94th ESA Annual Meeting (August 2 -- 7, 2009)

COS 77 - Population Dynamics and Regulation

Wednesday, August 5, 2009: 1:30 PM-5:00 PM
Grand Pavillion II, Hyatt
Presider:
Karl Cottenie
1:30 PM
At which life-stage are amphibian populations regulated?  A test with wood frogs
Michael F. Benard, Case Western Reserve University; E. E. Werner, University of Michigan; Rick A. Relyea, University of Pittsburgh; David K. Skelly, Yale University; Kerry L. Yurewicz, Plymouth State University
1:50 PM
Climate change is good for the Columbia spotted frog (Rana luteiventris) in a high mountain ecosystem
Rebecca M. McCaffery, University of Maryland; Bryce A. Maxell, Montana Natural Heritage Program
2:30 PM
Population dynamics and control of local density of fishes in a dynamic landscape
Joel Trexler, Florida International University; Charles W. Goss, The Ohio State University
2:50 PM
Snowshoe hare population dynamics in fragmented western forests
Karen E. Hodges, University of British Columbia Okanagan; L. Scott Mills, North Carolina State University
3:10 PM
3:20 PM
Merging demographic and genetic data to understand spatial synchrony in snowshoe hares
Ellen Cheng, University of Montana; L. Scott Mills, North Carolina State University; Karen E. Hodges, University of British Columbia Okanagan
3:40 PM
4:00 PM
Tree-ring reconstruction of insect defoliator outbreaks on Nothofagus pumilio forests in Patagonia
Juan Paritsis, University of Colorado; Thomas T. Veblen, University of Colorado
4:40 PM
Proximal causes of mast-seeding in a perennial legume: Resource depletion and pollen limitation
Anna Sala, University of Montana; Elizabeth T. Miller, University of Oregon; Elizabeth Crone, Tufts University