Wednesday, August 4, 2010: 8:00 AM-11:30 AM
412, David L Lawrence Convention Center
COS 57 - Herbivory: Plant Defenses
8:00 AMCOS 57-1Can optimal defense theory be used to predict the distribution of plant chemical defenses?
Andrew C. McCall, Denison University, James A. Fordyce, University of Tennessee
8:20 AMCOS 57-2Influence of plant ontogeny on tolerance and resistance to leaf damage
Carolina Quintero, University of Colorado at Boulder
8:40 AMCOS 57-3Consequences of plant viral infection on the performance of herbivores from different guilds
Monica F. Kersch-Becker, Cornell University, Jennifer S. Thaler, Cornell University
9:00 AMCOS 57-4Evolutionary ecology of mutualistic plant traits in Viburnum: Extrafloral nectaries and leaf domatia
Marjorie G. Weber, Cornell University, Wendy Clement, Yale University, Anurag A. Agrawal, Cornell University
9:20 AMCOS 57-5Relatedness to a native and leaf traits predict herbivory on non-native oaks
Ian S. Pearse, University of California - Davis, Andrew L. Hipp, The Morton Arboretum
9:40 AM Break
9:50 AMCOS 57-6Ontogenetic variation in herbivore defense phenotypes in the introduced weed Verbascum thapsus (common mullein)
Christina M. Alba, Colorado State University, Dana M. Blumenthal, USDA-ARS, M. Deane Bowers, University of Colorado at Boulder, Ruth A. Hufbauer, Colorado State University
10:10 AMCOS 57-7Chemical defenses in tropical fruits: Quantifying variation in toxicity across fruit development and within fruit of vertebrate- and wind-dispersed canopy plants
Noelle G. Beckman, University of Minnesota
10:30 AMCOS 57-8Induction of phenolics by natural herbivores in the Neotropical tree genus Inga (Leguminosae)
Ryan J. Bixenmann, University of Utah, Phyllis D. Coley, University of Utah, Thomas A. Kursar, University of Utah
10:50 AMCOS 57-9CANCELLED - Plant mating system variation and the chemical ecology of defence against insects
Stuart Campbell, Cornell University
11:10 AMCOS 57-10Small bugs, big impacts: effects of aphids on cotton defenses against a chewing herbivore
Adrianna Szczepaniec, Texas A&M University, Micky D. Eubanks, Texas A&M University

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