Session: Modeling: Communities, Disturbance, Succession II (2017 ESA Annual Meeting (August 6 -- 11))

8:00 AM

COS 89-1

A multispecies dependent double-observer model: A new method for estimating multispecies abundance
Victoria J. Dreitz, University of Montana; Jessie D. Golding, University of Montana; James J. Nowak, University of Montana

8:20 AM

COS 89-2

Accounting for disturbance history in watershed-scale models: Using remote sensing to constrain carbon and nitrogen pool spin-up
Erin J. Hanan, Washington State University; Christina L. Tague, University of Calfornia, Santa Barbara; Janet S. Choate, University of Calfornia, Santa Barbara; Mingliang Liu, Washington State University; Crystal Kolden, University of Idaho; Jennifer C. Adam, Washington State University

8:40 AM

COS 89-3

Using topic models to describe disturbance and quantify responses to environmental change in palaeoecological time series
Gavin L. Simpson, University of Regina; Emma Wiik, University of Regina

9:00 AM

COS 89-4

Metrics for quantifying ecological resilience
Caleb P. Roberts, University of Nebraska-Lincoln; Craig R. Allen, University of Nebraska; David Angeler, Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences; Jessica L. Burnett, University of Nebraska-Lincoln; Dirac Twidwell, University of Nebraska - Lincoln

9:20 AM

COS 89-5

Exploring the relationship between functional diversity and resilience in coral communities using an agent-based model
Bruno S. Carturan, University of British Columbia, Okanagan Campus; Lael Parrott, University of British Columbia, Okanagan Campus; Jason Pither, University of British Columbia, Okanagan Campus

9:40 AM

COS 89-

Break

9:50 AM

COS 89-6

Adaptive breeding strategies in a structurally simple but spatiotemporally variable ecosystem
Amber Carver, University of Colorado Denver; David J. Augustine, USDA-ARS; Susan Skagen, USGS; Angela Dwyer, Bird Conservancy of the Rockies; Diana Tomback, University of Colorado Denver; Michael B. Wunder, University of Colorado Denver

10:10 AM

COS 89-7

Predicting the dynamics of biomass and nutrients under different harvesting techniques in a northern hardwood forest
Mahnaz Valipour, Syracuse University; Charles T. Driscoll, Syracuse University; Chris E. Johnson, Syracuse University

10:30 AM

COS 89-8

Improving avian species distribution models by incorporating biotic interactions
Rachel Fern, Texas A&M University; Michael L. Morrison, Texas A&M University; Jeremy Baumgardt, Texas A&M University - Kingsville; Tyler A. Campbell, East Foundation

10:50 AM

COS 89-9

Dynamics and persistence in a metacommunity centred on the snapdragon plant Antirrhinum majus: Theoretical predictions and an empirical test
Coline C. Jaworski, University of Arizona; Christophe Thebaud, Paul Sabatier University; Jerome Chave, Paul Sabatier University

11:10 AM

COS 89-10

Ordination plots for model-based analysis of species composition data
Philip M. Dixon, Iowa State University

COS 89 - Modeling: Communities, Disturbance, Succession II