COS 184 - Dispersal And Colonization

Friday, August 10, 2012: 8:00 AM-11:30 AM
E141, Oregon Convention Center
8:00 AM
 Connectivity of a patchy Mojave Desert shrub: Examining landscape genetics at multiple spatial and temporal scales
Keith D. Gaddis, NASA; Victoria L. Sork, University of California, Los Angeles
8:20 AM
 Heterogeneity in dispersal and the spread of populations
Joseph P. Stover, Lyon College; Bruce E. Kendall, University of California Santa Barbara; Roger M. Nisbet, University of California, Santa Barbara
8:40 AM
 Plasticity in dispersal: Increases in density and relatedness increase dispersal distance in the two-spotted spider mite
Ellyn V. Bitume, Universite catholique Louvain-la-Neuve; Isabelle Olivieri, Universite Montpellier II; Ophélie Ronce, Institut des Sciences de l'Evolution; Dries Bonte, Ghent University; Caroline Nieberding, Universite catholique Louvain-la-Neuve
9:20 AM
 Thirty years of conifer establishment in volcanic primary succession at Mount St. Helens: Patterns and factors affecting establishment
M. Keith Birchfield, Washington State University - Vancouver; John G. Bishop, Washington State University
9:40 AM
9:50 AM
 Spatial interactions and population dynamics under clustered settlement
Eric J. Pedersen, University of Wisconsin Madison; Frédéric Guichard, McGill University
10:10 AM
 Representing macroinvertebrate dynamics for instream flow assessments
Kurt E. Anderson, University of California, Riverside; Lee R. Harrison, University of California, Santa Barbara; Roger M. Nisbet, University of California, Santa Barbara; Allison Kolpas, West Chester University
10:30 AM
 Understanding movement from mark-recapture data
Krzysztof Sakrejda, University of Massachusetts; Benjamin H. Letcher, US Geological Survey, SO Conte Anadromous Fish Research Center
10:50 AM Cancelled
 Colonization of marginal habitats, demographic responds of the long-lived ocean quahog Arctica islandica
Ralf Schaible, Max Planck Institute for Demographic Research; Fernando Colchero, Max Planck Institute for Demographic Research; Heike Gruber, Institute of Clinical Molecular Biology; Alexander Scheuerlein, Max Planck Institute for Demographic Research; Eva E.R. Philipp, Institute of Clinical Molecular Biology
11:10 AM
 Variation in explosive seed dispersal: Comparing introduced populations to their native counterparts under competition
Matthew A. Kaproth, University of Minnesota; Jane Molofsky, The University of Vermont