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Life on Earth: Preserving, Utilizing, and Sustaining our Ecosystems
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3 and WE Snyder1 , (1)Washington State University, (2)
University of Wisconsin, (3)University of Wisconsin, USDA.
Niche engineering reveals complementary resource use.
1:50 PM COS 166-2 Kershaw, F1 , T Waller2 , R Pearson3 and
M Mendez4 , (1)Columbia University, (2)Fundación
Biodiversidad, (3)American Museum of Natural History,
(4)Wildlife Conservation Society. The value of expertdriven
niche models and historical records in informing
the sustainable harvest of yellow anaconda in northern
Argentina.
2:10 PM COS 166-3 Li, Y and P Chesson, University of Arizona.
Quantifying the strength of a species coexistence
mechanism in spatially variable environments between
invasive and native desert winter annual plants.
2:30 PM COS 166-4 Sullivan, L and WS Harpole, Iowa State
University. Dispersal as a deterministic or stochastic
process: The influence of nutrient additions on dispersal
traits.
2:50 PM COS 166-5 Olsson, A, Northern Arizona University.
Adjusted AUC: A new method for evaluating ecological
niche models for non-equilibrium species distributions.
3:10 PM Break
3:20 PM COS 166-6 Edwards, KF1 , E Litchman2 and C
Klausmeier2 , (1)W. K. Kellogg Biological Station, Michigan
State University, (2)Michigan State University. Functional
traits predict phytoplankton community structure and
successional pattern in a marine ecosystem.
3:40 PM COS 166-7 Capitán, JA1 , S Cuenda2 , JA Cuesta3 and D Alonso4 , (1)Centro de Astrobiología, INTA-
CSIC, (2)Universidad Autónoma de Madrid, (3)
Grupo Interdisciplinar de Sistemas Complejos
(GISC), Universidad Carlos III, (4)Consejo Superior de
Investigaciones Cientificas, CEAB-CSIC. The stochastic
nature of the competitive exclusion principle.
4:00 PM COS 166-8 Whiteman, WSB, MA Balk, MI Pardi, NA
Wright and FA Smith, University of New Mexico. The
niche in a changing world: Improving niche modeling to
plan for the future.
4:20 PM COS 166-9 Narwani, A and BJ Cardinale, University
of Michigan. Can evolutionary history help explain
coexistence and the mechanisms behind it?.
COS 167 - Paleoecology
B117, Oregon Convention Center
1:30 PM COS 167-1 Drew, JA, Field Museum of Natural History.
The use of anthropology holdings to reconstruct historical
apex predator communities.
1:50 PM COS 167-2 Baker, AG1 , P Cornelissen2 , SA Bhagwat1 and KJ Willis1 , (1)University of Oxford, (2)Ministry of
Infrastructure and the Environment. A methodological
step forward to quantify past population size of large
herbivores and the impact of their disturbance regime.
2:10 PM COS 167-3 Stegner, MA and M Holmes, University of
California, Berkeley. Long-term stasis in mammalian
community structure: The fossil record as a tool for
conservation planning.
2:30 PM COS 167-4 Barrett, CM1 and FS Hu2 , (1)University of
Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, (2)University of Illinois,
Urbana-Champaign. How many lake-sediment cores do
we need to characterize regional fire-regime changes
using macro-charcoal records?.
2:50 PM COS 167-5 Ewing, HA1 , KL Cottingham2 , KC Weathers3 ,
PR Leavitt4 , AU Fiorillo1 , JE MacKenzie1 , BP Quarrier1 ,
CC Carey5 and E Rydin6 Retrospective analysis of the role of Gloeotrichia
echinulata in mediating early lake eutrophication.
3:10 PM Break
3:20 PM COS 167-6 Punyasena, SW
, (1)Bates College, (2)Dartmouth,
(3)Cary Institute of Ecosystem Studies, (4)University
of Regina, (5)Cornell University, (6)Uppsala University.
1 , DK Tcheng2 and DS
Haselhorst1 , (1)University of Illinois, (2)University of
Illinois/National Center for Supercomputing Applications.
Automating tropical pollen analysis using layered
machine learning.
3:40 PM COS 167-7 Gill, JL1 , KK McLauchlan2 and JW Williams3 ,
(1)University of Wisconsin-Madison, (2)Kansas State
University, (3)University of Wisconsin, Madison. Bison
grazing intensity predicts the abundance of the dung
fungus proxy Sporormiella at Konza Prairie: Implications
for the Holocene paleoecology of the Great Plains.
4:00 PM COS 167-8 Orcutt, JD and SSB Hopkins, University
of Oregon. Body size in the fourth dimension: A
paleoecological test of Bergmann’s Rule.
4:20 PM COS 167-9 Robinson, GS and MG Egan, Fordham
College at Lincoln Center. Before the Younger Dryas and
after Columbus: Further studies of Sporormiella records
from New York and New Jersey.
4:40 PM COS 167-10 Voelker, SL1 , FC Meinzer2 , B
Lachenbruch3 , JR Brooks4 , MC Stambaugh5 and RP
Guyette5 , (1)Southern Oregon University, (2)USDA
Forest Service, (3)Department of Forest Ecosystems &
Society, (4)US EPA, Western Ecology Division, NHEERL,
(5)University of Missouri. Colder springs and warmer,
wetter summers during the late glacial climate of central
North America: inferences from stable isotopes δD and
δ13C and wood anatomy of sub-fossil oak wood.
COS 168 - Predation And Predator-Prey Interactions I
C120, Oregon Convention Center
1:30 PM COS 168-1 Mensink, PJ1 , RG Cole2 and JS Shima1 , (1)
1:50 PM
Victoria University of Wellington, (2)National Institute of
Water and Atmospheric Science. Intercohort interactions
and settler mortality in a New Zealand reef fish.
COS 168-2 Schauber, EM1 , BJ Goodwin2 , CG Jones3 and
RS Ostfeld3 , (1)Southern Illinois University Carbondale, (2)
University of North Dakota, (3)Cary Institute of Ecosystem
Studies. Prey persistence with spatially heterogeneous
and seasonally fluctuating predation risk: Refuge
inheritance vs. developmental stagger.
2:10 PM COS 168-3 Vonesh, JR1 , M McCoy2 and KM Warkentin3 ,
(1)Virginia Commonwealth University, (2)Virginia
Commonwealth Univeristy and University of Florida, (3)
Boston University. Consequences of prey size-, density-,
and dose-dependent responses to predator cues for
prey population size structure.
2:30 PM COS 168-4 Faulkner, JR, WD Muir and SG Smith,
Northwest Fisheries Science Center. Evidence for
density-dependent avian predation on migrating juvenile
salmon.
2:50 PM COS 168-5 Meadows, AJ, JP Owen and WE Snyder,
Washington State University. Complex predator effects
on larval mosquitoes.
3:10 PM
3:20 PM
Break
COS 168-6 de Rivera, CE1 , AA Larson1 , G Ruiz2 and ED
Grosholz3 , (1)Portland State University, (2)Smithsonian
Environmental Research Center, (3)University of
California. Rebound of a native prey species following
management of an invasive crab.
3:40 PM COS 168-7 Tinus, CA, Oregon State University.
Substitutes, compliments, edge effects, and decoupled
consumption of transient and resident prey.
4:00 PM COS 168-8 Bourdeau, PE1 , KL Pangle2 and SD Peacor1 ,
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