Poster Presentation Sessions - 2009

All poster presentations take place on Wednesday, February 24th. Posters will be on display throughout the day in the North Ballroom (second floor of the Lory Student Center). Presenters will be available to answer questions from 2:30-4:00pm. For detailed abstract information, click on the Submitted_Abstracts page. Presenters, please check the Guidelines_for_Presenters page for information on displaying your poster.

Poster Presentations

2:30-4:00PM (North Ballroom)


(1)

RANGELAND MANAGERS’ KNOWLEDGE, ATTITUDES, AND MANAGEMENT PRACTICES REGARDING BROMUS TECTORUM (CHEATGRASS)
- Windy Kelley, Colorado State University, Graduate

(2)

AUTO-INHIBITION OF SEED GERMINATION BY INVASIVE ACROPTILON REPENS (RUSSIAN KNAPWEED)
- Thomas A. Grant, Colorado State University, Graduate

(3)

LANDSCAPE SCALE CONSTRAINTS ON CONVERSION OF A SAGEBRUSH STEPPE ECOSYSTEM TO AN ANNUAL GRASS DOMINATED STABLE STATE IN SOUTHEASTERN WYOMING
- Marques Munis, Colorado State University, Graduate

(4)

USING NATIVE ANNUAL PLANT SPECIES TO SUPPRESS WEEDY INVASIVE SPECIES IN POST-FIRE HABITATS
- Christopher Herron, Colorado State University, Graduate

(5)

AN ECOLOGICAL ASSESSMENT OF CORE AND EDGE POPULATIONS OF TWO DOMINANT GREAT PLANS GRASSES: IMPLICATION FOR CLIMATE CHANGE
- Amanda Lease, Colorado State University, Graduate

(6)

CLIMATE CHANGE AND GRAZING EFFECTS ON THE TIBETAN PLATEAU
- Kelly Hopping, Colorado State University, Graduate

(7)

RESPONSE OF NATIVE PHREATOPHYTES TO CHANGING HYDROCLIMATE IN THE SAN LUIS VALLEY, COLORADO
- Julie Kray, Colorado State University, Graduate

(8)

IMPACTS OF CLIMATE ON PHENOLOGY AND DEMOGRAPHY OF A WHITE-TAILED PTARMIGAN POPULATION IN COLORADO, USA
- Greg Wann, Colorado State University, Graduate

(9)

DESCRIBING ECOSYSTEM SHIFTS IN RANGELANDS USING DATA-DRIVEN STATE AND TRANSITION MODELS
- Emily Kachergis, Colorado State University, Graduate

(10)

ESTABLISHING NATIVE PLANTS ON ABANDONED FARMLAND AT RABBIT MOUNTAIN OPEN SPACE
- Richard Lancaster, Colorado State University, Graduate

(11)

COMMUNITY-BASED URBAN RESTORATION IN RIPARIAN CORRIDORS:AN EXAMINATION OF SOCIAL CAPITAL AND COMMUNICATION PROCESSES
- Cara DiEnno, Colorado State University, Graduate

(12)

SEEDLDING ESTABLISHMENT FOLLOWING MOUNTAIN PINE BEETLE INFESTATION AND FOREST HARVESTING
- Byron Collins, Colorado State University, Graduate

(13)

POST-DISPERSAL SEED FATE OF TROPICAL MONTANE TREES IN AN AGRICULTURAL LANDSCAPE, SOUTHERN COSTA RICA
- Rebecca Cole, University of California – Santa Cruz, Graduate

(14)

LONG-TERM PLANT SUCCESSION FOLLOWING A SEVERE DISTURBANCE IN RESPONSE TO SEEDING, SOIL FUMIGATION, NITROGEN IMMOBILIZATION, AND NUTRIENT ADDITION
- Tim Hoelzle, Colorado State University, Graduate

(15)

PINGREE TO THE PLATTE
- Robert Faris, Riffenburgh Elementary School, Sixth Grade

(16)

HETEROSPECIFIC RESPONSE TO CHEMICAL ALARM CUES IN GUPPIES
- Benjamin Pauls, Colorado State University, Undergraduate

(17)

MORPHOLOGICAL RESONSE TO DECREASED PREDATION RISK IN TRINIDADIAN MORPHOLOGY
- Sarah Fitzpatrick, Colorado State University, Undergraduate

(18)

PHENOTYPIC PLASTICITY IN THE COLOR PATTERN OF MALE FUPPIES IN RESPONSE TO PREDATOR CUES
- Robert Wildermuth, Colorado State University, Undergraduate

(19)

PREDATOR INDUCED PLASTICITY IN HABITAT USE BY GUPPIES
- Kyle Lenling, Colorado State University, Undergraduate

(20)

PREDATOR MEDIATED SELECTION ON ESCAPE PERFORMANCE OF TRINIDADIAN GUPPIES
- Daniel Ozzello, Colorado State University, Undergraduate

(21)

VARIATION IN BODY-MASS INDEX IN A COLORADO POPULATION OF ORNATE BOX TURTLES (TERRAPENE ORNATA ORNATA)
- Eric Gangloff, Colorado State University, Undergraduate

(22)

LOOKING FOR HOTSPOTS OF NITROGEN CYCLING IN AN ALPINE-SUBALPINE WATERSHED
- Anthony Darrouzet-Nardi, University of Colorado - Boulder, Graduate

(23)

SOIL MICROORGANISMS ALTER SELENIUM ACCUMULATION IN A TOXIC LOCOWEED
- Elan Alford, Colorado State University, Graduate

(24)

PERFORMANCE OF SPECIES RICHNESS ESTIMATORS ACROSS VARIATIONS IN COMMUNITY PARAMETERS
- Gordon Reese, Colorado State University, Graduate

(25)

ECONOMIC INCENTIVES FOR CONSERVATION IN MERU, KENYA
- Andrew Tredennick, Colorado State University, Graduate

(26) COMMUNICATION, CONFLICT, AND SCIENCE IN NATURAL RESOURCE COLLABORATION: A CASE STUDY OF AN INACTIVE COLLABORATIVE GROUP
- Aleta Rudeen, Colorado State University, Graduate
(27)

SURVIVAL AND RESOURCE SELECTION OF BLACK-FOOTED FERRETS BASED ON PREDATOR EXPOSURE IN SOUTH DAKOTA
- Sharon Poessel, Colorado State University, Graduate

(28)

THE EFFECTS OF SNTHROPOGENIC MOISE ON UNGULATE BEHAVIOR IN THE GRAND TETON CORRIDOR
- Casey Brown, Colorado State University, Graduate

(29)

AVIAN RESPONSE TO MANAGED BURNS AND GRAZING TIMING IN HIGH ELEVATION SAGEBRUSH
- Heidi Erickson, Colorado State University, Graduate

(30)

SWIFT FOX (VULPES VELOX) ECOLOGY IN RELATION TO BUBONIC PLAGUE
- Amariah Anderson, Colorado State University, Graduate

(31)

RELATIONSHIPS BETWEEN SITE TYPE, PLANTS, AND ARTHROPODS IN A GRASSLAND ECOSYSTEM
- Michael Habel, Rocky Mountain High School

(32)

RESPONSE OF SHORTGRASS ECOSYSTEMS TO CLMATE CHANGE: DOES SEVERE DROUGHT INCREASE INVASIBILITY
- Karie Cherwin, Colorado State University, Graduate

(33)

RECYCLING IN OUR CLASSROOM: INVESTIGATIONS INTO EARTH SYSTEMS ON A MIDDLE SCHOOL CAMPUS
- Katie Boisen, Brentwood Middle School

(34)

INVESTIGATIONS INTO EARTH SYSTEMS ON A MIDDLE SCHOOL CAMPUS
- Steve Swenson, Brentwood Middle School

(35)

EXOTIC SPECIES ELIMINATION PROJECT
- Colleen Sinclair, Front Range Community College, Undergraduate

(36)

ORGANIZATIONAL STRUCTURE & WILDLIFE REINRODUCTION PROGRAMS:
A CASE STUDY OF THE "SEA" EAGLE RECOVERY PROJECT
- Alexandra Sutton, Texas A&M University, Graduate

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