COS 145 - Statistics

Thursday, August 9, 2012: 8:00 AM-11:30 AM
C120, Oregon Convention Center
8:00 AM
 Nonparametric constrained ordination
Bruce McCune, Oregon State University; Heather T. Root, Oregon State University
8:20 AM
 Estimating population impacts via dynamic occupancy analysis of Before-After Control-Impact studies
Viorel D. Popescu, University of California Berkeley; Perry de Valpine, University of California - Berkeley; Douglas Tempel, University of Wisconsin - Madison; M. Zachariah Peery, University of Wisconsin - Madison
8:40 AM
 Sample size requirements for detecting change in abundance-based taxonomic composition
Frank L. Forcino, University of Alberta; Lindsey R. Leighton, University of Alberta
9:20 AM
 Estimating stage durations from samples of cohorts
Jonas Knape, University of California - Berkeley, Berkeley, CA; Katherine Scranton, Yale University; Perry de Valpine, University of California - Berkeley
9:40 AM
9:50 AM
 How does heterogeneity of multivariate dispersions affect ANOSIM, PERMANOVA, and the Mantel test?
Marti J. Anderson, Massey University; Daniel C. I. Walsh, Massey University
10:10 AM
 Evaluating new approaches to modeling data sets with many zeros: An example using anadromous fish counts
John T. Finn, University of Massachusetts; Martha E. Mather, Kansas State University; Matthew K. Burak, University of Massachusetts; Robert M. Muth, University of Massachusetts; John Kim, USDA Forest Service Pacific Northwest Research Station; Mike Sutherland, University of Massachusetts
10:30 AM
 Quantifying movement coordination among simultaneously tracked animals
Justin Calabrese, Smithsonian Conservation Biology Institute; Thomas Mueller, Goethe University; Peter Leimgruber, Smithsonian Conservation Biology Institute; William F. Fagan, University of Maryland
10:50 AM
 How should we use meta-analysis to answer complex questions in ecology and evolution?
Jason D. Hoeksema, University of Mississippi; James D. Bever, Indiana University