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

8:00 AM

COS 42-1

Population persistence of a riparian plant Silene tatarica in Northern Finland
Rui Zhang, Harvard University; Anne Jäkäläniemi, University of Oulu; Elizabeth E. Crone, Tufts University

8:20 AM

COS 42-2

Making the most of your matrix model: Novel analytical techniques for effective population management
Iain M. Stott, University of Exeter, Cornwall Campus; David J. Hodgson, University of Exeter, Cornwall Campus; Stuart B. Townley, University of Exeter

8:40 AM

COS 42-3

Does expected future habitat condition support proposed population objectives for boreal landbirds in Bird Conservation Region 6 - Boreal Taiga Plains
C. Lisa Mahon, Environment Canada; Erin M. Bayne, University of Alberta; Peter Solymos, Boreal Avian Modelling Project; Steven M. Matsuoka, Boreal Avian Modelling Project; Matthew Carlson, ALCES Landscape and Land-Use Limited; Elston Dzus, Alberta-Pacific Forest Industries Incorporated

9:00 AM

COS 42-4

Comparative Demography of Anthriscus caucalis across plant communities in its novel range: Inferences for population spread
John Wallace, University of Idaho; Timothy S. Prather, University of Idaho

9:20 AM

COS 42-5

Crowdsourcing ecological research: Using the Trails Forward simulation platform and video game to address conservation issues
Steven R. Wangen, University of Wisconsin-Madison; Ben Shapiro, Tufts University; Michael Ferris, University of Wisconsin-Madison

9:40 AM

COS 42-

Break

9:50 AM

COS 42-6

The interplay between random catastrophes and Allee effects on the dynamics of local populations in a metapopulation
Edmund M. Hart, University of British Columbia; Leticia Avilés, University of British Columbia

10:10 AM

COS 42-7

Fire and flood in the bosque: a cottonwood population model for flow-restricted streams of the American Southwest
D. Max Smith, USDA Forest Service Rocky Mountain Research Station; Deborah M. Finch, USDA Forest Service Rocky Mountain Research Station; David A. Lytle, Oregon State University; David M. Merritt, US Forest Service Watershed, Fish, and Wildlife

10:30 AM

COS 42-8

Estimating a population model for stage-structured cohort data with individual heterogeneity in development
Katherine Scranton, Yale University; Jonas Knape, University of California - Berkeley, Berkeley, CA; Perry de Valpine, University of California - Berkeley

10:50 AM

COS 42-9

Annual turnover in bat occupancy patterns: predictions from life history theory with implications for conservation and monitoring
Thomas J. Rodhouse, National Park Service; Patricia C. Ormsbee, US Forest Service; Kathryn M. Irvine, US Geological Survey; Lee A. Vierling, University of Idaho; Joseph M. Szewczak, Humboldt State University; Kerri T. Vierling, University of Idaho

11:10 AM

COS 42-10

Heading for a cliff: Can dramatic declines in elk recruitment cause lagged population declines?
Thomas A. Morrison, Wake Forest University; Matthew J. Kauffman, United States Geological Survey, Wyoming Cooperative Fish and Wildlife Research Unit; Arthur D. Middleton, Yale University; Douglas E. McWhirter, Wyoming Game and Fish Department

COS 42 - Modeling: Populations II