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Session 19 (Contributed)
Tuesday, June 6, 8:00 AM-9:45 AM, Egan 13
Moderator: A.S. Flecker

8:00 (120) Landscape characteristics and Pacific salmon: Consistent patterns across watersheds and their management applications.
E.A. Steel¹, B.E. Feist¹, G.R. Pess¹, D. Jensen¹, M.B. Sheer¹, and R.E. Bilby². ¹NW Fisheries Science Center, NOAA Fisheries, 2725 Montlake Blvd East, Seattle, WA 98112, ²Weyerhaeuser Company, CH 1K35C, PO Box 9777, Federal Way, WA 98063

8:15 (121) Evaluating scale, resolution, and habitat metric choices for monitoring Steelhead salmon in the Pacific Northwest .
C.J. Volk, S Rentmeester, and C.E. Jordan. Northwest Fisheries Science Center, NOAA-Fisheries, Seattle, Washington, U.S.A. 98112

8:30 (122) Exploring hierarchical and scalar effects of watershed variables on riverine biota.
S.M.P. Sullivan¹, J.H. Braatne¹, M.C. Watzin², W.C. Hession³, and C.M. Cianfrani⁴. ¹Department of Fish and Wildlife Resources, University of Idaho, Moscow, ID 83844-1136, ²School of Natural Resources, University of Vermont, Burlington, VT 05401, ³Biological Systems Engineering, Virginia Tech, Blacksburg, VA 24061, ⁴School of Natural Science, Hampshire College, Amherst, MA 01002

8:45 (123) Patterns of nitrate loading and removal in stream networks: An interbiome comparison.
A.M. Helton¹, G.C. Poole^1,2, J.L. Meyer¹, C.P. Arango³, L.R. Ashkenas⁴, C.N. Dahm⁵, W.K. Dodds⁶, S.V. Gregory⁴, N.B. Grimm⁷, R.O. Hall⁸, S.H. Hamilton⁹, S.L. Johnson¹⁰, W.H. McDowell¹¹, P.J. Mulholland¹², B.J. Peterson¹³, J.L. Tank³, H.M. Valett¹⁴, and J.R. Webster¹⁴. ¹Institute of Ecology, University of Georgia, Athens GA 30602, ²Eco-Metrics, Inc., Tucker, GA 30084, ³Department of Biological Sciences, University of Notre Dame, Notre Dame, IN 46556, ⁴Department of Fisheries and Wildlife, Oregon State University, Corvallis, OR 97331, ⁵Department of Biology, University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, NM 87131, ⁶Divison of Biology, Kansas State University, Manhattan, KS 66506, ⁷School of Life Sciences, Arizona State University, Tempe, AZ 85287, ⁸Department of Zoology and Physiology, University of Wyoming, Laramie, WY 82071, ⁹Department of Zoology, Michigan State University, Hickory Corners, MI 49060, ¹⁰United States Forest Service Pacific Northwest Research Station, Corvallis, OR 97331, ¹¹Department of Natural Resources, University of New Hampshire, Durham, NH 03824, ¹²Environmental Sciences Division, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Oak Ridge, TN 37831, ¹³Ecosystems Center, Marine Biological Laboratory, Woods Hole, MA 02543, ¹⁴Department of Biological Sciences, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, Blacksburg, VA 24061

9:00 (124) Examining the Effects of Changing Land Use on Biological Integrity using GIS and Statistical Modeling. .
M.A. Goddard, J.W. Pike, and W.R. English. Clemson University

9:15 (125) Land use impacts on springhead ecotones.
M.R. Scarsbrook¹, J. Barquin Ortiz^1,2, and K.J. Collier^1,3. ¹National Institute of Water & Atmospheric Research, PO Box 11-115, Hamilton, New Zealand, ²Depto. Ciencias y Technicas del Aqua y del Medio Ambiente, Universidad de Cantabria, Santander, Spain, ³Environment Waikato, PO Box 4010, Hamilton, New Zealand

9:30 (126) The utilization of lake-derived nitrogen by the outlet stream communities of two fertilized lakes in the Alaskan arctic.
K. Fortino¹, M. Keyse², A.E. Hershey², and S.R. Beaty³. ¹Environmental Science and Engineering, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, ²Department of Biology, University of North Carolina Greensboro, ³Biological Assessment Unit, North Carolina Division of Water Quality