93rd ESA Annual Meeting (August 3 -- August 8, 2008)

8:00 AM

COS 27-1

Using a large-scale, process-based approach to evaluate impact and manage riparian forests
Alexander K. Fremier, University of Idaho; Evan H. Girvetz, University of Washington; Steven E. Greco, University of California, Davis; Eric W. Larsen, University of California, Davis

8:20 AM

COS 27-2

Applying species-abundance distributions to microbenthic fossil communities to test community health during the rapid global warming of the Paleocene-Eocene thermal maximum
Amelinda E. Webb, San Diego State University; Lindsey R. Leighton, University of Alberta; Stephen A. Schellenberg, San Diego State University; Elizabeth A Landau, San Diego State University; Ellen Thomas, Yale University

8:40 AM

COS 27-3

Dynamical patterns and ecological impacts of changing ocean pH in a high-resolution multi-year dataset
J. Timothy Wootton, The University of Chicago; Catherine A. Pfister, University of Chicago; James D. Forester, University of Minnesota

9:00 AM

COS 27-4

Simulated interactions between spruce budworm and fire: Comparing the past with the future
Brian R. Sturtevant, U.S. Forest Service; Brian R. Miranda, U.S. Forest Service; Douglas J. Shinneman, The Nature Conservancy; Eric J. Gustafson, U.S. Forest Service

9:20 AM

COS 27-5

Modeling potential habitat distribution for freshwater diatom Didymosphenia geminata in the continental United States
Sunil Kumar, Colorado State University; Thomas J. Stohlgren, Natural Resource Ecology Laboratory; Sarah A. Spaulding, University of Colorado

9:40 AM

COS 27-

Break

9:50 AM

COS 27-6

Sex, clones, and demography: Reproductive allocation impacts longevity and genetic structure in two intertidal seagrasses
A. Ole Shelton, Center for Stock Assessment Research

10:10 AM

COS 27-7

Modeling stream invertebrates and their habitat using Bayesian belief networks - CANCELLED
Russell Death, Massey University; Rob Buxton, Massey University; Mike K. Joy, Massey University

10:30 AM

COS 27-8

Comparison of population viability models with 15 years of data from a restored population of the federally threatened pitcher’s thistle
Timothy J. Bell, Chicago State University; Kristin I. Powell, The National Socio-Environmental Synthesis Center; Marlin L. Bowles, The Morton Arboretum

10:50 AM

COS 27-9

Groundwater controls on vegetation patterning in wet meadow ecosystems of the Sierra Nevada, CA
Steven P. Loheide II, University of Wisconsin-Madison; Richard S. Deitchman, University of Wisconsin - Madison; David J. Cooper, Colorado State University; Evan C. Wolf, Colorado State University; Christopher T. Hammersmark, University of California –Davis; Jessica D. Lundquist, University of Washington

11:10 AM

COS 27-10

Sensitivity analyses of a subsidized metapopulation model for a harvested shellfish population
Carly A. Strasser, Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution; Hal Caswell, Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution; Michael G. Neubert, Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution

COS 27 - Modeling I