM

Ecophysiology of white oaks and red maples in urban forest patches
Nancy F. Sonti
Organized Oral Sessions, room Portland Blrm 255

11:10 AM

Dynamic vegetation: Succession and invasive species in urban woodlands under restoration
Lea Johnson
Organized Oral Sessions, room Portland Blrm 255