COS 83 - Habitat Structure, Fragmentation, Connectivity

Thursday, August 11, 2016: 1:30 PM-5:00 PM
207/208, Ft Lauderdale Convention Center
1:30 PM
Scaling from meta-populations to source-sinks: Taylor’s law and landscape structure
Theresa Wei Ying Ong, University of Michigan; John Vandermeer, University of Michigan
1:50 PM
A future of fire, floods, and fish
Colton Finch, Utah State University; Phaedra Budy, Utah State University; Patrick Belmont, Utah State University
2:10 PM
Metapopulation collapse on habitat networks undergoing experimental habitat loss and fragmentation
Robert J. Fletcher Jr., University of Florida; Katherine D Holmes, Cornell University
2:30 PM
Ecological network identification by means of simulated species landscape perceptions
Olivia Dondina, University of Milano-Bicocca; Valerio Orioli, University of Milano-Bicocca; Luciano Bani, University of Milano-Bicocca
2:50 PM
Are ecological studies on fragmentation useful for conservation?
Julian Resasco, University of Colorado; Cristina Banks-Leite, Imperial College; Emilio M. Bruna, University of Florida; Nick M. Haddad, North Carolina State University; Chris R. Margules, CSIRO
3:10 PM
3:20 PM
Interaction of landscape structure, light, and predators on risk perceived by beach mice: Implications for current and future habitat under a changing climate
Margo A. Stoddard, University of Florida; Lyn C. Branch, University of Florida; Debbie L. Miller, University of Florida
4:00 PM Cancelled
COS 83-7
Habitat loss and local extinctions of highly frugivorous birds disrupt the structure of seed dispersal networks (widthdrawn)
Jamille de Assis Bomfim, Universidade Estadual de Santa Cruz; Paulo R. Guimarães Jr., Universidade de São Paulo; Gustavo H. Carvalho, Universidade Estadual de Santa Cruz; Carlos Peres, University of East Anglia; Eliana Cazetta, Universidade Estadual de Santa Cruz
3:40 PM
Evaluating conceptual models of landscape change
Lars Brudvig, Michigan State University; Shawn J. Leroux, Memorial University of Newfoundland; Cécile H. Albert, Aix Marseille Université; Emilio M. Bruna, University of Florida; Kendi Davies, University of Colorado; Robert Ewers, Imperial College London; Doug Levey, National Science Foundation; Renata Pardini, Universidade de São Paulo; Julian Resasco, University of Colorado
4:20 PM
Fragments, fungi, and feedbacks: How landscape fragmentation alters plant-fungal interactions
Cathy D. Collins, Colby College; Michelle H. Hersh, Sarah Lawrence College
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