COS 117 - Plant-Insect Interactions III

Wednesday, August 8, 2012: 1:30 PM-5:00 PM
Portland Blrm 257, Oregon Convention Center
1:30 PM
 The effects of arthropod galling on the physiological function of arctic willows
Rajit Patankar, University of Alabama; Gregory Starr, University of Alabama; Behzad Mortazavi, University of Alabama and Dauphin Island Sea Lab; Steven F. Oberbauer, Florida International University
1:50 PM
 Relative importance of plant communities and nutrient concentrations in regulating prairie herbivore communities
Chelse M. Prather, Radford University; Steven C. Pennings, University of Houston
2:10 PM
 Examining the mechanisms by which environmental and plant genetic variation influence tritrophic interactions in a simple food web
Luis Abdala-Roberts, University of California at Irvine; Kailen A. Mooney, University of California, Irvine
2:30 PM
 Linking bark beetle caused hydraulic failure to declining ecosystem fluxes in a high elevation Rocky Mountain (Wyoming, USA) forest
John M. Frank, Rocky Mountain Research Station, U.S. Forest Service; William J. Massman, Rocky Mountain Research Station, U.S. Forest Service; Brent E. Ewers, University of Wyoming
2:50 PM
 Are vine weevils influenced by the presence of mycorrhizae when feeding upon Rubus idaeus?
James Hourston, James Hutton Institute; Alison E. Bennett, The James Hutton Institute; Scott N. Johnson, University of Western Sydney; Alan Gange, Royal Holloway, University of London
3:10 PM
3:20 PM
 Consequences of herbivore diet breadth for bird predation and parasitism
Michael S. Singer, Wesleyan University; Isaac Lichter-Marck, Wesleyan University; Timothy E. Farkas, University of Sheffield; Kailen A. Mooney, University of California, Irvine
4:00 PM
 Differences in performance and herbivory along a latitudinal gradient for common burdock (Arctium minus)
Dasvinder Kambo, University of Toronto; Peter M. Kotanen, University of Toronto
4:20 PM
 Drought and insect attacks cause decline of piƱon-juniper woodlands
Monica L. Gaylord, Northern Arizona University; Thomas E. Kolb, Northern Arizona University; Alison Macalady, University of Arizona; Jennifer A. Plaut, University of New Mexico; William T. Pockman, University of New Mexico; Enrico A. Yepez, University of New Mexico; Nathan G. McDowell, Los Alamos National Laboratory