Poster # 121. Castaldo, Christian^*,1, Dively, Galen¹, ¹ University of Maryland, College Park, MD, Integrating fitness costs due to insecticide resistance using matrix population models.

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Poster # 122. Delong, Michael^*,1, Heatherly, Tom¹, Whiles, Matt¹, Gibson, David¹, Collins, Scott², Huryn, Alexander³, Jackson, John⁴, Palmer, Margaret⁵, ¹ Southern Illinois University Carbondale, Carbondale, IL² University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, NM³ University of Alabama, Tuscaloosa, AL⁴ Stroud Water Research Center, Avondale, PA⁵ University of Maryland, College Park, MD, Modeling of patch occupancy patterns in stream insect metacommunities: toward an understanding of factors influencing the distribution of stream insects.

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Poster # 123. Yamanaka, Takehiko^{*,1, 2}, Tanaka, Koichi², Hamasaki, Kenji², Nakatani, Yukinobu², Iwasaki, Nobusuke², Sprague, David², Bjornstad, Ottar¹, ¹ The Pennsylvania State University, University Park, PA, USA² National Institute for Agro-Environmental Sciences, Tsukuba, Ibaraki, Japan, Spatial constraints or environmental preferences?: Odonate species in ponds of a Japanese rural area.

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Poster # 124. Grieve, Katherine^*,1, Ford, E David¹, Rascher, Uwe², ¹ University of Washington, Seattle, WA² Research Center Juelich, Juelich, Germany, Analyzing chlorophyll fluorescence rapid light response curves using nonlinear mixed effects models.

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Poster # 125. Ford, David^*,1, Komuro, Rie¹, Reynolds, Joel², ¹ University of Washington, Seattle, WA, USA² U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, Anchorage, Alaska, USA, Techniques and software for simulating patterns in data with ecological process models.

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Poster # 126. Hayward, April^*,1, Kolasa, Jurek¹, Stone, Jonathon¹, ¹ Department of Biology, Hamilton, ON, Canada, The scale dependence of density-body mass allometry explained using a simple model.

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Poster # 127. Gilman, Sarah^*,1, Helmuth, Brian², Wethey, David², ¹ University of Washington, Friday Harbor, WA² University of South Carolina, Columbia, SC, Understanding the thermal consequences of climate change: a mechanistic approach.

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Poster # 128. Schofield, Kate^*,1, ¹ AAAS Risk Policy Fellow, Washington, DC, Conceptual models as practical and pedagogical tools.

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Poster # 129. Hemstrom, Miles¹, Moeur, Melinda², Benson, Gary^*,1, ¹ U.S. Forest Service, Pacific Northwest Research Station, Portland, OR, USA² U.S. Forest Service, Pacific Northwest Region, Portland, OR, USA, Integrating forest inventory, stand simulation, and mid-scale landscape models in the upper Deschutes sub-basin, Oregon.

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Poster # 130. Salinas-Moreno, Yolanda^*,1, Vargas, Carlos¹, Zuniga, Gerardo¹, Ager, Alan², Hayes, Jane ², ¹ Instituto Politecnico Nacional, Mexico City, Mexico DF, Mexico² Pacific Northwest Research Station, La Grande, OR, USA, Modeling bark beetle pressure for pine forests of Mexico.

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Poster # 131. Chen, Xuexia ^*,1, Zhu, Zhiliang¹, Vogelmann, James ¹, Kost, Jay¹, Tolk, Brian¹, Peterson, Birgit², ¹ USGS Center for Earth Resources Observation and Science, Sioux Falls, SD² US Forest Service, Sioux Falls, SD, Comparison of vegetation classification models using the decision tree method.

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Poster # 132. Raghu, S^{*,1, 2}, Dhileepan, K^{2, 3}, Scanlan, Joe⁴, ¹ Centre for Ecological Entomology, Champaign, IL² Cooperative Research Centre for Australian Weed Management, Adelaide, South Australia, Australia³ Queensland Department of Natural Resources, Brisbane, Queensland, Australia⁴ Queensland Department of Natural Resources, Toowoomba, Queensland, Australia, Predicting risk and benefit of biological control agents for invasive plant species a priori: a systems modelling approach.

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Poster # 133. Li, Harbin ^*,1, McNulty , Steve ², Cohen, Erika ², Myers, Jennifer ², ¹ USDA Forest Service Southeastern Research Station, Charleston, SC, USA² USDA Forest Service Southern Global Change Program, Raleigh, NC, USA, Uncertainty analysis on simple mass balance model to calculate critical loads for acidity.

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Poster # 134. Chun, Young Jin^*,1, Collyer, Michael¹, Moloney, Kirk¹, Nason, John¹, ¹ Iowa State University, Ames, IA, A novel multivariate analysis of phenotypic plasticity applied to the invasive plant purple loosestrife (Lythrum salicaria L., Lythraceae).

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Poster # 135. Jacobs, Lee Anne^*,1, Peet, Robert¹, ¹ University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, NC, A quantitative tool for defining rarity.

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Poster # 136. Korb, Julie^*,1, Fule, Peter^*,2, ¹ Fort Lewis College, Durango, Colorado² Northern Arizona University, Flagstaff, Arizona, Intra- and inter-annual vegetation change: implications for long-term research.

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Poster # 137. White, Ethan^{*,1, 2}, Enquist, Brian¹, Ernest, S. K. Morgan², Green, Jessica³, ¹ University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ² Utah State University, Logan, UT³ University of California, Merced, Merced, CA, Impacts of methodology on understanding the form of the individual size-distribution.

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Poster # 139. Piou, Cyril^*,1, Berger, Uta¹, ¹ Center for Marine Tropical Ecology, Bremen, Germany, Spatial organization and local resilience of a mangrove crab population analyzed with an individual based model.

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Poster # 140. Finch, Debra^*,1, Alexander, Helen ¹, ¹ University of Kansas, Lawrence, KS, Spatial patterns of infection of two plant pathogens with different transmission modes.

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