Land/Water Interfaces I

Session 35 (Contributed)
Friday, May 31, 1:00 PM-2:45 PM, Westmoreland
Moderator: Kiffney, P.M.

1:00 (236) REDUCTIONS IN SUSPENDED ORGANIC MATTER RELATED TO RIPARIAN BUFFER WIDTH.
P.M. Kiffney¹ and J.S. Richardson². ¹Northwest Fisheries Science Center, National Marine Fisheries Service, Seattle, WA 98112, ²Department of Forest Sciences, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada V6T 1Z4

1:15 (237) DOES CHEMICAL DIVERSITY OF TREES INFLUENCE AQUATIC DECOMPOSITION PROCESSES?
K.M. Wantzen and R. Suetfeld. Max-Planck-Instute of Limnology, Tropical Ecology Working Group, POBox 165, Ploen, 24302, Germany

1:30 (238) INFLUENCE OF FLOODING ON NUTRIENT CONTENT OF RIPARIAN COTTONWOOD LEAVES ALONG THE MIDDLE RIO GRANDE: IMPLICATIONS TO DETRITIVORE NUTRITION AND RIPARIAN NUTRIENT CYCLING.
T.M. Tibbets, M.C. Molles, and C.N. Dahm. Department of Biology, University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, NM 87131

1:45 (239) NUTRIENT DYNAMICS OF FLOODPLAIN WATER BODIES FOLLOWING INUNDATION ON THE WISCONSIN RIVER FLOODPLAIN.
K.J. Forshay and E.H. Stanley. University of Wisconsin, Madison, Center for Limnology, Madison, Wisconsin

2:00 (240) FLOODPLAIN PRODUCTIVITY IN SPRING BROOKS: NUTRIENTS, ALGAE, MACROINVERTEBRATES, AND FISH.
E.B. Snyder¹, J.A. Chaffin², D. Whited¹, J.A. Stanford¹, D.J. Eitemiller³, and C.P. Arango³. ¹Flathead Lake Biological Station, The University of Montana, Polson, MT 59860, ²Department of Biology, Virgina Tech, Blacksburg, VA 24061, ³Department of Geography and Land Studies, Central Washington University, Ellensburg, WA 98926

2:15 (241) ORGANIC MATTER DYNAMICS ACROSS A GRADIENT OF CHANNEL STABILITY IN A GLACIAL FLOODPLAIN OF THE ALPS.
U. Uehlinger¹, R. Zah², K. Tockner¹, and J.V. Ward¹. ¹Department of Limnology, EAWAG/ETH, Dübendorf, Switzerland, ²Department Sustainability in the Information Society, EMPA, St. Gallen, Switzerland

2:30 (242) USING GIS-BASED HYDROLOGIC MODELS TO PREDICT RIPARIAN CHARACTER AND FOREST COMPOSITION ACROSS LOWER MICHIGAN.
M.E. Baker¹, M.J. Wiley¹, and P.W. Seelbach². ¹School of Natural Resources and Environment, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI 48109-1115, ²Institute for Fisheries Research, Michigan Department of Natural Resources, Ann Arbor, MI 48109