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

8:00 AM

COS 192-1

The evolution of intermittent breeding
Allison K. Shaw, University of Minnesota; Simon A. Levin, Princeton University

8:20 AM

COS 192-2

Transient dynamics and the evolution of stage-structured life histories
David J. Hodgson, University of Exeter, Cornwall Campus; Iain M. Stott, University of Exeter, Cornwall Campus; Chris Coles, University of Exeter, Cornwall Campus; Stuart Townley, University of Exeter

8:40 AM

COS 192-3

A stochastic dynamic programming approach to predict life history evolution in invasive plants
Cristina F. Aragón, University of California Santa Cruz; Ingrid M. Parker, University of California, Santa Cruz; Marc Mangel, University of California at Santa Cruz

9:00 AM

COS 192-4

Can functional traits explain variation in plant life history strategies?
Peter B. Adler, Utah State University; Aldo Compagnoni, Rice University; Joanna Hsu, University of California, Berkeley; Roberto Salguero-Gomez, The University of Queensland; Jayanthi Mukherjee, Utah State University; Andrew R. Kleinhesselink, Utah State University

9:20 AM

COS 192-5

Low demographic variability in wild primate populations: Fitness impacts of variation, covariation, and serial correlation in vital rates
William F. Morris, Duke University; Jeanne Altmann, Princeton University; Diane K. Brockman, Department of Anthropology, University of North Carolina-Charlotte, Charlotte, NC; Marina Cords, Department of Ecology, Evolution and Environmental Biology, Columbia University, New York, NY; Linda M. Fedigan, Department of Anthropology, University of Calgary, Calgary, Alberta; Anne E. Pusey, Department of Evolutionary Anthropology, Duke University, Durham, NC; Tara S. Stoinski, The Dian Fossey Gorilla Fund International and Zoo Atlanta, Atlanta, GA; Anne M. Bronikowski, Iowa State University; Susan C. Alberts, Duke University; Karen B. Strier, Department of Anthropology, University of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison, WI

9:40 AM

COS 192-

Break

9:50 AM

COS 192-6

Influence of non-lethal costs of reproduction on life history evolution in a long-lived orchid
Jennifer L. Williams, University of British Columbia; Tom E. X. Miller, Rice University; Eelke Jongejans, Radboud University Nijmegen; Rein Brys, KU Leuven; Hans Jacquemyn, University of Leuven

10:10 AM

COS 192-7

Selective pressure for increased demographic variability in a perennial plant community
Robin E. Snyder, Case Western Reserve University; Peter B. Adler, Utah State University; Stephen P. Ellner, Cornell University

10:30 AM

COS 192-8

Effects of maternal size, reproductive investment and habitat conditions on juvenile life history in Pacific salmon
Douglas Braun, Simon Fraser Univeristy; David A. Patterson, Fisheries and Oceans Canada; John Reynolds, Hakai Institute

10:50 AM Cancelled

COS 192-9

Comparative study of the reproductive systems in a cactus genus from the Chihuahuan Desert
Concepción Martínez-Peralta, Escuela de Estudios Superiores del Jicarero, Universidad Autónoma del Estado de Morelos; Francisco Molina-Freaner, Estación Regional del Noroeste, Instituto de Ecología, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México; Jordan Golubov Sr., Universidad Autónoma Metropolitana; María C. Mandujano, Instituto de Ecología. Universidad Nacional Atónoma de México

COS 192 - Life History Theory And Evolution