Monday, August 2, 2010: 1:30 PM-5:00 PM
320, David L Lawrence Convention Center
COS 14 - Food Webs
1:30 PMCOS 14-1Energy flow and species persistence in a widespread pelagic food web module
Sabine Wollrab, Ludwig-Maximilian-University Munich, Sebastian Diehl, Umeå University, André M. de Roos, University of Amsterdam
1:50 PMCOS 14-2CANCELLED - Does adaptation maintain weak interactions in ecological foodwebs?
Gur Yaari, Yale University, David A. Vasseur, Yale University
2:10 PMCOS 14-3CANCELLED - The confluence of omnivory, production, and food web structure
Gary R. Huxel, University of Arkansas
2:30 PMCOS 14-4Infliction actions of phorid fly over its host ant create a window of opportunity for parasitoids to ovisposit on ant’s enemy, Azya orbigera (Coleoptera: Coccinellidae)
Hsun-Yi Hsieh, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Ivette Perfecto, University of Michigan
2:50 PMCOS 14-5Complex roles of lungless salamanders and wolf spiders in forest floor food web dynamics
Owen M. Lockhart, Cleveland State University, Kimberly A. Thompson, John Carroll University, B. Michael Walton, Cleveland State University
3:10 PM Break
3:20 PMCOS 14-6Herbivore physiological response to fear of predation alters ecosystem nutrient dynamics
Dror Hawlena, Yale University, Oswald J. Schmitz, Yale University
3:40 PMCOS 14-7Community stability threshold for parasite establishment and persistence in estuarine marshes
Tavis K. Anderson, University of Wisconsin-Madison, Michael V.K. Sukhdeo, Rutgers University
4:00 PMCOS 14-8Food chain length in a variable marine ecosystem during times of ice-cover and open-water
Bailey C. McMeans, University of Windsor
4:20 PMCOS 14-9Using isotopes to evaluate bottom-up and top-down forces in tropical streams
Steve A. Thomas, University of Nebraska-Lincoln, Alexander S. Flecker, Cornell University, Rana El Sabaawi, Cornell University, Thomas N. Heatherly, University of Nebraska, Lincoln, Michael C. Marshall, University of Georgia, Tyler Kohler, University of Nebraska-Lincoln, Catherine M. Pringle, University of Georgia, David N. Reznick, University of California, Riverside
4:40 PMCOS 14-10Food web impacts of brook trout invasion in salmon rearing streams of the Snake River Basin, ID
Dana R. Warren, NOAA, Michelle McClure, NOAA Fisheries, Beth Sanderson, NOAA Fisheries

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