COS 44
Modeling II

Tuesday, August 6, 2013: 1:30 PM-5:00 PM
L100H, Minneapolis Convention Center
1:30 PM
 Applications of community-wide sensitivity calculations to ecological theory, model analysis, and assessment of extinction risk
György Barabás, University of Chicago; Liz Pásztor, Eötvös University; Annette M. Ostling, University of Michigan
1:50 PM
 Towards a spatially explicit trait-based plant ecology – approaches to extrapolate from point measurements to regional scales
Franziska Schrodt, Max Planck Institute for Biogeochemistry; Jens Kattge, Max Planck Institute for Biogeochemistry; Hanhuai Shan, University of Minnesota; Farideh Fazayeli, University of Minnesota; Anuj Karpatne, University of Minnesota; Arindam Banerjee, University of Minnesota; Peter B. Reich, University of Minnesota
2:10 PM
 Soil modulates the effect of precipitation seasonality on bioenergy crop production
Lara G. Reichmann, USDA, Agricultural Research Service; Kathrine D. Behrman, USDA-ARS; James R. Kiniry, USDA-ARS; H. Wayne Polley, USDA, Agricultural Research Service; Philip A. Fay, USDA, Agricultural Research Service
2:30 PM
 Estimating extinction rate in the presence of observation uncertainty: Occupancy modeling of a long-term, large-scale fragmentation experiment at Wog Wog, Australia
Christopher P. Weiss-Lehman, University of Colorado; Brett A. Melbourne, University of Colorado at Boulder; Kendi F. Davies, University of Colorado at Boulder
3:10 PM
3:20 PM
 Simulating the Effects of Policy-Driven Hydrodynamics in the Salton Sea Watershed
Michael E. Kjelland, U.S. Army Engineer Research and Development Center, USACE; Todd M. Swannack, U.S. Army Engineer Research and Development Center, USACE; Craig Forster, University of Utah; William E. Grant, Texas A&M University
4:00 PM
 Honey bee colony time series analysis: The influence of stationarity assumptions
Marcia Snyder, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency; S. Thomas Purucker, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency
4:20 PM
 A community-led approach for landscape planning
Shanti Berryman, Integral Ecology Group Ltd.; Justin Straker, Integral Ecology Group Ltd.; Ann Garibaldi, Integral Ecology Group Ltd.; John Nishi, ALCES Landscape and Land-Use Ltd.; Brad Stelfox, ALCES Landscape and Land-Use Ltd.