8:00 AM: McCarthy, Megan^*,1, Enquist, Brian ¹, Niklas, Karl², ¹ University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ, US² Department of Plant Biology, Ithaca, NY, US, Global allocation rules for plant biomass partitioning: The effects of evolutionary history, functional differences and environmental variation.

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8:20 AM: Donahue, Megan^*,1, Holyoak, Marcel, Chesson, Peter², ¹ California State University Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA² University of California, Davis, Davis, CA, Translating across scales: testing scale transition theory in a microcosm system.

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8:40 AM: Eppstein, Margaret^*,1, Molofsky, Jane², ¹ Department of Computer Science, Burlington, Vermont² Department of Botany, Burlington, Vermont, Modeling non-competitive and competitive ecological interactions: Implications for coexistence, invasion, and the importance of spatial scale of interactions.

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9:00 AM: Farrell-Gray, Catherine^*,1, Gotelli, Nicholas¹, ¹ Department of Biology, Burlington, VT, Allometric exponents support a 3/4 power scaling law.

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9:20 AM: Hurford, Amy^*,1, Hebblewhite, Mark¹, Lewis, Mark¹, ¹ University of Alberta, Edmonton, Canada, A spatially-explicit model for the Allee effect: why wolves recolonize so slowly in Greater Yellowstone.

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9:50 AM: Kirwan, A.^*,1, ¹ University of Delaware, Newark, DE, USA, Statistical mechanical models for closed ecosystems.

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10:10 AM: Abrams, Peter^*,, , Impact of mortality on predator population size in systems with stage-structured prey.

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10:30 AM: van Kooten, Tobias ^{*,1, 2}, Persson, Lennart¹, de Roos, Andre², ¹ Department of Ecology and Environmental Science, Umea, Sweden² Institute for Biodiversity and Ecosystem Dynamics, Amsterdam, The Netherlands, Harvesting physiologically structured populations with density-dependent development.

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10:50 AM: Becks, Lutz^*,1, Jürgens, Klaus², Arndt, Hartmut¹, ¹ University of Cologne, Cologne, Germany² Institute for Baltic Research, Rostock, Germany, Chaos, limit cycles and stable coexistence observed in an experimental two-prey-on-one predator system.

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11:10 AM: Abbott, Karen^*,1, Dwyer, Greg¹, ¹ University of Chicago, Chicago, IL, USA, Food limitation and complex dynamics in herbivorous insects.

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