Oral Session #46: Modeling Populations and Statistical Ecology.

Presiding: D.C. Speirs, University of Strathclyde.
Tuesday, August 8, 2000
1:00 PM to 5:15 PM
Wasatch Room - Cliff Lodge

1:00 PM	Modeling restoration of Michigan tributaries and its effect on salmonid populations. TYLER, J.A. , E.S. RUTHERFORD
1:15 PM	Stoichiometry, herbivory, and competition for nutrients. GROVER, J.P.
1:30 PM	Ontogenetic niche shifts, flexible behavior and size-structured population dynamics. DE ROOS, A.M. , K. LEONARDSSON, L. PERSSON, G. MITTELBACH
1:45 PM	Individual variability reduces demographic stochasticity. KENDALL, B.E. , G.A. FOX
2:00 PM	Exotic species increase biodiversity of islands. SAX, D.F. , J.H. BROWN, S.D. GAINES
2:15 PM	Can static habitat models recover process information? TYRE, A.J. , H.P. POSSINGHAM, D.B. LINDENMAYER
2:30 PM	Assessing the individual and population level effects of a disturbance using a dynamic state variable model. FORDE, S.
2:45 PM	Patterns of individual variation and its implications for population models. PFISTER, C.A.
3:00 PM	Break
3:15 PM	Fitting population models with process noise and observation error. DE VALPINE, P. , A. HASTINGS
3:30 PM	Estimating self-thinning relations in plants with regression quantiles. CADE, B.S.
3:45 PM	Use of response surface methodology and ANOVA in detecting air-pollution effects on net photosynthesis under varying temperature and light conditions. MOMEN, B. , P.D. ANDERSON, J.A. HELMS
4:00 PM	Statistical thinking and eoclogical release: More on the weight of evidence. TUCKFIELD, R.C. , M.C. BELK
4:15 PM	Challenges in survey design and data analysis of a long-term study: Lessons from a 17-year study of Bowhead Whales in the Alaskan Beaufort Sea. DEUTSCHMAN, D.H. , J. DIFFENDORFER
4:30 PM	Rates of species accumulation of mobile organisms: An adaptive procedure for directing allocation of sampling effort. FERNAU, R.F. , N.H. WILLITS
4:45 PM	Comparison of biological communities: The problem of sample representativeness. CAO, Y. , D.D. WILLIAMS, D.P. LARSEN
5:00 PM	Some lessons from the ATLSS project: modeling and Everglades restoration. GROSS, L.J. , D.L. DEANGELIS