1:30 PM: Catterall, Carla^*,1, Piper, Scott¹, ¹ Environmental Sciences, Brisbane, Queensland, Australia, Empirical evidence for a linchpin interaction across multiple scales in avifauna of a fragmented landscape.

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1:50 PM: Koper, Nicola^{*,1, 2}, Schmiegelow, Fiona^*,1, ¹ University of Alberta, Edmonton, Alberta, Canada² University of Manitoba, Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada, The relative influence of landscape and local habitat characteristics on prairie birds.

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2:10 PM: Kroll, Andrew^{*,1, 2}, Haufler, Jonathan ², ¹ Wildlife Biology Program, Missoula, MT, USA² Ecosystem Management Research Institute, Seeley Lake, MT, USA, Modeling avian habitat selection at multiple spatial scales.

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2:30 PM: Howerter, David^*,1, Anderson, Michael¹, Armstrong, Llwellyn¹, ¹ Institute for Wetland and Waterfowl Research, Stonewall, MB, Canada, Do gradients in fitness predict habitat selection for a ground-nesting bird: a case study using mallards in the prairie-parklands of south-central Canada.

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2:50 PM: Pavlacky, David^{*,1, 2}, Goldizen, Anne ¹, Possingham, Hugh^{1, 2}, ¹ The University of Queensland, Brisbane, Queensland, Australia² The Ecology Centre, St. Lucia, Queensland, Australia, Are birds occupying historically patchy subtropical rainforests resistant to forest fragmentation?

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3:20 PM: BOULINIER, Thierry¹, McCOY, Karen², TVERAA, Torkild³, ¹ CNRS-CEFE, Montpellier, France² CNRS-IRD, Montpellier, France³ NINA, Tromsoe, Norway, Habitat selection, dispersal and population dynamics in seabirds: response to environmental variability at different spatial scales.

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3:40 PM: Guénette, Jean¹, Robichaud, Isabelle^*,1, Villard, Marc¹, ¹ Chaire de recherche du Canada en conservation des paysages, Moncton, NB, Canada, The case for ecological thresholds: Birds in managed forest landscapes as a focal system.

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4:00 PM: Desmonts, Diane^*,1, Thomas, De Cornouiller¹, Mahéo, Roger², Fritz, Hervé¹, ¹ CNRS CEBC, Beauvoir-sur-Niort, France² ODEM, Vannes, France, Do increasing human activities affect resource use and spatio-temporal distribution of wintering Brent geese (Branta bernicla)?

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4:20 PM: Lepczyk, Christopher^*,1, Pidgeon, Anna¹, Radeloff, Volker¹, Flather, Curtis², Hammer, Roger², ¹ Department of Forest Ecology and Management, Madison, WI, USA² USDA Forest Service, Fort Collins, CO, USA, The influence of housing growth on bird communities in the Northeast U.S. from 1970 to 2000.

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4:40 PM: Pidgeon, Anna^*,1, Radeloff, Volker¹, Lepczyk, Christopher¹, Flather, Curtis², Hammer, Roger¹, ¹ University of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison, WI, USA² Rocky Mountain Research Station, Fort Collins, CO, USA, Housing and human population density are significant predictors of richness in forest bird species guilds.

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