ESA/SER Joint Meeting (August 5 -- August 10, 2007)

PS 47 - Modeling

Wednesday, August 8, 2007: 5:00 PM-6:30 PM
Exhibit Halls 1 and 2, San Jose McEnery Convention Center
The rise and fall of species: Temporal patterns of geographic spread from the world of microfossils
Lee Hsiang Liow, University of Oslo; Nils Chr. Stenseth, University of Oslo
Incorporating the cost of impact into optimal management of invasive species: The value of knowing the impact curve
Hiroyuki Yokomizo, National Institute for Environmental Studies; Hugh P. Possingham, University of Queensland; Matthew B. Thomas, Penn State University; Yvonne M. Buckley, Trinity College Dublin
Conditional inversion to estimate parameters from eddy flux observations
Xiaowen Wu, University of Oklahoma; Luther White, University of Oklahoma; Yong Ma, University of Oklahoma; Xuhui Zhou, Fudan University; Yiqi Luo, University of Oklahoma
Comparing the water stress growth response of deciduous species: Assessing MAESTRA for evaluating species-specific carbon dioxide exchange rates
Robert F. Reynolds, Clemson University; William L. Bauerle, Colorado State University; Ying Wang, University of Georgia
Comparison of FVS-BGC predictions to growth and carbon gain in deciduous tree species: Predicting carbon balance under drought stress conditions
Ying Wang, University of Georgia; William L. Bauerle, Colorado State University; Robert F. Reynolds, Clemson University
Modeling distribution of Rhododendron in China by SVM
Wenyun Zuo, University of New Mexico; Ni Lao, Carnegie Mellon University; Yuying Geng, Institute of Botany, the Chinese Academy of Sciences; Keping Ma, Institute of Botany, Chinese Academy of Sciences
Applying Bayesian inference on a conceptual hydrological model
Wei Wu, University of Southern Mississippi; James Clark, Duke University; James Vose, USDA Forest Service Southern Research Station
Inferred presence of threatened and endangered species along road projects
Jonathan Mates-Muchin, California Department of Transportation; Christopher States, California Department of Transportation
Modeling ecological restoration effects on yellow pine forests following southern pine beetle infestations in the southern Appalachian Mountains
Weimin Xi, Texas A&M University-Kingsville; John D. Waldron, University of West Florida; David M. Cairns, Texas A&M University; Charles W. Lafon, Texas A&M University; Robert N. Coulson, Texas A&M University; Maria D. Tchakerian, Texas A&M University; Lei Wang, Texas A&M University; Andrew G. Birt, Texas A&M University; Kier D. Klepzig, Joseph W Jones Ecological Research Center
Effects of persistent demographic heterogeneity on the extinction risk of small populations
Theresa Nogeire, University of Washington; Bruce Kendall, University of California Santa Barbara; Elizabeth Cunningham, University of California Santa Barbara
A model for predicting seedling performance of an exotic shrub, Amur honeysuckle (Lonicera maackii), and its implications for invasion
Kurt M. Hartman, Missouri Western State University; Megan E. Monish, St. Andrews Presbyterian College; Brian C. McCarthy, Ohio University
Habitat heterogeneity influences rodent abundance at Cape Canaveral, Florida, USA
Alexis A. Suazo, University of Idaho; Sunil Kumar, Colorado State University; I. Jack Stout, University of Central Florida
Growth and distribution of lowland rainforest tree species in eastern Madagascar
Amanda H. Armstrong, University of Virginia; Herman H. Shugart, University of Virginia
Evaluating stability in Ziziphus celata, a highly endangered clonal shrub
Martha M. Ellis, University of Montana; Carl W. Weekley, Archbold Biological Station; Eric S. Menges, Archbold Biological Station
Sources of error in extinction risk estimates with population count data
Diane Thomson, W.M. Keck Science Department; Sommers Pacifica L., Claremont Colleges
Modeling herbivory in forest canopies
Leon Kaganovskiy, Touro College; Margaret Lowman, North Carolina State University