Session: Population Dynamics: Modeling (93rd ESA Annual Meeting (August 3 -- August 8, 2008))

1:30 PM

Individual heterogeneity in vital parameters and population viability
Yngvild Vindenes, Norwegian University of Science and Technology; Steinar Engen, Norwegian University of Science and Technology; Bernt-Erik Sæther, Norwegian University of Science and Technology

1:50 PM

COS 102-2

Genetic algorithm evaluation of parameters of a density-dependent matrix population model
Wendell P. Cropper Jr., University of Florida; Jennifer Holm, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory; Christopher J. Miller, Saint Leo University

2:10 PM

COS 102-3

Disentangling the adult spawning distribution from the juvenile spatial distribution to reveal the habitat preferences of juvenile salmon (genus Oncorhynchus) in the Columbia River Basin
Yasmin Lucero, Northwest Fisheries Science Center

2:30 PM

COS 102-4

Warming affects interspecific interactions and demography of white-tailed ptarmigan in alpine habitats
Guiming Wang, Mississippi State University; Kenneth M. Giesen, Colorado Division of Wildlife

2:50 PM

COS 102-5

Inferring population structure of Pacific harbor seals using multivariate state space models
Eric J. Ward, Northwest Fisheries Science Center; E. E. Holmes, Northwest Fisheries Science Center; H. Chirakkal, Arizona State University; Leah R. Gerber, Arizona State University; M. González-Suárez, Estación Biológica de Doñana-CSIC

3:10 PM

COS 102-

Break

3:20 PM

COS 102-6

The effect of transient dynamics on future population sizes: A case study on Acyrthosyphon pisum
Brigitte Tenhumberg, University of Nebraska-Lincoln

3:40 PM

COS 102-7

Effects of mating system and sex ratio on population dynamics
Aline Magdalena Lee, Norwegian University of Science and Technology, NTNU; Steinar Engen, Norwegian University of Science and Technology; Bernt-Erik Sæther, Norwegian University of Science and Technology

4:00 PM

COS 102-8

Switch point phenotypes and recruitment across complex life cycles: Role of size- and density-dependent processes
Michael W. McCoy, Boston University; James R. Vonesh, Virginia Commonwealth University; Karen M. Warkentin, Boston University

4:20 PM

COS 102-9

An evolutionary explanation for the positive relationship between environmental productivity and species diversity
Zhichao Pu, Georgia Institute of Technology; Lin Jiang, Georgia Institute of Technology; Hao Wang, Georgia Tech; Joshua S. Weitz, Georgia Institute of Technology

4:40 PM

COS 102-10

Chance establishment for sexual, semelparous species: Overcoming the Allee effect
Christopher L. Jerde, University of Notre Dame; Caroline J. Bampfylde, University of Alberta; Mark A. Lewis, University of Alberta

COS 102 - Population Dynamics: Modeling