98th ESA Annual Meeting (August 4 -- 9, 2013)

COS 117 - Distributions And Range Limits

Friday, August 9, 2013: 8:00 AM-11:30 AM
101H, Minneapolis Convention Center
8:00 AM
Here be dragons: Proximate mechanisms mediating temperature and biogeography in alligator lizards
Rory S. Telemeco, Iowa State University; Elizabeth A. Addis, Gonzaga University; Anne M. Bronikowski, Iowa State University; Gerardo Antonio Cordero, Iowa State University; Rebecca L. Polich, Iowa State University
8:20 AM
Assessing the dynamic nature of species distributions using short-term weather rather than long-term climate
Brooke L. Bateman, UW-Madison; Anna M. Pidgeon, University of Wisconsin-Madison; Jeremy VanDerWal, James Cook University; Patrica Heglund, US Fish and Wildlife Service; H. Resit Akcakaya, Stony Brook University; Wayne E. Thogmartin, U.S. Geological Survey; Thomas P. Albright, University of Nevada, Reno; Stephen J. Vavrus, Center for Climatic Research; Curtis H. Flather, USDA, Forest Service; Volker C. Radeloff, University of Wisconsin-Madison
8:40 AM
9:20 AM
Contrasting elevational patterns of forest structure across the Taiwan Strait in monsoon Asia: the potential role of typhoon disturbance
Chung-Hao Chi, National Taiwan Normal University; Chung-Te Chang, National Taiwan University; Cheng-Yang Zheng, Peking University; Zhijie Yang, Fujian Normal University; Teng-Chiu Lin, National Taiwan Normal University
9:40 AM
10:10 AM
Decoupling the fundamental and realized components of niche conservatism
Nancy C. Emery, Purdue University; Lorena Torres-Martinez, Purdue University; Michelle Madden, Purdue University
10:50 AM
Using a combined hydrologic network-climate model of the invasive nutria (Myocastor coypus) to understand current distributions and range expansion potential under climate change scenarios
Catherine Jarnevich, U.S. Geological Survey; Trevor R. Sheffels, Portland State University; Jacoby Carter, US Geological Survey; Nick Young, Colorado State University; Mark D. Sytsma, Portland State University