2018 ESA Annual Meeting (August 5 -- 10)

COS 17 - Population Dynamics And Regulation

Monday, August 6, 2018: 1:30 PM-5:00 PM
355, New Orleans Ernest N. Morial Convention Center
1:30 PM
Intraspecific interactions affect the spatial pattern of a dominant shrub in a semi-arid shrubland: A prospective approach
Pedro F. Quintana-Ascencio, University of Central Florida; Carlos Ivan Espinosa, Universidad Particular Técnica de Loja; Diego Velez-Mora, Universidad Particular Técnica de Loja; Elizabeth Gusman, Universidad Particular Técnica de Loja; Pablo Ramon, Universidad Particular Técnica de Loja; David H. Duncan, University of Melbourne
1:50 PM
Trade-offs in the effects of density on the false potato beetle (Leptinotarsa juncta) across life stages and spatial scales
Jessie Mutz, Florida State University; Nora Underwood, Florida State University; Brian D. Inouye, Florida State University
2:10 PM
Plant demographic responses to alpine shrub expansion: What are the relative effects of competition and plant-soil feedbacks?
Courtney G. Collins, University of California, Riverside; Jeffrey M. Diez, University of California, Riverside
2:30 PM
Divergent trends, unsynchronized community dynamics, and extreme years: The challenge in finding effective ecological proxies
Casey Youngflesh, Stony Brook University; Stephanie Jenouvrier, Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution; Heather Lynch, Stony Brook University
2:50 PM Cancelled
COS 17-5
Proximate determinants of Taylor’s law slopes and their potential for understanding ecological mechanisms (widthdrawn)
Lei Zhao, University of Kansas; Lawrence Sheppard, University of Kansas; Philip C. Reid, Sir Alister Hardy Foundation for Ocean Science (SAHFOS); Jonathan A. Walter, University of Kansas, Virginia Commonwealth University; Daniel Reuman, University of Kansas
3:10 PM
3:20 PM
Does intraspecific competition regulate the abundance of Arctic mosquitoes (Aedes nigripes) in western Greenland?
Melissa DeSiervo, Dartmouth College; Lauren Culler, Dartmouth College; Matthew P. Ayres, Dartmouth College; Ross A. Virginia, Dartmouth College; Steven Juliano, Illinois State University
3:40 PM
Estimating the pre-exploitation population size of Antarctic fur seals (Arctocephalus gazella) in South Georgia
Catherine Foley, Stony Brook University; Heather J. Lynch, Stony Brook University
4:00 PM
Resource availability and density dependence in mosquito (Aedes aegypti) larval development
Katherine Heath, University of Oxford, New College; Robert Stephen Paton, University of Oxford, Balliol College; Anthony Wilson, The Pirbright Institute; Michael B. Bonsall, University of Oxford, St Peter's College
4:20 PM
Effects of habitat fragmentation on plant recruitment patterns
Christopher Warneke, Michigan State University; Lars Brudvig, Michigan State University
4:40 PM
Prediction and forecasting of portal fauna via particle filtration
Juniper L. Simonis, University of Florida, DAPPER Stats; Glenda M. Yenni, University of Florida; Shawn D. Taylor, University of Florida; Erica Christensen, University of Florida; Ellen K. Bledsoe, University of Florida; Ethan P. White, University of Florida; S.K. Morgan Ernest, University of Florida
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