1:30 PM: Hazell, Megan ^*,1, Fryxell, John ¹, ¹ University of Guelph, Guelph, Ontario, Canada, Movement dynamics of elk (Cervus elaphus): Linking environmental heterogeneity to individual movement.

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1:50 PM: Dalziel, Benjamin^*,1, Fryxell, John¹, ¹ University of Guelph, Guelph, Ontario, Canada, The persistence of memory: Modeling the movements of foragers using memory-biased random walks.

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2:10 PM: Tinker, Martin^*,1, Doak, Daniel¹, Estes, James², ¹ University of California, Santa Cruz, CA² USGS Biological Resources Division, Santa Cruz, CA, Effect of demographic variation and dispersal patterns at multiple spatial scales on the population recovery and range expansion of a threatened carnivore.

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2:30 PM: van Teeffelen, Astrid^*,1, Ovaskainen, O¹, Moilanen, Atte¹, Wintle, Brendan², Elith, Jane², ¹ University of Helsinki, Helsinki, Finland² University of Melbourne, Melbourne, Australia, Spatial autocorrelation and connectivity measures in species distribution models.

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2:50 PM: Hunter, Christine ^*,1, Caswell, Hal¹, ¹ Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, Woods Hole, MA, USA, Population dynamics in spatially structured landscapes: Effects of local dynamics and dispersal.

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3:20 PM: Hrycyshyn, Gabrielle^*,1, Getz, Lowell², Oli, Madan¹, ¹ University of Florida, Gainesville, FL² University of Illinois, Urbana, IL, Demography of fluctuating populations: Insights from a long-term study.

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3:40 PM: Grear, Jason¹, Burns, Catherine², ¹ US EPA / ORD / Atlantic Ecology Division, Narragansett, RI, USA² Yale University - Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, New Haven, CT, USA, Construction and perturbation analysis of a multi-habitat periodic matrix population model for Peromyscus leucopus.

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4:00 PM: Burns, Catherine^*,1, Grear, Jason², ¹ catherine.burns@yale.edu, New Haven, CT, USA² US EPA / ORD / NHEERL / Atlantic Ecology Division, Narragansett, RI, USA, Effects of habitat loss on population viability: Testing model predictions with landscape-scale perturbation experiments.

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4:20 PM: Hostetler, Jeffrey^*,1, Collazo, Jaime², Pollock, Kenneth², Lyons, James³, ¹ University of Florida, Gainesville, FL² North Carolina State University, Raleigh, NC³ Patuxent Wildlife Research Center, Laurel, MD, A dynamic model of Semipalmated Sandpiper migration: Implications for conservation.

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4:40 PM: Mitchell, Brian^*,1, Donovan, Therese¹, ¹ USGS - Vermont Cooperative Fish & Wildlife Research Unit, Burlington, Vermont, USA, Factors influencing the probability of detecting Vermont songbirds during point counts.

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