Session: Distributions and Range Limits (93rd ESA Annual Meeting (August 3 -- August 8, 2008))

8:00 AM

COS 83-1

Communities on the move: Insect populations crossing the cultivated/wildlands interface in the western Great Basin
Matthew Forister, University of Nevada, Reno

8:20 AM

COS 83-2

Contrasting predictions for swede midge in North America using climate projections from different general circulation models
Anna M. Mika, University of Vermont; Ross M. Weiss, Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada; Owen Olfert, Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada; Rebecca H. Hallett, University of Guelph; Jonathan A. Newman, University of Guelph

8:40 AM

COS 83-3

A multi-scale ensemble model for predicting habitat suitability
Betsy A. Bancroft, Southern Utah University; Joshua J. Lawler, University of Washington

9:00 AM

COS 83-4

Rank-occupancy curves: a potential new tool to compare species distributions
David G. Jenkins, University of Central Florida

9:20 AM

COS 83-5

Does intraguild predation influence the distribution of the endangered Hine’s emerald dragonfly (Somatochlora hineana)?
Colleen D. Satyshur, University of South Dakota; Daniel A Soluk, University of South Dakota

9:40 AM

COS 83-

Break

9:50 AM

COS 83-6

Incorporating geostatistical methods into the analysis of plant species distribution
Jaime R. García Márquez, University of Bonn; Sie Sylvester Da, University of Bonn; Katharina Sabellek, University of Bonn; Jan Henning Sommer, University of Bonn; Wilhelm Barthlott, University of Bonn

10:10 AM

COS 83-7

Multiple sources of water stress help define the species border of an arid-land annual plant
Vincent M. Eckhart, Grinnell College; Indrani Singh, Grinnell College; Anna Chu, Grinnell College; Amanda J. Keledjian, Grinnell College; Allison Louthan, University of Colorado- Boulder

10:30 AM

COS 83-8

Dispersal limitation at poleward range boundaries: Consequences under climate change and the role of rarity
Travis D. Marsico, Arkansas State University; Jessica J. Hellmann, University of Notre Dame

10:50 AM

COS 83-9

Variation in the cold-acclimation and growth of twenty-seven North American willow (Salix) species relates to their latitude of origin
J.A. Savage, University of Minnesota; J.M. Cavender-Bares, University of Minnesota

11:10 AM

COS 83-10

Identifying geographic regions where evolutionary constraints may limit the range of the common weedy annual cocklebur (Xanthium strumarium)
Timothy M. Griffith, Georgetown College; Tyler Frailie, Georgetown College

COS 83 - Distributions and Range Limits