Session: Matrix models: Methods and applications (ESA/SER Joint Meeting (August 5 -- August 10, 2007))

1:30 PM

COS 53-1

Stochastic disturbance and the impact of high- and low-quality patches on metapopulation growth rate
Carly Strasser, University of California Office of the President; Michael Neubert, Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution; Christine M. Hunter, University of Alaska Fairbanks; Hal Caswell, Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution; Lauren Mullineaux, Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution

1:50 PM

COS 53-2

Juvenile age classes contribute measurably to population growth and survival of long-lived species: Case study of chick mortality on albatross population stability
Myra E. Finkelstein, University of California; Melinda Nakagawa, Moss Landing Marine Laboratories; Paul R. Sievert, U.S. Geological Survey; Daniel F. Doak, University of Colorado

2:10 PM

COS 53-3

The frequency and ecological importance of shrinkage in herbaceous perennial plants
Roberto Salguero-Gomez, The University of Queensland; Lori Spindler, The University of Pennsylvania; Brenda Casper, University of Pennsylvania

2:30 PM

COS 53-4

Robust population management under uncertainty for structured population models
Alison Deines, Kansas State University; Ellen Peterson, Wittenberg University; Derek Boeckner, University of Nebraska-Lincoln; James Boyle, University of Notre Dame; Amy Keighley, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute; Joy Kogut, Simmons College; Joan Lubben, University of Nebraska-Lincoln; Richard Rebarber, University of Nebraska-Lincoln; Richard Ryan, University of Rhode Island; Brigitte Tenhumberg, University of Nebraska-Lincoln; Stuart B. Townley, University of Exeter; Andrew J. Tyre, University of Nebraska-Lincoln

2:50 PM

COS 53-5

Demographic impacts of harvesting non-timber forest products from an African mahogany species
Orou G. Gaoue, University of Tennessee; Tamara Ticktin, University of Hawai‘i at Mānoa

3:10 PM

COS 53-

Break

3:20 PM

COS 53-6

Stochastic demography and population viability of the emperor penguin: A march to extinction
Stephanie Jenouvrier, Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution; Henri Weimerskirch, Centre d'Etude Biologiques de Chizé; Christophe Barbraud, Centre d'Etude Biologiques de Chizé; Hal Caswell, Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution

3:40 PM

COS 53-7

Age-structured modeling provides evidence for a 28-year decline in the natality of western Steller sea lions
E. E. Holmes, Northwest Fisheries Science Center; Lowell Fritz, National Marine Mammal Laboratory; Anne York, York Data Analysis; Kathryn Sweeney, University of Washington

4:00 PM

COS 53-8

Estimating functional nonlinearity in Alliaria petiolata demographic rates
Jeffrey A. Evans, Dartmouth College; Adam S. Davis, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign; Douglas A. Landis, Michigan State University; Douglas W. Schemske, Michigan State University

COS 53 - Matrix models: Methods and applications