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

8:00 AM

Testing the data transfer capabilities of WildSense: A GPS-based wildlife tracking network
Melanie J. Davis, Michigan State University; N. Thompson Hobbs, Colorado State University; Michael W. Miller, Colorado Division of Wildlife; Sravan Kumar Thokala, University of Colorado; Xinyu Xing, University of Colorado; Richard Han, University of Colorado; Shivakant Mishra, University of Colorado

8:20 AM

Density estimation on preys of Amur tiger (wild boar and Siberian roe deer) using camera traps
Qin Li, University of British Columbia; Limin Feng, Beijing Normal University; Yu Tian, Beijing Normal University; Huaru Wang, Beijing Normal University; Xuejiao Li, Beijing Normal University; Shuo Mou, Beijing Normal University; Li Zhang, Beijing Normal University; Tianming Wang, Beijing Normal University; Paul P. Mou, Beijing Normal University; Jianguo Wu, Arizona State University; Xiaojun Kou, Beijing Normal University; Jianping Ge, Beijing Normal University

8:40 AM

Quantifying secondary pest outbreaks in cotton and their monetary cost with causal inference statistics
Kevin Gross, North Carolina State University; Jay A. Rosenheim, University of California

9:00 AM

The paradox of a fire-sensitive species in a fire-dependent ecosystem: Habitat specialist or anachronism?
Wade A. Wall, US Army Corps of Engineers ERDC - CERL; William A. Hoffmann, North Carolina State University; Thomas R. Wentworth, NC State University; Janet B. Gray, Fort Bragg; Matthew G. Hohmann, US Army Corps of Engineers ERDC - CERL

9:20 AM

Combined effects of competition and herbivory limit population growth and spread of Cirsium vulgare: Demographic comparison of an introduced thistle with its native congener
Brigitte Tenhumberg, University of Nebraska-Lincoln; Tomomi Suwa, Michigan State University and W.K. Kellogg Biological Station; F. Leland Russell, Wichita State University; Svata Louda, University of Nebraska

9:40 AM

Break

9:50 AM

The additive contributions of density-dependence and density-independence to population dynamics
Ned A. Dochtermann, University of Nevada, Reno; Mary M. Peacock, University of Nevada, Reno

10:10 AM

Summer precipitation synchronizes mast flowering with a four-year lag in a long-lived monocarpic gentian
David W. Inouye, Rocky Mountain Biological Laboratory

10:30 AM

Mating functions for 2 sex population dynamics: Effects of density and genetic diversity
Brian D. Inouye, Rocky Mountain Biological Laboratory; Tom E. X. Miller, Rice University; Travis McDevitt-Galles, Florida State University

10:50 AM

Population characteristics of Coreius guichenoti (Sauvage et Dabry) in the upper reaches of Yangtze River
Can Zhou, Texas A&M University; Qian Zhu, Shandong University at Weihai; Masami Fujiwara, Texas A&M University; Huanzhang Liu, Institute of Hydrobiology, CAS

11:10 AM

Ecological sources of variation among individuals in cone production in Pinus palustris Mill. (Pinaceae)
Gordon A. Fox, Stellenbosch Institute for Advanced Studies; Kelly L. Haymes, University of South Florida

COS 65 - Population Dynamics and Regulation I