Tuesday, August 3, 2010: 8:00 AM-11:30 AM
412, David L Lawrence Convention Center
COS 28 - Modeling I
8:00 AMDoes accounting for imperfect detection improve species distribution models?
Christopher T. Rota, University of Missouri, Robert J. Fletcher Jr., University of Florida, Jason M. Evans, University of Florida, Richard L. Hutto, University of Montana
8:20 AMNonlinear interaction and feedback of mire ecosystem in northern Japan
Tadanobu Nakayama, National Institute for Environmental Studies (NIES, Japan); Centre for Ecology & Hydrology (CEH, UK)
8:40 AMProfiting from pilot study data: Bayesian models of eucalypt seedling mortality with informative priors
William K. Morris, The University of Melbourne, Peter A. Vesk, The University of Melbourne, Michael A. McCarthy, The University of Melbourne, Patrick J. Baker, Monash University
9:00 AMRevisiting the bestiary of plant growth models, and advancing toward a unified mechanistic model of growth
C. E. Timothy Paine, Universität Zürich, Lindsay A. Turnbull, University of Zürich, Drew Purves, Microsoft Reserach, Cambridge, Toby Marthews, University of Oxford, Andrew Hector, University of Zurich
9:20 AMEvidence for resource homogenization in 50 trophic ecosystem networks
Stuart R. Borrett, University of North Carolina Wilmington, Andria K. Salas, University of North Carolina Wilmington
9:40 AMBreak
9:50 AMModeling west nile virus: Vector host preferences drive enzootic transmission in the northeastern United States
Jennifer E. Simpson, Yale University, Paul Hurtado, Cornell University, Jan Medlock, Clemson University, Goudarz Molaei, The Connecticut Agricultural Experiment Station, Theodore G. Andreadis, The Connecticut Agricultural Experiment Station, Alison Galvani, Yale University, Maria Diuk-Wasser, Yale University
10:10 AMVegetation response to climate change: Usable results from SDMs and DGVMs
Becky K. Kerns, USFS, Pacific Northwest Research Station, Dominique Bachelet, Conservation Biology Institute and Oregon State University, Michelle Buonopane, USFS Pacific Northwest Research Station
10:30 AMChoosing biologically meaningful variables for modeling species distributions
Leone M. Brown, Stony Brook University, Jorge Velasquez-Tibata, Stony Brook University, Wolfgang Buermann, UCLA Institute of Environment, Catherine Graham, Stony Brook University

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