2018 ESA Annual Meeting (August 5 -- 10)

COS 67 - Population Dynamics: Modeling II

Wednesday, August 8, 2018: 8:00 AM-11:30 AM
355, New Orleans Ernest N. Morial Convention Center
8:00 AM
Sustainable harvest strategies of predators and preys in a fluctuating environment
Edwige Bellier, UiT The Arctic University of Norway; Bernt-Erik Sæther, Norwegian University of Science and Technology; Steinar Engen, Norwegian University of Science and Technology
8:20 AM
On the predictability of infectious disease outbreaks
Samuel V. Scarpino, Northeastern University; Giovanni Petri, ISI Foundation
9:00 AM
Accounting for trade-offs between vital rates in population projection models
Edgar Gonzalez, Faculty of Sciences, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México; Paola I. Portillo, Faculty of Sciences, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México; Benjamin M. Bolker, McMaster University
9:20 AM
Allometric variation of the salt marsh grass Spartina alterniflora across space and time
Wenwen Liu, University of Houston; Steven Pennings, University of Houston
9:40 AM
9:50 AM
Do mutualisms promote resilience? Mathematical models of complex plant communities
Frederick Adler, University of Utah; Peter Adler, Utah State University
10:10 AM
Are hurricanes a major driver of individual life histories?
Raisa Hernández-Pacheco, University of Richmond; Ulrich K. Steiner, University of Southern Denmark; Kristine L. Grayson, University of Richmond; Angelina Ruiz-Lambides, University of Puerto Rico; Dana Oriana Morcillo, University of Richmond
10:30 AM
What's causing the monarch butterfly population to decline in the West?
Elizabeth Crone, Tufts University; Cheryl Schultz, Washington State University
10:50 AM
The role of diapause in the developmental synchrony of an agricultural pest: A case study with the tortricid pest Cydia pomonella
Damie Pak, Penn State University; David J. Biddinger, Penn State Fruit Research & Extension Center; Ottar N. Bjornstad, Pennsylvania State University
11:10 AM
Predicting the Lyme disease vector (Ixodes scapularis) from small mammals and the weather: A Bayesian approach
John R. Foster, Boston University; Shannon L. LaDeau, Cary Insitute of Ecosystem Studies; Michael C. Dietze, Boston University
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