93rd ESA Annual Meeting (August 3 -- August 8, 2008)
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COS 92 - Abundance, Rarity, and Extinction

Thursday, August 7, 2008: 1:30 PM-5:00 PM
102 D, Midwest Airlines Center
1:30 PM
COS 92-1
Insect, and spider rarity in an oceanic island (Terceira, Azores): True rare and pseudo-rare species
Paulo A. Borges, Universidade dos Açores; Karl I. Ugland, University of Oslo; Francisco O. Dinis, Universidade dos Açores; Clara S. Gaspar, Universidade dos Açores
1:50 PM
COS 92-2
Ichthyofaunal diversity of Boro beel, Pabna, Bangladesh
Jayanta K. Saha, Laxmi Agro Fisheries Complex (Pvt.) Ltd.; Mohammad R. Hasan, Food and Agriculture Organization of the UN
2:10 PM
COS 92-3
Evaluating the effect of climate change on population demographics of Ceanothus verrucosus
Dawn M. Lawson, U.S. Navy; Helen M. Regan, University of California Riverside; Paul H. Zedler, University of Wisconsin; Janet Franklin, Arizona State University
2:30 PM
COS 92-4
The role of ecological stoichiometry in outbreaks and abundance of forest Lepidoptera
Eric M. Lind, University of Minnesota; Pedro Barbosa, University of Maryland
2:50 PM
COS 92-5
Spatial patterns of extinction during succession in an experimentally fragmented landscape
Cathy D. Collins, Colby College; Robert D. Holt, University of Florida
3:10 PM
COS 92-
Break
3:20 PM
COS 92-6
New stochastic Ricker models show that extinction risk could be much higher than previously thought
Brett Melbourne, University of Colorado; Alan Hastings, University of California, Davis
3:40 PM
COS 92-7
A new human predation model for late Pleistocene megafaunal extinction patterns in North America
Jeffrey V. Yule, Louisiana Tech University; Christopher X. J. Jensen, Pratt Institute; Aby Joseph, SUNY Stony Brook
4:00 PM
COS 92-8
Plant-soil feedbacks: A meta-analytical review
Andrew Kulmatiski, University of Alaska Anchorage; Karen Beard, Utah State University; John R. Stevens, Utah State University; Stephanie M. Cobbold, Utah State University
4:20 PM
COS 92-9
Extinction in experimental populations: Effects of habitat quality, size, and metapopulation configuration
John M. Drake, University of Georgia; Blaine D Griffen, University of Georgia
4:40 PM
COS 92-10
A likelihood test for inferring extinction from encounter data
Gregory C. Mayer, University of Wisconsin-Parkside
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