Wednesday, August 8, 2007: 1:30 PM-5:00 PM
San Carlos II, San Jose Hilton
COS 94 - Plant-insect interactions
1:30 PMCOS 94-1Plant-insect interactions and climate from the Miocene of Nevada
Erin Leckey, University of Colorado, Dena M. Smith, University of Colorado
1:50 PMCOS 94-2Flowering patterns related to insect herbivory and resource conditions in Platte thistle (Cirsium canescens Nutt)
Natalie M. West, University of Nebraska-Lincoln, Svata M. Louda, University of Nebraska-Lincoln
2:10 PMCOS 94-3The role of interspecific interactions in structuring the folivore community on American beech (Fagus grandifolia)
John T. Lill, George Washington University
2:30 PMCOS 94-4Blister rust severity and stand composition influence whitebark pine susceptibility to selection by mountain pine beetle in the Greater Yellowstone Ecosystem
Daniel B. Tinker, University of Wyoming, Nancy K. Bockino, University of Wyoming
2:50 PMCOS 94-5Cross-scale influences on jack pine budworm abundance during an outbreak: Local impacts by host trees and landscape-scale synchronicity of parasitoid attacks
Michael A. Tweiten, University of Wisconsin - Madison, Sara C. Hotchkiss, University of Wisconsin - Madison
3:10 PM Break
3:20 PMCOS 94-6Interactions of three sympatric varieties of Chamaecrista desvauxii (Leguminosae) with mutualistic ants, seed predators, and pollinators
Beatriz Baker, University of Missouri - St. Louis, Robert J. Marquis, University of Missouri-St. Louis
3:40 PMCOS 94-7Birds using honeydew reduce leaf herbivory on scale insects' host plant in fragmented cloud forests of Mexico
Heather A. Gamper, Florida State University, Brian D. Inouye, Florida State University
4:00 PMCOS 94-8Differential functional group response to environmental change alters plant-pollinator interactions in a prairie system
Nicole E. Miller, Washington Univeristy in St. Louis, Brian Smeets, Washington Univeristy in St. Louis, Peter B. Reich, University of Minnesota, Tiffany Knight, Washington University
4:20 PMCOS 94-9Nitrogen, but not salinity, mediates top-down effects of an omnivorous salt marsh grasshopper
Juan M. Jiménez, University of Houston, Steven C. Pennings, University of Houston
4:40 PMCOS 94-10Are Aphaenogaster ants keystone mutualists in temperate deciduous forests?
Joshua H. Ness, Skidmore College, Doug Morin, Skidmore College

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