Disturbance Ecology

Session 167 (Poster)
Thursday, May 29, 3:30 PM-5:30 PM, Grand Hall

(469) Benthic community recovery from drought in small piedmont streams: does hydrologic permanence matter?
A.M. Díaz¹, K.M. Fritz², and J.W. Feminella². ¹Department of Ecology and Hydrology, University of Murcia, Spain, ²Department of Biological Sciences, Auburn University, Auburn, AL 36849-5407

(470) Harshness: characterization of intermittent stream habitat over space and time.
K.M. Fritz¹ and W.K. Dodds². ¹Ecosystems Research Branch, National Exposure Research Laboratory, US Environmental Protection Agency, Cincinnati, OH 45268, ²Division of Biology, Kansas State University, Manhattan, KS 66506

(471) The influence of flow impedence and river regulation on the distribution of riverine macroinvertebrates at Mammoth Cave National Park, Kentucky, U.S.A.
S.A. Grubbs¹ and J.M. Taylor². ¹Center for Biodiversity Studies, Western Kentucky University, Bowling Green, KY 42101, ²The Nature Conservancy, Dublin, OH 43017

(472) The role of local disturbance history for benthic stream algae and bacteriae.
G. Sigl¹. ¹Department Biology II, Aquatic Ecology, Ludwig-Maximilians-University Munich, Karlstr. 23-25, 80333 München, ²Department of Zoology, University of Otago, P.O. Box 56, Dunedin, New Zealand

(473) Effect of open-lake dredge spoil disposal on benthic macroinvertebrates of western Lake Erie.
K.A. Krieger. Water Quality Laboratory, Heidelberg College, Tiffin, Ohio, USA 44883

(474) Impacts of wildfire and post-fire flash floods on benthic macroinvertebrate communities in a burned stream.
K.A. Mitchell, N.K.M. Vieira, and W.H. Clements. Department of Fishery and Wildlife Biology, Colorado State University, Fort Collins, Colorado, United States 80523-1474

(475) A community comparison and recolonization study of hardwood versus pine barren streams .
T.B. Mihuc, D. Welch, J. Owens, M. Riters, and A. Shannon. Lake Champlain Research Institute, Plattsburgh State University of New York, Plattsburgh, NY 12901

(476) Effects of fine sediment inputs from a logging road on stream insect communities.
D.P. Kreutzweiser, S.S. Capell, and K.P. Good. Canadian Forest Service, Natural Resources Canada, Sault Ste. Marie, Ontario, Canada P6A 2E5

(477) Thermal recovery of headwater streams below clearcuts.
E.B. Scordo and B.A. Heise. Department of Natural Resource Sciences, University College of the Cariboo, Kamloops, British Columbia, Canada V2C 5N3

(478) Response of water quality and macroinvertebrate communities to forest harvests in small watersheds of the Catskill Mountains, New York, USA.
B.P. Baldigo¹, P.S. Murdoch¹, and G. Lester². ¹US Geological Survey, 425 Jordan Rd., Troy, NY, USA 12180, ²Ecoanalysts, Inc., 105 East 2nd St., Moscow, ID, USA 83843

(479) The effect of deforestation on stream nutrient concentrations at Lake Tanganyika, East Africa.
B. Caruso¹ and C.M. O'Reilly². ¹Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences, Wesleyan University, Middletown, CT 06459, ²Environmental Science Program, Department of Biology, Vassar College, Poughkeepsie NY 12604

(480) Crevice size, algal colonization, and disturbance: a field test.
E.A. Bergey. Oklahoma Biological Survey and Department of Zoology, University of Oklahoma, Norman, OK 73019

(481) Short-term effects of antimycin and rotenone on invertebrates in first order, high elevation streams.
K.M. Cerreto¹, R.O. Hall, Jr.¹, and H. Sexauer². ¹Department of Zoology & Physiology, University of Wyoming, Laramie, WY 82070, ²Wyoming Game & Fish Department, Region 1, Pinedale, WY 82941