Monday, August 6, 2007: 1:30 PM-5:00 PM
Blrm Salon II, San Jose Marriott
COS 9 - Food webs I: Structure and stability
1:30 PMCOS 9-1The elements of food web stability
Gabriel Gellner, University of Guelph, Kevin McCann, University of Guelph
1:50 PMCOS 9-2Signatures of human-induced instability in food web architecture
Neil Rooney, University of Guelph, Kevin McCann, University of Guelph, John C. Moore, Colorado State University, Jason Rip, University of Guelph
2:10 PMCOS 9-3Omnivory and food web stability: Omnivorous fish stabilize phytoplankton biomass and diversity, but destabilize composition
Michael J. Vanni, Miami University, Stephen J. Harper, Pinellas County, Martin J. Horgan, Miami University, Maria J. Gonzalez, Miami University
2:30 PMCOS 9-4Food-web stability emerges from allometric link-degree distributions
Sonja B. Otto, Darmstadt University of Technology, Björn C. Rall, Darmstadt University of Technology, Ulrich Brose, Darmstadt University of Technology
2:50 PMCOS 9-5Alternative prey and the dynamics of intraguild predation: Theoretical perspectives
Robert D. Holt, University of Florida, Gary R. Huxel, University of Arkansas, Michael Barfield, University of Florida
3:10 PM Break
3:20 PMCOS 9-6Predator/prey alteration and connectance modification in food webs
Jonathan L. Bowers, Western Kentucky University, Albert J. Meier, Western Kentucky University, Meridith L. Bartley, Western Kentucky University
3:40 PMCOS 9-7The effect of temperature on the relative importance of top-down and bottom-up effects
David S. Hoekman, University of Notre Dame, Gary E. Belovsky, University of Notre Dame
4:00 PMCOS 9-8The effects of environmental stochasticity on population interaction webs
Samraat Pawar, University of Texas at Austin, Oskar Burger, University of New Mexico
4:20 PMCOS 9-9Testing for a transgenerational, behaviorally mediated trophic cascade
Leon Blaustein, University of Haifa, Marc Mangel, University of California at Santa Cruz
4:40 PMCOS 9-10Where do they go when they die?
Meridith L. Bartley, Western Kentucky University, Jonathan L. Bowers, Western Kentucky University, Albert J. Meier, Western Kentucky University

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