Friday, August 6, 2010: 8:00 AM-11:30 AM
411, David L Lawrence Convention Center
COS 118 - Life History Theory and Evolution
8:00 AMCOS 118-1Variation in life history and demography in the American black bear
Julie A. Beston, University of Montana
8:20 AMCOS 118-2Integration benefits when transfer is costly: Dispersive phenotypes are superior competitors
Dries Bonte, Ghent University
8:40 AMCOS 118-3Adoption of chicks as a selfish behavior in the Pied Avocet
Szabolcs Lengyel, University of Debrecen
9:00 AMCOS 118-4Local adaptations of life history traits of a parasitoid:  Climate or host distribution as agents of selection?
Joffrey Moiroux, Université de Rennes 1, Jacques J. M. van Alphen, Leiden University, Joan van Baaren, Université de Rennes 1
9:20 AMCOS 118-5Environmental stressors and allocation tradeoffs between sexual and non-sexual traits
Andy R. Stiff, University of PIttsburgh, Rickey D. Cothran, University of PIttsburgh, Punidan D. Jeyasingh, Oklahoma State University, Rick A. Relyea, University of Pittsburgh
9:40 AM Break
9:50 AMCOS 118-6A twice-flowering life history strategy for annual plants
Glenn Ledder, University of Nebraska-Lincoln, Diana Pilson, University of Nebraska-Lincoln, Kevin Ahrendt, University of Nebraska-Lincoln, Kyle Harrison, University of Nebraska-Lincoln, Emily Signor, University of Nebraska-Lincoln, Brenton Willoughby, University of Nebraska-Lincoln
10:10 AMCOS 118-7How diet, season, and resource availability can affect the life history evolution of Trinidadian guppies (Poecilia reticulata)
Eugenia Zandonà, Drexel University, Sonya K. Auer, University of California, Susan S. Kilham, Drexel University, Jason L. Howard, Drexel University, Catherine M. Pringle, University of Georgia, David N. Reznick, University of California
10:30 AMCOS 118-8Resource allocation favours growth over reproduction under decreasing food abundances in Daphnia pulicaria
Adriana M. Olijnyk, Queen's University, William A. Nelson, Queen's University
10:50 AMCOS 118-9Size-dependent sex change can be the ESS when mortality is size-dependent, without any size advantage of reproduction
Mollie E. Brooks, University of Florida, Yoh Iwasa, Kyushu Univerity
11:10 AMCOS 118-10An empirical test of bet-hedging in the heterocarpic desert annual Pectocarya heterocarpa (Boraginaceae)
Sara T. Felker, University of Arizona, D. Lawrence Venable, University of Arizona

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