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PARENT SESSION
Tuesday, August 8, 8:00-11:30 am
Symposium 4 - Ecological and evolutionary processes in complex networks
Cotton Row, Mezzanine Level, Cook Convention Center
Organized by: TH Keitt (tkeitt@mail.utexas.edu) and B Fagan

The symposium addresses the structure and dynamics of ecological networks ranging from food webs to epidemiology to landscapes.

8:00 AMKeitt, Timothy*,1, 1 University of Texas, Austin, TX, Theory and application of ecological networks.

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8:30 AMFortin, Marie-Josee*,1, Fall, Andrew2, Neal, Simon3, 1 University of Toronto, Toronto, ON, Canada2 Gowlland Technologies Ltd., Victoria, BC, Canada3 Government of Newfoundland and Labrador, Goose Bay, NL, Canada, Spatial graph theory: from boundary detection to landscape connectivity.

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8:50 AMUrban, Dean*,1, Minor, Emily1, Treml, Eric1, Schick, Robert1, 1 Duke University, Durham, NC, Graph models of habitat networks: commonalities and implications.

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9:10 AMParr, Cynthia*,1, 2, Parafiynyk, Andrey 2, Sachs, Joel2, 1 University of Maryland, College Park, College Park, MD2 University of Maryland Baltimore County, Baltimore, MD, Predicting food web connectivity: phylogenetic scope, evidence thresholds, and intelligent agents.

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9:30 AM, Break.

9:50 AMBascompte, Jordi*,1, 1 Estación Biológica de Doñana, CSIC, Sevilla, Spain, Plant-animal coevolutionary networks.

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10:10 AMStouffer, Daniel*,1, Amaral, Luis1, 1 Northwestern University, Evanston, Illinois, A robust measure of food web intervality and the dimenson of niche space.

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10:30 AMFerrari, Matthew *,1, Shweta, Bansal2, Meyers, Lauren2, Bjornstad, Ottar1, 1 The Pennsylvania State University, University Park, PA2 University of Texas, Austin, TX, Network frailty and the geometry of herd immunity.

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10:50 AMBrooks, Christopher*,1, Keitt, Tim1, 1 University of Texas at Austin, Austin, Texas, Dynamic connectivity on a host-pathogen network: consequences for the transmission of disease.

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11:10 AMMeyers, Lauren*,1, 2, 1 University of Texas at Austin, Austin, TX2 Santa Fe Institute, Santa Fe, NM, Contact network epidemiology: predicting and controlling the spread of pathogens.

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