Thursday, August 6, 2009: 1:30 PM-5:00 PM
Grand Pavillion V, Hyatt
COS 113 - Statistics, Sampling, and Methods
1:30 PMCOS 113-1Does nonlinear rescaling of axes in detrended correspondence analysis (DCA) and detrended canonical correspondence analysis (DCCA) produce ecologically meaningful measures of beta diversity?
Jari Oksanen, University of Oulu, Peter R. Minchin, Southern Illinois University Edwardsville
1:50 PMCOS 113-2Simple remote sensing metrics predict forest bird richness across geographically diverse agricultural regions
Jai Ranganathan, National Center for Ecological Analysis and Synthesis
2:10 PMCOS 113-3Optimizing sampling timing and location to capture genetic material from brown bears: Expert opinion is good value
Grant M. Harris, United States Fish and Wildlife Service, Sean D. Farley, Alaska Department of Fish and Game, Gareth J. Russell, New Jersey Institute of Technology and Rutgers University, John Morton, US Fish and Wildlife Service, Jeff Selinger, Alaska Department of Fish and Game
2:30 PMCOS 113-4Optimizing monitoring strategies in the semi-arid shrublands of southern California: A variance decomposition approach
Spring L. Strahm, San Diego State University, Douglas H. Deutschman, San Diego State University
2:50 PMCOS 113-5Mesocosm volume and shape affect phytoplankton biomass: Implications for comparing biological processes across experimental scales
Amanda C. Spivak, Miami University, Allison L. Babler, Miami University, Nicole M. Hayes, Miami University, Lesley B. Knoll, Miami University, Elizabeth Mette, Miami University, Freya Rowland, Miami University, Michael J. Vanni, Miami University
3:10 PM Break
3:20 PMCOS 113-6CANCELLED - The spatial scale at which climate and forest composition influence spruce budworm outbreak synchrony
David R. Gray, Natural Resources Canada
3:40 PMCOS 113-7Embracing multicollinearity in comparing the effects of habitat loss and fragmentation
Adam C. Smith, Carleton University, Lenore Fahrig, Carleton University, Charles M. Francis, Environment Canada, Nicola Koper, University of Manitoba
4:00 PMCOS 113-8Modelling small-sample distribution of abundance count data: the example of fish in the Rhone basin
Lise Vaudor, Cemagref, Nicolas Lamouroux, Cemagref

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