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

PS 86-210

Modeling habitat selection of actively dispersing organisms using statistical decision theory and its implications for species conservation
John Curtis Burkhalter, Rutgers University; Julie L. Lockwood, Rutgers University

PS 86-211

Understanding the influence of habitat fragmentation on butterfly occurrence patterns: Developing and testing models across global ecosystems
Natalie S. Robinson, University of Colorado

PS 86-212

Nearest neighbors mapping of vegetation gradients for landscape analysis and conservation planning
Janet L. Ohmann, Pacific Northwest Research Station, USDA Forest Service; Matthew J. Gregory, Oregon State University; Emilie B. Henderson, Oregon State University; Heather M. Roberts, Oregon State University

PS 86-213

Identification of coniferous fine roots to species using ribosomal PCR products of pooled root samples obtained from soil cores
Kendall J. Martin, William Paterson University; Valerie R. Osterberg, Dynamac Corporation; Jay R. Reichman, US Environmental Protection Agency/NHEERL; Paul T. Rygiewicz, US Environmental Protection Agency/NHEERL; Robert B. McKane, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency; George A. King, Dynamac Inc.

PS 86-214

Modeling vegetation dynamics among Chihuahuan Semi-desert Grassland ecological groups as part of the Integrated Landscape Assessment Project (ILAP)
Esteban Muldavin, Natural Heritage New Mexico; Paul Arbetan, Univ. of New Mexico; Emilie B. Henderson, Oregon State University; Megan Creutzburg, Portland State University

PS 86-215

Integrating citizen science and professional data to model habitat suitability for the American pika
Russell Scarpino, Colorado State University; Greg Newman, Colorado State University; Megan Mueller, University of Minnesota; Amy Masching, Denver Zoological Foundation; Liesl Peterson Erb, University of Colorado at Boulder

PS 86-216

Site occupancy models with regression trees (OD-BRT): A comparison with standard site occupancy models (OD) and boosted regression trees (BRT)
Rebecca Hutchinson, Oregon State University; Li-Ping Liu, Oregon State University; Thomas G. Dietterich, Oregon State University

PS 86-217

Impacts of enhanced climate seasonality on productivity and CH₄ emissions of Alaskan ecosystems during the HTM
Yujie He, Purdue University; Qianlai Zhuang, Purdue University; Miriam Jones, University of Alaska Faribanks; Zicheng Yu, Lehigh University; Benjamin S. Felzer, Lehigh University; Erik Mason, Lehigh University; Christopher Bochicchio, Lehigh University

PS 86-218

Power-law – A glistening guardian for warning ecosystem degeneration caused by disturbance?
Xiaofeng Ruan, Universtiy of Alberta

PS 86-219

A field study supports the existence of many suitable, unoccupied habitat patches predicted by local-scale species distribution models of eastern hemlock (Tsuga canadensis)
F. Collin Hobbs, Indiana University; Keith Clay, Indiana University

PS 86-220

Sensitivity analysis of 3-PG model for Pinus taeda (Loblolly Pine)
Ying Wang, University of Georgia

Cancelled

PS 86-221

The importance of landscape rearrangement on historical environmental niche modeling: The contribution of past hydrological landscapes to potential species’ distributions (widthdrawn)
Barry Chernoff, Wesleyan University; Helen Poulos, Wesleyan University; Michelle L. Tipton, Wesleyan University

PS 86-222

Sensitivity of a dynamic global vegetation model to input soil data: Trends, mechanisms and needs for better data
John B. Kim, USDA Forest Service Pacific Northwest Research Station; John R. Wells, Oregon State University

PS 86-223

Tsetse fly distributions in a changing world: The possible impacts of climate change on Glossina subgenus Morsitans in Kenya
Mark H. DeVisser, Michigan State Univeristy; Joseph P. Messina, Michigan State Univeristy

PS 86-224

A conceptual framework for researching the sagebrush-steppe: A social-ecological approach
Amanda L. Bentley, University of Idaho; Joseph D. Holbrook, University of Idaho; Alex Suazo, University of Idaho; Ryan Niemeyer, University of Idaho

PS 86-225

Assessing the skill of hydrology models at simulaing the water cycle in the HJ Andrews LTER: Assumptions, strengths, and weaknesses
Jeremiah D. Osborne-Gowey, Feather River Consulting and Oregon State University; Dominique M. Bachelet, Conservation Biology Institute and Oregon State University; Guillaume S. Mauger, Joint Institute for the Study of the Atmosphere and Ocean (JISAO); Elizabeth S. Garcia, University of California, Santa Barbara; Christina L. Tague, University of Calfornia, Santa Barbara; Ken Ferschweiler, Conservation Biology Institute

PS 86 - Modeling