2017 ESA Annual Meeting (August 6 -- 11)

8:00 AM

COS 169-1

Habitat patch size and shape interact to determine movement and densities of an insect predator
Andrew C. Merwin, Florida State University; Jacob D. Hart, University of Central Florida; Brian D. Inouye, Rocky Mountain Biological Laboratory; Nora C. Underwood, Rocky Mountain Biological Laboratory

8:20 AM

COS 169-2

Population-specific migration timing affects en route survival of Chinook salmon Oncorhynchus tshawytscha through a variable lower-river corridor
Mark H Sorel, NOAA; Michelle W Rub, NOAA; Richard W. Zabel, NOAA Northwest Fisheries Science Center

8:40 AM

COS 169-3

Distributed defenses: Individual and collective nest choice in turtle ants
Mia Farago-Iwamasa, Scripps College; Matina Donaldson-Matasci, Harvey Mudd College

9:00 AM

COS 169-4

Impacts of snow variability in the presence of supplemental feeding on the spatial distribution of a large herbivore in an Alpine environment
Julius Bright Ross, Harvard University; Francesca Cagnacci, Harvard University; Wibke Peters, Bayerische Landesanstalt für Wald und Forstwirtschaft (LWF); Federico Ossi, Fondazione Edmund Mach; Maurizio Ramanzin, University of Padua; Emanuele Eccel, Fondazione Edmund Mach; Emanuele Cordano, Fondazione Edmund Mach; Paul R. Moorcroft, Harvard University

9:20 AM

COS 169-5

Navigating snowscapes: Scale-dependent responses of mountain sheep to snowpack properties
Peter J. Mahoney, University of Washington; Glen E. Liston, Colorado State University; Scott D. LaPoint, Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory, Columbia University; Eliezer Gurarie, University of Maryland; Buck Mangipane, National Park Service; Jyoti Jennewein, University of Idaho; Ruth Y. Oliver, Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory, Columbia University; Eric Palm, University of Montana; Jan U.H. Eitel, University of Idaho; Mark Hebblewhite, University of Montana; Natalie Boelman, Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory, Columbia University; Laura R. Prugh, University of Washington

9:40 AM

COS 169-

Break

9:50 AM

COS 169-6

Investigating elk movement and connectivity to predict the spread of brucellosis
Angela Brennan, University of Wyoming; Paul C. Cross, US Geological Survey; Ephraim Hanks, Pennsylvania State University

10:10 AM

COS 169-7

Migration flexibility in a partially-migratory caribou herd in arctic Alaska
Timothy J. Fullman, The Wilderness Society; Lincoln S. Parrett, Alaska Department of Fish and Game; Brian T. Person, North Slope Borough; Alex Prichard, ABR, Inc.

10:30 AM

COS 169-8

Fire history exerts long-term effects on herbivore behavior
Derek Spitz, Oregon State University; Darren Clark, Oregon Department of Fish and Wildlife; Michael Wisdom, USDA Forest Service; Taal Levi, Oregon State University; Mary Rowland, USDA Forest Service

10:50 AM

COS 169-9

Why the Brownian bridge is not a home range estimator: Range versus occurrence distributions for quantifying animal space use
Justin M. Calabrese, Smithsonian Conservation Biology Institute; Christen H. Fleming, Smithsonian Conservation Biology Institute; Michael J. Noonan, Smithsonian Conservation Biology Institute; Marlee A. Tucker, Senckenberg Biodiversity and Climate Research Centre; Thomas Mueller, Goethe University

11:10 AM

COS 169-10

New approaches to accurate home-range estimation: Dealing with autocorrelation, small effective sample sizes, and irregular sampling
Christen H. Fleming, Smithsonian Conservation Biology Institute; Michael J Noonan, Smithsonian Conservation Biology Institute; Justin M. Calabrese, Smithsonian Conservation Biology Institute

COS 169 - Behavior: Migration And Movement II

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