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PARENT SESSION
Oral Session #4: Animal Population Ecology.
Presiding: L. Mitchell
Monday, August 5. 8:00 AM to 11:30 AM. Gila Meeting Room, TCC.

[UNKNOWN: PRESTIME] Freidenburg, Kealoha*,1, 1 University of Connecticut, Storrs, CT. Effect of oviposition site choice on anuran performance.

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[UNKNOWN: PRESTIME] Miller, J. Richard*,1, 1 Department of Biology, Chapel Hill, NC. Population variation and multiple life history stage responses to predation in the stream salamander, Desmognathus quadramaculatus.

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[UNKNOWN: PRESTIME] Herzog, Mark*,1, Sedinger, James1, 1 University of Alaska Fairbanks, Fairbanks, AK. Variation in gosling size of Black Brant (Branta bernicla) is directly related to forage available on brood-rearing areas.

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[UNKNOWN: PRESTIME] Salazar, Patricio*,1, Avilés, Leticia2, 1 Pontificia Universidad Católica del Ecuador, Quito, Ecuador2 University of Arizona, Tucson, Arizona. Allee effects and random catastrophes in the population dynamics of a social spider.

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[UNKNOWN: PRESTIME] Ferrenberg, Scott*,1, Denno, Robert1, 1 University of Maryland, College Park, MD. The role of competition in dictating the population dynamics of the rare saltmarsh planthopper Delphacodes penedetecta.

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[UNKNOWN: PRESTIME] Manteuffel, Vishnu*,1, 1 University of Miami, Coral Gables, FL. Density dependence during the juvenile stage of the life cycle: effects on behavior, life history traits, and demographic parameters.

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[UNKNOWN: PRESTIME] Benton, Tim*,1, Cameron, Tom1, 1 Institute of Biological Sciences, Stirling, UK. Does elasticity analysis predict population response? Results from an experimental test.

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[UNKNOWN: PRESTIME] BECKERMAN, ANDREW*,1, BENTON, TIM1, LAPSLEY, CRAIG1, 1 Univeristy of Stirling, Stirling, United Kingdom. Cycles and synchrony: an experimental evaluation with replicated populations.

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[UNKNOWN: PRESTIME] DOAK, DANIEL*,1, SHAHANI, PRIYA1, WILLIAMS, TERRIE1, ESTES, JAMES1, 1 University of California, Santa Cruz, Santa Cruz, CA. Understanding the age structured decline of the Steller sea lion using demographic and likelihood methods.

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[UNKNOWN: PRESTIME] Harvey, Erik*,1, Collins, James1, 1 Arizona State University, Tempe, Arizona. Intraspecific interactions shape life history trajectories.

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[UNKNOWN: PRESTIME] Svanback, Richard*,1, Persson, Lennart2, Wahlstrom, Eva2, Westman, Erika2, Bystom, Par3, 1 Uppsala University, Uppsala, Sweden2 Umea University, Umea, Sweden3 Swedish Agricultural University, Umea, Sweden. Individual specialization and population dynamics: implications for trophic polymorphisms.

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[UNKNOWN: PRESTIME] Kaufman, Donald*,1, Kaufman, Glennis1, 1 Kansas State University, Manhattan, KS. Long-term study of small mammals in tallgrass prairie: prairie voles and southern bog lemmings.

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[UNKNOWN: PRESTIME] Jolles, Anna*,1, 1 Princeton University, Princeton, NJ. Tuberculosis in African buffalo: population effects of a chronic disease.

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[UNKNOWN: PRESTIME] Dreitz, Victoria*,1, Hobbs, N. Thompson1,2, Miller, Michael2, Burnham, Kenneth3, Conner, Mary2,4, 1 Natural Resources Ecology Laboratory, Fort Collins, Colorado2 Colorado Division of Wildlife, Fort Collins, Colorado3 Colorado Cooperative Fish and Wildlife Research Unit, Fort Collins, Colorado4 Department of Fish and Wildlife Biology, Fort Collins, Colorado. Effects of chronic wasting disease on growth rates of Colorado mule deer populations.

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