Session: Spatial Analysis And GIS (101st ESA Annual Meeting (August 7 -- 12, 2016))

8:00 AM

COS 74-1

Integrating local knowledge into regional assessment of habitat use by threatened species: Case study of the jaguar in Central America
Lisanne Petracca, Panthera, State University of New York College of Environmental Science and Forestry; Jacqueline Frair, State University of New York College of Environmental Science and Forestry; Jonathan Cohen, State University of New York College of Environmental Science and Forestry; Ana Patricia Calderón, State University of New York College of Environmental Science and Forestry; Javier Carazo-Salazar, Panthera; Franklin Castañeda, Panthera; Cordelia Che, Panthera; Daniel Corrales-Gutierrez, Panthera; Sandra Hernandez-Potosme, Panthera; Luis Herrera, Panthera; Melva Olmos, Panthera; Sandy Pereira, Panthera; Howard Quigley, Panthera; Nathaniel Robinson, Panthera; Roberto Salom-Perez, Panthera; Yahaira Urbina, Panthera; Hugh Robinson, Panthera

8:20 AM

COS 74-2

Spatial mismatch and range contractions of the Western Ghats avifauna
Vijay Ramesh, Columbia University; Trisha Gopalakrishna, Duke University; Sahas Barve, Cornell University

8:40 AM

COS 74-3

Quantifying forest representativeness for optimizing sampling network coverage
Forrest Hoffman, Oak Ridge National Laboratory; Jitendra Kumar, Oak Ridge National Laboratory; James T. Randerson, University of California, Irvine; Stuart J. Davies, Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute

9:00 AM

COS 74-4

Continuous cover projections of Big Sagebrush (Artemisia tridentata) throughout the Intermountain West USA informs conservation strategies
Caroline A. Curtis, University of Massachusetts; Bethany A. Bradley, University of Massachusetts, Amherst

9:20 AM

COS 74-5

Species-specific recruitment limitation and response to canopy opening in a midsuccessional oak forest
David N. Allen, Middlebury College

9:40 AM

COS 74-

Break

9:50 AM

COS 74-6

Spatial-temporal patterns of canopy surface metrics derived from unmanned aerial vehicles in two tropical dry forest areas of contrasting degradation history
Susana Rodríguez-Buriticá, Alexander von Humboldt Institute; Diego Cordoba, Alexander von Humboldt Institute; Paola Isaacs, Alexander von Humboldt Institute

10:10 AM

COS 74-7

Flying under the lidar: Relating forest structure to bat community diversity
A. Christine Swanson, University of Florida, University of Central Florida; John F Weishampel, University of Central Florida

10:30 AM

COS 74-8

Assessing the value of local data: Estimating current and future watershed health based on impervious cover estimates from the National Land Cover Database versus local data derived from aerial photography
Alexandra M. Thorn, University of New Hampshire; Cameron Wake, University of New Hampshire; David Justice, University of New Hamsphire; Fay Rubin, University of New Hampshire

10:50 AM

COS 74-9

Integrating occurrence data and expert maps to refine species range predictions
Cory Merow, University of Connecticut; Adam M. Wilson, University at Buffalo, State University of New York; Walter Jetz, Yale University; John A. Silander, University of Connecticut

11:10 AM

COS 74-10

Two solutions to large-scale ecological image processing
Margaret Kosmala, Harvard University; Koen Hufkens, Harvard University; Andrew D. Richardson, Harvard University

COS 74 - Spatial Analysis And GIS