Thursday, August 9, 2007: 8:00 AM-11:30 AM
Blrm Salon III, San Jose Marriott
COS 100 - Behavioral ecology: Movement and social interaction
8:00 AMCOS 100-1Rolling instabilities and maximum flight speed in foraging orchid bees
Stacey A. Combes, U.C. Berkeley, Robert Dudley, U.C. Berkeley
8:20 AMCOS 100-2Differences in group size and behavior of juvenile salmonids from complex and simple reaches of a cold-water Wisconsin stream
David G. Lonzarich, University of Wisconsin - Eau Claire, Tim A Ruhde, University of Wisconsin - Eau Claire
8:40 AMCOS 100-3Social modification of growth in a cooperatively breeding cichlid: Conflict resolution through self-restraint?
Ian M. Hamilton, The Ohio State University, Nicole Bender, University of Bern, Dik Heg, University of Bern
9:00 AMCOS 100-4The influence of ocean currents on Leatherback Turtle movements in the open ocean
Trevor D. Davies, Dalhousie Univerisity, Ian D. Jonsen, Department of Fisheries and Oceans
9:20 AMCOS 100-5Contact network on Tasmanian devils: Implications for transmission dynamics of the Devil Facial Tumour Disease
Rodrigo K. Hamede, University of Tasmania, Hamish McCallum, University of Tasmania, Menna E. Jones, University of Tasmania
9:40 AM Break
9:50 AMCOS 100-6Habitat selection by dispersing brush mice (Peromyscus boylii)
Karen E. Mabry, University of California, Davis
10:10 AMCOS 100-7Development of movement and foraging strategies in young-of-year grey seals elucidated by behavior discriminating state-space modeling
Greg A. Breed, Dalhousie University, W. Don Bowen, Bedford Institute of Oceanography, Marty L. Leonard, Dalhousie University
10:30 AMCOS 100-8The perfect family: A re-examination of biparental care in animals
Erol Akçay, Stanford University, Joan E. Roughgarden, Stanford University
10:50 AMCOS 100-9Quantifying the difference between animal movements and Brownian motion: Why do we still fail?
Luca Borger, University of Guelph, Ben Dalziel, University of Guelph, John M Fryxell, University of Guelph
11:10 AMCOS 100-10Two-tier modeling of social behavior: A component of the social-selection project to replace sexual selection
Joan E. Roughgarden, Stanford University

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