Wednesday, August 8, 2007: 1:30 PM-5:00 PM
J4, San Jose McEnery Convention Center
COS 87 - Food webs IV: Terrestrial systems
1:30 PMThe influence of intraguild predation on prey suppression and prey release: A meta-analysis
Heather D. Vance-Chalcraft, East Carolina University, Jay A. Rosenheim, University of California-Davis, James R. Vonesh, Virginia Commonwealth University, Craig W. Osenberg, University of Florida, Andrew Sih, University of California-Davis
1:50 PMSpatial patterns of resource transfer in coupled food webs: The uphill flow of aquatic subsidies via moose on Isle Royale, USA
Joseph Bump, Michigan Technological University, Keren B. Tischler, Michigan Technological University, Amy J. Schrank, Michigan Technological University, Rolf O. Peterson, Michigan Technological University
2:10 PMWater as an ecological currency: Water-mediated interactions between crickets and wolf spiders
Kevin E. McCluney, Arizona State University, Puja Umaretiya, Arizona State University, John L. Sabo, Arizona State University
2:30 PMInteractions between ants, spiders, and shared prey
Jordi Moya-Larańo, Estación Experimental de Zonas Áridas, David H. Wise, University of Illinois at Chicago
2:50 PMPredictable variation in food web structure of three guilds of natural enemies: Predators, parasitoids, and pathogens of aphids
F.J. Frank Van veen, Imperial College London, Christine B. Müller, University of Zürich, Judith K. Pell, Rothamsted Research, H. Charles J. Godfray, University of Oxford
3:10 PMBreak
3:20 PMThe effects of a nutrient pulse versus nutrient press on the structure of an arthropod food-web
Shannon M. Murphy, University of Maryland, Robert F. Denno, University of Maryland
3:40 PMSalamanders in forest-floor food webs: Complex outcomes from long-term studies
B. Michael Walton, Cleveland State University, Cari-Ann M. Hickerson, Cleveland State University, Nicholas Mikash, Cleveland State University
4:00 PMInteractions among top-down regulators in forest-floor food webs: Results of a long-term predator removal study
Cari-Ann M. Hickerson, Cleveland State University, Carl D. Anthony, John Carroll University, B. Michael Walton, Cleveland State University
4:20 PMSoil food web structure and mineralization during ecosystem development after land abandonment
Remko Holtkamp, Utrecht University, Stefan C Dekker, Utrecht University, the Netherlands, Peter C de Ruiter, Utrecht University, the Netherlands
4:40 PMSpatial and temporal variability in microparasite survivorship and dispersal affects long-term persistence of a subterranean trophic cascade
Karthik Ram, University of California, Davis, Donald R. Strong, University of California, Davis

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