Canadian Society for Ecology and Evolution: Full Schedule

08:00 CST

Symposium - Frontiers in resource and habitat selection

8:00 - Vander Wal E and McLoughlin P. 'Introduction to the Symposium: Frontiers in Habitat and Resource Selection
8:05 - Avgar T 'Integrated step selection analysis: bridging the gap between resource selection and animal movement
8:30 - Bastille-Rousseau G 'Considering scale in resource attraction: implications for movement modelling of Newfoundland caribou.
9:00 - Shafer A 'High-resolution animal location data meets ecological genetics
9:30 - Northrup JM 'Habitat selection and the hierarchy of behavioral scale.

Moderators

Aaron Shafer

Friday May 22, 2015 08:00 - 10:00 CST
PHYSIC 103 Physics Building, University of Saskatchewan

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Host Organization University of Saskatchewan
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08:00 CST

Symposium - Using species interactions to predict and manage novel ecosystems

8:00 - Rayfield B. Defining minimum requirements for focal species richness and composition in biodiversity conservation planning
8:30- Borrelli J. The signature of stability selection in empirical network patterns
9:00 - Vamosi J. Conservatism in diet specialization in changing environments
9:30- Lessard J-P. Improving phylogenetic and trait-based inference of biotic interactions with process-based species pool definitions

Moderators

Jana Vamosi

Friday May 22, 2015 08:00 - 10:00 CST
PHYSIC 165 Physics Building, University of Saskatchewan

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Host Organization University of Saskatchewan
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10:30 CST

Symposium - Frontiers in resource and habitat selection

10:30 - Cagnacci F 'Habitat selection across scales: insights and opportunities by studying a species at the distribution range scale
11:00 - Sparkes S and Merrill E. 'Using use or selection models for management: Does it matter?
11:30 - Morris D 'Eco-Evolutionary Games and Habitat Selection

Moderators

Doug Morris

Friday May 22, 2015 10:30 - 12:00 CST
PHYSIC 103 Physics Building, University of Saskatchewan

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Host Organization University of Saskatchewan
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10:30 CST

Symposium - Using species interactions to predict and manage novel ecosystems

10:30 - Cazelles K. Integration of species interaction into a theoretical model of Biogeography
11:00 - Cirtwill A. Source–sink dynamics of the structure of ecological interactions
11:30 - Poisot T. The Small Data era: how ecoinformatics allows the generation of synthetic datasets

Moderators

Alyssa Cirtwill

PhD candidate, University of Canterbury

I'm nearing the end of a PhD with Daniel Stouffer, working on several aspects of species' roles within food webs and other ecological networks.

Friday May 22, 2015 10:30 - 12:00 CST
PHYSIC 165 Physics Building, University of Saskatchewan

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Host Organization University of Saskatchewan
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14:30 CST

Symposium - Frontiers in resource and habitat selection

2:30 - Fortin D, Buono P-L, Schmitz O, Courbin N, Losier C, St-Laurent M-H, Drapeau P, Heppell S, Dussault C, Brodeur V and Mainguy J. 'Species-specific habitat selection by apparent competitors can reverse density dependence in fitness correlates
3:00 - Schmitz OJ 'Toward a community ecology of landscapes: using resource selection to develop predictive theory for multiple predator-prey interactions
3:30 - Boyce M 'Spatial ecology meets population biology

Moderators

Oswald Schmitz

Friday May 22, 2015 14:30 - 16:00 CST
PHYSIC 103 Physics Building, University of Saskatchewan

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Host Organization University of Saskatchewan
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14:30 CST

Symposium - Using species interactions to predict and manage novel ecosystems

2:30 - Brown C, Urli M, Vellend M.Biotic interactions moderate plant species' responses to climate change

Moderators

Carissa Brown

Memorial University

Friday May 22, 2015 14:30 - 16:00 CST
PHYSIC 127 Physics Building, University of Saskatchewan

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08:30 CST

Symposium - Evolution of crop plants: a genomics perspective

8:30 - 9:00 Axel Diederichsen, Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada, Saskatoon, Canada, Crop evolution:Vavilovian centers of crop origins

9:00 - 9:30 Shahal Abbo, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel, Plant
domestication vs. Crop evolution: How can we distinguish between the two? And why does it matter?
9:30 - 10:00 Robin Allaby, University of Warwick, UK, The pace of adaptation
under domestication

Moderators

Rachel Meyer

Saturday May 23, 2015 08:30 - 10:00 CST
PHYSIC 103 Physics Building, University of Saskatchewan

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Host Organization University of Saskatchewan
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08:30 CST

Symposium - Wildlife Biologging: Advances in the study of animal ecology and energetics

8:30 Pelletier, F. (Université de Sherbrooke): Using proximity loggers to study social behaviour of wild animals
9:00 Stothart M. and Elliot K. Counting Calories in Cormorants: Using accelerometers to measure daily energy expenditure
9:30 Humphries M. Biologging species components of a boreal food web across space and time

Moderators

Mason Stothart

Saturday May 23, 2015 08:30 - 10:00 CST
PHYSIC 165 Physics Building, University of Saskatchewan

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Host Organization University of Saskatchewan
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10:30 CST

Symposium - Evolution of crop plants: a genomics perspective

10:30 - 11:00 Marc Johnson, University of Toronto-Mississauga, Toronto, Canada, Impact of crop domestication on resistance to herbivores
11:00 -11:30 Isobel Parkin. Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada, Saskatoon, Canada. Early allopolyploid evolution in Brassica napus oilseed genome

11:30 -12:00 Paul Gepts, University of California Davis, CA, USA, The PvTFL1y locus for determinacy in common bean: the origin of mutations in crop evolution

Moderators

Paul Gepts

Professor, University of California, Davis

My research and teaching is focused on studying the evolutionary factors that affect crop biodiversity, with particular emphasis on Phaseolus beans, including intrinsic plant factors such as gene flow and gene diversification, environmental correlations with crop biodiversity, and... Read More →

Isobel Parkin

Saturday May 23, 2015 10:30 - 12:00 CST
PHYSIC 103 Physics Building, University of Saskatchewan

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10:30 CST

Symposium - Wildlife Biologging: Advances in the study of animal ecology and energetics

11:00 Willis C. Biologging bats: Using technology to tackle White Nose Syndrome
11:30 Rosen D. Remote measurements of energy expenditure in freely diving sea lions: what works and what doesn’t

Moderators

Murray Humphries

Allyson Menzies

Emily Studd

Speakers

David Rosen

Craig Willis

Saturday May 23, 2015 10:30 - 12:00 CST
PHYSIC 165 Physics Building, University of Saskatchewan

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Host Organization University of Saskatchewan
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13:00 CST

Symposium - Evolution of crop plants: a genomics perspective

1:00 - 1:30 Briana Gross, University of Minnesota Duluth, MN, USA, Genomic insights into the origins of domesticated rice
1:30 - 2:00 Ana Caicedo, University of Massachusetts Amherst, USA, Evolution of US weedy rice

Moderators

Yong-Bi Fu

Speakers

Axel Diederichsen

Marc Johnson

Saturday May 23, 2015 13:00 - 14:00 CST
PHYSIC 103 Physics Building, University of Saskatchewan

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Host Organization University of Saskatchewan
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13:00 CST

Symposium - Wildlife Biologging: Advances in the study of animal ecology and energetics

1:00 Heaslip S. Bowen WD, James M, Iverson S, Hooker S. Using animal-borne cameras to study the foraging behaviour of large marine predators;
1:30 Williams C. Using biologging to assess plasticity in daily and seasonal timing of free-living vertebrates

Moderators

Murray Humphries

Allyson Menzies

Emily Studd

Speakers

Susan Heaslip

Cory Williams

Saturday May 23, 2015 13:00 - 14:00 CST
PHYSIC 165 Physics Building, University of Saskatchewan

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Host Organization University of Saskatchewan
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14:30 CST

Symposium - Evolution of crop plants: a genomics perspective

2:30 - 3:00 Greg Baute, University of British Columbia, Vancouver,
Canada, The genomic profile of a new hybrid crop: 40 years of sunflower breeding
3:00 - 3:30 Loren Rieseberg, University of British Columbia, BC, Canada, The
accumulation of deleterious mutations as a consequence of domestication and
improvement in sunflowers and other Compositae crops

Moderators

Yong-Bi Fu

Speakers

Shahal Abbo

Robin Allaby

Saturday May 23, 2015 14:30 - 15:30 CST
PHYSIC 103 Physics Building, University of Saskatchewan

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Host Organization University of Saskatchewan
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14:30 CST

Symposium - Wildlife Biologging: Advances in the study of animal ecology and energetics

2:30 Bayne E. Development of an Automated Acoustic Monitoring Network

Moderators

Murray Humphries

Allyson Menzies

Emily Studd

Saturday May 23, 2015 14:30 - 15:30 CST
PHYSIC 165 Physics Building, University of Saskatchewan

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Host Organization University of Saskatchewan
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08:30 CST

Symposium - Understanding individuals to conserve populations

8:30 - Avgar T and Prokopenko C. 'Introduction'

8:35 - Coltman D. 'Disentangling environmental and genetic responses of the condition of Western Hudson Bay polar bears to a rapidly changing environment'

9:00 - Festa-Bianchet M. 'How differences in age distribution, inbreeding and occurrence of specialist predators affect dynamics of small populations of ungulates'

9:30 - McAdam A. 'Lessons learned from evolutionary biology and inter-individual variance in fitness'

Moderators

Tal Avgar

Christina Prokopenko

Speakers

David Coltman

Marco Festa-Bianchet

Andrew McAdam

Sunday May 24, 2015 08:30 - 10:00 CST
PHYSIC 103 Physics Building, University of Saskatchewan

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Host Organization University of Saskatchewan
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10:30 CST

Symposium - Understanding individuals to conserve populations

10:30 - Fryxell J. Variation in mortality risk by woodland caribou due to movement
11:00 - Reale D. The pace of life syndrome and its consequences for management and conservation of wild populations
11:30 - Boyce MS. Black bears foraging on the Tangled Bank

Moderators

Tal Avgar

Christina Prokopenko

Speakers

Mark Boyce

John Fryxell

Denis Reale

Sunday May 24, 2015 10:30 - 12:00 CST
PHYSIC 103 Physics Building, University of Saskatchewan

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Host Organization University of Saskatchewan
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