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Midwest Fish & Wildlife Conference 2018

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1:20pm CST

SYMPOSIA-05: Using Aquatic Landscape Ecology to Inform Lake Habitat Management at Multiple Scales 102D&E

1:40pm CST

SYMPOSIA-05: A Herculean Task: Reversing Lake Eutrophication 102D&E

2:00pm CST

SYMPOSIA-05: Adapting to Climate Change: Tools for Managers of Inland Glacial Lakes 102D&E

2:20pm CST

SYMPOSIA-05: Investigating Fish Kills to Identify Emerging Threats and Long-term Stress 102D&E

2:40pm CST

SYMPOSIA-05: The Influence of Lake Habitat and Landscape Context on Bluegill Growth and Population Size Structure in Midwest Glacial Lakes 102D&E

3:20pm CST

SYMPOSIA-05: Walleye Habitat: Considerations for Successful Natural Reproduction and Stocking 102D&E

3:40pm CST

SYMPOSIA-05: Large Woody Debris and Fish Habitat Structure Additions: Picking the Right Lakes, Setting Expectations, and How to Best Implement 102D&E

4:00pm CST

SYMPOSIA-05: Advancing Aquatic Vegetation Management for Fish 102D&E

4:20pm CST

SYMPOSIA-05: Nuisance “Weeds” or Critical Fish Habitat: Balancing Trade Offs with Minnesota’s Aquatic Plant Management Program 102D&E

4:40pm CST

SYMPOSIA-05: Wisconsin’s Healthy Lakes Initiative: Working with Lakefront Property Owners to Apply Best Management Practices 102D&E

8:00am CST

ASIAN CARP & OTHER AQUATIC INVASIVES: Recruitment Sources of Silver Carp in the Ohio River Basin Using Otolith Microchemistry 102D&E

8:20am CST

ASIAN CARP & OTHER AQUATIC INVASIVES: Otolith microstructure and trace elemental analyses of juvenile Asian carp in the Upper Mississippi River 102D&E

8:40am CST

ASIAN CARP & OTHER AQUATIC INVASIVES: The Dynamic Response Behaviors of Naïve Juvenile Asian Carp Following Exposure to Predator Kairomones in Mixed-Species Groups 102D&E

9:00am CST

ASIAN CARP & OTHER AQUATIC INVASIVES: Diet Analysis of Predatory Fish in Pools 19 and 20 of the Upper Mississippi River with Contrasting Habitats and Asian Carp Abundance 102D&E

9:20am CST

ASIAN CARP & OTHER AQUATIC INVASIVES: Inclusion of New Zealand Mud Snails in the Diet of Benthic Foragers 102D&E

9:40am CST

ASIAN CARP & OTHER AQUATIC INVASIVES: Development and Implementation of an Adaptive Management Approach for Monitoring Non-indigenous Fishes in Lower Green Bay, Lake Michigan 102D&E

10:20am CST

ASIAN CARP & OTHER AQUATIC INVASIVES: Grass Carp Spawning in Lake Erie Tributaries; When and Where? 102D&E

10:40am CST

ASIAN CARP & OTHER AQUATIC INVASIVES: Habitat Quality Explains Population Collapse of Invasive Rusty Crayfish in Northern Wisconsin Lakes 102D&E

11:00am CST

ASIAN CARP & OTHER AQUATIC INVASIVES: Detecting Round Goby in the Field Using a Portable eDNA Detection Kit 102D&E

11:20am CST

ASIAN CARP & OTHER AQUATIC INVASIVES: Battle of the Claws: Competition Between Two Non-native Crayfish Species in the Chicago Region and Potential Spread of Red Swamp Crayfish Throughout the Great Lakes Region 102D&E

11:40am CST

ASIAN CARP & OTHER AQUATIC INVASIVES: Spatiotemporal Patterns from Electrofishing Catches at Lake Michigan Invasive Species Hotspot Locations 102D&E

1:20pm CST

ASIAN CARP & OTHER AQUATIC INVASIVES: Combining Invasive Species Risk Assessments with Climate Change Scenarios to Predict Future Invaders in the Great Lakes 102D&E

1:40pm CST

ASIAN CARP & OTHER AQUATIC INVASIVES: Effects of 2, 4-D Herbicide Treatments Used to Control Eurasian Watermilfoil on Fish and Zooplankton in Northern Wisconsin Lakes 102D&E

2:00pm CST

ASIAN CARP & OTHER AQUATIC INVASIVES: From Water Chemistry to Fish: The Impacts of Zebra Mussels Across Multiple Trophic Levels 102D&E

2:20pm CST

ASIAN CARP & OTHER AQUATIC INVASIVES: Implementation of an Aquatic Invasive Species Early Detection Program on Lake Superior 102D&E

2:40pm CST

ASIAN CARP & OTHER AQUATIC INVASIVES: A Lakewide Survey of Asian Clam (Corbicula fluminea) Distribution at Warmwater Discharges in Lake Michigan 102D&E

3:20pm CST

ASIAN CARP & OTHER AQUATIC INVASIVES: Beam Me Up, Scotty! Using a Beam Trawl to Assess the Relative Abundance of Round Gobies Across a Variety of Habitat Types in Thunder Bay, Lake Huron 102D&E

3:40pm CST

ASIAN CARP & OTHER AQUATIC INVASIVES: Alternative Sea Lamprey Barrier Technologies: History as a Control Tool 102D&E

4:00pm CST

ASIAN CARP & OTHER AQUATIC INVASIVES: Stable Isotopes Indicate Zebra Mussels (Dreissena polymorpha) Increase Dependence of Lake Food Webs on Littoral Energy Sources 102D&E

4:20pm CST

ASIAN CARP & OTHER AQUATIC INVASIVES: Early Detection Monitoring of New Zealand Mudsnails Using Qualitative and eDNA Surveys 102D&E

4:40pm CST

ASIAN CARP & OTHER AQUATIC INVASIVES: Collaboratively Managing Lake Erie Grass Carp Through a Structured Decision Making Process 102D&E

5:00pm CST

ASIAN CARP & OTHER AQUATIC INVASIVES: Selective, Safe and Low Cost Carp Pesticide 102D&E

8:00am CST

CONSERVATION COLLABORATION & GENERAL WILDLIFE: Evaluating Indices of Full-Season Productivity for American Woodcock 102D&E

8:20am CST

CONSERVATION COLLABORATION & GENERAL WILDLIFE: Motivations and Characteristics of Participants in a Tournament Grouse Hunt 102D&E

8:40am CST

CONSERVATION COLLABORATION & GENERAL WILDLIFE: Reducing Lead Exposure in Bald Eagles in the Upper Midwest 102D&E

9:00am CST

CONSERVATION COLLABORATION & GENERAL WILDLIFE: Development of a Standardized Monitoring Program for Bald Eagles in the Southwest Alaska Network of National Parks 102D&E

9:20am CST

CONSERVATION COLLABORATION & GENERAL WILDLIFE: The Urban-Rural Divide in Fish & Wildlife Conservation Funding 102D&E

10:20am CST

CONSERVATION COLLABORATION & GENERAL WILDLIFE: The Wildlife and Sport Fish Restoration Program: 80 Years of Conservation Success 102D&E

10:40am CST

CONSERVATION COLLABORATION & GENERAL WILDLIFE: A Bird in the Hand: Shotguns, Deadly Oil Pits, Cute Kittens, and the Migratory Bird Treaty Act 102D&E

11:00am CST

CONSERVATION COLLABORATION & GENERAL WILDLIFE: Collaboration to Improve Fire Management Outcomes: Increasing the Application of Research to Prescribed Fire in the Tallgrass Prairie and Oak Savanna Ecoregion 102D&E

11:20am CST

CONSERVATION COLLABORATION & GENERAL WILDLIFE: Social Behavior and Ecology May Interact to Shape the Gut Microbiome in Feral Horses (Equus caballus) 102D&E