2018 ESA Annual Meeting (August 5 -- 10)

COS 47 - Habitat Structure, Fragmentation, Connectivity

Tuesday, August 7, 2018: 1:30 PM-5:00 PM
353, New Orleans Ernest N. Morial Convention Center
1:30 PM
Modelling network structure and temporal connectivity in freshwater metacommunities
Finnbar Lee, University of Auckland; George L. W. Perry, University of Auckland
1:50 PM
Fragmentation limits climate connectivity by 24% in the contiguous United States
Jenny L. McGuire, Georgia Tech; Joshua J. Lawler, University of Washington; Brad H. McRae, The Nature Conservancy; Dave Theobald, Conservation Science Partners; Tristan Nunez, UC Berkeley
2:10 PM
Habitat amount is important for a woodland specialist in an agricultural landscape
Riana Z Gardiner, University of Tasmania; Rowena Hamer, University of Tasmania; Menna E. Jones, University of Tasmania; Christopher N. Johnson, University of Tasmania
2:30 PM
Habitat fragmentation, degradation, and loss modify consumer pressure in coastal marine ecosystems: A meta-analysis
Juhyung Lee, Stanford University; Fiorenza Micheli, Stanford University; Rodolfo Dirzo, Stanford University
2:50 PM
The effects of unidirectional stream flow and host dispersal on parasite population structure within a dendritic ecological network
Mary Janecka, Duquesne University, Texas A&M University; Jan Janecka, Duquesne University
3:10 PM
3:20 PM
Fine-scale genetic structure of common bottlenose dolphins (Tursiops truncatus) in the Florida Panhandle
Christina N. Toms, University of Central Florida, Chicago Zoological Society’s Sarasota Dolphin Research Program, University of West Florida; Toby S. Daly-Engel, Florida Institute of Technology; Patricia E. Rosel, NOAA Fisheries; Lynsey A. Wilcox, NOAA Fisheries; Graham A. J. Worthy, University of Central Florida
3:40 PM
Urbanization and agriculture act as barriers to genetic connectivity in a fragmented serpentine barren grassland plant
Sarah L. Emel, University of Massachusetts Amherst, Temple University; Shichen Wang, Texas A&M University; Richard Metz, Texas A&M University; Rachel Spigler, Temple University
4:00 PM
The strength of species-area relationships are modulated by conservation efforts in a highly fragmented, endemic habitat
Nicholas Anderson, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign; Alexandra Harmon-Threatt, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
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