COS 37 - Habitat Structure, Fragmentation, and Connectivity

Tuesday, August 5, 2008: 1:30 PM-5:00 PM
104 C, Midwest Airlines Center
1:30 PM
 Avian community composition within tallgrass plantings and pastures in the Upper Green River watershed, Kentucky
Aaron Hulsey, Western Kentucky University; Wayne Mason, Western Kentucky University; Cabrina L. Hamilton, Western Kentucky University; Albert J. Meier, Western Kentucky University
1:50 PM
 Habitat fragmentation: Effects on endangered hoolock gibbons in northeast India
Debojyoti Chakraborty, Institute of Global Warming and Ecological Studies
2:10 PM
 Eastern hemlock islands in a sea of sugar maple: Landscape-scale factors influence white-tailed deer winter habitat selection
Jill C. Witt, Michigan Technological University; Christopher R. Webster, Michigan Technological University
2:30 PM
 Habitat fragmentation reduces Florida scrub-jay effective dispersal, highlighting the importance of combining direct and indirect dispersal estimates
Aurélie Coulon, Muséum national d'Histoire naturelle; John W Fitzpatrick, Cornell University; Reed Bowman, Archbold Biological Station; Irby J Lovette, Cornell University
2:50 PM
 Response of birds to landscape matrix in fragmented forests in Jamaica:  Dispersal or resource-limitation
Christina M. Kennedy, The Nature Conservancy; Peter Marra, Smithsonian Conservation Biology Institute; Maile C. Neel, University of Maryland; Ruth DeFries, University of Maryland; William F. Fagan, University of Maryland
3:10 PM
3:20 PM
 The metacommunity structure of salt marsh arthropods: Experimental tests of local and spatial mechanisms
Holly M. Martinson, University of Maryland; Robert F. Denno, University of Maryland; William F. Fagan, University of Maryland
4:20 PM
 An experimental test of how habitat corridors alter species-area relationships
Lars Brudvig, Michigan State University; Ellen I. Damschen, University of Wisconsin-Madison
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