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FRIDAY
8 am-11:30 am
10:10 AM COS 183-7 Husebye, DS and S Eigenbrode, University
of Idaho. Pea aphids Acyrthosiphon pisum, pulse crops,
and plant viruses: Using disease mapping methods to
optimize virus disease management strategies.
10:30 AM COS 183-8 Cronin, JP 1 , MG Dekkers 1 , ME Welsh 1 , MA
Rúa 2 and CE Mitchell 3 , (1)University of North Carolina at
Chapel Hill, (2)University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill,
(3)University of North Carolina. Effects of host functional
traits on pathogen load and host tolerance of infectious
disease: An experimental test.
10:50 AM COS 183-9 O’Regan, SM, K Magori, JT Pulliam, MA
Zokan, RB Kaul, HD Barton and JM Drake, University of
Georgia. Stochastic fade-out in space: Will microscale
disease-induced mortality along geographic corridors
inhibit the macroscale spread of White-nose Syndrome?.
11:10 AM COS 183-10 Baeza, A 1 , EB Baskerville 1 , A Livne 2 ,
RC Reiner Jr. 3 , MJ Bouma 4 and M Pascual 5 , (1)University
of Michigan, (2)Howard Hughes Medical Insititute, (3)
University of California, Davis, (4)London School of Hygiene
and Tropical Medicine, University of London, (5)University of
Michigan AND Howard Hughes Medical Institute. Rainfalldriven
desert malaria under land-use change: Identifying
regions with similar spatio-temporal dynamics.
COS 184 - Dispersal And Colonization
E141, Oregon Convention Center
8:00 AM COS 184-1 Gaddis, KD 1 and VL Sork 2 , (1)UCLA, (2)
University of California, Los Angeles. Connectivity of
a patchy Mojave Desert shrub: Examining landscape
genetics at multiple spatial and temporal scales.
8:20 AM COS 184-2 Stover, JP 1 , BE Kendall 2 and RM Nisbet 3 , (1)
University of California, (2)University of California Santa
Barbara, (3)University of California, Santa Barbara.
Heterogeneity in dispersal and the spread of populations.
8:40 AM COS 184-3 Bitume, EV 1 , I Olivieri 2 , O Ronce 3 , D Bonte 4
and C Nieberding 1 , (1)Universite catholique Louvainla-Neuve,
(2)Universite Montpellier II, (3)Institut des
Sciences de l’Evolution, (4)Ghent University. Plasticity in
dispersal: Increases in density and relatedness increase
dispersal distance in the two-spotted spider mite.
9:00 AM COS 184-4 Simonis, JL 1 and J Ellis 2 , (1)Cornell
University, (2)Tufts University. Boisterous bathing birds
bias –diversity: Frequent dispersal by gulls homogenizes
invertebrate taxa in a rock-pool metacommunity.
9:20 AM COS 184-5 Birchfield, MK 1 and JG Bishop 2 , (1)
Washington State University - Vancouver, (2)Washington
State University, Vancouver. Thirty years of conifer
establishment in volcanic primary succession at Mount
St. Helens: Patterns and factors affecting establishment.
9:40 AM Break
9:50 AM COS 184-6 Pedersen, EJ and F Guichard, McGill
demographic responds of the long-lived ocean quahog
Arctica islandica.
11:10 AM COS 184-10 Kaproth, MA and J Molofsky, University
of Vermont. Variation in explosive seed dispersal:
Comparing introduced populations to their native
counterparts under competition.
COS 185 - Diversity Estimation
E142, Oregon Convention Center
8:00 AM COS 185-1 He, F 1 , X Yang 2 and SP Hubbell 3 , (1)Sun
Yat-sen University & University of Alberta, (2)Sun Yatsen
University, (3)University of California, Los Angeles.
Estimating species extinction rates: Spatial distribution
of species and geometry of habitat destruction.
8:20 AM COS 185-2 Harris, CJ, University of Hawaii at Manoa.
Measuring the distribution of marine cryptofauna in the
Mariana Archipelago using Autonomous Reef Monitoring
Structures (ARMS).
8:40 AM COS 185-3 Wohlgemuth, T 1 , P Bachmann 1 , A Keel 2 , M
Kessler 3 , MP Nobis 1 , R Nyffeler 3 , JH Spillmann 3 and GS
Wyss 4 , (1)Swiss Federal Research Institute for Forest,
Snow and Landscape Research WSL, (2)Fachstelle
Naturschutz, (3)Institute of Systematic Botany, (4)
Sukkulenten-Sammlung. Citizen science to map the flora
of the Zurich region, Switzerland.
9:00 AM COS 185-4 Basnet, TB 1 , OW Jacobsen 2 and K Basnet 1 ,
(1)Tribhuvan University, (2)Bergen University College.
Bird distribution: Breeding birds distribution pattern in
different land use in mountainous hills in Nepal.
9:20 AM COS 185-5 Henderson, EB 1 , J Ohmann 2 , M Gregory 1
and HM Roberts 1 , (1)Oregon State University, (2)Pacific
Northwest Research Station, USDA Forest Service. All
for one or one for all? Mapping many species individually
vs. simultaneously with random forest.
9:40 AM Break
9:50 AM COS 185-6 Monaghan, KA and A Soares, University of
Aveiro. Calling the odds in the gamble of bioassessment:
The importance of quantifying taxonomic sufficiency.
10:10 AM COS 185-7 Casanovas, PV 1 , HJ Lynch 2 and WF Fagan 1 ,
(1)University of Maryland, (2)SUNY Stony Brook.
Understanding lichen diversity on remote areas using
parataxonomic units as a surrogate for species richness.
10:30 AM COS 185-8 Cobbold, SM and JA MacMahon, Utah
State University. Fine-scale topography shapes spider
community structure along an elevational gradient: Links
between guild identity, temperature, and habitat structure.
10:50 AM COS 185-9 Ojha, SK 1 and L Dimov 2 , (1)Alabama A&M
University, (2)Alabama A & M University. Relationships
between tree diversity and aboveground biomass in
some hardwood forests of Alabama.
University. Spatial interactions and population dynamics
under clustered settlement.
10:10 AM COS 184-7 Anderson, KE
178 ESA 97th Annual Meeting, August 5 - 10, 2012, Oregon Convention Center
1 , LR Harrison2 , RM Nisbet2 and A Kolpas3 , (1)University of California, Riverside, (2)
University of California, Santa Barbara, (3)West Chester
University. Representing macroinvertebrate dynamics for
instream flow assessments.
10:30 AM COS 184-8 Sakrejda, K1 and BH Letcher2 , (1)University
of Massachusetts, (2)US Geological Survey, Conte Fish
Research Centre. Understanding movement from markrecapture
data.
10:50 AM COS 184-9 Schaible, R1 , F Colchero1 , H Gruber2 , A
Scheuerlein1 and EER Philipp2 COS 186 - Ecosystem Stability And Resilience II
E143, Oregon Convention Center
8:00 AM COS 186-1 Yelenik, SG
, (1)Max Planck Institute
for Demographic Research, (2)Institute of Clinical
Molecular Biology. Colonization of marginal habitats,
1 , CM D’Antonio2 , MC Mack3 and N
DiManno1 , (1)University of California, (2)University of California
Santa Barbara, (3)University of Florida. Long-term ecosystem
impacts of invasions and implications for community
dynamics: Exotic grasses and soil N cycling in Hawai'i.
8:20 AM COS 186-2 Pillsbury, FC1 , D Peters1 , DM Browning2 and
MC Duniway3 , (1)USDA Agricultural Research Service,
(2)USDA Agriculture Research Service, (3)USGS.
Cross-scale interactions drive ecosystem responses to
precipitation in the Chihuahuan Desert.
8:40 AM COS 186-3 Ewing, ME, University of Colorado. Linking
decision-making processes to land use patterns on the
Great Plains.