ESA/SER Joint Meeting (August 5 -- August 10, 2007)

Tuesday, August 7, 2007: 1:30 PM-5:00 PM

N, San Jose McEnery Convention Center

1:30 PM

COS 45-1

Managing infectious diseases without R0
Richard D. Horan, Michigan State University; Eli P. Fenichel, Arizona State University

1:50 PM

COS 45-2

When can predation control vector-borne pathogens?
Sean M. Moore, National Center for Atmospheric Research; Elizabeth T. Borer, University of Minnesota; Parviez Hosseini, EcoHealth Alliance (formerly Wildlife Trust)

2:10 PM

COS 45-3

Measuring the effect of the Niagara River as a barrier to gene flow in raccoons (Procyon lotor) and implications to the spread of raccoon rabies
Erin E. Rees, Trent University; Bruce A. Pond, Ontario Ministry of Natural Resources; Catherine I. Cullingham, Trent University; Rowland R. Tinline, Queen's University; David Ball, Queen's University; Christopher J. Kyle, Trent University; Richard C. Rosatte, Ontario Ministry of Natural Resources; Bradley N. White, Trent University

2:30 PM

COS 45-4

West Nile virus and large-scale declines of North American bird populations
Shannon L. LaDeau, Cary Insitute of Ecosystem Studies; Peter Marra, Smithsonian Conservation Biology Institute; A. Marm Kilpatrick, University of California, Santa Cruz

2:50 PM

COS 45-5

Disentangling effects of disease and bleaching on corals by fitting population models to data
Susan Harrell Yee, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency; Deborah L. Santavy, U.S. EPA; Mace G. Barron, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency

3:10 PM

COS 45-

Break

3:20 PM

COS 45-6

Opening the black box: A tool for evaluating the biological information of a GARP rule-set using examples from the natural ecology of Anthrax
Kristina M. McNyset, US EPA, Western Ecology Division; Jason K. Blackburn, California State University, Fullerton

3:40 PM

COS 45-7

Metapopulation dynamics of an infectious disease
Karin C. Harding, Göteborg University; Michael Begon, University of Liverpool; Bernt Wennberg, Chalmers

4:00 PM

COS 45-8

Alternative stable states in host-phage dynamics
Joshua S. Weitz, Georgia Institute of Technology; Jonathan Dushoff, McMaster University

4:20 PM

COS 45-9

A phylogenetic model to predict likely local host range of plant pathogens
Gregory S. Gilbert, University of California Santa Cruz; Campbell O. Webb, Arnold Arboretum of Harvard University

4:40 PM

COS 45-10

Biotic predictors of local mosquito communities
Nathan D. Burkett-Cadena, Auburn University; Micky D. Eubanks, Texas A&M University; Thomas R. Unnasch, University of South Florida

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