35th annual Natural Areas Conference Presentations

A Joint Conference of the Natural Areas Association (NAA) and
the National Association of Exotic Pest Plant Councils (NAEPPC)

Hosted by the Tennessee Department of Environment and Conservation (TDEC)

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• 2008 update on development of the U.S. National Early Detection and Rapid Response system for invasive plants. - Randy Westbrooks
• A highway runs through it - Bonnie Harper-Lore
• A user-oriented approach to invasive species data aggregation, mapping and decision-making for all taxa - Meg Wilkinson, Gary Knight
• Accuracy and implications of implementing the Australian Weed Risk Assessment for the U.S. - Doria Gordon
• Addressing exotic forest pest problems through multi-agency, multidisciplinary cooperation - Scott Schlarbaum
• Alien forest insects: Recent arrivals, impacts, and management efforts - Robert Haack
• An overview of the All Taxa Biodiversity Inventory (ATBI) - Peter White
• Ants rule the world, but will they rule the world after climate change? - Nate Sanders
• Arnold Air Force Base: A case study of barrens habitats in the Central Hardwoods Bird Conservation Region - John Lamb
• Assessing alternative management strategies under uncertainty: An example from Everglades restoration planning - Louis Gross
• Assessment of vegetatation change in the Loxahatchee River and its major tributaries, southeast Florida - Richard Roberts
• Be Plantwise: A national partnership to prevent the spread of invasive species across the urban/wildland interface - Damon Waitt
• Biological control of introduced plants: Rationale, procedures and pitfalls - Bernd Blossey
• Biology and life cycle of the hemlock wooly adelgid in the southern Appalachians: Growing up Southern - Jerome Grant
• Bugwood: Tools for invasive species and forest health management - Keith Douce
• Building the next generation of protected lands inventories for the United States - Larry Orman
• Butterfly recovery: A case study in collaboration - Nate Fuller
• Capturing and reporting optimal frequency measures in tallgrass prairie as a surrogate measure of density - Michael DeBacker
• Cedar glades and xeric limestone prairies of the eastern United States - Jerry Baskin
• Collaborative landscape-scale fire restoration management and planning in the Boston Mountains, Arkansas - McRee Anderson
• Conservation and monitoring of rare dragonflies - Ken Tennessen
• Conservation significance of America's newest system of protected areas: The National Landscape Conservation System - Jeff Jarvis
• Conservation stewardship expanding protected areas and mitigating for climate change in the Western Cape, South Africa - Kerry Purnell, Chris Martens
• Conservation toolbox: Using conservation easements for natural areas protection - Renee Kivikko
• Conserving rare bryophytes - Paul Davison
• Contemporary international perspectives in karst resource management and case study from China and Kentucky - Chris Groves
• Cooperative conservation and restoration of the barrens topminnow (Fundulus julisia) on the eastern highland rim, Tennessee - Geoff Call
• Cooperative conservation- The Green River, Kentucky example - Richie Kessler
• Developing and implementing a management plan to successfully maintain emergent invasive vegetation frequency and distribution within a natural ecosystem - David Riddell
• Direct and indirect non-target effects in biological weed control programs in North America - Mark Schwarzlander
• Do shrubland birds prefer shrubland habitat in a highly modified landscape? - Neil Gifford
• Dormant Season Control of Japanese Honeysuckle Using Herbicides and Pentrabark - Thomas G. Barnes
• Ecological consequences of exotic earthworm invasions: Forest decline syndrome - Cindy Hale
• Economic costs of invasive plants: Control and management strategies to reduce total impacts - Reuben Keller
• Effect of removal of the invasive species Lonicera maackii on the size distribution of woody vegetation in a middle Tennessee natural area - Steve Baskauf
• Efforts made by departments of agriculture to survey for, delimit, eradicate or suppress exotic forests pests in the United States - Walker Gray Haun
• Exotic invasive knotweeds (Fallopia spp.) negatively affect native plant and invertebrate assemblages in European riparian habitats. - Esther Gerber
• Exotic plant management through cooperation and collaboration: The foundation for success - Curt Deuser
• Exotic species and bioenergy: Potential for introducing or spreading invasive plants - Joseph DiTomaso
• Florida's Upland Invasive Exotic Plant Management Program: The first ten years - Greg Jubinsky
• Floristic inventory of tallgrass prairie remnants in the Grand Prairie region of the Mississippi alluvial plain: A baseline for restoration efforts - C. Theo Witsell
• Forest Health: Firewood - Carol DiSalvo, Jerry Carlson, Carey Tichenor
• Functional quality of mitigation wetlands versus natural wetlands: Are wetland functions lost to development replaced by mitigation wetlands? - Scott Namestnik
• Global climate change, Endangered Species Act, and rare elements: How do they relate? - Patricia Cox
• Grassland responses to fire, grazing and climate: How long-term research can contribute to management of grasslands in a changing world - John Blair
• Green infrastructure planning on an active industrial military installation - John Krupovage
• Hawaii's invasive species partnerships: Providing wise guidance and effective action in an invader's paradise - Lloyd Loope
• Host specificity screening: Basic principles and future outlook - Hariet Hinz
• Impact of alien plants on native insect communities - Doug Tallamy
• Impacts and control of the invasive species red bartsia (Odontites verna) in tall grass prairie remnants in Manitoba - Brad Kennedy
• Impacts of hemlock woolly adelgid in Great Smoky Mountains National Park: Documented and Projected - Kristine Johnson
• Improving invasive alien plant management through partnerships - Louise Stafford
• Incorporating fire into an integrated pest management plan for Lygodium japonicum (Japanese climbing fern) - E. Corrie Pieterson
• Interpretation for Management - Pete Colverson
• Introduction to southeastern native grasslands (and what about that squirrel?) - Milo Pyne
• Invasive exotic vertebrates in continental North America: Diversity, dispersion, impacts, and ecosystem dynamics - Jerome Jackson
• Invasive Exotics EDRR: Invasive Species Mapping – Trends and Data Sharing - Chuck Bargeron, Chris Evans, John Madsen, Mark Skinner, Georgianna Strode, Jil Swearingen, Damon Waitt, Meg Wilkinson, Amos Ziegler
• Invasive Exotics Management and Control: Cooperative Weed Management Areas - Carmen Chapin, Judy Dumke, Chris Evans, Doug Johnson
• Invasive plant responses to silvicultural practices - David Moorhead
• Invasive species prioritization and management at a state-wide land trust - Julie Richburg
• Inventory and Conservation of Natural Communities - Milo Pyne
• Land Trust Alliance: Conservation Easements: Keys to Permanence - Leslie Ratley-Beach, Laurel Florio
• Landscope America: The conservation guide to America's natural places - Milo Pyne
• Learning by doing: Maryland's EDRR effort for wavyleaf basketgrass - Kerrie Kyde
• Mainstreaming communication, education and awareness in biodiversity conservation policies in Nepal - Deependra Joshi
• Management of hemlock woolly adelgid: Current Methods - Rusty Rhea
• Managing aquatic systems - conflicts between human needs and conserving the southeast's quatic biodiversity - Peggy Shute
• Managing subterranean biodiversity - Julian Lewis
• Michigan DNR's approach to selecting biodiversity stewardship areas (representative functional landscapes) on 4.6 million acres of state land using a state level protected areas database - Glenn Palmgren
• Modeling potential impacts of climate change on bird habitats in the eastern United States - Steve Mathews
• Modeling the effects of strong seasonality on the spatial synchronization of raccoon rabies epidemics - Scott Duke-Sylvester
• Morphing American landscapes: Will there be any "natural areas" left in 50 years? - Scott Schlarbaum
• National Invasive Species Council and partnering - Chris Dionigi
• National Park Service – Exotic Plant Management Teams: Swing your partner… - Rita Beard
• Necessity of both site-based and weed-based invasive plant control - Marc Imlay
• New Iinvaders Watch Program: An Early Detection and Rapid Response Network - Debbie Maurer
• No child left inside: How the children in nature movement protects natural areas - Vera Vollbrecht, Ken Voorhis
• Occupation, spread, impacts, and mitigation of Chinese tallowtree in the southern United States - Jianbang Gan
• Ohio, the Nation, the World: All Together Now! - Phyllis Windle
• On the backs of serpents: Prehistoric cave art in the southeast of North America - Jan Simek
• Overview of aquatic biodiversity and patterns of imperilment in the southeastern United States - David Etnier
• Pet projects: Pet industry initiatives to minimize the introduction of invasive species into natural areas - Jamie Reaser
• Pigeon River: A cooperative project to aid the return of aquatic life - Joyce Coombs
• Plants for a livable Delaware - Faith Kuehn
• Predicting consequences of future changes in flow regimes on aquatic biodiversity: A landscape-scale modeling approach - Mary Freeman
• Predicting invasion patterns of two exotic invaders in a forest ecosystem - Nitesh Tripathi
• Predictive mapping to support early detection of invasive plants - Doug Johnson
• Prevention of invader spread using commonsense strategies to manage control and research efforts, visitors, and development projects: National Park Service and conservation groups on Maui, Hawaii - Jeremy Gooding
• Prevention strategies for limiting spread of aquatic invasive species by recreational boaters - Reuben Keller
• Promoting voluntary codes of conduct by engaging the right partners - John Peter Thompson
• Prospects for the classical biological control of the environmental weed Alliaria petiolata (garlic mustard) - Harriet Hinz
• Protection through collaboration: Building a landscape protection effort - Hugh Archer
• Python patrol: Involving non-traditional partners in early detection and rapid response - Alison Higgins
• Red-imported fire ants (Solenopsis invicta) as an agent of pedoturbation in saline barrens of southern Arkansas - Michael Warriner
• Rehabilitation of native prairie remnants in the northern Great Plains - Matt Bahm
• Reproductive success of chestnut-collared longspur in native and exotic grassland - John Lloyd
• Response of native and invasive plants to removal of Lonicera maackii in a successional forest - Troy Evans
• RSim: A regional simulation software environment for exploring the impacts of resource use and constraints - Michael Berry
• Seeding effectiveness and natural regeneration of Mojave Desert plant communities after 2005 wildland fires - E. Cayenne Engel
• Smith's Longspur Winter Landing at Arkansas Airports - William Holimon
• Spatial patterns and the changes in underlying heterogeneity of remnant prairies in southern Wisconsin - Carrie Read
• Status of grasslands of the Central Hardwoods Bird Conservation Region and the birds that depend upon them - Jane Fitzgerald
• Status of the voluntary codes of conduct in Hawaii. - Christy Martin, Christopher Dacus
• Team Arundo – a local partnership – and NIWAW (National Invasive Weed Awareness Week) – a national partnership - Nelroy Jackson
• Tennessee bat work - Andrea English
• Tennessee Wildlife Resources Agency programs to restore grassland and shrubland communities - Roger Applegate
• The genetically altered forest - Gena Fleming
• The grasslands of Tennessee - Dwayne Estes
• The importance of who you are: How native and introduced plants structure aquatic and forest communities - Bernd Blossey
• The Invasive Plant Atlas of New England: A regional approach to early detection of potentially invasive plants - Les Mehrhoff
• The largest weed digital aerial sketch mapping project in the universe: Unless you can prove us wrong! - Tony Pernas
• The perpetual forest: Using an undesirable species to bridge restoration. - Kay Kirkman
• The revision of Quarantine 37 (Q-37); addressing the risks associated with the importation of plants for planting - Christa Speekmann
• Toward a collaborative statewide program of early detection in Hawaii - Lloyd Loope
• Towards the biological control of Japanese knotweed in North America - Richard Shaw
• Tree mortality and climate change in a Highland Rim karst swamp: Sinking Pond, Coffee County, Tennessee - William Wolfe
• Urban natural areas as "living laboratories" for universities - Darlene Panvini, Steve Murphree, Denise Due-Goodwin
• Urban Natural Areas: Issues for Urban Natural Areas Managers - Bob Parrish, Julia Grant, Dave Borneman
• Useage and management practices for caves and karst for the Southeastern Cave Conservancy, Inc. - Bill Overton
• Utilizing a new online tool (www.landscope.org) to access national and local scale protected area and priority area maps for conservation - Heather Rorer
• Utilizing Geographic Information Systems (GIS) for natural area conservation: A case study of Radnor Lake State Natural Area, Nashville, Tennessee - James Russ
• Volunteer programs are an essential aid in controlling invasive plants - James Akerson
• Volunteers and partnerships… much more than just free labor - Mary Travaglini
• Why cave gates and why cave restoration? – The real reason for gating a cave - Chris Clark
• Will climate change affect weed risk assessments? - Sarah Reichard