Thursday, August 9, 2007: 8:00 AM-11:30 AM
J2, San Jose McEnery Convention Center
COS 104 - Distributions and range limits
8:00 AMThe biogeography of a mimicry complex is revealed by a citizen-science butterfly monitoring program
Leslie Ries, University of Maryland, Sean Mullen, University of Maryland
8:20 AMThe role of range edges in determining adaptive climate responses in the cut-leaved monkeyflower (Mimulus laciniatus)
Jason P. Sexton, University of California, Davis, Kevin J. Rice, University of California, Davis, Sharon Y. Strauss, University of California, Davis
8:40 AMThe southeastern Australian Point Conception: Supply-side ecology for a marine invertebrate approaching its geographic range limit
Eszter Z. Hidas, University of Wollongong, Todd E. Minchinton, University of Wollongong, David J. Ayre, University of Wollongong, Justin A. Lathlean, University of Wollongong
9:00 AMThe southeastern Australian Point Conception: Does life-history predict population structure and species range limits?
David J. Ayre, University of Wollongong, Todd E. Minchinton, University of Wollongong, Cecile Perrin, University of Wollongong
9:20 AMGeographic distribution and intertidal population status for the Olympia oyster, Ostrea conchaphila, from Alaska to Baja
Maria P. Polson, California State University, Fullerton, Danielle C. Zacherl, California State University, Fullerton
9:40 AMBreak
9:50 AMToward an integrative theory for systematic variation in abundance across a species range
Brian J. McGill, McGill University
10:10 AMThe role of environmental stochasticity in setting range limits
William F. Morris, Duke University, Daniel F. Doak, University of California
10:30 AMThermal tolerance and altitudinal extent across latitude: Testing the effects of seasonality on the distribution of species
Kimberly S. Sheldon, University of Washington, Joshua J. Tewksbury, University of Washington
10:50 AMDistribution modeling of species at a coarse scale: How are we doing?
Volker Bahn, McGill University, Brian J. McGill, McGill University
11:10 AMThe scale-dependence of range maps in ecology and conservation
Allen H. Hurlbert, National Center for Ecological Analysis and Synthesis, Walter Jetz, University of California, San Diego

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