Program
| CTH5 | Woodward 5; 10:15 am - 12:15 pm, July 30 |
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| Title | Behavioural ecology |
| Session chair | Andrew Edwards |
| Speaker 1 | Andrew Edwards |
| Pacific Biological Station, Fisheries and Oceans Canada | |
| How a lack of statistical analysis led to claims that many animals forage using similar random walks described by power-law distributions | |
| Speaker 2 | Eliezer Gurarie |
| University of Helsinki | |
| Modeling of encounter rates for randomly moving individuals: Mathematical predictions and ecological consequences | |
| Speaker 3 | Leah R. Johnson |
| University of California Santa Barbara | |
| Optimal Foraging Strategies in Albatrosses. | |
| Speaker 4 | Kei Tokita |
| Osaka University | |
| Species abundance distributions, the species-area relationships and the Zipf's law | |
| Speaker 5 | Péter Molnár |
| Centre for Mathematical Biology, University of Alberta | |
| Using Dynamic Energy Budget Models to Predict Changes in Polar Bear Reproduction under Climate Change | |
| Speaker 6 | Mary Myerscough |
| University of Sydney | |
| Why do so few choose for so many? Nonlinear decision-making by honey bees. |
-- Contributed talks are scheduled for 20 min each, including time for questions.