Thursday, August 7, 2008: 1:30 PM-5:00 PM
102 D, Midwest Airlines Center
COS 92 - Abundance, Rarity, and Extinction
1:30 PMCOS 92-1Insect, and spider rarity in an oceanic island (Terceira, Azores): True rare and pseudo-rare species
Paulo A. Borges, Universidade dos Açores, Karl I. Ugland, University of Oslo, Francisco O. Dinis, Universidade dos Açores, Clara S. Gaspar, Universidade dos Açores
1:50 PMCOS 92-2Ichthyofaunal diversity of Boro beel, Pabna, Bangladesh
Jayanta K. Saha, Laxmi Agro Fisheries Complex (Pvt) Ltd., Mohammad R. Hasan, Food and Agriculture Organization of the UN
2:10 PMCOS 92-3Evaluating the effect of climate change on population demographics of Ceanothus verrucosus
Dawn M. Lawson, San Diego State University, Helen M. Regan, University of California, Paul H. Zedler, University of Wisconsin-Madison, Janet Franklin, San Diego State University
2:30 PMCOS 92-4The role of ecological stoichiometry in outbreaks and abundance of forest Lepidoptera
Eric M. Lind, University of Maryland, Pedro Barbosa, University of Maryland
2:50 PMCOS 92-5Spatial patterns of extinction during succession in an experimentally fragmented landscape
Cathy D. Collins, University of Kansas, Robert D. Holt, University of Florida
3:10 PM Break
3:20 PMCOS 92-6New stochastic Ricker models show that extinction risk could be much higher than previously thought
Brett A. Melbourne, University of Colorado, Boulder, Alan Hastings, University of California, Davis
3:40 PMCOS 92-7A new human predation model for late Pleistocene megafaunal extinction patterns in North America
Jeffrey V. Yule, Louisiana Tech University, Christopher X. J. Jensen, Pratt Institute, Aby Joseph, SUNY Stony Brook
4:00 PMCOS 92-8Plant-soil feedbacks: A meta-analytical review
Andrew Kulmatiski, Utah State University, Karen H. Beard, Utah State University, John R. Stevens, Utah State University, Stephanie M. Cobbold, Utah State University
4:20 PMCOS 92-9Extinction in experimental populations: Effects of habitat quality, size, and metapopulation configuration
John M. Drake, University of Georgia, Blaine D Griffen, University of Georgia
4:40 PMCOS 92-10A likelihood test for inferring extinction from encounter data
Gregory C. Mayer, University of Wisconsin-Parkside

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