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

COS 48 - Theoretical Ecology

Tuesday, August 4, 2009: 1:30 PM-5:00 PM
Grand Pavillion VI, Hyatt
Presider:
Yael Artzy-Randrup
1:30 PM
1:50 PM
Incorporating population dynamics to tests of the ideal free distribution at landscape scales: A modeling approach
Benjamin T. Martin, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign; Sergiusz Czesny, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign; David H. Wahl, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
2:10 PM
A ballistic encounter model for two-dimensional correlated random walks
Justin M. Calabrese, Smithsonian Conservation Biology Institute at the National Zoological Park; Ralf Seppelt, Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research - UFZ
2:30 PM
A stochastic and spatially explicit model for cholera dynamics
Diego Ruiz-Moreno, University of Michigan; Mercedes Pascual, University of Michigan,Howard Hughes Medical Institute, Santa Fe Institute; Aaron King, University of Michigan; Michael Emch, University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill, USA; Mohammad Yunus, ICDDR,B: Centre for Health and Population Research, Dhaka, Bangladesh
2:50 PM
Modeling the spread of anti-malarial drug resistance in a changing climate
Yael Artzy-Randrup, University of Michigan and Howard Hughes Medical Institute; David Alonso, Center for Advanced Studies of Blanes (CEABā€CSIC), Spanish Council for Scientific Research; Mercedes Pascual, University of Michigan,Howard Hughes Medical Institute, Santa Fe Institute
3:10 PM
3:20 PM
3:40 PM
CANCELLED - Community collapse and re-assembly due to climate warming in a model food web with intraguild predation
Ariane Verdy, University of California, Los Angeles; Priyanga Amarasekare, University of California, Los Angeles
4:00 PM
Solving the tragedy of the commons for water use in plants
Caroline E. Farrior, Princeton University; Ray Dybzinski, Princeton University; Simon A. Levin, Princeton University; Stephen W. Pacala, Princeton University
4:20 PM
The persistence of physiognomic approaches in ecosystem ecology: Problem or chance?
Kurt Jax, Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research - UFZ
4:40 PM
Recruitment facilitation can drive alternative states on temperate reefs
Marissa L. Baskett, University of California, Davis; Anne K. Salomon, Simon Fraser University