April 12, 2003
Room 228, Conradi Building, Florida State University
9:00 a.m.: Dan Simberloff, University of Tennessee I knew there was something interesting about Bergmann's rule!
9:20 a.m.: Paul Hendrix and Robert Potter, University of Georgia Ca cycling in long-leaf pine ecosystems: do woodpeckers really care?
9:40 a.m.: Gary Graves, National Museum of Natural History, Smithsonian Institution Fran James: three great papers
10:00 a.m.: William Boecklen, New Mexico State University Leaf fluctuating asymmetry and its role in plant-herbivore interactions in the Quercus grisea x Quercus gambelii species complex
10:20 a.m.: BREAK
10:40 a.m.: Jerry Niemi, University of Minnesota, Duluth Fran's contributions to the boreal forest, the Great Lakes, and my life
11:00 a.m.: Eric Walters, Florida State University Do "red dogs" rule?: the influence of competitive interactions on the decline of the Red-cockaded Woodpecker
11:20 a.m.: Eli Martin, University of Florida Fran the Mentor
11:40 a.m.: Steven Rathbun, Pennsylvania State University A spatial analysis of breeding bird survey data
12 noon-1:00 p.m.: LUNCH
1:00 p.m.: Joe Travis, Margaret Ptacek, and Niva Martin, Florida State University Mosiman and James show us the shape of sex
1:20 p.m.: Paul Richards, Florida State University Modeling longleaf pine forests
1:40 p.m.: Jim Cox, Tall Timbers Research Station Niche gestalt of a biologist nurtured by red-wings and red-cockades
2:00 p.m.: Walter Tschinkel, Florida State University Little ants in big trees
2:20 p.m.: BREAK
2:40 p.m.: Arie van Noordwijk, Netherlands Institute of Ecology Estimating dispersal in birds: taming the unknown
3:00 p.m.: Chuck Hess, U.S. Forest Service Fran and the Forest Service
3:40 p.m.: Mary Ruckelshaus, National Marine Fisheries Service All I really need to know (about using science to help save fish) I learned from Fran James
