94th ESA Annual Meeting (August 2 -- 7, 2009)

COS 113 - Statistics, Sampling, and Methods

Thursday, August 6, 2009: 1:30 PM-5:00 PM

Grand Pavillion V, Hyatt

Presider:

Grant M. Harris, United States Fish and Wildlife Service

1:30 PM

COS 113-1

Does 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 PM

COS 113-2

Simple remote sensing metrics predict forest bird richness across geographically diverse agricultural regions
Jai Ranganathan, National Center for Ecological Analysis and Synthesis

2:10 PM

COS 113-3

Optimizing 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 PM

COS 113-4

Optimizing 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 PM

COS 113-5

Mesocosm volume and shape affect phytoplankton biomass: Implications for comparing biological processes across experimental scales
Amanda C. Spivak, U.S. EPA; Allison L. Babler, Miami University; Nicole M. Hayes, Miami University; Lesley B. Knoll, Miami University / Lacawac Sanctuary; Elizabeth Mette, Miami University; Freya Rowland, Miami University; Michael J. Vanni, Miami University

3:10 PM

COS 113-

Break

3:20 PM

COS 113-6

CANCELLED - The spatial scale at which climate and forest composition influence spruce budworm outbreak synchrony
David R. Gray, Natural Resources Canada

3:40 PM

COS 113-7

Embracing 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 PM

COS 113-8

Modelling 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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