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

COS 34 - Population modeling II: Animals, including humans

Tuesday, August 7, 2007: 8:00 AM-11:30 AM
San Carlos I, San Jose Hilton
8:00 AM
Predictive modeling for state endangered bird populations in Michigan
Katherine J. Kahl, Michigan State University; Kelly F. Millenbah, Michigan State University
8:20 AM
A risk-management model for deer population in the Yakushima World Natural Heritage
Hiroyuki Matsuda, Yokohama National University; Aomi Ohta, Yokohama National University; Shirow Tatsuzawa, Hokkaido University; Hiroshi Takahashi, Forestry and Forest Product Research Institute; Kunihiko Tokida, Japan Wildlife Research Center
8:40 AM
Population dynamics, life history, and extinction in birds
Bernt-Erik Saether, Norwegian University of Science and Technology; Steinar Engen, Norwegian University of Science and Technology
9:00 AM
Modeling the impact of sex-selective harvesting and climate change on the polar bear mating system: A mechanistic approach to the Allee effect
Péter K. Molnár, Princeton University; Andrew E. Derocher, University of Alberta; Mark A. Lewis, University of Alberta; Mitchell K. Taylor, Government of Nunavut
9:20 AM
Attraction and predation: Group formation and persistence in a spatially distributed prey population
Jennifer A. Nelson, Cornell College; William G. Wilson, Duke University
9:40 AM
9:50 AM
Population and community consequences of spatial subsidies derived from central place foraging... Or troglobites, guanophiles, and inquilines, oh my!
William F. Fagan, University of Maryland; Frithjof Lutscher, University of Ottawa; Katie Schneider, University of Maryland
10:10 AM
10:30 AM
Beyond carrying capacity: Space-limited density dependence in a resource-based human population model
Cedric O. Puleston, Stanford University; Shripad Tuljapurkar, Stanford University; Charlotte T. Lee, Duke University
10:50 AM
Food, labor, and environment: A dynamic model for the demography of expanding subsistence populations
Charlotte T. Lee, Duke University; Shripad Tuljapurkar, Stanford University; Cedric O. Puleston, Stanford University