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Rushmore Regional Conference on
Biocomplexity 2004
Abstracts
The South Dakota Center for
Biocomplexity Studies Rushmore
Regional Conference on Biocomplexity, held August 11-12, 2004,
at the Holiday Inn City Centre in Sioux Falls, South Dakota was a
great success. We thank
both the oral and poster presenters for helping to make it interesting
and informative.
Posters
Coupled
Biogeochemical Cycles
1.
Bacterial Biodiversity Associated with Cloud Water and Snow Recovered
from within Rocky Mountain Storm Clouds.
Gary D. Franc,
University of Wyoming, Randolph D. Borys, William L. Stump, Raina M.
Spence.
2.
The Impact of Nickel and Zinc on Fe(III)-oxide Bioreduction
Nathan Kutil, South Dakota School of Mines & Technology, Elizabeth
Sandvick, Dr. James Stone
3. Fluxes of CH4, CO2, and N2O
from an Old-growth Evergreen Broadleaved Forest in Southern China: the
Effects of Litter Harvesting
Xuli Tang,
Chinese
Academy
of Sciences; Shuguang Liu, Guoyi Zhou
4. Effect of landscape
characteristics on DOC concentration in stream of Ontonagon watershed
Zhiyu Zheng,
South Dakota
State University, Brookings, South Dakota; Carol Johnston South Dakota
State University.
Dynamics of Coupled Natural and Human
Systems
5. Monitoring the Success of a
Tall-Grass Prairie Restoration: Spirit Mound Historic Prairie.
Rustan Vote, University of South Dakota; Karen
Olmstead, Annie Horner, Biology, USD.
6. Northern Great Plains
Regional Carbon Flux Scaling
Bruce K. Wylie, SAIC, USGS EROS Data Center; Tagir G. Gilmanov SDSU,
Brookings; Ruth Anne F. Doyle, SIAC, EROS Data Center; and Li Zhang,
SDSU, Brookings.
Ecological Observations
7. The simultaneous evolution
of plant defense and competitiveness: natural selection.
Riston Haugen,
Black Hills
State
University;
David Siemens, Black Hills State University.
8.
An object-oriented knowledge-based approach to mapping crop types
in South Dakota from Landsat satellite imagery
Susan K. Maxwell, SAIC/US Geological Survey; Sean Kruger - South
Dakota Department of Environment and Natural Resources, Jay Gilbertson
- East Dakota Water Development District.
9.
The evolution of traits in complex environments: switching in
plant defenses
David Siemens, Black Hills State University; Shannon Kulseth, Tessa
Jones , Karl Mechtenberg, Bob Macintosh, Michael Zehfus, Paul Brown.
Environmental Genomics and Proteomics
10. Major 16S Ribosomal DNA
Sequences Obtained From a Prairie Pothole Wetland Soil Using PCR and
Denaturing Gradient Gel Electrophoresis
Bruce Bleakley,
South Dakota
State University; Jill Kruse, Don Auger.
11.
Plague (Yersinia pestis) detection in central Montana black-tailed
prairie dog (Cynomys ludovicianus) colonies
David Hanson, University of South Dakota; Hugh B. Britten University
of South Dakota Department of Biology, Marco Restani St. Cloud State
University Department of Biological Sciences, Leigh R. Washburn
University of South Dakota School of Basic Biomedical Sciences
Other Biocomplexity Topic
12. Influence of Coastal
Geology on Wetland Abundance in the Great Lakes
Bruce Pengra, South Dakota State University; Jiyul Chang, and Carol
Johnston - South Dakota State Unviersity - Center For Biocomplexity
Studies.
13.
Comparison of Relative Levels of Chloroplast Protein Synthesis
Elongation Factor (EF-Tu) in a Heat Resistant Line of Maize
Christopher D. Rahn, Dept. Biol. USD, Vermillion SD; Dr. Zoran Ristic.
14.
Database storage of ProteinLynx processed proteomics data
Jonathan Smith,
University of
South Dakota;
Carol Lushbough.
15.
The role of small wetland restoration projects in reducing the
nutrient load in the Danube River
Mirula Tulbure,
South Dakota
State University
16.
Bioinformatics Supercomputing Cluster
Joshua
Stroschein,
University
of South Dakota
Oral
Presentations
Fishery Resources of
South Dakota
Fishes of the Missouri River National Recreational River in South
Dakota
Charles Berry,
Brookings, South
Dakota, U.S. Geological Survey
Wednesday,
August 11 – 8:30 – 8:50 a.m.
International West
Aquatic vertebrate biodiversity; New information on fish, turtles, and
amphibians.
Charles Berry,
Brookings, South
Dakota, U.S. Geological Survey; Kenneth Higgens.
Wednesday,
August 11 – 8:50 – 9:10 a.m.
International West
Maternal Liver and Egg Thiamine Concentrations in Walleye from Lake
Oahe, South Dakota
Michael Barnes, South Dakota GF&P, Spearfish, South Dakota; Michael H.
Zehfus, Black Hills
State University.
Wednesday,
August 11 – 9:10 – 9:30 a.m.
International West
Summary of fish assemblages in western tributaries to the Missouri
River in South Dakota
Jeremy Duehr,
South Dakota
State University, Brookings, South Dakota; Christopher Hoagstrom.
Wednesday,
August 11 – 10:50 – 11:10 a.m.
International West
Fish diversity and persistence in eastern South Dakota rivers and
streams
Jeff Shearer, South Dakota GF&P, Pierre, South Dakota; Charles Berry,
U.S. Geological Survey, South Dakota Cooperative Fish & Wildlife
Research Unit.
Wednesday, August 11 – 11:10 – 11:30
a.m. International West
Aquatic gap analysis use in conserving rare and endangered fishes in
South Dakota
Jason Kral, Department of Wildlife and Fisheries, Brookings, South
Dakota; Steven Wall, Department of Wildlife and Fisheries, Brookings.
Wednesday,
August 11 – 11:30 – 11:50 a.m. International West
Microbes and
Genomics
Cloud Microbiology: Bacterial Movement from Oceans to the Mountains
Gary Franc,
University of
Wyoming;
Randolph D. Borys, Desert Research Institute,
Steamboat Springs,
Colorado.
Wednesday,
August 11 – 1:00 – 1:20 p.m. International West
Biocomplexity of Molecular Entities: Mechanisms of Self-reproduction,
Organization and Adaption. An explanation of the Origin of Life?
Willy Valdivia-Granda, Orion Integrated Biosciences, Fargo, North
Dakota; Maricel Kann.
Wednesday,
August 11 – 1:20 – 1:40 p.m. International West
Multicellular behavior of Bacillus cereus growing as a biofilm in soil
Vilain Sebastien,
South Dakota
State University; Y. Luo, South Dakota State University;
B. Bleakley, South Dakota State University; V.S. Brözel,
South Dakota State
University.
Wednesday,
August 11 – 1:40 – 2:00 p.m. International West
Carbon & Nitrogen
Cycling
Using the 13C stable isotope approach and yield monitor data to
evaluate C and N cycling in an eastern South Dakota field
David Clay, South Dakota State University, Brookings, South Dakota;
C.G. Carlson, South Dakota State University; Z. Liu, South Dakota
State University; and S.A. Clay, South Dakota State University.
Wednesday,
August 11 – 2:20 – 2:40 p.m. International West
13C discrimination in corn grain can be used to quantify competition
Sharon Clay, South Dakota State University; David Clay, South Dakota
State University; D. Lyon, University of Nebraska, Panhandle Station,
Scottsbluff, Nebraska; J. Blumenthal, Texas A&M University, College
Station.
Wednesday,
August 11 – 2:40 – 3:00 p.m. International West
First measurements of coupled fluxes of carbon dioxide, water, and
energy in grasslands of Eastern South Dakota using an eddy covariance
tower
Tagir Gilmanov, South Dakota State University; Bruce Wylie, EROS Data
Center/SAIC; Tilden Meyers, NOAA Atmospheric Turbulence and Diffusion
Laboratory; Mark Heuer, NOAA Atmospheric Turbulence and Diffusion
Laboratory; Alexander Smart, South Dakota State University; Douglas
Malo, South Dakota State University; Ruth Anne Doyle, EROS Data
Center/SAIC; Li Zhang, South Dakota State University.
Wednesday,
August 11 – 3:00 – 3:20 p.m. International West
Quantifying US Terrestrial C Sources and Sinks
Shuguang Liu, EROS Data Center/SAIC; Thomas Loveland, US Geological
Survey, EROS Data Center; Jingxun Liu, Research Associateship Program,
National Research Council, The National Academies, Residence at EROS
Data Center.
Wednesday,
August 11 – 3:20 – 3:40 p.m. International West
Bioinformatics
An XML-based framework for Biocomplexity model sharing on the Internet
Omar El-Gayar, Dakota State University, Madison, South Dakota;
Kanchana Tandekar, Dakota State University, Madison, South Dakota.
Wednesday,
August 11 – 2:20 – 2:40 p.m. Embassy 1
Properties of Universal and Existential Predicates on PBushes
Dmitriy Akimov,
North Dakota
State University; William Perrizo,
North Dakota
State
University.
Wednesday,
August 11 – 2:40 – 3:00 p.m. Embassy 1
The development of an on-line database to investigate the spatial and
temporal distribution of South Dakota bird records
Jeffrey Palmer,
Dakota
State
University,
Madison, South Dakota
Wednesday,
August 11 – 3:00 – 3:20 p.m. Embassy 1
Protein Identification Software Project
Mark Winegar, Mount Marty College, Vermillion, South Dakota; Dr.
Michelle Chaussee, University of South Dakota.
Wednesday, August 11 – 3:20 – 3:40 p.m. Embassy 1
Guest Speaker
The Nebraska Sand Hill Biocomplexity Project
David Wedin, Mount Associate Professor, School of Natural Resource
Sciences,
University of
Nebraska
Wednesday,
August 11 – Banquet Starlite Ballroom
Wetlands & Streams
Regime of water balance components in South Dakota: challenge of scale
and data
Boris Shmagin, South Dakota State University, Brookings, South Dakota;
Dennis Todey, South Dakota Extension/State Climatologist, Brookings,
South Dakota.
Thursday,
August 12 – 10:00 – 10:20 a.m.
International West
Plants as environmental indicators in Great Lakes coastal wetlands
Carol Johnston,
South Dakota
State University, Brookings, South Dakota
Thursday,
August 12 – 10:20 – 10:40 a.m.
International West
Fauna & Forage
Species richness and nesting success of migrant birds in natural and
anthropogenic woodlands in southeastern South Dakota
David Swanson, Department of Biology, University of South Dakota,
Vermillion, South Dakota;
Dale J. Gentry, Department of Biology, University of South Dakota,
Vermillion, South Dakota.
Thursday,
August 12 – 10:00 – 10:20 a.m.
Embassy 1
Impacts of a naturalized population of yellow-flowered alfalfa
(Medicago sativa ssp. Falcata) on native northern mixed-grass prairie
Lan Xu, South Dakota State University, Brookings, South Dakota; Arvid
Boe, South Dakota State University; Patricia S. Johnson, South Dakota
State University; Kevin Kephart, South Dakota State University.
Thursday,
August 12 – 10:20 – 10:40 a.m.
Embassy 1
Contributions of Prairie Dogs and Cattle to Vegetation Disappearance
on Prairie Dog Town in
Mixed-Grass Prairie
Matthew Stoltenberg, Graduate Assistant, South Dakota State
University; Patricia S. Johnson, Professor, South Dakota State
University; Alexander J. Smart, Assistant Professor, South Dakota
State University; Lan Xu, Assistant Professor, South Dakota State
University.
Thursday,
August 12 – 10:40 – 11:00 a.m.
Embassy 1
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