Session: Habitat Structure, Fragmentation, Connectivity I (2017 ESA Annual Meeting (August 6 -- 11))

8:00 AM

Plant community and nutrient development over time within four estuary restoration sites in Kitsap County, Washington
Shannon M. Call, Western Washington University; Jenise M. Bauman, Western Washington University

8:20 AM

COS 138-2

Coupling individual-based model simulations and animal movement data to evaluate the influences of fragmentation on habitat-use patterns
Jennifer Leigh Bradham, Vanderbilt University; Clara Yip, Vanderbilt University; Maria Luisa Jorge, Vanderbilt University

8:40 AM

COS 138-3

Experimental demonstration of keystone communities for biodiversity and ecosystem functions of metacommunities
Xian Yang, Georgia Institute of Technology; Jiaqi Tan, Georgia Institute of Technology; Lin Jiang, Georgia Institute of Technology

9:00 AM

COS 138-4

Sagebrush shrubs are structurally important for thermoregulation in horned lizards
Reilly Dibner, University of Wyoming; Kimberly S. Sheldon, University of Tennessee, Knoxville

9:20 AM

COS 138-5

Canopy connectivity increases ant-provided biocontrol services in a tropical agroforest
Esteli Jimenez-Soto, University of California Santa Cruz; Jonathan R. Morris, University of Michigan; Deborah K. Letourneau, University of California-Santa Cruz; Stacy M. Philpott, University of California, Santa Cruz

9:40 AM

COS 138-

Break

9:50 AM

COS 138-6

Does milkweed density alter patch occupancy times and movement-based minimum area requirements for monarch butterflies?
Elizabeth Crone, Tufts University

10:10 AM

COS 138-7

Simulating the spread of selection-driven genotypes using landscape resistance models for desert bighorn sheep
Tyler G. Creech, Center for Large Landscape Conservation, Oregon State University; Clinton Epps, Oregon State University; Erin L. Landguth, University of Montana; John D. Wehausen, University of California; Rachel Crowhurst, Oregon State University; Brandon Holton, National Park Service; Ryan Monello, National Park Service

10:30 AM

COS 138-8

Of mice and coffee: Identifying landscape drivers of dispersal for a tropical small mammal in coffee farms
Beatriz Otero JimÃ©nez, University of Michigan; Kevin Li, Georg-August-University; John H. Vandermeer, University of Michigan; Priscilla Tucker, University of Michigan

10:50 AM

COS 138-9

Determining the transferability of amphibian landscape genetics models
Stephanie Burgess, University of Mississippi; Ryan Garrick, University of Mississippi

11:10 AM

COS 138-10

Movement in the matrix: Ladybeetle dispersal in an urban agricultural landscape
Monika Egerer, University of California, Santa Cruz; Stacy M. Philpott, University of California, Santa Cruz

COS 138 - Habitat Structure, Fragmentation, Connectivity I