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Midwest Fish & Wildlife Conference 2017

To return to the Midwest Fish & Wildlife Conference website, go to http://www.midwestfw.org/ The following schedule and room names are subject to change (as of February 1, 2017). Please check back for updates.

Presenters: Presenters for technical presentations are either the primary author (the first name listed in the abstract), or are indicated with an asterisk next to their name.

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7:00am

Conference Registration Desk Open Lower Atrium

8:00am

Plenary Session, Awards Presentation & Ignite Session Grand Ballroom

12:00pm

Nebraska Chapter of The Wildlife Society Annual Business Meeting Yankee Hill III

1:20pm

Technical Session. What Lies Beneath? Identifying the Most Efficient Method to Sample Fish and Amphibian Communities in Missouri Wetlands Grand Ballroom C

1:40pm

Technical Session. Effects of Climate and Landscape on Water Supply to Beaver Ponds Grand Ballroom D

2:00pm

Technical Session. Identification and Prioritization of Factors Limiting Reintroduced Plains Topminnow (Fundulus sciadicus) Populations in Nebraska Streams Grand Ballroom F

2:20pm

Symposia Session - S2: Midwestern Agroecology and the Conservation of Grassland Birds. Utilizing Social Science to Guide Bird Conservation Action on Private Lands Arbor I/II

2:40pm

Technical Session. Effects of Climate Change on Groundwater, Surface Water, and Ecosystem Services in the Grand Kankakee River Watershed Grand Ballroom D

3:00pm

Refreshment Break with Exhibitors Lancaster Ballroom

3:20pm

Technical Session. Influence of Raptor Abundance on Female Lesser Prairie-Chicken Habitat Selection Grand Ballroom B

3:40pm

Symposia Session - S3: Ecology of the Missouri National Recreational River. Trajectories of Decline in Cottonwood Forests Along the Missouri River: Implications for Songbirds Grand Ballroom A

4:00pm

Technical Session. Habitat Use and Pesticide Exposure in Northern Leopard Frogs in Conservation Reserve Enhancement Program Wetlands Grand Ballroom C

6:30pm

Student/Professional Mixer Renaissance Room

7:00pm

Nebraska Chapter of The Wildlife Society Social & Awards Ceremony Yankee Hill III

10:00am

Refreshment Break with Exhibitors Lancaster Ballroom

10:20am

Symposia Session - S6: Impact of Prescribed and Wild Fires on the Great Plains. Changing Wildfire Trajectories and Future Implications for Great Plains Ecosystems Arbor I/II

10:40am

Symposia Session - S6: Impact of Prescribed and Wild Fires on the Great Plains. Thermal Imaging of Fires to Better Understand Fire-Vegetation-Wildlife Interactions Arbor I/II

11:00am

Symposia Session - S5: Playa Wetland Ecology. Modeling Nonbreeding Distributions of Wetland Birds in Response to Climate Change Yankee Hill I/II

11:20am

Symposia Session - S5: Playa Wetland Ecology. A Multiscale Approach to Habitat Selection: Implications for Shorebird Conservation in the Southern Great Plains Yankee Hill I/II

11:40am

Symposia Session - S5: Playa Wetland Ecology. Challenges for Shorebird Habitat Management in an Increasingly Dynamic Climate Yankee Hill I/II

12:00pm

Lunch Break on own N/A

1:20pm

Technical Session. Building Partnerships and Alignments to Advance Conservation on Private Lands Hawthorne

1:40pm

Technical Session. Adjacent Land Use as a Driver of Species Diversity in Ditches Hawthorne

2:00pm

Technical Session. How Do Nectar Quality, Pollen Quality, and Flower Abundance Influence Pollen Collection of Bumblebees (Bombus spp.) in Northern Virginia? Hawthorne

2:20pm

Technical Session. The Ecology of the Monarch Butterfly Relative to Density, Host Plant Occurrence and Habitat Use in the Flint Hills Hawthorne

2:40pm

Technical Session. Pipelines to Pollination: Implications of Vegetation Management on Marcellus–Utica Natural Gas Pipeline Rights-of-way Hawthorne

3:00pm

Refreshment Break with Exhibitors Lancaster Ballroom

3:20pm

Technical Session. Impacts of Land Use on Habitat suitability and forage for honey bees in the Northern Great Plains Hawthorne

3:40pm

Technical Session. The Nebraska Beneficial Insect Protection Plan, a Current Conservation Effort Hawthorne

4:00pm

Technical Session. Using Plant-pollinator Interaction Data to Make a National Impact Hawthorne

4:40pm

Technical Session. Bird-Window Collisions: A Comparison of Migration Phenology and Collision Rates on a University Campus in Indiana Arbor I/II

6:00pm

Trade Show & Poster Social Lancaster Ballroom

8:00am

Technical Session. The Importance of Scale in Evaluating the Effectiveness of Umbrella Species Grand Ballroom B

8:20am

Technical Session. Influence of Habitat and Landscape on the Occupancy of Shrubland Birds Grand Ballroom B

8:40am

Technical Session. Evaluating home range size of bobcats in an agriculturally-dominated landscape of west central Illinois Hawthorne

9:00am

Technical Session. Estimating the Summer Distribution of a Threatened Bat Species in Nebraska Arbor I/II

9:20am

Technical Session. Determining the Habitat Use of Nebraska Bats: What Scale Is Best? Arbor I/II

9:40am

Technical Session. Spatial and Temporal Structure of Canid Community in Nebraska Hawthorne

10:00am

Refreshment Break with Exhibitors Lancaster Ballroom