COS 25 - Theoretical Ecology

Monday, August 6, 2012: 1:30 PM-5:00 PM
D135, Oregon Convention Center
1:30 PM
 The effects of spatial configurations on metaecosystem stability and functioning
Justin N. Marleau, McGill University; Frederic Guichard, McGill University; Michel Loreau, Station d'Ecologie Expérimentale du CNRS à Moulis
1:50 PM
 What's so special about alternative stable states?
Karen C. Abbott, Case Western Reserve University
2:10 PM
 Strain diversity and disease risk – implications for malaria elimination
Yael Artzy-Randrup, University of Michigan and Howard Hughes Medical Institute; Karen P. Day, New York University School of Medicine; Mercedes Pascual, University of Michigan,Howard Hughes Medical Institute, Santa Fe Institute
2:30 PM
 Coexistence destabilizing mechanisms from nonlinear predation in a variable environment
Simon M. Stump, Michigan State University; Peter Chesson, University of Arizona
2:50 PM
 The influence of speciation on the evolution of complex food web structure
Rosalyn C. Rael, Tulane University; Neo D. Martinez, Pacific Ecoinformatics and Computational Ecology Lab; University of Arizona
3:10 PM
3:20 PM
 Must food web models consider adaptive behavior to consider adaptive behavior?
Antonio J. Golubski, Kennesaw State University; Edward B. Baskerville, University of Michigan; Mercedes Pascual, University of Michigan,Howard Hughes Medical Institute, Santa Fe Institute
3:40 PM
 Whole-tree and branch-level allometry in savannas: Testing Metabolic Scaling Theory in a non-ideal system
Andrew Tredennick, Colorado State University; Lisa Patrick Bentley, University of Arizona; Niall Hanan, South Dakota State University
4:20 PM
 Investigating temporal patterns in the force of infection of dengue virus transmission using longitudinal serologic data
Robert C. Reiner Jr., University of California, Davis; Alun Lloyd, North Carolina State University; Aaron A. King, University of Michigan; Steven T. Stoddard, University of California, Davis; Tadeusz Kochel, Naval Medical Research Center; Eric Halsey, Naval Medical Research Center; Amy Morrison, University of California - Davis; Thomas Scott, University of California, Davis
4:40 PM
 Ecosystem-based fisheries management: Moving from single-species to multi-species management
Julie B. Kellner, Woods Hole Oceanographic Institute; James N. Sanchirico, University of California-Davis; Alan Hastings, University of California, Davis; Peter J. Mumby, The University of Queensland