95th ESA Annual Meeting (August 1 -- 6, 2010)

Thursday, August 5, 2010: 8:00 AM-11:30 AM

320, David L Lawrence Convention Center

Presider:

Roberto Salguero-Gomez, The University of Queensland

8:00 AM

COS 88-1

Do natural populations approach their stable stage distributions?
Jennifer L. Williams, University of British Columbia; Martha M. Ellis, University of Montana; Mary C. Bricker, University of Montana; Jedediah F. Brodie, University of Montana; Elliott W. Parsons, University of Montana

8:20 AM

COS 88-2

A quantitative evaluation of the trophic cascade hypothesis for hantavirus outbreaks
Angela D. Luis, Colorado State University; Richard Douglass, Montana Tech of the University of Montana; Ottar N. Bjornstad, Penn State University

8:40 AM

COS 88-3

Transient dynamics influences plant establishment following a dispersal event: A case study with Penstemon haydenii
Brigitte Tenhumberg, University of Nebraska-Lincoln; Richard Rebarber, University of Nebraska-Lincoln; Kay Kottas, University of Nebraska

9:00 AM

COS 88-4

Population dynamics of toxic algal blooms in Lake Champlain: A tale of two phases
Edmund M. Hart, University of British Columbia; Nicholas J. Gotelli, University of Vermont; Rebecca Gorney, University of Vermont; Mary Watzin, University of Vermont

9:20 AM

COS 88-5

The role of environmental stochasticity in reducing the amplitude of population fluctuations
Ben C. Nolting, Case Western Reserve University; Chad E. Brassil, University of Nebraska

9:40 AM

COS 88-

Break

9:50 AM

COS 88-6

Opposing effects of frequency-dependent and frequency-independent selection on species abundance distributions
Ian T. Carroll, Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution; Roger M. Nisbet, University of California, Santa Barbara

10:10 AM

COS 88-7

A mathematical model for antibiotic resistant bacteria in the Mud River, WV
Anna Mummert, Marshall University; Bonita Lawrence, Marshall University; Charles Somerville, Marshall University

10:30 AM

COS 88-8

Using agent-based models to determine how Gypsy moth feeding behavior affects transmission of LdNPV
Libby Eakin, University of Chicago; Greg Dwyer, University of Chicago

10:50 AM

COS 88-9

Modeling the malaria vector: Population dynamics of Anopheles mosquitoes with respect to temperature
Lindsay M. Beck-Johnson, Colorado State University; Ottar N. Bjornstad, Penn State University; William A. Nelson, Queen's University; Andrew F. Read, Penn State University; Matthew B. Thomas, Penn State University

11:10 AM

COS 88-10

Linking the Metabolic Theory of Ecology with Conservation Biology: The Influence of Body Mass on Extinction Time
Robert Matlock, College of Staten Island; Tobias Schaefer, College of Staten Island

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COS 88 - Population Dynamics: Modeling