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

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

18A, Austin Convention Center

8:00 AM

The value of mechanistic models for understanding species’ ranges
Leslie Ries, University of Maryland; Jessica B. Turner, West Virginia University; Karen Oberhauser, University of Minnesota; Rebecca Betalden, University of Minnesota; Thomas Mueller, Goethe University; Lisa G. Crozier, NOAA Fisheries

8:20 AM

Liebig's law meets species ranges - a new species distribution model
Brian J. McGill, University of Maine; Murray M. Humphries, McGill University

8:40 AM

Informative incongruences between niche based models and process based models
Josep M. Serra-Diaz, Arizona State University; Trevor Keenan, Harvard University; Miquel Ninyerola, Universitat Autonoma de Barcelona; Francisco Lloret, CREAF-Autonomous University of Barcelona; Santiago Sabate, Universitat de Barcelona; Carlos A. Gracia, Universidad de Barcelona

9:00 AM

The role of enemies and conspicuousness in edaphic adaptation
Sharon Y. Strauss, University of California, Davis; N. Ivalu Cacho, UC Davis

9:20 AM

The role of competition in serpentine specialization in a clade of Californian mustards
N. Ivalu Cacho, UC Davis; Sharon Y. Strauss, University of California, Davis

9:40 AM

Break

9:50 AM

Bottom-up effects of edaphics on adjacent Mojave Desert shrub communities, and the distribution of the edaphic endemic, Astragalus jaegerianus Munz
Barry A. Prigge, University of California, Los Angeles; Thomas R. Huggins, University of California Los Angeles; Rasoul Sharifi, University of California, Los Angeles; Philip W. Rundel, University of California, Los Angeles

10:10 AM

Watershed scale predictors of freshwater mussel distribution in Austin, Texas
Alexander M. Duncan, City of Austin

10:30 AM

Towards a unified theory of the ecology of sociality
Leticia Avilés, University of British Columbia

10:50 AM

The relationship between abundance and range-size in Neotropical butterflies (Nymphalidae: Ithomiini)
Geoffrey R. Gallice, University of Florida

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