8:00 AM Tuckfield, R. Cary Tuckfield^*,1, ¹ Department of Environmental Science and Technology, Aiken, SC, USA Statistical thinking, practical uncertainty, and ecological evidence.

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8:15 AM Riggs, Michael¹, ¹ Department of Statistical Research, RTP, NC, USA Nonparametric smoothed estimators of population hazard functions.

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8:30 AM Minchin, Peter^*,1, ¹ Southern Illinois University, Carbondale, Illinois, USA Stepwise ANOSIM: Finding the subset of species that optimally discriminates groups of sampling units.

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8:45 AM TBA.

9:00 AM Das, Abhik^*,1, Riggs, Michael¹, Zicus, Michael², Rave, David², ¹ Research Triangle Institute, Rockville, MD, U.S.A.² Minnesota Department of Natural Resources, Bemidji, MN, U.S.A. Space-time modeling of a discrete ecological response: Characterization of Mallard nesting in Minnesota.

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9:15 AM Ferrari, Matthew ^*,1, Taper, Mark², ¹ IGDP in Ecology, Universtiy Park, PA, USA² Department of Ecology, Bozeman, MT, 59717 Using auxiliary data on measurement error to improve estimates in population time series.

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9:30 AM Melbourne, Brett^*,1, ¹ University of California, Davis, CA, bamelbourne@ucdavis.edu Fitting nonlinear population models to data with both process and measurement error.

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9:45 AM Break.

10:00 AM Stanley, Thomas^*,1, ¹ USGS Fort Collins Science Center, Fort Collins, Colorado, USA Deconvolving avian nesting data using Fourier transforms to recover the distribution of nest initiation times.

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10:15 AM MacFarlane, David^*,1, Kobe, Richard¹, ¹ Department of Forestry, East Lansing, Michigan, USA Relative growth rate is an ineffective response variable for capturing size effects on tree growth.

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10:30 AM Ballantyne, Ford ^*,, Kerkhoff, Andrew, Masting, variance and the mean.

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10:45 AM McCoy, Michael ^*,1, Osenberg, Craig¹, Bolker, Benjamin¹, Miner, Benjamin¹, Vonesh, James¹, ¹ University of Florida, Gainesville, Florida, USA Quantifying phenotypic plasticity in ecological experiments.

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