COS 46 - Population Dynamics: Modeling

Tuesday, August 7, 2012: 8:00 AM-11:30 AM
Portland Blrm 258, Oregon Convention Center
8:00 AM
 Evaluating the 50% assumption: Greater than expected first-year survival rates for migratory songbirds
Noah G. Perlut, University of New England; Allan M. Strong, University of Vermont
8:20 AM
 Demographic heterogeneity affects population dynamics through multiple pathways
Bruce E. Kendall, University of California Santa Barbara; Gordon A. Fox, Stellenbosch Institute for Advanced Studies; Masami Fujiwara, Texas A&M University; Theresa M. Nogeire, University of Washington; Joseph P. Stover, Lyon College
8:40 AM
 The impact of coupled human-environment system dynamics on alternative stable states of a forest-grassland mosaic ecosystem
Clinton Innes, University of Guelph; Madhur Anand, University of Guelph; A. Carla Staver, Princeton University; Simon A. Levin, Princeton University; Chris T. Bauch, University of Guelph
9:00 AM
 Seed predation reduces the fecundity of a rare plant and leads to population decline
Helen M. Kurkjian, Humboldt State University; Sydney K. Carothers, Humboldt State University; Erik S. Jules, Humboldt State University
9:20 AM
 Consequences of variation in male harem size to population persistence: Modeling poaching and extinction risk of Bengal tigers (Panthera tigris)
Ofer Ovadia, Ben-Gurion university of the Negev; Aviad Horev, Ben Gurion University of the Negev; Reuven Yosef, Ben Gurion University of the Negev; Piotr Tryjanowski, Poznan University of Life Sciences
9:40 AM
9:50 AM
 Movement and growth in humpback chub: Using multistate models for inference from a mixed batch and individual tag dataset
Charles B. Yackulic, US Geological Survey; Colton Finch, University of Florida; William A. Pine III, University of Florida
10:10 AM
 Estimating the degree of compensation from fluctuations in fish biomass
Justin D. Yeakel, Simon Fraser University; Marc Mangel, University of California at Santa Cruz
10:30 AM
 Investigating the selective survival of threatened steelhead juveni
Mathieu M. Buoro, University of California, Berkeley; Jason L. Hwan, University of California, Berkeley; Stephanie M. Carlson, University of California, Berkeley
10:50 AM
 Signature of the initial state in absorbing Markov chains: Theory and an application to Batrachochytrium dendrobatidis infection
Ian T. Carroll, Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution; Roger M. Nisbet, University of California, Santa Barbara; Cheryl J. Briggs, University of California, Santa Barbara
11:10 AM
 Modeling the dynamics of disturbance in mussel beds
Melo-Jean C. Yap, California State University, Los Angeles; Robert A. Desharnais, California State University, Los Angeles; Carlos Robles, California State University, Los Angeles; Ling Cao, California State University; Edgar Diaz, California State University, Los Angeles