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

COS 16 - Population modeling I: General and theory

Monday, August 6, 2007: 1:30 PM-5:00 PM
Santa Clara I, San Jose Hilton
1:30 PM
Ecosystem engineering of public and private goods
William G. Wilson, Duke University; Kim Cuddington, Ohio University
1:50 PM
The effects of endogenous ecological memory on population resilience in a variable environment
Michael Golinski, University of Guelph; Chris Bauch, University of Guelph and Princeton University; Madhur Anand, University of Guelph
2:30 PM
The dampening effect of temporal environmental variation
Chad E. Brassil, University of Nebraska
2:50 PM
Resource-dependent development mediates effects of increased temperature on the dynamics of populations
Tobias Van Kooten, Umeå University; André M. de Roos, University of Amsterdam; Lennart Persson, Umeå University
3:10 PM
3:20 PM
Experimental support of the scaling rule for demographic stochasticity
Robert A. Desharnais, California State University, Los Angeles
3:40 PM
Evolution versus co-evolution: An example from stage-structured host-parasitoid systems
Steven M. White, Centre for Ecology & Hydrology; Steve M. Sait, University of Leeds; Pejman Rohani, University of Michigan
4:00 PM
New methods for detecting allee effects
Eric Ward, Northwest Fisheries Science Center
4:20 PM
The devil in the details: How redefining competition affects long-term simulated forest dynamics
Paul Caplat, Lund University; Madhur Anand, University of Guelph; Chris Bauch, University of Guelph and Princeton University