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PHYSIC 129 [clear filter]
Thursday, May 21
 

13:00 CST

Workshop - Making your software discoverable and useful
This workshop will cover the best practices to ensure that the code you write will be found and used by potential users.

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Thursday May 21, 2015 13:00 - 16:00 CST
PHYSIC 129 Physics Building, University of Saskatchewan
  Workshop
 
Friday, May 22
 

08:00 CST

Plant - Herbivore Interactions
  • 8:00 - Champagne E, Tremblay JP, and Côté SD. 'Does spatial scale influence the associational effects of neighbor plants on herbivory? Insights from a meta-analysis'
  • 8:15 - Chen W, Anstett DN, and Johnson MTJ. 'Latitudinal gradient of Acanthoscelidius acephalus and Spodoptera exigua performance on Oenothera biennis'
  • 8:30 - Conway AJ and Johnstone JF. 'Effects of mammalian herbivores on tree growth in early post-fire succession forests'
  • 8:45 - Ellis NM and Leroux S. 'Effects of introduced moose and human and natural disturbances on plant litter decomposition in Newfoundland, Canada'
  • 9:00 - Santangelo J and Kotanen P. 'Fungal endophytes of red fescue (Festuca rubra) increase host survival but reduce plant tolerance to simulated herbivory'
  • 9:15 - Skaien CL and Arcese P. 'Spatial Heterogeneity in Selection Pressure Exerted by Ungulate Herbivores on the Morphology and Life History of Plectritis congesta'
  • 9:30 - Holmes GD, Laird R, and DeClerck-Floate R. 'Impact of a leaf-galling wasp and nitrogen on an invasive plant species'
  • 9:45 - Fenton M, Yack J, and Reid M. 'Grumbling trees and listening bark beetles: use of acoustic cues in habitat choice by mountain pine beetles'

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avatar for Emilie Champagne

Emilie Champagne

Ph.D. Student, Université Laval
I’m a biology Ph.D. student at Université Laval, studying plant-herbivore interactions, mostly in Anticosti Island with white-tailed deer.


Friday May 22, 2015 08:00 - 10:00 CST
PHYSIC 129 Physics Building, University of Saskatchewan

10:30 CST

Methods in Evolution and Ecology
  • 10:30 - Blanchet G. 'A general framework to model ecological communities that accounts for species association and estimates trait-environment relationships'
  • 10:45 - Capmourteres V and Anand M. 'Selecting multi-scale indicators to assess ecological functions in complex systems'
  • 11:00 - Collins NC and Zych AR. 'Managing false discovery rates in ecology and evolutionary biology'
  • 11:15 - Heard SB. '400 years of the reproducibility "crisis"'
  • 11:30 - Maillet J and Laroque CP. 'Watching Trees Grow: The Use of Intra-Annual Measures of Radial-Growth in Dendroclimatological Studies'
  • 11:45 - Walker SC, Blanchet FG and Bolker BM. 'Generalised linear mixed models for community ecologists: integrating model-based ordination with phylogenetic and spatial correlations'


Friday May 22, 2015 10:30 - 12:00 CST
PHYSIC 129 Physics Building, University of Saskatchewan

14:30 CST

Evolutionary Ecology: Invertebrates
  • 2:30 - Lewthwaite J, Mooers AO, Kerr JT. 'Dynamic Patterns of Phylogenetic Endemism in British Columbia’s Butterflies over the Past Century'
  • 2:45 - Campbell E, Dupuis J, and Sperling F. 'Species delimitation of the Silverspot butterflies'
  • 3:00 - Dupuis JR and Sperling FAH. 'Hybrid dynamics of the Papilio machaon species group of swallowtail butterflies in western Canada'
  • 3:15 - Godfrey C and Rundle H. 'Sexual selection on male antler flies in the wild'
  • 3:30 - Leduc-Robert G and Maddison WP. 'Phylogenetic resolution of Habronattus jumping spiders using transcriptomes'
  • 3:45 - Richards M, Vickruck JL, Botezatu IA, and Pickering G. 'Do Bees Smell...Like Kin? Chemical and genetic variation in eastern carpenter bee colonies'


Friday May 22, 2015 14:30 - 16:00 CST
PHYSIC 129 Physics Building, University of Saskatchewan
 
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