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

1:30 PM

COS 20-1

A conceptual framework for analyzing demographic heterogeneity
Gordon A. Fox, Stellenbosch Institute for Advanced Studies; Bruce E. Kendall, University of California Santa Barbara

1:50 PM Cancelled

COS 20-2

Simulation of climate-host-parasite-landscape interactions: A spatially-explicit model for ticks (Ixodidae)
Hsiao-Hsuan Wang, Texas A&M University; William E. Grant, Texas A&M University; Pete D. Teel, Texas A&M University

2:10 PM

COS 20-3

Ups and downs: Long-term songbird population trends across an elevational gradient in the Hubbard Brook Experimental Forest, NH
Sarah J. K. Frey, Oregon State University; Nicholas L. Rodenhouse, Wellesley College; Scott Sillett, Smithsonian Conservation Biology Institute; Richard T. Holmes, Dartmouth College; Matthew G. Betts, Oregon State University

2:30 PM

COS 20-4

Disturbance frequency and vertical distribution of seeds affect long-term population dynamics: A mechanistic seed bank model
Brigitte Tenhumberg, University of Nebraska-Lincoln; Eric Alan Eager, University of Wisconsin - La Crosse; Chirakkal V. Haridas, University of Nebraska, Lincoln; Diana Pilson, University of Nebraska-Lincoln; Richard Rebarber, University of Nebraska-Lincoln

2:50 PM

COS 20-5

Changing seascapes, stochastic connectivity and marine metapopulation dynamics
James R. Watson, Princeton University; Bruce E. Kendall, University of California Santa Barbara; David A. Siegel, University of California Santa Barbara; Satoshi Mitarai, Okinawa Institute of Science and Technology

3:10 PM

COS 20-

Break

3:20 PM

COS 20-6

Why are metapopulations so rare?
Emanuel A. Fronhofer, University of Wuerzburg; Alexander Kubisch, University of Wuerzburg; Frank M. Hilker, University of Bath; Thomas Hovestadt, University of Wuerzburg; Hans Joachim Poethke, University of Wuerzburg

3:40 PM

COS 20-7

The implications of asymmetric dispersal for connectivity and colonization-extinction dynamics
Miguel A. Acevedo, Louisiana State University; Robert J. Fletcher Jr., University of Florida; Raymond L. Tremblay, University of Puerto Rico at Humacao; Elvia Meléndez, Institute for Tropical Ecosystem Studies (ITES)

4:00 PM

COS 20-8

The maintenance of clonal diversity and stability in environmentally forced metapopulations
Christopher F. Steiner, Wayne State University; Richard Stockwell, Wayne State University; Monica Tadros, Wayne State University; Laila Khraizat, Wayne State University

4:20 PM

COS 20-9

Use of temporal variation in population and climatic synchrony to identify causal mechanisms
Andrew J. Allstadt, University of Wisconsin; Kyle J. Haynes, University of Virginia; Andrew M. Liebhold, USDA Forest Service; Derek Johnson, Virginia Commonwealth University

4:40 PM

COS 20-10

Spatial synchrony in a model system: A minimum dispersal threshold and the importance of demographic stochasticity
Geoffrey Legault, University of Colorado at Boulder; Jeremy W. Fox, University of Calgary

COS 20 - Population Dynamics