COS 185 - Diversity Estimation

Friday, August 10, 2012: 8:00 AM-11:30 AM
E142, Oregon Convention Center
8:00 AM
 Estimating species extinction rates: Spatial distribution of species and geometry of habitat destruction
Fangliang He, Sun Yat-sen University; Xiaoling Yang, Sun Yat-sen University; Stephen P. Hubbell, Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute
8:40 AM
 Citizen science to map the flora of the Zurich region, Switzerland
Thomas Wohlgemuth, Swiss Federal Research Institute for Forest, Snow and Landscape Research WSL; Petra Bachmann, Swiss Federal Research Institute for Forest, Snow and Landscape Research WSL; Andreas Keel, Fachstelle Naturschutz; Michael Kessler, Institute of Systematic Botany; Michael P. Nobis, Swiss Federal Research Institute for Forest, Snow and Landscape Research WSL; Reto Nyffeler, Institute of Systematic Botany; John H. Spillmann, Institute of Systematic Botany; Gabriela S. Wyss, Sukkulenten-Sammlung
9:00 AM Cancelled
 Bird distribution: Breeding birds distribution pattern in different land use in mountainous hills in Nepal
Tej B. Basnet, Tribhuvan University; Odd W. Jacobsen, Bergen University College; Khadga Basnet, Tribhuvan University
9:20 AM
 All for one or one for all? Mapping many species individually vs. simultaneously with random forest
Emilie B. Henderson, Oregon State University; Janet Ohmann, Pacific Northwest Research Station, USDA Forest Service; Matt Gregory, Oregon State University; Heather M. Roberts, Oregon State University
9:40 AM
9:50 AM
 Calling the odds in the gamble of bioassessment: The importance of quantifying taxonomic sufficiency
Kieran A. Monaghan, University of Aveiro; Amadeu Soares, University of Aveiro
10:10 AM
 Understanding lichen diversity on remote areas using parataxonomic units as a surrogate for species richness
Paula V. Casanovas, University of Maryland; Heather J. Lynch, SUNY Stony Brook; William F. Fagan, University of Maryland
10:50 AM
 Relationships between tree diversity and aboveground biomass in some hardwood forests of Alabama
Santosh K. Ojha, Alabama A&M University; Luben Dimov, Alabama A&M University