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

COS 142 - Modeling IV

Thursday, August 9, 2012: 8:00 AM-11:30 AM
Portland Blrm 258, Oregon Convention Center
8:00 AM
Beyond the host plant: Environmental factors that predict habitat suitability for a northern peripheral population of a threatened butterfly (Apodemia mormo) at two spatial scales
Ashley A. Wick, University of Alberta; John Spence, University of Alberta; Shelley Pruss, Parks Canada; Nadir Erbilgin, University of Alberta
8:20 AM
Multistate site occupancy estimation of white‐headed woodpeckers (Picoides albolarvatus) in managed forests
Daniel Linden, Michigan State University; Gary Roloff, Michigan State University
8:40 AM
Contributions of Covariance: Decomposing the components of stochastic population growth in the endangered Lady's Slipper orchid Cypripedium calceolus
Raziel Joseph Davison, University of California, Santa Barbara; Hans Jacquemyn, University of Leuven; Florence Nicole, Université de Saint-Etienne; Shripad Tuljapurkar, Stanford University
9:00 AM
Evaluating expert opinion and spatial scale in an amphibian model
Noah D. Charney, University of Massachusetts Amherst; Paige S. Warren, University of Massachusetts Amherst
9:40 AM
9:50 AM
Predation effects on mean time to extinction under demographic stochasticity
Gian Marco Palamara, University of Zurich; Owen L. Petchey, University of Zurich; Gustav Delius, University of York; Matthew Smith, Microsoft Research
10:10 AM
Predicted changes in foraging habitat of the Little Blue Heron (Egretta caerulea) in the Great White Heron National Wildlife Refuge, FL, USA, as a function of sea level rise
Leonardo Calle, Florida Atlantic University; Dale E. Gawlik, Florida Atlantic University; Zhixiao Xie, Florida Atlantic University; Brian Johnson, Florida Atlantic University
10:30 AM
Comparison of models for analyzing seasonal activity from longitudinal count data
Daniel J. Hocking, USGS; Kimberly J. Babbitt, University of New Hampshire
10:50 AM
Effects of plant physiological traits on photosynthetic capacity and parameters are scale-dependent
Xiaohui Feng, University of Illinois; Michael Dietze, Boston University
11:10 AM
Modeling the relationship between domain size and population persistence in branching river networks
Jonathan J. Sarhad, University of CA, Riverside; Kurt Anderson, University of California, Riverside; Robert C. Carlson, University of Colorado, Colorado Springs