8:30 AM Zellmer, Amada^*,1, Allen, Timothy¹, ¹ Department of Botany, Madison, WI, USA Evaluating ecological models: Encoding, decoding and complementarity.

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8:45 AM Calabrese, Justin^*,1, Fagan, William¹, ¹ Department of Biology, University of Maryland, College Park, MD Lost in time, lonely and single: Reproductive asynchrony as a mechanism of the Allee effect.

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9:00 AM Hayward, April^*,1, Kolasa, Jurek¹, ¹ McMaster University, Hamilton, Ontario, Canada Size matters: 3/4-power scaling of community metabolic rate.

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9:15 AM Brassil, Chad^*,1, ¹ University of Toronto, Toronto, ON, Canada The similar effect of intrinsic versus extrinsic cycles on mean population densities.

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9:30 AM Koelle, Katia^*,1, Pascual, Mercedes¹, ¹ University of Michigan-Ann Arbor, Ann Arbor, MI Disentangling the roles of extrinsic and intrinsic factors in nonlinear disease dynamics.

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10:00 AM Roy, Manojit^*,1, Pascual, Mercedes¹, ¹ University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI. Email: roym@umich.edu Representing network heterogeneities in simple models of disease.

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10:15 AM Lonsdorf, Eric^*,1, ¹ University of Minnesota - Twin Cities, Saint Paul, MN Multiple disturbances in a metapopulation: The consequences of inbreeding and nitrogen deposition to plant communities.

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10:30 AM Moll, Jason^*,1, Brown, Joel¹, ¹ University of Illinois at Chicago, Chicago, IL Evolutionary coexistence in multiple life history stages.

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10:45 AM Figueira, Will^*,1, ¹ Duke University Marine Lab, Beaufort, NC, USA (Re?)structuring our approach to source-sink metapopulation dynamics in marine systems.

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11:00 AM Smith, David ^{1, 2}, Burdon, Jeremy³, Ericson, Lars⁴, ¹ University of Maryland School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD² National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD³ CSIRO Plant Industry, Centre for Plant Biodiversity Research, Canberra, Australia⁴ Umea University, Umea, Sweden When to stop a study: Analysis from an 11-year study of a parasite metapopulation.

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11:15 AM Miner, Benjamin¹, ¹ Univerisity of Florida, Gainesville, FL, USA How to test whether phenotypic plasticity is adaptive.

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