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

COS 17 - Modeling: Populations I

Monday, August 6, 2012: 1:30 PM-5:00 PM
Portland Blrm 254, Oregon Convention Center
1:30 PM
Estimating vital rates using Generalized Linear Mixed Models (GLMMs): A simulation study of connected vs. separate GLMMs
Margaret E. K. Evans, University of Arizona; Kent E. Holsinger, University of Connecticut
1:50 PM
Use of local climate to improve predictions of plant population viability in future climates
Ian A. Pfingsten, Cherokee Nation Technology Solutions; Thomas N. Kaye, Institute for Applied Ecology
2:10 PM Cancelled
COS 17-3
Harvesting plant parts from wild populations affects life history parameters of a tropical tree (widthdrawn)
Orou G. Gaoue, University of Tennessee; Carol Horvitz, University of Miami
2:30 PM
Investigating ecological spatial aggregation using wavelets and moment equations
Matteo Detto, Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute; Helene Muller-Landau, Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute
2:50 PM
Changes in availability during population recovery for two South African sea turtle populations under nesting beach protection, identified using multi-state robust design tag-resighting models
James T. Thorson, National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration; Andre E. Punt, University of Washington; Ronel Nel, Nelson Mandela Metropolitan University
3:10 PM
3:20 PM
Inferring the nature of anthropogenic threats from abundance time series records
Kevin T. Shoemaker, Stony Brook University; H. Resit Akcakaya, Stony Brook University
3:40 PM
Improving occupancy estimation when sampling disturbances and animal movements violate the closure assumption
Clint Otto, Michigan State University; Larissa Bailey, Colorado State University; Gary Roloff, Michigan State University
4:00 PM
Species distribution models for archipelago-scale analysis of Hawaiian marine ecosystems
Erik C. Franklin, Hawaii Institute of Marine Biology, University of Hawaii; Megan J. Donahue, University of Hawai‘i; Paul L. Jokiel, University of Hawaii
4:20 PM
Spatial variation in coral demography using integral projection models
Megan J. Donahue, University of Hawai‘i; Paul L. Jokiel, University of Hawaii; Megan Ross, Hawaii Institute of Marine Biology