97th ESA Annual Meeting (August 5 -- 10, 2012)

8:00 AM

COS 89-1

Assessing niche partitioning and competition between sympatric thrashers
Milind Bunyan, University of Nevada Las Vegas, School of Life Sciences; Jef R. Jaeger, University of Nevada Las Vegas; Richard D. Inman, U.S. Geological Survey, Western Ecological Research Center; Dawn M. Fletcher, Great Basin Bird Observatory; Kenneth E. Nussear, US Geological Survey, Westen Ecological Research Center

8:20 AM

COS 89-2

Boosted regression tree analysis of juvenile salmonids and their freshwater habitat in the Pacific Northwest
Kevin E. See, National Marine Fisheries Service, National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration; Chris Jordan, NOAA Fisheries; Michael Ward, Terraqua; Chris Beasley, Quantitative Consultants, Inc.; Nick Bouwes, Utah State University; Jody White, Quantitative Consultants, Inc.; Carol Volk, South Fork Research Inc.

8:40 AM

COS 89-3

The Hyper-Envelope Modeling Interface (HEMI): A novel approach to habitat suitability modeling
Jim Graham, Natural Resource Ecology Laborary; Nick Young, Colorado State University; Catherine Jarnevich, U.S. Geological Survey; Greg Newman, Colorado State University; Paul Evangelista, Colorado State University; Thomas J. Stohlgren, Natural Resource Ecology Laboratory

9:00 AM

COS 89-4

Consequences for shorebirds of an intertidal mudflat (Brouage, NE Atlantic) food web functioning in winter
Blanche Saint-Béat, UMR Littoral Environnement et Sociétés; Christine Dupuy, UMR Littoral Environnement et Sociétés; Pierrick Bocher, UMR Littoral Environnement et Sociétés; Margot De Crignis, UMR Littoral Environnement et Sociétés; Camille Fontaine, UMR Littoral Environnement et Sociétés; Katell Guizien, Laboratoire d'Océanographie Biologique de Banyuls; Johann Lavaud, UMR Littoral Environnement et Sociétés; Sébastien Lefebvre, Laboratoire d'Océanographie et de Géoscience; Hélène Montanié, UMR Littoral Environnement et Sociétés; Jean-Luc Mouget, Ecophysiologie et Métabolisme des Microalgues; Pierre-Yves Pascal, UFR SEN; Gwenael Quaintenne, UMR Littoral Environnement et Sociétés; Gilles Radenac, UMR Littoral Environnement et Sociétés; Pierre Richard, Fisheries and Oceans Canada; Fréderic Robin, UMR Littoral Environnement et Sociétés; Nathalie Niquil, UMR Littoral Environnement et Sociétés

9:20 AM

COS 89-5

Predicting optimum growth and lipid accumulation of the microalgae Nannochloropsis salina and minimizing invading organisms with a response surface model
Meridith L. Bartley, New Mexico State University; Wiebke J. Boeing, New Mexico State University

9:40 AM

COS 89-

Break

9:50 AM

COS 89-6

Effects of sample size and species response shape on the performance of different species distribution models: A simulation study
Lifei Wang, University of Toronto; Donald A. Jackson, University of Toronto

10:10 AM

COS 89-7

Past, present, and future impacts of invasive Indo-Pacific lionfish on high-diversity Atlantic fish communities
Stephanie J. Green, Simon Fraser University; Nicholas K. Dulvy, Simon Fraser University; Andrew Cooper, Simon Fraser Univeristy; Isabelle M. Côté, Simon Fraser University/Vancouver Island University

10:30 AM Cancelled

COS 89-8

Flexible Bayesian modeling of groups and niches in food webs
Edward B. Baskerville, University of Michigan; Mercedes Pascual, University of Michigan,Howard Hughes Medical Institute, Santa Fe Institute

10:50 AM

COS 89-9

New approaches to species distribution modeling with Maxent: Rethinking model interpretation, model complexity and prior assumptions
Cory Merow, Smithsonian Environmental Research Center; Matthew Smith, Microsoft Research; John Silander, University of Connecticut

COS 89 - Modeling II