8:00 AM Wearing, Helen^*,1, Rohani, Pejman¹, Cameron, Tom², Sait, Steven², ¹ University of Georgia, Athens, Georgia² University of Leeds, Leeds, U.K. Dynamical effects of demographic stochasticity in stage-structured population models.

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8:15 AM Jonsen, Ian^*,1, ¹ Dalhousie University, Halifax, NS, Canada Meta-analysis of aquatic and terrestrial animal movement using state-space models.

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8:30 AM Jetz, Walter¹, Carbone, Chris², Brown, James¹, ¹ Biology Department, Albuquerque, New Mexico, USA² Institute of Zoology, London, London, UK General rules for the scaling of home range size and density in mammals.

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8:45 AM Scott, Finlay^*,1, Grant, Alastair¹, ¹ University of East Anglia, Norwich, Norfolk, UK Sensitivity of density dependent populations to environmental variability.

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9:00 AM Van Niel, Kimberly^{*,1, 2}, Austin, Mike³, ¹ The Australian National University, Canberra, ACT, Australia² The University of Western Australia, Perth, WA, Australia³ CSIRO Sustainable Ecosystems, Canberra, ACT, Australia The effects of error in environmental variables on predictive vegetation modelling.

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9:15 AM Chen, Xiongwen ^*,1, Zhang, Xinshi¹, Li, Bai-Lian¹, ¹ Department of Botany & Plant Science, University of California at Riverside, Riverside, California, USA Effect of Qinghai-Xizang plateau on the vegetation distribution in east Asia.

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9:30 AM Break.

9:45 AM Economo, Evan^*,1, Kerkhoff, Andrew¹, Enquist, Brian¹, ¹ Department of Ecology & Evolutionary Biology, Tucson, AZ, USA Allometric life histories and population energetics.

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10:00 AM Fox, Gordon^*,1, Tingiris, Pam¹, Kendall, Bruce², ¹ University of South Florida, Tampa, FL, USA² University of Califonia, Santa Barbara, Santa Barbara, CA, USA Power analysis for matrix transition models.

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10:15 AM Kaye, Thomas^*,1, Pyke, David, ¹ Institute for Applied Ecology, Corvallis, OR Does correlation among vital rates matter? The effect of correlation structure on estimates of population viability.

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10:30 AM Lake, Jeffrey^*,1, Hubbell, Stephen^{1, 2}, Kress, W. John³, ¹ University of Georgia, Athens, GA² Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute, Balboa, Panama, Panama³ National Museum of Natural History, Washington, DC Lineage diversification under neutral theory: An empirical test.

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10:45 AM Cardinale, Bradley¹, Ives, Anthony¹, Inchausti, Pablo², ¹ Department of Zoology, Madison, WI, USA² Laboratoire d'Ecologie, Paris, France The relationship between biodiversity and ecosystem productivity: Extending our spatial and temporal scales of inference.

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11:00 AM Scofield, Douglas^*,1, ¹ d.scofield@umiami.edu, Coral Gables, FL Obgenetica: A flexible, individual based, genetically explicit modelling platform for population simulation.

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11:15 AM Snyder, Robin^*,1, Chesson, Peter¹, ¹ Section of Evolution and Ecology, Davis, CA, USA How the spatial scales of dispersal, competition, and environmental heterogeneity interact to alter species coexistence.

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