Session: Population and metapopulation dynamics: Terrestrial (ESA/SER Joint Meeting (August 5 -- August 10, 2007))

1:30 PM

A simple method for evaluating the relative importance of environmental conditions within habitats and connectivity among habitats in odonate metapopulations
Takehiko Yamanaka, Institute for Agro-Environmental Sciences, NARO; Koichi Tanaka, NIAES; Kenji Hamasaki, NIAES; Nobusuke Iwasaki, NIAES; David S. Sprague, NIAES

1:50 PM

COS 137-2

Demonstrating inter-habitat migration in predator populations: A case study using individual-based models
Danny Lewis, Georgetown University; Robert F. Denno, University of Maryland

2:10 PM

COS 137-3

Synchronization of gypsy moth outbreaks along an invasion front
Ottar N. Bjornstad, Pennsylvania State University; Andrew M. Liebhold, USDA Forest Service; Patrick Tobin, USDA Forest Service; Christelle Robinet, INRA - Centre de Recherches d'Orléans; Derek M. Johnson, Virginia Commonwealth University

2:30 PM

COS 137-4

Population synchrony as a measure of habitat specificity and movement patterns in a nomadic finch, the red crossbill (Loxia curvirostra)
T. Rodd Kelsey, The Nature Conservancy

2:50 PM

COS 137-5

Linking behavior and conservation: The population consequences of reproductive conflict in an endangered bird
Andrés López-Sepulcre, University of California, Riverside; Ken Norris, University of Reading; Hanna Kokko, Australian National University

3:10 PM

COS 137-

Break

3:20 PM

COS 137-6

Extinction and colonization dynamics in a Black Rail metapopulation: Roles of biogeographic versus habitat factors
Steven R. Beissinger, University of California at Berkeley; Orien Richmond, University of California at Berkeley; Jerry Tecklin, University of California at Berkeley

3:40 PM

COS 137-7

Importance of the post-fledging period in population dynamics of tropical countryside birds
Cagan H. Sekercioglu, University of Utah; Chase Mendenhall, Stanford University; Federico Oviedo Brenes, Organization for Tropical Studies; Gretchen C. Daily, Stanford University

4:00 PM

COS 137-8

Flying squirrels and forest structure: Thinking in multiple spatial and temporal dimensions
Todd M. Wilson, USDA Forest Service; Jim Perkins, USDA Forest Service; Nicholas A. Palazzotto, USDA Forest Service

4:20 PM

COS 137-9

Influence of local demographic processes on the regional dynamics of a yellow-bellied marmot metapopulation
Arpat Ozgul, University of Zurich; Madan K. Oli, University of Florida; Kenneth B. Armitage, University of Kansas; Daniel T. Blumstein, University of California; Dirk Van Vuren, University of California, Davis

4:40 PM

COS 137-10

Comparative population dynamics of small and large mammals in the Northern Hemisphere
Guiming Wang, Mississippi State University

COS 137 - Population and metapopulation dynamics: Terrestrial