97th ESA Annual Meeting (August 5 -- 10, 2012)

COS 116 - Modeling III

Wednesday, August 8, 2012: 1:30 PM-5:00 PM
Portland Blrm 256, Oregon Convention Center
1:30 PM
How large is large? Urban tree allometrics from 16 U.S. climate regions
Paula J. Peper, USDA Forest Service; Greg McPherson, US Forest Service
1:50 PM
Sustainable economy of ecological footprint in USA: Economic analysis and impacts
Safwat Shakir hanna, Texas Gulf Coast Environmental Data (TEXGED) Center, Prairie View A&M University
2:10 PM
Uncertainty in social-ecological models of marine systems: Implications for management
Edward J. Gregr, University of British Columbia; Kai Ming A. Chan, University of British Columbia
2:30 PM
Simulating long-term responses of rangeland soil carbon storage and greenhouse gas emissions to organic matter amendments
Rebecca Ryals, Brown University; Whendee L. Silver, University of California, Berkeley; William Parton, Colorado State University; Melannie Hartman, Colorado State University; Marcia DeLonge, University of California, Berkeley
2:50 PM
Maximizing productivity and economic value of selection-managed stands using a cohort-based canopy competition model
Katherine S. Thebeau, University of Toronto; John P. Caspersen, University of Toronto; Mark C. Vanderwel, University of Florida; Drew Purves, Microsoft Reserach, Cambridge; Hongcheng Zeng, University of Toronto
3:10 PM
3:20 PM
Multi-model simulations of long-term effects of forest harvesting on ecosystem productivity and C/N cycling
Fugui Wang, University of Wisconsin-Madison; David Mladenoff, University of Wisconsin; Jodi Forrester, University of Wisconsin-Madison; Juan Blanco, University of British Columbia; Robert Scheller, Portland State University; Scott D. Peckham, University of Wyoming; Cindy Keough, Colorado State University
3:40 PM
Parameterization of a rangeland watershed model using ecological sites
Anthony T. Perlinski, University of Wyoming; Ginger B. Paige, University of Wyoming; Scott N. Miller, University of Wyoming; D. Phillip Guertin, University of Arizona; Jagath Vithanage, University of Wyoming
4:00 PM
Traceable components of modeled carbon storage capacity in terrestrial ecosystem
Jianyang Xia, University of Oklahoma; Yiqi Luo, University of Oklahoma; Yingping Wang, CSIRO Marine and Atmospheric Research
4:20 PM
Integrated economic and ecological modeling to estimate changes in carbon storage and vertebrate habitats due to projected land-use change in the conterminous U.S.A
John C. Withey, Florida International University; Steve Polasky, University of Minnesota; Andrew J. Plantinga, UCSB; David J. Lewis, Oregon State University; Joshua J. Lawler, University of Washington; Volker C. Radeloff, University of Wisconsin-Madison; Erik J. Nelson, Bowdoin College; Derric Pennington, World Wildlife Fund; Eric Lonsdorf, University of Minnesota
4:40 PM
Preserving flow variability in watershed model calibrations
Tom Purucker, USEPA; Katie Price, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency