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

COS 59 - Modeling: Case Studies

Wednesday, August 5, 2009: 8:00 AM-11:30 AM
Sendero Blrm II, Hyatt
Presider:
Tom Purucker
8:00 AM
Virtual prairie dogs weigh in on the Resource Dispersion Hypothesis
Christopher X. J. Jensen, Pratt Institute; Dylan Moore, Pratt Institute; Jennifer L. Verdolin, NESCent (National Evolutionary Synthesis Center
8:20 AM
Threshold response of malaria dynamics to warmer temperatures in an East African highland
David Alonso, Center for Advanced Studies of Blanes (CEAB‐CSIC), Spanish Council for Scientific Research; Mercedes Pascual, University of Michigan,Howard Hughes Medical Institute, Santa Fe Institute
9:00 AM
Pareto optimality is a novel tool for understanding the role of morphology in the persistence of old trees
Maureen C. Kennedy, University of Washington; E. David Ford, University of Washington
9:20 AM
Population Viability Analysis for a highly threatened annual endemic plant, Centaurea tchihatcheffii
Yasemin Erguner Baytok, METU; Aysegul Yildirim, Central Palnt Protection Resarch Institute; Didem Ambarli, DKM; C. Can Bilgin, METU; Mecit Vural, Gazi University
9:40 AM
9:50 AM
Ecologically meaningful sensitivity analyses:  A case study of Fremont cottonwood (Populus fremontii)
Elizabeth B. Harper, State University of New York College of Environmental Science and Forestry; John C. Stella, SUNY College of Environmental Science and Forestry; Alexander K. Fremier, University of Idaho
10:50 AM
Modeling the effects of climate change on vegetation dynamics and species habitats in the Southern Atlantic Coastal Plain
Todd S. Earnhardt, North Carolina State University; Alexa McKerrow, United States Geological Survey; Adam Terando, Biodiversity and Spatial Information Center
11:10 AM
Modeling Metacommunities: A comparison of matrix and agent-based methods with empirical data
Edmund M. Hart, University of British Columbia; Nicholas J. Gotelli, University of Vermont