COS 69 - Population Dynamics And Regulation I

Tuesday, August 7, 2012: 1:30 PM-5:00 PM
Portland Blrm 258, Oregon Convention Center
1:30 PM
 Mass-density relationships within and among self-thinning populations of Fagopyrum esculentum
Lei Li, University of Virginia; Jacob Weiner, University of Copenhagen; Daowei Zhou, Chinese Academy of Science; Lianxi Sheng, Northeast Normal University
1:50 PM
 Evidence for an ideal free distribution in a migratory bird population in experimentally altered habitat
Samuel Haché, University of Alberta; Marc-André Villard, Université de Moncton; Erin M. Bayne, University of Alberta
2:10 PM
 Species coexistence in a host-multiparasitoid community: The interplay between biotic and abiotic environmental variation
Christopher A. Johnson, University of Arizona; Priyanga Amarasekare, University of California, Los Angeles
2:30 PM
 Tree size distribution, population trend and shade tolerance
Yue Bin, South China Botanical Garden, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China; School of Life Sciences, Sun Yat-Sen University, China; Wanhui Ye, South China Botanical Garden, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China; Helene C. Muller-Landau, Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute; Linfang Wu, South China Botanical Garden, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China; Honglin Cao, South China Botanical Garden, CAS; Juyu Lian, South China Botanical Garden, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China
2:50 PM
 Alternative resources for apex predators limit their population growth and top-down control of their prey
Anieke Van Leeuwen, Princeton University; Magnus Huss, Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences; Anna Gårdmark, Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences; Michele Casini, Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences; Francesca Vitale, Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences; Joakim Hjelm, Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences; Lennart Persson, Umeå University; André M. de Roos, University of Amsterdam
3:10 PM
3:20 PM
 Dynamics of plankton blooms: lessons from an epidemiological model
Alan Hastings, University of California, Davis; John Largier, University of California
3:40 PM
 Complex responses to environmental temperature fluctuations in populations of Lemna minor
Joseph S. Phillips, University of Nebraska-Lincoln; Elizabeth M. Novich, University of Nebraska-Lincoln; Cale S. Hadan, University of Nebraska-Lincoln; Chad E. Brassil, University of Nebraska
4:00 PM
 Population dynamics across species range: Among-tidal level difference in population dynamics of intertidal barnacle Chthamalus dalli
Keiichi Fukaya, Hokkaido University; Takehiro Okuda, National Research Institute of Far Seas Fisheries; Masahiro Nakaoka, Hokkaido University; Takashi Noda, Hokkaido University
4:20 PM
 Within-group genetic relatedness affects survival and recruitment of group-living rodents
Guiming Wang, Mississippi State University; Wei Liu, International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis (IIASA); Yanni Wang, Zhejiang Normal University; Xinrong Wan, Institute of Zoology, Chinese Academy of Sciences; Wenqing Zhong, Institute of Zoology, Chinese Academy of Sciences
4:40 PM
 Recruitment variability and the Marine Protected Area Effect: Considering multiple life stages in the evaluation of protected areas
Kirsten Grorud-Colvert, Oregon State University; Jennifer E. Caselle, University of California, Santa Barbara