Workshop: Local Interaction and Global Phenomena in Vegetation and Other Systems

April 19 - 23, 1999

Content

Overview

Organizers:

Simon Levin	Princeton University
Claudia Neuhauser	University of Minnesota, Twin Cities

There has been great progress in recent years in the development and analysis of deterministic and stochastic models ranging from general circulation models, which describe the dynamics of climate, to individual-based models which describe the spectral pattern of plant communities. This workshop will explore the effects of small-scale spatial interactions on the large-scale structure of communities. It addresses fundamental issues in scaling, renormalization, the interactions between levels of organization, and the interface between physical and biological processes. In particular, workshop participants will discuss how individual responses scale up to landscape levels and interact with climate systems. The workshop will bring together mathematicians with theoretical and experimental ecologists.

Schedule

Monday, April 19, 1999

8:45 am - 9:00 am	Registration and Coffee	Keller 3-176
9:10 am - 9:30 am	Introduction Fred Dulles (University of Minnesota, Twin Cities), Simon Levin (Princeton University), Willard Miller Jr. (University of Minnesota, Twin Cities)	Keller 3-180
9:30 am - 10:30 am	The Evolution of Spatial Models in Ecology Simon Levin (Princeton University)	Keller 3-180
10:30 am - 11:00 am	Coffee Break	Keller 3-176
11:00 am - 12:00 pm	Biological Invasions into Fragmented Environments: Reaction-diffusion Models Nanako Shigesada (Nara Women's University)	Keller 3-180
12:00 pm - 2:00 pm	Lunch
2:00 pm - 3:00 pm	Migration Models Based on Dispersal Data Mark Lewis (The University of Utah)	Keller 3-180
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	IMA Tea	Lind 400

Tuesday, April 20, 1999

9:15 am - 9:30 am	Coffee	Keller 3-176
9:30 am - 10:30 am	The Role of Explicit Space and Environmental Stochasticity in Competition Models Claudia Neuhauser (University of Minnesota, Twin Cities)	Keller 3-180
10:30 am - 11:00 am	Coffee Break	Keller 3-176
11:00 am - 12:00 pm	Mutual Invadability Implies Coexistence Rick Durrett (Cornell University)	Keller 3-180
12:00 pm - 2:00 pm	Lunch
2:00 pm - 3:00 pm	Surprises and Scaling Connections between Climatology and Ecology Stephen Schneider (Stanford University)	Keller 3-180

Wednesday, April 21, 1999

9:15 am - 9:30 am	Coffee	Keller 3-176
9:30 am - 10:30 am	Emergent Dynamics in a Forest Model: The Role of Local Competition and Limited Dispersal in Mediating Broad-scale Patterns in SORTIE Douglas Deutschman (San Diego State University)	Keller 3-180
10:30 am - 11:00 am	Coffee Break	Keller 3-176
11:00 am - 12:00 pm	Coexistence of Competitors in Spatial Habitats: Theory and Experimental Tests in Grasslands David Tilman (University of Minnesota, Twin Cities)	Keller 3-180
12:00 pm - 2:00 pm	Lunch
2:00 pm - 3:00 pm	Copepods and Whales: Effects of Flow, Population Dynamics, and Behavior Glenn Flierl (Massachusetts Institute of Technology)	Keller 3-180
3:00 pm - 4:00 pm	Poster/Video/Software Demo/Short Talk session

Thursday, April 22, 1999

9:15 am - 9:30 am	Coffee	Keller 3-176
9:30 am - 10:30 am	Clustering, Spatial Strategies, and Spatial Coexistence in Plant Community Dynamics Benjamin Bolker (Princeton University)	Keller 3-180
10:30 am - 11:00 am	Coffee Break	Keller 3-176
11:00 am - 12:00 pm	Correlation Equations and Pair Approximations for Spatial Ecologies David Rand (University of Warwick)	Keller 3-180
2:00 pm - 3:00 pm	Pollen-Coupling of Forest Trees, Forming Synchronized and Periodic Reproduction out of Chaos Yoh Iwasa (Kyushu University)	Keller 3-180
3:00 pm - 3:30 pm	Coffee Break	Keller 3-176
3:30 pm - 4:30 pm	Modeling the Effect of Evolution on Population and Community Dynamics Gregg Hartvigsen (University at Albany (SUNY))	Keller 3-180
6:00 pm - 8:00 pm	Workshop Dinner

Friday, April 23, 1999

9:15 am - 9:30 am	Coffee Break	Keller 3-176
9:30 am - 10:30 am	Local and Global Phenomena in Childhood Disease Dynamics Matthew Keeling (University of Cambridge)	Keller 3-180
10:30 am - 11:00 am	Coffee Break	Keller 3-176
11:00 am - 11:20 am	Spatially Ecological Model for T-cell Receptor Dynamics David Rand (University of Warwick)	Keller 3-180
11:20 am - 11:40 am	Pattern Formation in Semiarid Vegetation Christopher Klausmeier (University of Minnesota, Twin Cities)	Keller 3-180
11:40 am - 12:00 pm	Rescalling the Hierarchical Competition Model Jonathan Dushoff (Academia Sinica)	Keller 3-180

Participants

Name	Department	Affiliation
Kevin Anderson	Institute for Mathematics and its Applications	University of Minnesota, Twin Cities
Donald Aronson		University of Minnesota, Twin Cities
Bruce Ayati	Institute for Mathematics and its Applications	University of Minnesota, Twin Cities
Dana Blumenthal		University of Minnesota, Twin Cities
Benjamin Bolker	Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology	Princeton University
Linda Buttel	Theory and Simulation Science and Engineering Center	Cornell University
Carlos Castillo-Chavez	Department of Mathematics	Cornell University
Hal Caswell	Department of Biology	Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution
Gregory Davis		University of Wisconsin-Green Bay
Douglas Deutschman	Department of Biology	San Diego State University
Fred Dulles	Institute for Mathematics	University of Minnesota, Twin Cities
Rick Durrett	Department of Mathematics	Cornell University
Jonathan Dushoff	Institute of Physics	Academia Sinica
Joseph Fargione		University of Minnesota, Twin Cities
Glenn Flierl	Department of Earth, Atmospheric and Planetary Sciences	Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Lawrence Gray	Department of Mathematics	University of Minnesota, Twin Cities
Nick Haonan	Department of Ecology	University of Minnesota, Twin Cities
Gregg Hartvigsen	Department of Biology	University at Albany (SUNY)
Kathleen Hoffman		University of Minnesota, Twin Cities
Yoh Iwasa	Department of Biology	Kyushu University
Trachette Jackson		Duke University
Frederick Jannett	Fisheries and Wildliife	University of Minnesota, Twin Cities
Matthew Keeling		University of Cambridge
Christopher Klausmeier		University of Minnesota, Twin Cities
Clarence Lehman	Ecology, Evolution, and Behavior	University of Minnesota, Twin Cities
Simon Levin	Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology	Princeton University
Mark Lewis	Department of Mathematics	The University of Utah
Juan Lin	Department of Physics	Washington College
Frithjof Lutscher	Lehrstuhl für Bioinformatik	Eberhard-Karls-Universität Tübingen
Douglas Meade	Department of Mathematics	University of South Carolina
Willard Miller Jr.	Institute for Mathematics and its Applications	University of Minnesota, Twin Cities
Charles Mitchell		University of Minnesota, Twin Cities
Patrick Nelson	Department of Mathematics	Duke University
Claudia Neuhauser	School of Mathematics	University of Minnesota, Twin Cities
V Van Oortmerssen	Department of Mathematics & Statistics	Louisiana Tech University
Laura Perry		University of Minnesota, Twin Cities
David Rand		University of Warwick
Terry Root	School of Natural Resources and the Environment	University of Michigan
Stephen Schneider	Department of Biological Sciences	Stanford University
Nanako Shigesada	Department of Information and Computer Science	Nara Women's University
Zachariah Sinkala	Department of Mathematical Sciences	Middle Tennessee State University
David Tilman	Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology	University of Minnesota, Twin Cities
Christina Tonitto	Department of Integrated Biology	University of California, Berkeley
Stuart Wagenius	Department of EEB	University of Minnesota, Twin Cities
Gilbert Walter	Department of Mathmatical Sciences	University of Wisconsin
Hans Weinberger		University of Minnesota, Twin Cities
Ralf Wittenberg	Department of Mathematics	University of Michigan
Abdul-Aziz Yakubu	Department of Mathematics	Howard University