Session: Communities & Ecosystems (AFS 142nd Annual Meeting)

Communities & Ecosystems

Thursday, August 23, 2012: 8:00 AM-12:00 PM

Meeting Room 10 (RiverCentre)

8:00 AM

Th-10-1

Evaluation of Multi-Decadal Changes in the Nekton Community of the Lower Brazos River: Potential Influence of Freshwater Inflow
Alex Miller, University of Houston- Clear Lake; George Guillen, University of Houston- Clear Lake

8:15 AM

Th-10-2

Changing Nutrient Dynamics in the Great Lakes: Testing Assumptions of the Nearshore Phosphorus Shunt Hypothesis Using Long-Term Data Sets
Robert Liva, Oak Ridge Institute for Science and Education; Paris D. Collingsworth, Illinios-Indiana Sea Grant; Glenn Warren, US EPA Great Lakes National Program Office; Eric Osantowski, PhD, U.S. EPA; Elizabeth A. Marschall, The Ohio State University

8:30 AM

Th-10-3

Native Fish Migrations Deliver Subsidies to Great Lakes Tributaries
Evan Childress, University of Wisconsin-Madison; Peter B. McIntyre, University of Wisconsin-Madison; J David Allan, University of Michigan

8:45 AM

Th-10-4

Macroinvertebrate Assemblages Differ in Lakes with and without Gizzard Shad
Jonathan A. Freedman, Illinois Natural History Survey; Matthew J. Diana, Illinois Natural History Survey; David H. Wahl, Illinois Natural History Survey

9:00 AM

Th-10-5

Status of Zander in North Dakota
Gene Van Eeckhout, North Dakota Game and Fish Department

9:15 AM

Th-10-6

Exploring the Consequences of Nest Association Among Freshwater Cyprinds in a Multiple Working Hypotheses Framework
Brandon Peoples, Virginia Tech University; Emmanuel A. Frimpong, Virginia Tech

9:30 AM

Th-10-7

A Fish Index of Biotic Integrity for South Dakota's Northern Glaciated Plains Ecoregion
Jacob Krause, South Dakota State University; Katie Bertrand, South Dakota State University; Arjun Kafle, South Dakota State University; Nels Troelstrup Jr., South Dakota State University

9:45 AM

Th-10-8

Thursday AM Break

10:15 AM

Th-10-9

Historical Changes and Persistence of Fish Assemblages in Iowa's Interior Non-Wadeable Rivers
Timothy Parks, Iowa State University; Michael C. Quist, U.S. Geological Survey, Idaho Cooperative Fish and Wildlife Research Unit; Clay L. Pierce, Iowa Cooperative Fish and Wildlife Research Unit

10:30 AM

Th-10-10

Fish Assemblage Structure in Tributaries to the Little White and Keya Paha Rivers of South Dakota
Eli Felts, South Dakota State University; Katie Bertrand, South Dakota State University

Th-10-11

Population Prioritization for Conservation of Imperiled Warmwater Fishes of the Gila River Basin, Arizona, New Mexico, and Sonora (Withdrawn)

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