Session: Modeling: General Concepts (94th ESA Annual Meeting (August 2 -- 7, 2009))

1:30 PM

COS 75-1

Using Bayesian multilevel models to detect social structure in presence-absence data
Eric J. Ward, Northwest Fisheries Science Center; Brice Semmens, Northwest Fisheries Science Center; E. E. Holmes, Northwest Fisheries Science Center

1:50 PM

COS 75-2

Near realtime species distribution modeling of North Atlantic right whale habitat
Dan E. Pendleton, Northwest Fisheries Science Center; Andrew Pershing, University of Maine & Gulf of Maine Research Institute; Patrick Sullivan, Cornell University; Charles A. Mayo, Provincetown Center for Coastal Studies; Nicholas R. Record, University of Maine & Gulf of Maine Research Institute; Robert D. Kenney, University of Rhode Island; Caroline P. Good, Duke University; Tim V.N. Cole, National Marine Fisheries Service

2:10 PM

COS 75-3

Evaluating reservoir model responsiveness to increased nutrient inputs from urbanization
Emile H. Elias, Auburn University; Mark Dougherty, Auburn University

2:30 PM

COS 75-4

Modeling aspen decline in southern Utah through remote sensing based change detection
David Evans, NOAA; Chad Oukrop, Utah State University; Ronald J. Ryel, Utah State University; Dale Bartos, Rocky Mountain Research Station; Doug Ramsey, Utah State University; A. Joshua Leffler, USDA-ARS

2:50 PM

COS 75-5

Building realistic variation in organismal development into stage-structured population models: Why it matters and a general tool
Perry de Valpine, University of California - Berkeley

3:10 PM

COS 75-

Break

3:20 PM

COS 75-6

Eigen analysis of connectivity and throughflow in biological networks
Jonathan L. Bowers, Western Kentucky University; Meridith Bartley, Western Kentucky University; Stuart R. Borrett, University of North Carolina Wilmington; Albert J. Meier, Western Kentucky University

3:40 PM

COS 75-7

Model-selection for multivariate random walk models with hidden states
Eli Holmes, National Marine Fisheries Service; Eric Ward, Northwest Fisheries Science Center

4:00 PM

COS 75-8

Modeling bird migration under climate change: A mechanistic approach
James A. Smith, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center

4:20 PM

COS 75-9

The ecological model web: Facilitating a modeling infrastructure
Gary N. Geller, Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology; Rama Nemani, NASA

COS 75 - Modeling: General Concepts