96th ESA Annual Meeting (August 7 -- 12, 2011)

Thursday, August 11, 2011: 8:00 AM-11:30 AM

12B, Austin Convention Center

8:00 AM

Combining population counts and demographic data to estimate vital rates of wildlife populations
Fitsum Abadi, University of Cape Town

8:20 AM

Beyond randomization: A probabilistic model for analyzing species co-occurrence
Joseph A. Veech, Texas State University - San Marcos

8:40 AM

Quantile equivalence for evaluating habitat management or restoration objectives
Brian S. Cade, U. S. Geological Survey

9:00 AM

A method for detecting among-individual differences in growth rate without marking individuals
Mollie E. Brooks, University of Florida; Michael McCoy, East Carolina University; Benjamin M. Bolker, McMaster University

9:20 AM

Implications of using an optimal alpha approach for statistical hypothesis tests in ecology
Joseph F. Mudge, University of New Brunswick; Tim J. Barrett, University of New Brunswick; Kelly R. Munkittrick, University of New Brunswick; Jeff Houlahan, University of New Brunswick

9:40 AM

Break

9:50 AM

Discharge–calcium concentration relationships in streams of the Amazon and Cerrado of Brazil: Soil or land use controlled
Daniel Markewitz, The University of Georgia; E. Conrad Lamon III, Statistical Ecology Associates LLC; Mercedes MMC Bustamante, Universidade de Brasilia; Joaquin Chaves, Brown University; Ricardo O. Figueiredo, Embrapa Meio Ambiente; Mark S. Johnson, University of British Columbia; Alex V. Krusche, CENA/USP; Christopher Neill, Marine Biological Laboratory; José S. O. Silva, Universidade de Brasilia

10:10 AM

Fitting complex population models by combining particle filters with markov chain Monte Carlo
Jonas Knape, University of California - Berkeley, Berkeley, CA; Perry de Valpine, University of California - Berkeley

10:30 AM

When weakness is a strength: The importance of primary tie-treatment in nonmetric multidimensional scaling ordination of community data with high beta diversity
Peter R. Minchin, Southern Illinois University Edwardsville; Jari Oksanen, University of Oulu

10:50 AM

Modelling variable development using shared frailty models for interval-censored data
Katherine Scranton, Yale University; Perry de Valpine, University of California - Berkeley

11:10 AM

Long-term trends in uncertainty of element fluxes at the Hubbard Brook Experimental Forest
Mark B. Green, Plymouth State University; Donald C. Buso, Cary Institute of Ecosystem Studies; John L. Campbell, USDA Forest Service; Carrie Rose Levine, SUNY College of Environmental Science and Forestry; Gene E. Likens, Cary Institute of Ecosystem Studies; Ruth D. Yanai, SUNY College of Environmental Science and Forestry

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