8:00 AM: , INTRODUCTION: H. CALLAHAN.

8:05 AM: Roughgarden, Joan^*,1, ¹ Stanford University, Stanford, CA, US, Reproductive social groups: Replacing sexual selection with Cooperative Game Theory.

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8:35 AM: McCormick, Ronald^*,1, Brandner, Thomas², ¹ Sokio Systems, Federal Way, WA, USA² Edgewood College, Madison, WI, USA, Who watches whom when consulting around farmers and fish in communities and watersheds in the Walla Walla Basin: Scale breaks and what to measure.

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9:05 AM: Callahan, Hilary^*,1, ¹ Barnard College, New York, NY, Ecological genetics of complex traits: Gene number, environmental-dependence and organismal scale.

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9:35 AM: , BREAK.

9:45 AM: Gonzalez, Andrew¹, ¹ McGill University, Montreal, Quebec, Canada, The limits of mechanism in population and community ecology.

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10:15 AM: Roydon, FRASER^*,1, James, KAY¹, ¹ University of Waterloo, Waterloo, Ontario, CANADA, Recasting thermodynamics to inherently include a living system's environment at multiple scales.

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10:45 AM: Allen, Timothy¹, ¹ Botany Department, Madison, WI, USA, High and low gain resource use conceptions as a means of maintaining coherent levels of analysis across changes in scope: Romans, renewable resources, ants, termites and beavers.

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11:15 AM: , PANEL DISCUSSION AND QUESTIONS.