8:00 AM

Vasco, Daniel*,1, Rohani, Pejman1, 1 Institute of Ecology, Athens, GA, USA, Parameter estimation in a noisy and uncertain world.

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8:20 AM

Borrett, Stuart *,1, Bridewell, Will1, Langley, Pat, 1 Center for the Study of Language and Information, Stanford, CA, USA, Computational discovery of process models of aquatic ecosystems.

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8:40 AM

Puetz, Sandro1, Paruelo, Jose2, Weber, Gerhard1, Jeltsch, Florian3, Grimm, Volker*,1, Wiegand, Thorsten1, 1 UFZ Centre for Environmental Research Leipzig-Halle, Leipzig, Germany2 University of Buenos Aires, Buenos Aires, Argentine3 University of Potsdam, Potsdam, Germany, Coping with ecological complexity: how to bridge the gap between theory and empirics in ecology.

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9:00 AM

Reiners, William*,1, Lockwood, Jeffrey1, 1 University of Wyoming, Laramie, WY, USA, Ecological theory and Zadeh's "law of incompatibility": incorporating contingency-based models into metatheories.

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9:20 AM

Elmendorf, Sarah*,1, Moore, Kara1, 1 University of California, Davis, Davis, CA, Propagule versus niche limitation: using species distribution models to infer constraints on plant species occurrence.

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9:40 AM

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9:50 AM

Bar Massada, Avi*,1, Koniak, Gili2, Carmel, Yohay1, Noy-Meir, Imanuel2, 1 Technion - Israel Institute of Technology, Haifa, Israel2 Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Rehovot, Israel, Dynamics of the Mediterranean vegetation mosaic: modeling across spatial scales from simple to complex.

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10:10 AM

Lintz, Heather *,1, McCune, Bruce1, Gray, Andrew 2, 1 Oregon State University, Corvallis, Oregon2 USDA Forest Service PNW Research Station, Corvallis, Oregon, Threshold strength and diagonality: response descriptors for comparison of empirical model types.

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10:30 AM

Pereira, Henrique*,1, Gaivinhos, Catarina1, 1 Dept. Eng. Civil, Instituto Superior Técnico, Lisboa, Portugal, Towards an analytical analysis of the Skellam model in fragmented landscapes.

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10:50 AM

Richards, Shane*,1, 1 Durham University, Durham, Durham County, UK, Testing stochastic ecological models using AIC.

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11:10 AM

Zarnetske, Phoebe*,1, Edwards, Thomas 2, Moisen, Gretchen3, 1 Utah State University, Logan, UT, USA2 USGS Utah Cooperative Fish and Wildlife Research Unit, Logan, UT, USA3 USDA Forest Service, Forest Inventory and Analysis Program, Ogden, UT, USA, Pushing the envelope: habitat classification modeling with incomplete data.

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