Thursday, August 9, 2007: 8:00 AM-11:30 AM
San Carlos II, San Jose Hilton
COS 116 - Population biology: Metapopulations
8:00 AMCOS 116-1Cross-scale interactions between biotic and environmental heterogeneity in a marine metacommunity
Frederic Guichard, McGill University
8:20 AMCOS 116-2Persistence of intraguild prey and predators in source-sink meta-communities
Toshiyuki Namba, Osaka Prefecture University
8:40 AMCOS 116-3Spatially correlated dispersal of marine predators and their prey: Empirical evidence and meta-population consequences
J. Wilson White, University of California, Santa Barbara
9:00 AMCOS 116-4Predator-induced shifts in oviposition and colonization of aquatic habitats: A meta-analysis and conceptual model of consequences for regional recruitment
James R. Vonesh, Virginia Commonwealth University, Leon Blaustein, University of Haifa, Barney Luttbeg, University of California, Davis, Craig W. Osenberg, University of Florida, Barbara Peckarsky, University of Wisconsin, William Resetarits, University of Southampton
9:20 AMCOS 116-5Shared parasitoids in a meta-community: Indirect interactions inhibit herbivore membership in local communities
James T. Cronin, Louisiana State University
9:40 AM Break
9:50 AMCOS 116-6The inflationary effects of environmental fluctuations ensure the persistence of sink meta-populations
Andrew Gonzalez, McGill University, David Matthews, McGill University
10:10 AMCOS 116-7Spatially-coupled food and propagule supply influence meta-population dynamics
Jameal F. Samhouri, University of California Los Angeles, Richard R. Vance, University of California Los Angeles
10:30 AMCOS 116-8Chaotic dynamics lost in small-world network meta-populations
Colin T. Kremer, State University of New York College at Geneseo, Chris C Leary, State University of New York College at Geneseo, Gary W Towsley, State University of New York College at Geneseo, Gregg Hartvigsen, State University of New York College at Geneseo
10:50 AMCOS 116-9Investigating the relationships between Taylor's Power Law coefficients, demographic parameters, and population dynamics
Colin A. Harrower, University of Oxford, Robert P. Freckleton, University of Sheffield, Michael B. Bonsall, University of Oxford

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